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Leftists Storm News Station for Daring To Report on Rioters Being Arrested

November 02, 2020
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In one corner of the mediasphere, a local television station is getting a lot of backlash from the left for daring to report on the people arrested in Seattle.

KING-TV isn’t particularly known for right-wing journalism. It’s an NBC affiliate in the Pacific Northwest’s largest city, owned by Tegna, the former television arm of media conglomerate Gannett.

In terms of news, there’s nothing extraordinary about it. It’s not sensationalist and it’s not a shill for any kind of cause.

 In Thursday, KING’s Chris Ingalls did a piece on 95 arrest records for individuals who were taken into custody and charged during the riots and unrest in Seattle. He found — and here’s a shocker — that 48 percent of suspects were white and only 32 percent listed Seattle as their hometown.

Kelly Jackson is accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at police vehicles. He was already awaiting trial on three cases stemming from incidents where he allegedly broke into into a ferry toll booth, a marijuana dispensary and an animal rescue facility (where authorities say he helped himself to a 100-pound Rottweiler).

he stepson of former Kirkland state Rep. Laura Ruderman, 19-year-old Jacob Greenburg allegedly smashed a metal baseball bat into the head of a Seattle police officer. Ingalls reported the officer is probably still alive thanks to his bike helmet.

In an alleged text message to a friend, Greenburg reportedly said, “Wish he didn’t have a helmet on lol.”

Jeremiah Hilbert has already confessed to looting, doing his part to hasten the revolution of the proletariat: “You can’t help but want to see the demise of corporate society,” he told KING days after pleading guilty to ransacking a Seattle Old Navy.

Indeed, as Ingalls noted, “The records indicate the common thread among most suspects is their hostility toward government, the police, and corporate America.”

 

 

And, apparently, corporate media: 


 

As protesters descended upon the KING-TV building Thursday, one of them says, “I’m trying to protect the lives of protesters because they’re going to dox them and put them in the public.” (The protest, which seemed to involve demonstrators barging into the building, apparently occurred before Ingalls’ report went live, but after he teased it on Twitter.)

Doxing, for the uninitiated, is putting someone’s private details into the public domain, usually to encourage people to harass or bully them, or worse.

“We have hate groups, we have hate groups, listen,” the demonstrator tells a police officer, because clearly he’s not listening. He’s on the phone, possibly calling for backup.

Those “hate groups,” our intrepid protester explains, are “looking to kill and harm protesters, and they want to sit there and put the protesters’ public information.”

ING doxed these protesters as much as CNN’s coverage of the charges of the O.J. Simpson car chase doxed him. That’s a reductio ad absurdum, of course, but arrests are public record and reporting on them is not even close to doxing — especially since doxing usually involves someone’s address, digital accounts, place of work and other such information.

At least one person was apparently arrested Thursday.

 

 

 And if you’re still trying to get a sense of how angry protesters were at KING, check out the replies to Ingalls’ tweet below.

 

 

Read More Here: Western Journal  & KingTV

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