Fun with video editing: Fox affiliate makes it seem black people are chanting "Kill a cop"

A Baltimore Fox affiliate apologized Monday night for a report it ran over the weekend that deceptively edited protesters to look like they were chanting "kill a cop."

Gawker originally caught WBFF chopping up footage of a protest chant to sound like incitement to murder police on Monday.

The chant went "we won't stop, we can't stop, 'til killer cops, are in cell blocks," according to C-SPAN footage.

But WBFF cut the audio short and told viewers that the words were in fact "we won't stop, we can't stop, so kill a cop."

The station apologized both on its Facebook page and in an interview with one of the protestors leading the chant, Tawanda Jones.

"Although last night’s report reflected an honest misunderstanding of what the protesters were saying, we apologize for the error," the post read.

"We have deleted the story on our webpage and we offered to have Ms. Jones on Fox45 News at 5:00 tonight for a live interview," it continued.

In that interview, Jones called out the station several times for misrepresenting her words.

"The interesting part that really gets to me is, where you guys edited it and stopped — like, how could that be a mistake?" she said.

"Once you play that whole thing, you would know that's not something that's being said," she added.

The interviewer apologized several times, and though Jones told the station she was grateful to come on, she also said she now fears for her reputation and her safety. Near the end of the interview she began to cry.

Ben wrote:One point -- and I've said this before -- but disappearing a story from your news organization's web page is not making things right; it's acting like it never happened in the first place. Correcting the story is to leave the original link up, with an admission of what you did wrong and an acknowledgement of what really happened.

Lone Wolf wrote:

MY FIRST thought when I heard about those cop killings ?

"Those idiot arseholes brought it on themselves.." !


JUST what the hell do those moronic Police Associations think that they're doing, automatically jumping to the defence of members of their "brotherhood" committing indefensible crimes, especially in other jurisdictions, states, and even other countries ?

THE various state 'Police Associations' here can be just as bad ~ nearly always jumping to the defence of the corrupt, the drug dealers and wife bashers, among their members, as well as the murderers ~ no matter how solid the evidence against them..