Brianna Lyman writes for the Federalist about another case of legacy media malfeasance.
When a burning cross was found at a Chicago park last week, the media and Democrats already apparently knew who was responsible.
“A large burning cross — a historic symbol of hate and intimidation against Black Americans — was discovered in a Chicago park where former President Barack Obama famously delivered his acceptance speech when he was elected the nation’s first Black president,” The Associated Press (AP) reported on June 10.
Given the framing, readers may have been under the impression that police were searching for a white supremacist, a racist, and, given how the left has broadly painted Republicans as both of those things, a Republican. …
… Before any facts were known, the assumption that the culprit must be associated with Trump or the right was publicly disseminated by the left.
It turns out that the man who is at least publicly claiming responsibility is Merlin Lu, a University of Illinois Chicago student who said he lit the cross to protest President Donald Trump.
The burning cross was found against a tree in Grant Park, with authorities immediately launching an investigation. Lu told NBC5 he “did know about this historical relevance beforehand, but I didn’t know the severity, how racially motivated it may seem from what I did. Cause my protest has nothing to do with race, nothing to do with gender.”
Police have not confirmed nor denied whether Lu is the suspect they have in custody.
In a separate video previously shared with NBC5, Lu said he was protesting Trump and didn’t “want to wait till his term ends … I want him gone right now.”
But instead of waiting for the investigation to complete — or (apparently) for the suspect himself to come forward — Democrats pounced on the incident to try and use it to smear Republicans as racist and evil.
Of course the facts got in the way of that narrative — much like they have in previous acts of Democrat violence or vandalism.
