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🗞️ Story file #671

Mississippi AG rules fatal police shooting of 1-year-old as justified

Oct 19, 7 PM ET to Oct 21, 5 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 19, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
  2. Oct 20, 4 AM ETretold online by 46 people
  3. Oct 20, 6 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 19, 7 PM to Oct 21, 5 PM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 2012 PMOct 2112 PMHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 19, 3:00 PM ET: Mississippi AG Says Use Of Force In 1-Year-Old's Shooting Death Was JustifiedThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 19, 6:00 PM ET: Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old Black boy in Mississippi will face no criminal chargesThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 19, 6:00 PM ET: Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as ‘justified’NBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 19, 6:00 PM ET: Mississippi AG says police shooting that killed 1-year-old was ‘justified’APAPAP, Oct 19, 7:00 PM ET: Mississippi AG says officer’s force was justified during shoplifting call in which boy was killedPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour, Oct 19, 7:00 PM ET: Mississippi attorney general says officer's force was justified in death of 1-year-old Kohen WileyABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 19, 7:00 PM ET: AG says Mississippi police were justified in shooting that killed 1-year-oldBBCBBCBBC, Oct 19, 9:00 PM ET: Police used 'justified' force in fatal shooting of one-year-old, says Mississippi attorney generalYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 20, 3:00 AM ET: Attorney General says Mississippi police were justified in shooting that killed 1-year-oldYahoo News, Oct 20, 5:00 AM ET: Attorney general says Mississippi police were justified in shooting that killed 1-year-oldNew York TimesNew York TimesNew York Times, Oct 20, 5:00 AM ET: Mississippi Says It Won’t Bring Criminal Charges in Police Shooting of ToddlerUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 20, 5:00 AM ET: Officer justified in fatal shooting of 1-year-old, Mississippi AG saysNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 20, 8:00 AM ET: Mississippi police shooting that killed 1-year-old ruled 'justified' by AG's officeNews Nation, Oct 20, 9:00 AM ET: Shooting that killed 1-year-old ruled 'justified' by Mississippi AGThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 20, 11:00 AM ET: Mississippi attorney general says officer was justified in shooting that killed ...The Hill, Oct 20, 12:00 PM ET: Mississippi attorney general says officer was justified in shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen WileyNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 20, 1:00 PM ET: Kohen Wiley: AG Says Police Used Justified ForceReasonReasonReason, Oct 20, 6:00 PM ET: Mississippi A.G. Says Killing of 1-Year-Old Boy Over Stolen Diapers Was 'Justified'New York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 21, 4:00 PM ET: Stunning first footage of Miss. cop fatally shooting 1-year-old boy revealed — as AG says it was ‘justified’🧶 online🧶found retold online (the day's report)
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📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “justified” 3

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • News Nation (2 wordings): “Mississippi police shooting that killed 1-year-old ruled 'justified' by AG's office” → “Shooting that killed 1-year-old ruled 'justified' by Mississippi AG”
  • The Hill (2 wordings): “Mississippi attorney general says officer was justified in shooting that killed ...” → “Mississippi attorney general says officer was justified in shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley”
  • Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Attorney General says Mississippi police were justified in shooting that killed 1-year-old” → “Attorney general says Mississippi police were justified in shooting that killed 1-year-old”
Every outlet's first headline (16), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

  • Mississippi's attorney general ruled the fatal police shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley was justified. Oct 21: told by 17 people
  • A Mississippi officer shot and killed a one-year-old boy after suspecting his mother of shoplifting diapers. Oct 20: told by 29 people

    🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

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On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Mississippi Mississippi Attorney General Kohen Wiley

🔎 Checking

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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Mississippi police shooting of 1-year-old

  1. Mississippi AG rules fatal police shooting of 1-year-old as justified (this story)

    Oct 19, 7 PM ET

  2. Video released showing police shooting of 1-year-old boy

    Oct 22, 11 PM ET

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