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🗞️ Story file #862

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

Oct 22, 11 PM ET to Oct 23, 5 AM 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 22, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: NBC News
  2. Oct 23, 1 AM ETpeak: on 8 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 22, 11 PM to Oct 23, 5 AM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center
Oct 226 AM12 PM6 PMOct 23CBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 21, 3:00 PM ET: Video shows moments leading up to police fatally shooting toddlerStraight Arrow NewsStraight Arrow NewsStraight Arrow News, Oct 21, 6:00 PM ET: Video complicates Mississippi’s account of police shooting that killed toddlerThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 22, 3:00 PM ET: Video footage of Kohen Wiley shooting released after toddler’s death deemed ‘justified’HuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 22, 7:00 PM ET: The Family Of A 1-Year-Old Mississippi Boy Says Video Shows His Killing By Police Was Not JustifiedAPAPAP, Oct 22, 9:00 PM ET: Mississippi releases video showing fatal shooting of 1-year-old boy by police officerNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 22, 11:00 PM ET: Mississippi releases video showing fatal police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen WileyNBC News, Oct 23, 12:00 AM ET: Mississippi releases video showing fatal police shooting of 1-year-oldUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 22, 11:00 PM ET: Kohen Wiley's family says video shows police shooting was unjustifiedNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 23, 1:00 AM ET: Kohen Wiley's family, attorneys take issue with ruling in toddler's death by policeABC NewsABC NewsABC News, Oct 23, 1:00 AM ET: Bodycam footage released in police shooting of Miss. 1-year-old as family speaks out
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (NBC News)

💬 quoted: “justified”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • NBC News (2 wordings): “Mississippi releases video showing fatal police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley” → “Mississippi releases video showing fatal police shooting of 1-year-old”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Mississippi Kohen Wiley Family Of A 1-Year-Old Mississippi男孩

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 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

    Oct 19, 7 PM ET

  2. Video released showing police shooting of 1-year-old boy (this story)

    Oct 22, 11 PM ET