They’re doing it again. The New York Times is aggressively hiding relevant facts on a matter of public interest simply in order to promote the narrative of black victimhood.

OK, we didn’t get away with it last time, but we probably will this time. Let’s try!

Daunte Wright is the half-black man fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota earlier this year. According to Nexis, he has appeared in well over 100 articles in the Times. But one thing Times readers will never be told is that Wright was facing criminal charges for trying to choke a woman to death while robbing her at gunpoint.

Nor will Times readers ever hear about the lawsuit accusing Wright and an accomplice of shooting a guy and stealing his wallet and phone, during a carjacking.

In a bold departure from customary practice, the Times did make two passing references to another lawsuit accusing Wright of permanently disabling a guy  by shooting him in the head, — quickly adding: “The lawsuit offers no direct evidence tying Mr. Wright to the shooting.”

And those are just the crimes he’s accused of committing lately, during the brief year and a half since he turned 18 and was no longer protected by sealed juvenile records.

When it comes to Wright, the Times didn’t even put all the interesting information in paragraph 20, its usual method of hiding important information. The grisly allegations against Wright have been completely, 100% censored from the Newspaper of Record.

This isn’t a genteel refusal to “put the victim on trial.” Wright’s short but exciting criminal record is highly relevant to the convulsions this country has been going through since George Floyd’s death at the hands of the police in 2020 — convulsions painstakingly fostered by the Times.

Contrary to the media’s black victimhood narrative, there’s a very good reason Wright was in a position to be confronted by the police and in a way that most people are not.

In addition to allegedly committing a slew of gun crimes before the age of 20 (based on only one year and six months of public records), Wright was stopped for driving with expired license plate tags. He didn’t have car insurance. He didn’t have a driver’s license.

White people NEVER get busted for these little peccadillos!  Uh, yes, they do.  All. The. Time.

When the officers ran his name, they discovered that there was a restraining order against him, and a bench warrant for his arrest on a weapons charge. Obviously, they had to arrest him.

But as one officer began to handcuff him, Wright resisted, jumped back in his car and attempted to flee — dragging an officer trapped in the passenger-side window with him.

That’s when he got shot.

In other words, this case isn’t exactly a pristine example of “Driving While Black.” That’s why The New York Times hides the facts.

Last week, the Times finally — glancingly — mentioned Wright’s lack of a driver’s license and insurance. (That’s if you don’t count a recent article about how Minnesota laws adversely affect minorities — “even regulations about driver’s licenses and renewal of tags.”)

On the other hand, the Times has run 16 articles about Wright’s … air freshener! (E.g.: “How a Common Air Freshener Can Result in a High-Stakes Traffic Stop”). That’s 16 more than all its articles on Hunter Biden’s laptop!

What on earth is the Times talking about? It seems that, immediately after the shooting, Wright’s mother told the media that he’d been stopped merely for having an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror … AND NOW HE WAS DEAD!

That’s completely untrue, there is zero evidence for his mother’s claim, the cops’ body cameras prove that it is false, and Wright’s numerous driving violations are a matter of public record.

Is the Times now reporting news based on, “This Is What His Mother Told Us”?  Why yes it is!  Actual facts will not be allowed to penetrate the paper’s BLM cocoon.

Times reporters must have at least heard about the armed robbery because they’ve repeatedly quoted Wright’s accomplice in the crime, Emajay Driver. On April 13, Nov. 30, Dec. 8 and Dec. 17 the Times ran some version of this quote:

“‘He loved to make people laugh,’ said Emajay Driver, a friend of Mr. Wright. ‘He was just great to be around. There was never a dull moment.'”

And that’s it from Mr. Driver.

New York Times: Say, we saw that police report about you and Daunte nearly choking a woman to death while committing an armed robbery. So naturally, we have to ask: Do you by any chance have any heartwarming stories about him?

Some would argue that Wright’s attempted armed robbery is rather important than his love of laughter. But the only place you’ll hear about the violent details of that crime is in America’s Greatest Newspaper, the UK’s Daily Mail.

On December 1, 2019, Wright and Driver crashed at the apartment of a 20-year-old woman they’d been partying with.  The next morning, the woman’s roommate went out to get $820 in rent money, handed it to her, and left for work.

Just before the attack, Wright locked himself in the victim’s bathroom for a noticeably long time. It turns out he was making videos of himself with a gun, and pouring a bottle of hand sanitizer on it. (Daunte, with his simple, trusting nature, apparently believed an urban legend that sanitizer “blocks” fingerprints.)

Minutes later, as the three of them were leaving, Wright suddenly blocked the front door, pointed the gun at the woman’s head, saying, “Give me the f-ing money. I know you have it.”

Weirdly, this is almost identical to what I say to The New York Times: Give us the f-ing facts. We know you have them.

When the woman refused, Wright snapped, “We’re not playing around,” and grabbed her by the neck, choking her.  She dropped to her knees, with Daunte’s one hand on her throat and other still pointing the gun at her head.  “You look into his eyes,” the victim later said, “and it’s so evil.”

Next, he tried ripping her shirt open to get the money, perhaps having seen her hiding it in her bra earlier. She screamed, and Wright began choking her again. (As Wright’s accomplice put it, there was never a dull moment with this guy.). Finally, Wright and Driver ran off, hopping into a friend’s white Cadillac, waiting for them.

The two would-be armed robbers were arrested five days later.  Driver pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated robbery, his second felony conviction.  He was facing 20 years in prison, but only got probation, leading to speculation that he’d made a deal to testify against Wright.

Again: The Times hasn’t printed a single detail of Wright’s “Give Me The F-Ing Money” armed robbery attempt. Or the lawsuit about the carjacking.  In one of more than 100 articles, there were only two brief mentions of his shooting a guy in the head.

As for the trial of Kim Potter, the officer who shot Wright, neither the prosecution nor defense disputes that it was a mistake, that she thought she was holding her Taser.  However that may be, several officers, and expert witnesses, testified that Potter would have been fully justified in shooting Wright in order to protect the other officer from being dragged by the car.

But Wright “loved to make people laugh.” That’s all the Times thinks you need to know.

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