🧵 Saga file #81
Mississippi fatal police shooting
Oct 19, 7 PM ET to Oct 25, 5 PM ET
- 3parts so far
- 21outlets carried a part
- 🫏13 · 7 · 1🐘left · center · right
- 5.9 daysrunning so far
- 38 sof TV captions
- 3radio newscasts
- 35people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 19, 7 PM ET · on the front pages 1.9 daysMississippi AG rules fatal police shooting of 1-year-old as justified
- Oct 24, 12 AM ET · on the front pages 7 hoursMississippi releases video of fatal police shooting of 1-year-old
- Oct 22, 11 PM ET · on the front pages 2.7 daysMississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Mississippi AG rules fatal police shooting of 1-year-old as justified
Oct 19, 7 PM ET · 16 outlets · on the front pages 1.9 days
“Mississippi AG Says Use Of Force In 1-Year-Old's Shooting Death Was Justified” first: HuffPost
· 🧶 retold by 17
2. Mississippi releases video of fatal police shooting of 1-year-old
Oct 24, 12 AM ET · 9 outlets · on the front pages 7 hours
“Video complicates Mississippi’s account of police shooting that killed toddler” first: Straight Arrow News
3. Mississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old
Oct 22, 11 PM ET · 12 outlets · on the front pages 2.7 days
“Video shows moments leading up to police fatally shooting toddler” first: CBS News
📺 CNN 38 s · 📻 3 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 18
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
- 2026-10-21 Trigger-happy ×1 ✨ Police accountability ×1
- 2026-10-20 ✨ Trigger-happy ×1
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- Mississippi's attorney general ruled the fatal police shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley was justified. told by 17 people, on “Mississippi AG rules fatal police shooting of 1-year-old as justified”
- A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley during a shoplifting call and has since resigned. told by 18 people, on “Mississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old”