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

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

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

16outlets carried it
🫏10 · 5 · 1🐘left · center · right
1.9 dayson the front pages
15front pages at once, at its peak
17people retold it online
1 of 3parts of a saga

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Oct 19, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
Oct 20, 6 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages
Oct 21, 8 AM ETretold online by 17 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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

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.

📌 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

HuffPost Mississippi AG Says Use Of Force In 1-Year-Old's Shooting Death Was Justified Oct 19, 3 PM ET
The Guardian Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as ‘justified’ Oct 19, 6 PM ET
ABC News AG says Mississippi police were justified in shooting that killed 1-year-old Oct 19, 7 PM ET
AP Mississippi AG says officer’s force was justified during shoplifting call in which boy was killed Oct 19, 7 PM ET
NBC News Mississippi AG says police shooting that killed 1-year-old was ‘justified’ Oct 19, 6 PM ET
New York Times Mississippi Says It Won’t Bring Criminal Charges in Police Shooting of Toddler Oct 20, 5 AM ET
PBS NewsHour Mississippi attorney general says officer's force was justified in death of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley Oct 19, 7 PM ET
The Independent Police officer who shot and killed 1-year-old Black boy in Mississippi will face no criminal charges Oct 19, 6 PM ET
USA Today Officer justified in fatal shooting of 1-year-old, Mississippi AG says Oct 20, 5 AM ET
Yahoo News Attorney General says Mississippi police were justified in shooting that killed 1-year-old Oct 20, 3 AM ET
BBC Police used 'justified' force in fatal shooting of one-year-old, says Mississippi attorney general Oct 19, 9 PM ET
News Nation Mississippi police shooting that killed 1-year-old ruled 'justified' by AG's office Oct 20, 8 AM ET
Newsweek Kohen Wiley: AG Says Police Used Justified Force Oct 20, 1 PM ET
Reason Mississippi A.G. Says Killing of 1-Year-Old Boy Over Stolen Diapers Was 'Justified' Oct 20, 6 PM ET
The Hill Mississippi attorney general says officer was justified in shooting that killed ... Oct 20, 11 AM ET
New York Post Stunning first footage of Miss. cop fatally shooting 1-year-old boy revealed — as AG says it was ‘justified’ Oct 21, 4 PM ET

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🧩 Police accountability 🧶 online
↔️ its answer: Trigger-happy
“Mississippi's attorney general ruled the fatal police shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley was justified.”
🧩 Trigger-happy 🧶 online
↔️ its answer: Police accountability
“A Mississippi officer shot and killed a one-year-old boy after suspecting his mother of shoplifting diapers.” and 1 more

🧶 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

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

🗣️ names in it: Mississippi Mississippi Attorney General Kohen Wiley

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Mississippi fatal police shooting

Mississippi AG rules fatal police shooting of 1-year-old as justified (this story)
Oct 19, 7 PM ET
Mississippi releases video of fatal police shooting of 1-year-old
Oct 24, 12 AM ET
Mississippi officer resigns after fatal shooting of 1-year-old
Oct 22, 11 PM ET