The caption for your photo of Brandon McCormick, the man who threatened protesters with a bow and arrow and was beaten up for it, reads: “Brandon McCormick was beaten up by protesters after allegedly brandishing a bow and arrow at a protest Saturday.”
Both events were captured on video and confirmed by multiple witnesses, so how come one of them is stated as fact while the other only happened "allegedly"?
I suspect the answer is that you're worried the semi-literate racist — objective descriptors of McCormick's Facebook posts as quoted in your story — might sue you, but unnamed protesters probably won't.
Still, the way you frame these things matters, as you well know.
Eric D. Snider, Provo
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