How This Kansas City News Outlet For And By Young Black People Amplified The Ralph Yarl Case When Key Facts Were Ignored
“As disgusting as this particular incident was, the truth is that in Kansas City, it is not an anomaly,” Sorrell said. “I think the naked and brazen violence of this shooting, and the fact Ralph was such a model student and that there is absolutely [nothing] negative anybody, even the most racist person, can say about him whatsoever, made it wildly viral.”
The Defender was one of the first outlets to give the details of Lester shooting Yarl in the head through the peephole and then reshooting him once he was already incapacitated.
“But in our work, just in the past year, we’ve covered stories of our police department murdering people in cold blood, lying about it, and our local media participating in these coverups. There’s a 19-year-old student, Jaylon Elmore, sitting in prison in our state right now, facing life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. This is our everyday work. That’s why I started The Defender, so we can have a vehicle to defend, to refute the lies and dehumanization of Black people through the media. We were able to bring light to this story which I am grateful for, but it equally made me realize how if we hadn’t published our reporting on it, it likely would have just been another day in the city. I can only think of how many more Ralphs there are who don’t have Black media outlets in their cities or neighborhoods to bring light when something horrific happens to them.”
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