Associated Press puts out GARBAGE article on racist shooting in Jacksonville and gets heavily called out for it

by The Right Scoop

The Associated Press this morning put out a completely garbage article on the racist shooting in Jacksonville, Florida and the NAACP’s travel warning to the state a few months ago.

The article was written by the AP’s chief political reporter who proceeded to blame Governor DeSantis for the shooting:

“Ron DeSantis scoffed when the NAACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning Black people to use “extreme care” if traveling to Florida. Just three months later, DeSantis is leading his state through the aftermath of a racist attack that left three African Americans dead. Black leaders in Florida — and across the nation — say they’re outraged by his actions and rhetoric ahead of the shooting.”

Here’s more from the article:

Ron DeSantis scoffed when the NAACP issued a travel advisory this spring warning Black people to use “extreme care” if traveling to Florida.

The leading civil rights group argued that the state’s loose gun laws and the Republican governor’s “anti-woke” campaign to deny the existence of systemic racism created a culture of “open hostility towards African Americans and people of color.”

Just three months later, DeSantis is leading his state through the aftermath of a racist attack that left three African Americans dead. Black leaders in Florida — and across the nation — say they’re outraged by his actions and rhetoric ahead of the shooting.

“Gov. DeSantis has created and pushed a narrative of division and hate that is anti-Black,” said Rev. Jeffrey Rumlin, pastor of The Dayspring Church in Jacksonville, where three Black people were gunned down at a Dollar General store over the weekend by a white man with a swastika emblazoned on his assault rifle.

Rumlin criticized DeSantis for not explicitly describing the killer as a racist at a Sunday vigil in Jacksonville. DeSantis was booed at the vigil, where he called the shooter “a major-league scumbag” and said, “We are not going to let people be targeted based on their race.”

The Florida governor, also responding this week to a hurricane bearing down on much of his state, has confronted multiple challenges on race since launching his presidential campaign. He has been criticized by Republican rivals on Florida’s new education standards on slavery while losing ground against former President Donald Trump, the front-runner in the GOP primary.

Okay first of all, the NAACP is an evil organization and they are making stuff up simply to invent a reason to attack DeSantis when there isn’t one. What exactly is this “narrative of division and hate that is anti-Black” that DeSantis has pushed and where is the evidence for it in the article?

Secondly, congratulations Byron Donalds, John James and Tim Scott. You took the bait by Kamala Harris on the phony slavery claim this year and now the AP is using you to attack DeSantis on something that completely made up.

Lastly, here are the responses calling out the AP that I alluded to in my title above:


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