The Shooting the Networks Couldn't Report Straight

ABC and NBC Sided With a Wanted Murderer Over the Agents Who Stopped Him

ICE agents cornered a federally designated terrorist Tuesday morning – a man wanted for murder in El Salvador.

He tried to run them over with his car. Now ABC and NBC are upset about what happened next. The facts are not in dispute.

ICE agents conducted a targeted vehicle stop near Interstate 5 in Patterson, California, to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez – a confirmed member of the 18th Street Gang, a State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection with a murder.

When agents approached the car, Hernandez reversed into a truck, then swung the vehicle forward toward the officers.

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons did not mince words: "The wanted gang member weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over. Following their training, our officers fired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public."

Dashcam footage confirmed it.

ABC said it showed how "volatile" the Trump administration's immigration enforcement campaign "remains.

What the news media did was find a sympathetic frame, attach an unrelated controversy, make the men and women doing the arresting the story – instead of the federally designated terrorist who just tried to kill them.

Tuesday's ICE agents did their jobs, followed their training, and came home safe.

That's the story ABC and NBC couldn't tell.

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