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15 Aug 2020, 6:31 pm

#SayHisName Trends After Media Refuse To Report On Murder Of 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant.

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Mainstream media outlets have yet to cover the brutal Sunday night execution of a five-year-old North Carolina boy named Cannon Hinnant, allegedly at the hands of 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, sparking the hashtag #SayHisName to trend on social media Thursday morning.

As The Daily Wire reported on Tuesday, Sessoms, who is black, allegedly walked up to young Hinnant, who is white, and shot him in the head at point-blank range in front of the child’s 7- and 8-year-old sisters.

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Sessoms lives next-door to the victim’s father in Wilson, North Carolina.

CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, and MSNBC, as of Thursday morning, have yet to cover the attack. Fox News has covered the tragic news.

Some have argued that the lack of coverage is because of the races of the victim and the alleged murderer.

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On Tuesday, author and Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh brought attention to the murder via Twitter, using the now-viral phrase, “say his name.”

“Say his name. 5 year old Cannon Hinnant was executed in cold blood while riding his bike,” posted Walsh. “The accused killer is Darius Sessoms. He allegedly walked up to the boy and shot him dead in front of his sisters.”

“Reverse the races and this is the only thing anyone talks about for a month,” he argued.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/sayhisna ... on-hinnant

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15 Aug 2020, 6:36 pm

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The hashtag took off by Thursday, as people grew frustrated from the lack of coverage.

“Have any mainstream media outlets covered Cannon Hinnant yet?” asked Informed Dissent host Leonydus Johnson. “The deception in selective reporting is their most potent weapon because it drives availability bias which, in turn, distorts reality. It is the same as lying. Just imagine if the races were reversed. #SayHisName.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/sayhisna ... on-hinnant

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15 Aug 2020, 6:41 pm

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“You should know who Cannon Hinnant is and it’s an absolute disgrace that you don’t,” said radio host Jesse Kelly. “The American media is putrid.”

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As noted by The Daily Wire, Sessoms, who took off in a black vehicle after the shooting, was not apprehended until Monday by U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, Goldsboro Police, and the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, according to a report from WRAL.com.

The suspect has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond at the Wilson County jail.

Sessoms reportedly had dinner with the victim’s family on Friday night, two nights before the shooting, according to WRAL.com, and was over at the family’s house the afternoon preceding the murder.

“Our neighbor saw it,” one neighbor recalled, according to ABC 11 Eyewitness News. “She said he (Sessoms) just — the young man just walked up to the little boy who was just sitting on his bike.”

“I just don’t understand why he did it,” she said. “How can you walk up to a little boy point-blank and put a gun to his head, and just shoot him? How can anyone do that?”

Hinnant was supposed to start kindergarten next week.

Update: CNN Finally Covers Alleged Murder Of 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant In 200-Word Blurb

The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/sayhisna ... on-hinnant

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15 Aug 2020, 6:58 pm

I don't understand, I saw this story when it first was reported in my news feed. I recall seeing it in more articles throughout the day. The Washington Post has run a story on it.

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15 Aug 2020, 8:35 pm

I saw this on crime talk this morning,looks like death penalty case.

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15 Aug 2020, 8:39 pm

AuroraBorealisGazer wrote:

I don't understand, I saw this story when it first was reported in my news feed. I recall seeing it in more articles throughout the day. The Washington Post has run a story on it.

Apparently, some of the left-wing media outlets, like CNN, ignored the story initially.
It didn't suit the left-wing narrative.
That sort of thing is common, here in Australia, also.

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15 Aug 2020, 9:25 pm

Pepe wrote:

AuroraBorealisGazer wrote:

I don't understand, I saw this story when it first was reported in my news feed. I recall seeing it in more articles throughout the day. The Washington Post has run a story on it.

Apparently, some of the left-wing media outlets, like CNN, ignored the story initially.
It didn't suit the left-wing narrative.
That sort of thing is common, here in Australia, also.

Yeah I'm just saying that it seems to have been reported by national publications. While it's not ideal that it took CNN a few days to report it, I don't see evidence to support that it's because they are "left-wing." Conversely, CNN continuously fails to report on the countless instances of severe police brutality occurring in Portland. While I'm not denying that they may be acting on an agenda, it seems contradictory if they're trying to push 'leftist ideas', that they wouldn't cash in on the endless supply of brutality footage. They may have taken a few days to report this boy's murder but at least they reported it, unlike the major issues occurring during the protests.

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15 Aug 2020, 10:01 pm

Pepe wrote:

AuroraBorealisGazer wrote:

I don't understand, I saw this story when it first was reported in my news feed. I recall seeing it in more articles throughout the day. The Washington Post has run a story on it.

Apparently, some of the left-wing media outlets, like CNN, ignored the story initially.
It didn't suit the left-wing narrative.
That sort of thing is common, here in Australia, also.

It's almost as though to certain people and media organisations ONLY "Black lives matter"...

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15 Aug 2020, 10:24 pm

poor child.
unfortunate that his death highlights this other issue.

i guess in ONE way that's good because it shields the family from overt media coverage to heal (which u never can) but the shielding that never happens usually if the families of these tragedies actually request basic decency and privacy...

poor boy. and his sisters saw it.

outside of US in other countries, there are kids and adults getting shot or maimed point-blank for no reason (and reason falsified afterwards in many cases or just not needed) by police, even getting praised for doing so by their countrymen--

yet one would think in US kids' (and innocent civilians in general) lives hold more value... apparently not anymore...

each one is a tragedy regardless.

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16 Aug 2020, 1:12 pm

This is a inconvenient story for the mainstream media as it undermines their narrative and they just want it to go away.

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16 Aug 2020, 5:31 pm

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16 Aug 2020, 5:44 pm

I didn't write this, pulled it from something my sister forwarded/shared on social media.

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What happened to Cannon Hinnant was terrible. Horrific. Disgusting. Completely and totally uncalled for. That baby did not deserve what happened to him, and I hope the evil man who did it is buried under the jail and nothing short of truly terrible things come his way.

However, I see a lot of people trying to force a false equivalency between Cannon and the countless black Americans who’ve become hashtags and the faces of the movement. People want to know where the outrage is for Cannon. Where the demand for justice is.

First of all, there’s plenty of outrage and demand for justice, from white AND black Americans, but the difference between Cannon’s murder and the murder of those black Americans who’ve become the faces of a movement is the wheels of justice began to move swiftly and immediately for Cannon, as it should. He was murdered on Sunday. On Monday, 24 hours later, Darius Sessoms was arrested, charged with first-degree murder, and is currently being held without bond. He’s in jail, where he belongs, and the process has begun.

24 hours later. One day. The justice system acted in the way it should in response to Cannon’s murder. That’s the difference in the way we respond and talk about his murder.

People took to the streets over George Floyd because the people responsible for his murderer was still walking free.

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched in the street and it took 73 days, the release of the murder video, and a massive national outcry in order for his murderers to be arrested and charged.

Breonna Taylor has been dead for 154 days. Her murderers still walk free.

Elijah McClain has been dead for 350 days. His murderers still walk free.

That’s the difference. That’s why there are protests. That’s why there are hashtags. Too often, justice in our country looks different depending on how you look. I’m almost certain that if what happened to Breonna Taylor happened to me, the people who did it would be sitting in a jail cell and people wouldn’t have to still be demanding it for me. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

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16 Aug 2020, 6:26 pm

Feyokien wrote:

I didn't write this, pulled it from something my sister forwarded/shared on social media.

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What happened to Cannon Hinnant was terrible. Horrific. Disgusting. Completely and totally uncalled for. That baby did not deserve what happened to him, and I hope the evil man who did it is buried under the jail and nothing short of truly terrible things come his way.

However, I see a lot of people trying to force a false equivalency between Cannon and the countless black Americans who’ve become hashtags and the faces of the movement. People want to know where the outrage is for Cannon. Where the demand for justice is.

First of all, there’s plenty of outrage and demand for justice, from white AND black Americans, but the difference between Cannon’s murder and the murder of those black Americans who’ve become the faces of a movement is the wheels of justice began to move swiftly and immediately for Cannon, as it should. He was murdered on Sunday. On Monday, 24 hours later, Darius Sessoms was arrested, charged with first-degree murder, and is currently being held without bond. He’s in jail, where he belongs, and the process has began.

24 hours later. One day. The justice system acted in the way it should in response to Cannon’s murder. That’s the difference in the way we respond and talk about his murder.

People took to the streets over George Floyd because the people responsible for his murder were still walking free.

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched in the street and it took 73 days, the release of the murder video, and a massive national outcry in order for his murderers to be arrested and charged.

Breonna Taylor has been dead for 154 days. Her murderers still walk free.

Elijah McClain has been dead for 350 days. His murderers still walk free.

That’s the difference. That’s why there are protests. That’s why there are hashtags. Too often, justice in our country looks different depending on how you look. I’m almost certain that if what happened to Breonna Taylor happened to me, the people who did it would be sitting in a jail cell and people wouldn’t have to still be demanding it for me. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

There will be no outrage, protests, or riots over Cannon's murder. Every black murder or police killing of a black person is politicized with a narrative that African Americans are in constantly in danger from racists and the police. The actual numbers paint a different picture. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics Blacks are disproportionately represented in both perpetrator and victim categories. BLM and the media do this to create an angry victim mentality among blacks. The worldview of the burgeoning Democratic Socialism requires there to be a oppressor and a victim. Black people have been convinced that they are victims.

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16 Aug 2020, 6:30 pm

Feyokien wrote:

I didn't write this, pulled it from something my sister forwarded/shared on social media.

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What happened to Cannon Hinnant was terrible. Horrific. Disgusting. Completely and totally uncalled for. That baby did not deserve what happened to him, and I hope the evil man who did it is buried under the jail and nothing short of truly terrible things come his way.

However, I see a lot of people trying to force a false equivalency between Cannon and the countless black Americans who’ve become hashtags and the faces of the movement. People want to know where the outrage is for Cannon. Where the demand for justice is.

First of all, there’s plenty of outrage and demand for justice, from white AND black Americans, but the difference between Cannon’s murder and the murder of those black Americans who’ve become the faces of a movement is the wheels of justice began to move swiftly and immediately for Cannon, as it should. He was murdered on Sunday. On Monday, 24 hours later, Darius Sessoms was arrested, charged with first-degree murder, and is currently being held without bond. He’s in jail, where he belongs, and the process has begun.

24 hours later. One day. The justice system acted in the way it should in response to Cannon’s murder. That’s the difference in the way we respond and talk about his murder.

People took to the streets over George Floyd because the people responsible for his murder were still walking free.

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched in the street and it took 73 days, the release of the murder video, and a massive national outcry in order for his murderers to be arrested and charged.

Breonna Taylor has been dead for 154 days. Her murderers still walk free.

Elijah McClain has been dead for 350 days. His murderers still walk free.

That’s the difference. That’s why there are protests. That’s why there are hashtags. Too often, justice in our country looks different depending on how you look. I’m almost certain that if what happened to Breonna Taylor happened to me, the people who did it would be sitting in a jail cell and people wouldn’t have to still be demanding it for me. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

I wonder what the person who wrote that would think about what happened to Berell Trammell, as his death hasn't received all that much publicity... Based on the name of the group, you would expect to hear something from BLM about it...

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16 Aug 2020, 6:35 pm

Feyokien wrote:

I didn't write this, pulled it from something my sister forwarded/shared on social media.

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What happened to Cannon Hinnant was terrible. Horrific. Disgusting. Completely and totally uncalled for. That baby did not deserve what happened to him, and I hope the evil man who did it is buried under the jail and nothing short of truly terrible things come his way.

However, I see a lot of people trying to force a false equivalency between Cannon and the countless black Americans who’ve become hashtags and the faces of the movement. People want to know where the outrage is for Cannon. Where the demand for justice is.

First of all, there’s plenty of outrage and demand for justice, from white AND black Americans, but the difference between Cannon’s murder and the murder of those black Americans who’ve become the faces of a movement is the wheels of justice began to move swiftly and immediately for Cannon, as it should. He was murdered on Sunday. On Monday, 24 hours later, Darius Sessoms was arrested, charged with first-degree murder, and is currently being held without bond. He’s in jail, where he belongs, and the process has begun.

24 hours later. One day. The justice system acted in the way it should in response to Cannon’s murder. That’s the difference in the way we respond and talk about his murder.

People took to the streets over George Floyd because the people responsible for his murder were still walking free.

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched in the street and it took 73 days, the release of the murder video, and a massive national outcry in order for his murderers to be arrested and charged.

Breonna Taylor has been dead for 154 days. Her murderers still walk free.

Elijah McClain has been dead for 350 days. His murderers still walk free.

That’s the difference. That’s why there are protests. That’s why there are hashtags. Too often, justice in our country looks different depending on how you look. I’m almost certain that if what happened to Breonna Taylor happened to me, the people who did it would be sitting in a jail cell and people wouldn’t have to still be demanding it for me. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

thank you.
sorry times all around.

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16 Aug 2020, 6:46 pm

Mr Reynholm wrote:

Feyokien wrote:

I didn't write this, pulled it from something my sister forwarded/shared on social media.

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What happened to Cannon Hinnant was terrible. Horrific. Disgusting. Completely and totally uncalled for. That baby did not deserve what happened to him, and I hope the evil man who did it is buried under the jail and nothing short of truly terrible things come his way.

However, I see a lot of people trying to force a false equivalency between Cannon and the countless black Americans who’ve become hashtags and the faces of the movement. People want to know where the outrage is for Cannon. Where the demand for justice is.

First of all, there’s plenty of outrage and demand for justice, from white AND black Americans, but the difference between Cannon’s murder and the murder of those black Americans who’ve become the faces of a movement is the wheels of justice began to move swiftly and immediately for Cannon, as it should. He was murdered on Sunday. On Monday, 24 hours later, Darius Sessoms was arrested, charged with first-degree murder, and is currently being held without bond. He’s in jail, where he belongs, and the process has began.

24 hours later. One day. The justice system acted in the way it should in response to Cannon’s murder. That’s the difference in the way we respond and talk about his murder.

People took to the streets over George Floyd because the people responsible for his murder were still walking free.

Ahmaud Arbery was lynched in the street and it took 73 days, the release of the murder video, and a massive national outcry in order for his murderers to be arrested and charged.

Breonna Taylor has been dead for 154 days. Her murderers still walk free.

Elijah McClain has been dead for 350 days. His murderers still walk free.

That’s the difference. That’s why there are protests. That’s why there are hashtags. Too often, justice in our country looks different depending on how you look. I’m almost certain that if what happened to Breonna Taylor happened to me, the people who did it would be sitting in a jail cell and people wouldn’t have to still be demanding it for me. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise.

Yes and the reason for that, as stated in the quote, is that Cannon's murderer was immediately arrested.

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