As Hurricane Ida approached Mississippi on Monday morning, MSNBC correspondent Shaquille Brewster unexpectedly found himself embroiled in another storm — a white man who angrily confronted Brewster, a Black man, during his live report on the hurricane.
Some guy jumps out of a pickup truck and angrily confronts Brewster’s crew
Put a banana in his tailpipe.
I’m not sure why the skin color of either party needs to be injected into the headline and the report. There was nothing that indicated race or ethnicity to be cogent factors.
Acute ivermectin withdrawal.
For scale…
Reminds me of that old country song, “A Boy Named Karen”.
In our community we just remembered the 6th anniversary of two young morning news journalists being gunned down during a live shot. This guy needs to be found and prosecuted.
Mississippi as in the state wasn’t warning? And yes not all people in Mississippi are upset by color, but when someone interferes with a reporter doing their job it’s good to know what the perp looks like.
Don’t be dragging me into this…
Says every police department in the nation.
Even if it wasn’t in the headline, the ‘dude’ seemingly had hostile intent and there’s that video.
“Hey, hey, hey. We’re going to check in with Shaq Brewster to make sure all is well. A lot of crazy out there.”
“Hey Shaq, is it white enough out there for ya?”
The video media take care of that. Contrasting “angry white” with “black reporter” is gratuitous unless there’s some clear indication that skin color was a factor of some kind.
Assumes facts not in evidence. Pure speculation and yellow journalism of the shoddiest kind.
Hostility isn’t always caused by racial prejudice. Could be that the guy had a bone to pick with people standing on the beach during a hurricane warning.
Would he have to get gay-married then?
Let me guess: you’re a white dude who likes to piously declare that he “doesn’t see skin color,” yes?
Seriously? That is what you have?
I completely agree and this headline gives support to the ugly right wing argument that both sides engage in race baiting. Too bad for TPM.
Not even close.
What’s your point? Your innuendo is a tad too oblique for me.
Brewster is a reporter doing his job. Unless the guy has done the same to other (‘threading a needle’) reporters, why did he go after Brewster?
Just the truck.