Deceptive Baltimore Sun Reporting Paints Targets on the Backs of Police

By Bob Owens

An inflammatory headline and lede about the events leading up to the police shooting of Korryn Gaines pushed late last night by Baltimore Sun has kicked off a fresh round of rage among anti-police and Black Lives Matter zealots on social media.

Sun reporter Alison Knezevich claims in her lead that an officer “kicked in the door” to the apartment shared by Korryn Gaines and Kareem Kiean Courtney.

This is not factually true, a fact that Knezevich mentions later in the article.

Warrant officers began knocking on the door of the apartment at 9:20 AM, announcing who they were and that they had warrants. The process of knocking and announcing continued for the next ten minutes as Gaines and Courtney and the two children could be heard talking inside the apartment.

After ten minutes one of the officers unlocked the door with a key obtained from the landlord. Once he did so, the officer opened the door several inches and encountered a simple pull chain.

The officers saw Gaines inside the apartment, reiterated that they were police officers and had a warrant for her arrest, and told her that she needed to undo the door chain and let them in.

Gaines refused.

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Source:: Bearing Arms