Joy Reid Show Tells Blatant Lie About the Death of Officer Brian Sicknick – Opinion

We’ve seen Twitter seemingly jump at the chance to kick Republicans off of its platform for the excuse of “misinformation.” Yet, there’s a boatload of out-and-out lies that are pedaled by those on the left and in liberal media daily — and Twitter doesn’t seem to give a darn about those.

Joy Reid. Please.

Hot air can make a balloon last for many days. She is not exactly known for her reliability or truthfulness. It’s quite the contrary. We saw her media malpractice with her comments about Kyle Rittenhouse, Brett Kavanaugh, and “white male tears.” Then she attacked Nicki Minaj and defended her prior vaccine hesitancy by blaming President Donald Trump. “Why would any sensible person take a vaccine Trump had anything to do with?” she said. She said that she had taken the Trump vaccine, because Biden is in office somehow makes it safer. This logic is mind-boggling.

Reid also promoted the slimy “DeSantis is missing” conspiracy. She’s still pushing it, even after it’s been fully debunked by local media. He never went missing. In fact, he worked while taking care of his wife’s cancer treatments. Yet Reid and others still can’t stop the lies.

But she didn’t leave her lying there.

Her show’s Twitter account, @TheReidOut, claimed that Officer Brian Sicknick “died from wounds inflicted on Jan. 6” in promoting a segment with Sicknick’s girlfriend, Sandra Garza. Now, Garza didn’t say that, because she knows better, but that didn’t stop Reid’s Twitter account from spreading that lie.

Initially, the media spread the lie that he’d been hit with a fire extinguisher. The lie was perpetuated for several months even though it is false. I wrote on Jan. 10 of last year that they didn’t have evidence for that claim and that the evidence indicated there was a medical condition. Based on the information they received from the hospital, I then reported the cause to my family on February 5. This information could be obtained by any media personnel if I was able to. The lie went on for many months, until finally it was exposed to the greater media in April. It was then reported that he had suffered from strokes.

But, it’s long been clear that he wasn’t “wounded” on Jan. 6 and hadn’t “died from wounds inflicted on Jan. 6.” That’s just demonstrably false. Yet, the tweet is still up and in no danger of the account getting suspended for “misinformation.” And this is truly offensive, to use this officer’s death for political purposes. That’s what her show is doing with this lie, to try to make it appear worse. The tweet also doesn’t clarify that when they refer to Garza as Sicknick’s “partner,” they’re talking not about his work partner but his life partner — an important point to make to prevent confusion.

This is reckless to continue spreading the lie when Reid has a program on a major network. I don’t hold out hope for it though, because it’s Joy Reid. She doesn’t prioritize truth.

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