ABC Jumps on the Arms Race Propaganda Bandwagon

Looks like ABC just couldn’t resist jumping on the disinformation train with CNN and Time. Most of the piece is the same lies spewed in the other articles, so there’s no real point in going over them again. There is one rather thing I’d like to point out though.

As in the previous reports, they’re claiming Miami-Dade police weren’t issued “semiautomatic assault rifles” until after an incident in September involving an AK-47 lookalike. Yet, in the file footage from the incident they use in the report, there’s an officer carrying what looks like an AR-15:

O RLY?

Umm, guys, if you really expect us to believe the police weren’t carrying those rifles yet then, it would probably help if you, oh, I don’t know, didn’t show footage of the police carrying them..