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Compare & contrast the coverage of the "Liberty 7" and a "prank" that happened at my school when I was a sophomore:
"3 HELD IN TEAR GAS INCIDENT--Three youths, all identified as McAllen High School seniors, were in police custody today following what apparently started out about 12:15 p.m. as a prank on the last day of classes for seniors and ended with 11 students being taken to McAllen General Hospital for treatment of injuries associated with the inhalation of tear gas.
A warrant also has been issued for the arrest of a fourth student in connection with the incident, in which tear gas spread throughout the high school building.
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According to police, a key was used to unlock the cover of an air-conditioning vent which allowed access to a tunnel underneath the school. The tunnel led to the main fan room.
One tear gas cannister, containing type CS tear gas, was opened there. Because of the central location of the fan unit, the tear gas spread almost instantaneously throughout the school. Lights also were reported to ahve gone off in parts of the building.
Police said the tear gas was of a common type, widely used for crowd control purposes. It was identified as Army issue. Police also recovered four additional tear gas cannisters and three 40-milimeter M-385 practice shells from the home of one of the suspects."
And that was that. Nothing further than this one article was written about this story. The 2 TV stations only covered it because their mobile vans were nearby, downtown covering a fire at a store. It didn't make the national media. Again, nothing sensationalized about the story; the TV coverage was "just the facts, ma'am" for an incident that made about 3,000 kids rush outside, & sent 11 students & 1 staff member to the hospital. It's all forgotten about, except those of us who were there.
It doesn't take much of an imagination to figure out how the MSM would over-hype this story.
dg
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