On Twitter, waiting for details and background in controversial situations is actively discouraged. If you wait for details, you are immediately labeled uncaring. Then if the pre-approved narrative is not borne out by subsequent facts, that is simply ignored.

That's why you see major Democratic politicians immediately tweeting about this Kenosha shooting, without any evidence of what happened other than fragmentary video shot from a distance, which REQUIRES and WILL RECEIVE investigation and explication.

We have no idea what the suspect was doing before the video; we have no idea if he was armed; we have no idea if there was a gun in the car. None of this matters on Twitter. It is considered an act of virtue to immediately assume the shooting was not only unjustified but racist.

Perhaps that's what happened. Perhaps not. Nobody knows at this point. But there is literally no political incentive for politicians to wait for evidence before leaping to a conclusion approved by their base - and then to later double down if the evidence cuts the other way.

This can be dangerous, because - as during the Chicago Loop riots - sometimes false narratives spread incredibly quickly, driving violence. Facts still matter, or at least they should. But political incentives mean they matter far less than demonstrating fealty to a narrative.

Tweets like this are morally repulsive. Evers openly admits he has no information or details, then goes right ahead and suggests the cops here are racists involved in an unjustifiable shooting. This is the governor of the state in which this incident occurred.

Here are some more examples of egregious behavior by our public officials. Again, we don't know what happened here yet. The narrative has already been set.