1/

Two very different stories coming out today about the death of Walter Wallace. Different kinds of information are sticking out to different people.

Red=salient to the right
Blue= salient to the left
2/ Even if you just take 1 color, it builds a kind of porto-narrative.

For example, Blue:

"who had his gun drawn…officer with his gun drawn…Wallace’s mother was behind Wallace…officers shot multiple times…his mother ran screaming over to Wallace with her hands in the air."
3/ If that& #39;s all you had to work with, it sounds like a man was murdered by police in front of his mother.
4/ But red, on the other hand:

"was walking towards an officer…began walking towards another… “put the knife down”… “back up”…The officer backed up…Wallace followed him… “put the knife down.”

If that& #39;s all you had, it sounds like Wallace was charging officers with a knife
5/ Different information sticks out to different folks depending on their socio-cultural-political background. And then when they go to recount that story, that& #39;s the information they emphasize.

Iterate that process and divergent narratives will emerge from the exact same source
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