{"id":21311,"date":"2019-04-01T14:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21311"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:08:19","slug":"coverage-of-virginia-teens-murder-exposes-media-manipulation-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/01\/coverage-of-virginia-teens-murder-exposes-media-manipulation-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Coverage Of Virginia Teen\u2019s Murder Exposes Media Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The brutal murder of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen in June 2017 gained a lot of media attention<\/a> when it was suspected she might be the victim in a hate crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hassanen was walking back to her mosque in the suburbs\nof Virginia with friends after breaking fast during Ramadan. A stranger\napproached in a car, got out to chase Hassanen before beating her to death with\na baseball bat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That stranger turned out to be Darwin Martinez Torres, an El Salvadoran illegal alien. After an investigation, police determined there was no evidence<\/a> of a hate crime. But, it was found to be an illegal alien crime. And those receive far different coverage from the media elite. While Hassanen was frequently described as a Muslim teen, Torres was never (and correctly) identified as her illegal alien murderer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any doubts? Simply consider how the media handled the\nsentencing of Torres to life in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its lede, The Washington Post<\/a> characterized him as \u201ca Loudon County man\u201d and then identified him in the next paragraph described him \u201cDarwin Martinez Torres, 25, of Sterling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper also found it important to note that\nTorres\u2019 defense attorney believed he had an IQ of 68 or less and \u201cis probably\nintellectually disabled from exposure to toxins from a mine near his childhood\nhome in his native El Salvador.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper failed to mention, however, that he\nwas a citizen of El Salvador who was in the country illegally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the opening of a story that was carried by multiple outlets nationwide, The Associated Press<\/a> simply called him \u201ca man\u201d and like the Post, described him in the second paragraph as \u201cDarwin Martinez Torres of Sterling [Virginia].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although less outrageous than the Post handling,\nthe AP stumbled over how to phrase the killer\u2019s immigration status when it did\nfinally addressed it in the sixth paragraph. Rather than stating the fact that\nTorres was in the country illegally, the AP said he was \u201ca native of El\nSalvador who federal immigration authorities have said is in the country\nillegally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local Washington, D.C., radio station, WTOP, had an online story<\/a> which followed suit by first referencing him as a \u201cNorthern Virginia man\u201d and only three lines from the end of the story do they mention Torres was an illegal alien. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the local Loudoun Times could not help but\ndownplay his immigration status, while playing up the religious background of\nthe victim. The media\u2019s evasive reporting and politically-correct language\nmakes them feel better about themselves, but it does cannot cover up the fact\nthat Darwin Martinez Torres is an illegal alien who should never have been in\nVirginia driving a car and ready to kill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two outlets which rightly noted in the headline that Torres was \u201cillegal\u201d were The Boston Globe<\/a> and Breitbart News<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a majority of the news media cannot\naccurately write about the sentencing of an illegal alien murderer, how can the\nAmerican people trust them on any other matter related to immigration?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The brutal murder of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen in June 2017 gained a lot of media attention when it was suspected she might be the victim in a hate crime. Hassanen was walking back to her mosque in the suburbs of Virginia with friends after breaking fast during Ramadan. A stranger approached in a car, got<\/p>\n

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