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Podcast: The Muckrake Political Podcast
Episode: The Killing of Alex Pretti Was No Accident
Description: Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman are furious, and they’re not trying to hide it. They dig into the killing of Alex Preti, a VA nurse who rushed in to help someone who’d been pepper sprayed, got tackled, disarmed, and ended up shot to death while the cameras rolled. Then came the part that makes it feel even darker: the immediate scramble to flip the story, smear the victim, and sell the public an alternate version of reality.
They talk about what “they heard ‘gun’” is turning into, a magic word that apparently wipes out training...