Baltimore Cops Dispute Fox News Reporter Who Says He Witnessed Shooting

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Baltimore police took to Twitter on Monday to dispute a a Fox News reporter who said he saw a police officer shoot a black man who was running away.

Fox News reporter Mike Tobin reported on-air minutes earlier that he had seen a black man being shot by a police officer.

Below is the tweet from Baltimore police:

Update: Fox News later issued a retraction saying that nobody was shot and that the reporter had made an honest mistake.

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  1. Who are you going to believe? The Baltimore cops or your lying eyes…er…Fox News?

  2. You can never believe anything anyone connected to Fox says. I didn’t need a rebuttal from the police.

  3. Avatar for ptr ptr says:

    Left unsaid: did the police shoot AT the guy? As usual, when the police are coy about something, I expect the worst.

  4. I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle here.

  5. Are you sure this wasn’t Bill O’Reilly? He sees EVERYTHING.

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