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Police arrested a guy for good reason — media baffled
Posted on: August 25, 2025 at 10:10:41 CT
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Is there no justice in this world? Will no one think of the alleged child molesting illegal immigrant with the final order of removal against him?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-police-arrested-a-guy-for-good-reason-media-baffled/ar-AA1LaqEf?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=1bdc9d5f0b82492bb6f2b5190ff562a0&ei=75
Who knew? Reporting what you feel is true versus what actually is true makes for poor journalism.
A handful of reporters and pundits were outraged this week after footage emerged showing law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital roughly arresting a Hispanic man who tried to escape on foot during a traffic stop.
The initial incensed response is humorous, in a macabre sort of way, given the contrast between what we have been told about the man and what we know about the law enforcement officials.
“BREAKING,” tweeted NBC News Washington, D.C., affiliate reporter Aimee Cho, “Just saw police and federal agents detain a man on the National Mall. He appeared to try to escape, then was quickly tackled to the ground by several agents and was screaming in Spanish, ‘Please, I’m not a criminal, I work here, I want to be with my family!’”
Her breaking news tweet included exclusive footage of the incident, which everyone would subsequently use as a reference point in response to the arrest.
The arrested man, David Perez-Teofani, has entered the U.S. illegally three times, according to federal authorities. When he was arrested this week, he was defying a “final order of removal” after returning to Mexico twice before.
Perez-Teofani was also charged in 2024 with “indecent liberties with a child under the age of 15 and aggravated sexual battery,” according to Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court records reviewed by the New York Post.
These and similar details add a lot of context. But they came out only after select journalists and pundits had already framed the incident as one where federal and law enforcement officers had acted with wanton cruelty, similar to the behavior that made the German Gestapo notorious.
“His crying [hits] me in the gut,” said Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown in reaction to the online video of Perez-Teofani’s arrest. “And we will probably never be told who he is, why he was stopped, or if he was here illegally.”
Fox News liberal heel Jessica Tarlov, in a since-deleted tweet, wrote, “This doesn’t make DC safer. It’ll just make people not come to DC. The cruelty is always the point.”
“New normal,” Politico senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein dryly quipped.
Is there no justice in this world? Will no one think of the alleged child molesting illegal immigrant with the final order of removal against him?
Then, of course, there’s the NBC News affiliate reporter who first shared the footage of Perez-Teofani’s arrest. Nearly five hours after her initial social media post was shared and re-tweeted by thousands of social media users, Cho tweeted an update that included details of the man’s name and his 2024 arrest for “sexual battery against a minor under 13.”
This is a reminder of how quickly false impressions and contextless narratives can spread before the facts have a chance to catch up. As of this writing, more than 6.2 million people have viewed Cho’s footage of Perez-Teofani’s arrest. Slightly more than 6 percent of that number have seen her follow-up post, demonstrating once again that the sequel to a viral claim rarely, if ever, enjoys the same amount of attention as the claim itself.
Later, after more details about Perez-Teofani’s arrest were released, an indignant Tarlov snapped at Twitter users, saying, “I wouldn’t ever want to promote knowingly wrong information so I deleted the original tweet after the DHS memo came out — which was hours after the arrest.”
Well, that’s something. But here’s a better idea: Maybe don’t jump to conclusions in response to breaking news or viral videos. Maybe don’t just assume that law enforcement is evil and that its aim is the cruel treatment of random people — which is what Tarlov obviously did in her initial response to Cho’s footage.
This sort of rush to judgment, absent hard facts or explanatory context, is part of a pattern in the news and commentary business, which is teeming with people who prefer to respond to what they feel or think should be true rather than find out what really is. “Too good to check” is meant as a professional warning, not a lifestyle choice.
We see this everywhere in the news media. We see it weekly in the reports from Israel and Gaza. We saw it in 2019 when the press was strangely excited about the possibility that a teenager from Kentucky had acted in a racist and abusive manner toward an elderly Native American veteran.
We also witnessed this style of behavior nearly three years running with the increasingly-absurd-in-retrospect news cycle that suggested President Trump was a secret agent of the Kremlin. (On a side note, I am baffled that anyone believed Trump, of all people, could be involved in spycraft, which famously requires subtlety and discretion.)
The walls are closing in! “Trump rages,” he is “unraveling,” he is “fuming,” he is “isolated,” and this is the “end” for him! No verified or authenticated information was at any time required for actual journalists to make such comments.
It’s a radical notion, but perhaps we should make it a habit to wait for more facts before making snap judgments. Bold predictions and reflexive, emotional reactions make for lousy journalism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-police-arrested-a-guy-for-good-reason-media-baffled/ar-AA1LaqEf?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=1bdc9d5f0b82492bb6f2b5190ff562a0&ei=75
Who knew? Reporting what you feel is true versus what actually is true makes for poor journalism.
A handful of reporters and pundits were outraged this week after footage emerged showing law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital roughly arresting a Hispanic man who tried to escape on foot during a traffic stop.
The initial incensed response is humorous, in a macabre sort of way, given the contrast between what we have been told about the man and what we know about the law enforcement officials.
“BREAKING,” tweeted NBC News Washington, D.C., affiliate reporter Aimee Cho, “Just saw police and federal agents detain a man on the National Mall. He appeared to try to escape, then was quickly tackled to the ground by several agents and was screaming in Spanish, ‘Please, I’m not a criminal, I work here, I want to be with my family!’”
Her breaking news tweet included exclusive footage of the incident, which everyone would subsequently use as a reference point in response to the arrest.
The arrested man, David Perez-Teofani, has entered the U.S. illegally three times, according to federal authorities. When he was arrested this week, he was defying a “final order of removal” after returning to Mexico twice before.
Perez-Teofani was also charged in 2024 with “indecent liberties with a child under the age of 15 and aggravated sexual battery,” according to Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court records reviewed by the New York Post.
These and similar details add a lot of context. But they came out only after select journalists and pundits had already framed the incident as one where federal and law enforcement officers had acted with wanton cruelty, similar to the behavior that made the German Gestapo notorious.
“His crying [hits] me in the gut,” said Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown in reaction to the online video of Perez-Teofani’s arrest. “And we will probably never be told who he is, why he was stopped, or if he was here illegally.”
Fox News liberal heel Jessica Tarlov, in a since-deleted tweet, wrote, “This doesn’t make DC safer. It’ll just make people not come to DC. The cruelty is always the point.”
“New normal,” Politico senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein dryly quipped.
Is there no justice in this world? Will no one think of the alleged child molesting illegal immigrant with the final order of removal against him?
Then, of course, there’s the NBC News affiliate reporter who first shared the footage of Perez-Teofani’s arrest. Nearly five hours after her initial social media post was shared and re-tweeted by thousands of social media users, Cho tweeted an update that included details of the man’s name and his 2024 arrest for “sexual battery against a minor under 13.”
This is a reminder of how quickly false impressions and contextless narratives can spread before the facts have a chance to catch up. As of this writing, more than 6.2 million people have viewed Cho’s footage of Perez-Teofani’s arrest. Slightly more than 6 percent of that number have seen her follow-up post, demonstrating once again that the sequel to a viral claim rarely, if ever, enjoys the same amount of attention as the claim itself.
Later, after more details about Perez-Teofani’s arrest were released, an indignant Tarlov snapped at Twitter users, saying, “I wouldn’t ever want to promote knowingly wrong information so I deleted the original tweet after the DHS memo came out — which was hours after the arrest.”
Well, that’s something. But here’s a better idea: Maybe don’t jump to conclusions in response to breaking news or viral videos. Maybe don’t just assume that law enforcement is evil and that its aim is the cruel treatment of random people — which is what Tarlov obviously did in her initial response to Cho’s footage.
This sort of rush to judgment, absent hard facts or explanatory context, is part of a pattern in the news and commentary business, which is teeming with people who prefer to respond to what they feel or think should be true rather than find out what really is. “Too good to check” is meant as a professional warning, not a lifestyle choice.
We see this everywhere in the news media. We see it weekly in the reports from Israel and Gaza. We saw it in 2019 when the press was strangely excited about the possibility that a teenager from Kentucky had acted in a racist and abusive manner toward an elderly Native American veteran.
We also witnessed this style of behavior nearly three years running with the increasingly-absurd-in-retrospect news cycle that suggested President Trump was a secret agent of the Kremlin. (On a side note, I am baffled that anyone believed Trump, of all people, could be involved in spycraft, which famously requires subtlety and discretion.)
The walls are closing in! “Trump rages,” he is “unraveling,” he is “fuming,” he is “isolated,” and this is the “end” for him! No verified or authenticated information was at any time required for actual journalists to make such comments.
It’s a radical notion, but perhaps we should make it a habit to wait for more facts before making snap judgments. Bold predictions and reflexive, emotional reactions make for lousy journalism.
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Police arrested a guy for good reason — media baffled - Spanky KU - 8/25 10:10:41