Yesterday the news broke of an absolutely vicious hate crime in Chicago. Deanna covered the brutal attack here. To recap, a special needs young man was kidnapped by four black teens. They held him captive for nearly 48 hours and filmed his torture on Facebook Live.

The original video is taken down but many others have captured the evil inflicted upon this traumatized young man. Was this a hate crime? No Doubt About It.

However, the media wants us to believe otherwise. Take a look via Powerline at the AP’s original reporting on the story. Key words in the original story include beating, alleged incident, suspects… all pretty innocuous. Well, within a couple of hours Powerline reported that the AP amended their story.

While police officials did not confirm the races of the suspects or victim, video from Chicago media outlets appeared to show someone off-camera using profanities about “white people” and President-elect Donald Trump. The victim appeared to be white, while others shown in the video appeared to be black.

However, the AP has further amended their story. The entire quote above was quietly replaced with THIS tame little sentence.

Off-camera, people can be heard using profanities about “white people” and Trump. At least one woman is shown in the video.

The AP isn’t the only culprit. Althouse has links to other media sources who would rather call this viciousness a beating instead of what it is. She notes that the media does mention its racially charged but none specify who attacked whom nor are they honest about the fact that the victim was tortured. But that hasn’t stopped the other apologists from stepping up. Last night on CNN, Don Lemon had this to say: