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#SayHisName Trends After Media Refuse To Report On Murder Of 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant

Amanda Prestigiacomo
#SayHisName Trends After Media Refuse To Report On Murder Of 5-Year-Old Cannon Hinnant
Wayne County Sheriff’s Office

Mainstream media outlets have yet to cover the brutal Sunday night execution of a five-year-old North Carolina boy named Cannon Hinnant, allegedly at the hands of 25-year-old Darius Sessoms, sparking the hashtag #SayHisName to trend on social media Thursday morning.

As The Daily Wire reported on Tuesday, Sessoms, who is black, allegedly walked up to young Hinnant, who is white, and shot him in the head at point-blank range in front of the child’s 7- and 8-year-old sisters.

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