Omitting crucial context surrounding the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old black man by a white police officer, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey misled the audience of media and technology industry conference about the circumstances of the deadly incident.
Wearing a t-shirt with the message #StayWoke – a phrase popularized by #BlackTwitter and connected to the racial grievance mongering and victimhood of the “Black Lives Matter” movement – Dorsey was somewhat open about his own brand of left-wing politics.
“During the week and a half that I was there was another shooting in the city of St. Louis of a young man who, in protest I believe, stole two things from a convenience store, and, in the middle of the day, was shot 11 times,” said Dorsey.
Compare and contrast Dorsey’s depiction of events with video of what transpired below, showing two white police officers fatally shooting black 25-year-old Kajieme Powell.
Powell is seen in the video placing two cans of some beverage on the a sidewalk following his theft of them from a nearby store, pacing back and and telling bystanders, “get the f*** away from me.”
Police arrive moments after, and Powell approaches them with what was apparently a knife in his hand, loudly stating, “Shoot me! Shoot me now, motherf******!”
Nine shots are heard, and Powell immediately collapses on the sidewalk.
In August of 2014, Dorsey joined the fusion of protesters and rioters in St. Louis and Ferguson following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, essentially endorsing the neo-Marxist racial narratives of the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
Dorsey shared his decontextualized and misleading version of events while joined by an informal leader of “Black Lives Matter” – Deray Mckesson, who he described as his friend – during an interview with Peter Kafka of Recode, a technology-oriented subsidiary news site of left-wing Vox Media.
Asked about political biases at Twitter hostile towards conservative points of view, Dorsey presented himself a favoring an atmosphere of freedom and diversity of viewpoints.
“I think a platform is best when it carries every voice,” said Dorsey. “I do believe we need to build a platform that respects and amplifies every voice in a way that the world needs to hear it.”
Mckesson concurred, claiming to be in favor of Twitter adopting a policy of free speech and expression. He also seemed proud to have blocked 19,000 Twitter users, adding that he receives death threats via the social media platform.
“I agree with Jack, I think that it is better when we are exposed to as many ideas as possible, not that I always want to be in proximity to them, right? So I’m not retweeting much of what [Donald Trump] says, or The Blaze, or Breitbart, or National Review,” said Mckesson.
Despite a declared commitment to free speech and expression, Twitter established a censorship board entitled the Twitter Trust & Safety Council, essentially entirely composed of left-wing organizations. The social media giant has also deployed inconsistent standards in its application of bans and suspensions.
Watch the entire talk below. See its worst moments here.
Follow Robert Kraychik on Twitter.