Fox Issues Startling On-Air Retraction: 'Nobody Has Been Shot'
Source: TPM/Fox
Fox News host Shepard Smith issued a startling on-air retraction on Monday, saying the channel had "screwed up" when a reporter said an hour earlier that he'd witnessed a black man being shot while running from Baltimore police.
"What's happened is we screwed up what it sounds like," Smith said. "I can tell you one thing, Mike Tobin would never — I've been through this. Mike Tobin thought he saw somebody get shot. And there was a gun. And there was a patient on a stretcher. And there was a woman who said she saw the cops gun him down and there's gonna be violence and all the rest of that. And what we have is nothing."
"Nobody has been shot," Smith said. "No police officer pulled the trigger." Smith said the conditions were unusual and that the news crew had made an "honest" mistake.
The retraction came after Baltimore police flatly denied that a shooting had even taken place.
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Fox News Reporter Says He Saw Black Man Shot While Running From Police
Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin said that he and his news crew witnessed what he described as a "young, black male" being shot by a police officer in Baltimore while running away on Monday afternoon.
Tobin described seeing the man run "right in front of us" and that he never saw the man turn. "I was getting ready to do a live shot for my shift ... I was sitting in the car, scribbling on my notes for the next live shot, and he ran right in front of us," Tobin said. "I never saw the individual turn and do anything I would consider an aggressive act, but we did see the officer draw his weapon and I counted one gunshot."
Tobin also mentioned he "clearly saw a revolver on the sidewalk" after the shooting.
The man, who Tobin said "looked to be in bad shape," was taken to the hospital by paramedics.
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