I've noticed that press releases often miss critical details like that and/or carefully craft the narrative to make the police seem more evil and the victim more innocent. Why is that? Are they paid to push that narrative by someone or some organization?
Would you read an article about a trial where what happened seems pretty reasonable considering the circumstances? Probably not.
So the media first figures out what the story will be (and it better be sensational or why bother), then selectively reports facts to support their story.
Everyone has an agenda, even the good guys. It wouldn’t be conducive to donorship if this story was pitched as freeing the drug dealer that brought the murder weapon to the crime scene on the basis that his associate was the one to pull the trigger. Legally that’s all it takes, but people aren’t going to donate money to achieve that result.
