Happy Mother's Day. Can You Comment For This Story About Your Dead Son?

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℮oin Higgins
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Irrespective of the content of the article, the message sent by reporting about the victim of a police killing framed around a dismissed gun charge is clear—”no angel.”

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Happy Mother's Day. Can You Comment For This Story About Your Dead Son?
Six weeks after Pittsfield, Massachusetts police killed Miguel Estrella, the regional paper of record is asking his family to comment on a story about a dismissed, two-year-old gun charge
6:32 PM · May 8, 2022

https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/happy-mothers-day-can-you-comment?s=r

Since Pittsfield, Massachusetts Police Officer Nicholas Sondrini killed city resident Miguel Estrella two months ago, local outlet The Berkshire Eagle has been seen as leaning toward a police-centric view of the incident.

The paper’s latest tone-deaf move is unlikely to change that perception.

On Mother’s Day, the Eagle reached out to the Estrella family, including and specifically Miguel’s mother Marisol, hoping to get comment on a story about an Estrella arrest and case dismissal from February 2020 in the nearby city of Adams.

The Estrella family, naturally, did not comment on an article about a dismissed gun charge from two years ago on Mother’s Day, when the pain of losing Miguel less than two months ago is especially poignant.

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[Deuxcents]

1. This is not journalism. This is cruel

Somebody needs fired and the family is due an apology.