Pete Williams (journalist): Difference between revisions

 

In covering the [[April 2021 United States Capitol car attack]], Pete Williams claimed the assailant was a "White Man" before any knowledge of the driver was released by authorities. He did not retract his statement. "The question now is, what’s the condition of the Capitol Police officers who were injured when the man -- we’re told it was a White male that was driving the car -- when the man got out of the car and attacked the police officers with a knife," Williams told MSNBC anchor Katy Tur. The assailant turned out to be Noah Green, a mentally ill Black man who was a self-described "follower of [[Louis Farrakhan|[Louis] Farrakhan]]".<ref>{{cite news|first1=Nicholas|last1=Fandos|authorlink1=Nicholas Fandos|first2=Zolan|last2=Kanno-Youngs|first3=Giulia McDonnell|last3=Nieto del Rio|first4=Aishvarya|last4=Kavi|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/capitol-suspect-noah-green.html|title=Capitol Suspect Struggled Before Attack, but Motive Remains Unclear|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 3, 2021|accessdate=October 4, 2021}}</ref>

 

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