In an effort to create the illusion of wanton violence against left-wing protesters, ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir melodramatically oversold a driver incident in Los Angeles. Viewers are gaslit into believing that the driver plowed “through the crowd” despite watching video proving that no such thing happened.
Here is the report in its entirety, as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025:
ABC's David Muir melodramatically oversells driver incident at No Kings Protest, making it sound like the Waukesha Christmas parade. "Plowing through a crowd" burdened with the heaviest of lifts here. pic.twitter.com/O09HFH2l0b
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 18, 2025
DAVID MUIR: Tonight, police in Los Angeles are searching for a hit and run driver accused of plowing through a crowd during a No Kings Day protest there. About 50 people protesting across an intersection on Sunday. Witnesses say that driver there plowed through, a woman was struck. They say she was on the hood and then fell to the street. Paramedics treating her right there at the scene, rushing her to the hospital. She is expected to recover.
This brief aired at 6:49 P.M., the first story off of A-block and after the first run of pharma ads. Muir’s malicious description of a “plowing through” seeks to assign moral culpability to the driver of the vehicle. But the video completely contradicts Muir.
Muir claimed “about 50” people were “protesting across the intersection”. I saw no more than 37 in the frame at any given time, and that includes the people standing on the curb and not actually in the intersection.
Furthermore, there is no acknowledgment of the fact that the injured woman first dove on the hood of the car and attempted to block it in place as other protesters were approaching. Viewers are fed language consistent with a terrorist or other deliberate attack (New Orleans, Waukesha) when in fact this appears to be driver self-defense in the face of a mob.
We’ll be watching for coverage of the arrest and prosecution of this driver. Don’t be shocked if this case draws exponentially more coverage than the aforementioned Waukesha Christmas parade attack.
