Media Outlets Differ in Coverage of Child Shot in Atlanta

An eight-year-old girl was shot and killed near the scene of a protest in Atlanta, Georgia over the weekend. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms told protesters to disperse following the shooting; protesters were assembling over the police killing of Rayshard Brooks in June. Coverage from right-rated outlets were more likely to frame the violence as having been incited by Black Lives Matter protesters, focusing on Bottoms's dispersal order and the apparent blame she directed at protesters. Some concentrated specifically on the 'black-on-black crime' angle. Left-rated outlets generally reported that it was unclear whether the shooting and the protest were linked.