A lot of what we cover here at the Media Research Center consists of bias by omission. Specifically, when media outlets omit narrative-unfriendly stories in their entirety, or omit selected details from within those stories that are inconvenient to liberal narrative. Tonight on NBC Nightly News, we saw the exact opposite.
Watch as anchor Tom Llamas and law enforcement correspondent Tom Winter break down the sequence of events during the shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent:
NBC Nightly News was the only legacy evening newscast to report that the woman shot by the ICE officer in Minneapolis was in fact obstructing ICE by blocking traffic pic.twitter.com/qQCjO5cShE
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 8, 2026
NBC NGHTLY NEWS
1/7/25
6:35 PM
TOM LLAMAS: We want to now take a closer look at the videos we just saw of the shooting incident. And joining us to highlight key points investigators will be looking at is NBC's Tom Winter. He covers law enforcement for us. So Tom, we’re going to start the video here. We’re going to stop it quickly because there's stuff we are learning from the get-go. Again, the police chief saying this vehicle was blocking the federal agents right there.
TOM WINTER: That’s right, Tom. And a big caveat: we don't know what happened before this. But they’re definitely going to look at the fact, this is an unmarked vehicle. But the lights are on, these are clearly members of law enforcement. So that's at least known to this driver.
LLAMAS: Let’s play the video because something happens right here. Those officers approach the vehicle. They try to open the door. Let’s stop it here. How will this help the investigators?
WINTER: Whatever is said here, what these officers say, if the driver said anything or not, could really help them understand whether or not they thought there was some sort of an imminent threat. Was this person trying to listen to them? Were they scared? Was this gonna be a problem?
LLAMAS: And then, of course, what the driver does next. Let’s play that video. Trying to leave there. One of the officers felt like they were forced to fire, and they do. We want to show another angle- a reverse angle. The same incident here. We will freeze it. This is that same angle here. And what does this show us Tom?
WINTER: Well, this appears to show an officer right in front of the vehicle. That, in between the way the vehicle was moving and the timeline, how was the officer responding in that split second going to be critical for investigators.
LLAMAS: Finally one more piece of evidence we want to talk about here. And it's the bullet hole in the front of the windshield. What will this tell investigators?
WINTER: Well, you look this: you look at ballistics, you look at witness statements, you look at other video- all going to be a part of this investigation but Tom, it’s going to take some time.
LLAMAS: All right. Tom Winter for us. Tom, we thank you for that.
The natural media impulse is to report the story in a light most favorable to narrative which, in this case, means casting law enforcement in the worst light. That’s not what NBC does here. This is the only mention on the legacy evening news of the fact that the person who was shot was in the process of actively obstructing law enforcement from performing their duties- the law enforcement in this instance being ICE.
Viewers got a dose of context and nuance that they do not normally get. We often point out the bad in the media. Here, we happily point out the good.
