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01-09-2019, 09:56 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2019/01/09/x-men-series-takes-shot-stand-your-ground-laws
By Lindsay Kornick | January 9, 2019 3:23 PM EST
It unfortunately didn’t take long for Fox’s X-Men series The Gifted to come back with another liberal pet issue. Last week's new year premiere gave us a Fox News-esque bad guy after the fall season's premiere provided a scene it thinks resembles an ICE raid. Now we’ve opened the “cop shooting an unarmed citizen” narrative with a bonus slam at “stand your ground” laws.
The January 8 episode “meMento” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/89878-s02e11-memento/?do=getLastComment) follows two members of the vigilante anti-mutant hate group The Purifiers searching for loose mutant criminals. Following the mass prisonbreak of incarcerated mutants from the midseason finale, the group is more determined than ever to find, arrest, and kill mutants that they believe threaten the country. This leads Purifiers Jace Turner (Coby Bell) and Officer Ted Wilson (Tom O’Keefe) to a children’s home as a potential refuge site.
Predictably, their arrival goes badly as two teenage boys immediately run at the sight of two Purifiers. After the boys are cornered, Jace manages to speak calmly to one, trying to explain their cause. However, the talk goes from bad to worse when Jace hears Officer Wilson fire a shot in the house. The next thing he sees is Wilson standing over the body of a dead teenage boy. Although the scene looks bad with Wilson shooting an unarmed minor without provocation, Jace ultimately covers for him when authorities arrive, claiming the man “stood his ground.” That’s an interesting choice of words.
By Lindsay Kornick | January 9, 2019 3:23 PM EST
It unfortunately didn’t take long for Fox’s X-Men series The Gifted to come back with another liberal pet issue. Last week's new year premiere gave us a Fox News-esque bad guy after the fall season's premiere provided a scene it thinks resembles an ICE raid. Now we’ve opened the “cop shooting an unarmed citizen” narrative with a bonus slam at “stand your ground” laws.
The January 8 episode “meMento” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/89878-s02e11-memento/?do=getLastComment) follows two members of the vigilante anti-mutant hate group The Purifiers searching for loose mutant criminals. Following the mass prisonbreak of incarcerated mutants from the midseason finale, the group is more determined than ever to find, arrest, and kill mutants that they believe threaten the country. This leads Purifiers Jace Turner (Coby Bell) and Officer Ted Wilson (Tom O’Keefe) to a children’s home as a potential refuge site.
Predictably, their arrival goes badly as two teenage boys immediately run at the sight of two Purifiers. After the boys are cornered, Jace manages to speak calmly to one, trying to explain their cause. However, the talk goes from bad to worse when Jace hears Officer Wilson fire a shot in the house. The next thing he sees is Wilson standing over the body of a dead teenage boy. Although the scene looks bad with Wilson shooting an unarmed minor without provocation, Jace ultimately covers for him when authorities arrive, claiming the man “stood his ground.” That’s an interesting choice of words.