Which brings me to the bizarre and thoroughly ridiculous reaction to a picture of a Customs and Border Patrol agent riding a horse.
I get that the picture looked bad: White guy chasing a black guy with what looked like a whip. But it wasn’t a whip and there was no whipping of any Haitian migrants. The whipping motion of the reins is a standard practice for maneuvering the horse, not rounding up humans.
This was clear very early in the development of this story, but not early enough. Vice News still has this tweet up:
"Border Patrol agents are whipping Haitian migrants at the US-Mexica border in Texas."
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-- Jonah Goldberg
