ESPN’s NBA pregame show built a planned segment around the Rittenhouse verdicts .
ESPN then failed to get the facts right.
ESPN then failed to get the facts right.
- During the conversation, ESPN’s Jalen Rose said that the police shot and killed an innocent Jacob Blake, whom the riot at which Rittenhouse shot three men started over.
- ESPN’s Mark Jones interrupted a live NBA game and said the police shot Blake while unarmed.
- ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski spread the same unarmed lie about Blake in a column that ESPN edited, posted, and promoted on its home page.