Last week there were big goings-on at the border in Del Rio, Texas. As many as fifteen thousand Haitians camped under a bridge trying to enter the country.
Pictures and footage circulated of border patrols on horseback catching Haitians crossing the Rio Grande. One picture taken by a photographer named Paul Matthews showed a border patrol by the shirt. But the narrative became border patrol agents were whipping Haitians. Democrats from Biden down expressed their outrage over this racist behavior.
Only one problem. Just a teeny one.
The whipping never happened.
The last time I was on horseback when I was ten, you had reigns to control the horse. You can get him to turn right or left, speed up, or stop. No whips.
But for a week, that was the narrative, regardless of the facts. Paul Matthews, who took the picture, said he never saw any whipping happening.
Today, the left-leaning New York Times printed a retraction. No whips. They printed something that contradicted the truth.
The fallout was a number of border patrol agents quit. Just like many police officers last year. You want to jump to conclusions and call them racist, they’ll hand in their badges and say, do this job yourself.
But the fact the Times retracted their own article shows how false the narrative was.