Blurred Lines in Chicago

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FTVLive has praised WLS in Chicago as being one of the best stations in the country.

The ABC O&O is the blowtorch in the Windy City and most often does it right. Most often.

The station did something and deserved to be called out.

WLS showed a video of protestors walking in the street and in front of a number of white people holding guns in an effort to intimidate those that were protesting.

What the station did next is head-shaking, to say the least. While they continued to show the face of the protestors, they blurred the faces of the gun-toting white people.

Why?

WLS posted the blurred video to Twitter and after a lot of backlash, the station has deleted the post.

Here is the video posted by someone else that does not blur the faces of the gun people:

Here is some of what the Twitterverse had to say to WLS before they deleted their tweet:

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WLS posted this after deleting the video:

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This was added to the end of their online story:

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What they didn’t say is why they blurred and posted the video in the first place.

Sad that they did this in the first place.