Tell me if ya head this before; Someone does an interview and their words are taken out of context. In this case two Swedish police officers were interviewed about the growing crime rate in their area and their words someone miraculously distorted to fit someone else’s agenda about refugees. – PB/TK
Swedish police comments ‘taken out of context’ in film cited by Trump – Philip Oltermann and Edward Helmore
Two Swedish police officers interviewed for a documentary cited by Donald Trump as evidence of a link between crime levels and asylum policy in Sweden say their comments were taken out of context, accusing the interviewer of “bad journalism”.
At a Florida rally on Sunday the US president sowed confusion by seemingly referencing a non-existent terrorist attack in Sweden, later explaining on Twitter that the comment had been a reference to a news segment on the Fox News TV channel, which described an “incredible surge of violence” in Sweden.
But two police officers interviewed for the broadcast told Dagens Nyeternewspaper on Monday that their interview had been edited and “we were answering completely different questions in the interview”. They described the filmmaker who interviewed them, Ami Horowitz, as “a madman”.
Horowitz denied the accusations, saying he stood by his reporting and that the two policemen were “probably under a lot of pressure because of what they said”.
Fox’s nightly Tucker Carlson Tonight show featured the segment, introduced as “Filmmaker documents refugee violence in Sweden”, in which Horowitz appears to ask two off-duty policemen if they “see the violence really spreading across Sweden into cities”.
Continue to theguardian. com article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/20/swedish-police-comments-taken-out-of-context-in-film-cited-by-trump
