At the Peacock Network, facts got in the way of a compelling story and an even better narrative. So they just omitted those pesky facts altogether.
Watch as NBC News Now anchor Tom Llamas
TOM LLAMAS: For the first time Hisham Awartani, the Palestinian-American college student who was shot and paralyzed, is telling his story. How he and his two friends were ambushed on a November night in Burlington, Vermont. He says, because of racism.
HISHAM AWARTANI: Growing up in Palestine, this is something that I already — I’d always thought was possible.
LLAMAS: But did you think it’d happen here?
AWARTANI: Not really, no. I definitely expected it would happen to me in, like, in the West Bank, in Palestine. But not in Vermont.
It was racism, you see. The other shooting victim featured in the report, Kinnan Abdalhamid, went right up to the…
