Framing

It is not clear what were the intentions of the network by editing this video. It does seem kind of racist because they were advertising this like if the boy wanted the gun to be a murderer. They referred to that as "scary". However, like the person that posted the video up in youtube it is "scary" that there is people out there that are trying to frame little kids who are just growing up and don't even know exactly what is going on around them. It is true, an environment influences a lot the way a person acts towards other people or things, but that little boy clearly stated that he wanted the gun because he was going to be a policeman and he wasn't scared maybe because he felt he would be able to protect people by being a policeman and having a gun. This video is a re-framing of what really happened because it's as if the network is trying to make like boy look like a future murderer, because of course when someone hears a 4-yr old boy say he is going to have a gun when he grows up, that person will immediately think wrong. This video does portray some wrong stereotyping because it provokes the viewers to think that only because it's an African American boy, the network edited this video to make African American people look like they are abusive since childhood. The last part of the interview that was cut off works against the stereotype because the guy posting the video shows that what is in reality scary is that there's people out there that would go through such extremes as making an innocent boy sound like a future murderer. If I were to write my own version of this story, it would be concentrating on how of course its damaging for a kid that age to experience an event like that but they can  be given the proper guidance so that they don't grow up wanting to be murderers or anything that will screw up their lives. For readers or viewers the frame that I would be trying to make would be about understanding the danger that especially children go through because of the shocking events that they witness as they are growing up but that there is something that we can do to prevent anything from shocking children and marking them for life.