NEW YORK (AP) – Fox News said it has removed a video from its website that depicted cars plowing through demonstrators, saying it was “inappropriate.”
The development was part of another fast-moving day Tuesday for media keeping up with the fallout from a violent racial protest over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, including a contentious late-afternoon news conference by President Donald Trump and a deleted presidential tweet.
The 90-second video had been picked up in January from The Daily Caller, a website co-founded by Fox personality Tucker Carlson. The Daily Caller’s video editor, Mike Raust, wrote when it was posted: “Here’s a compilation of liberal protesters getting pushed out of the way by cars and trucks. Study the technique; it may prove useful in the next four years.”
The video, its existence reported by Slate Tuesday, was reposted on the Fox Nation opinion website.
“The item was inappropriate and we’ve taken it down,” said Noah Kotch, Fox News Digital editor-in-chief. “We regret posting it in January.”