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Driver charged in Kansas City semi crash that killed mother and two sons
What’s new: Prosecutors charged driver Eldar Skander with three counts of involuntary manslaughter.
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Fox News reports that prosecutors charged Eldar Skander, 39, with three counts of involuntary manslaughter over a crash on US Highway 71 in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 9, citing a news release from the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office. New York Post, PJ Media and Daily Mail report that the crash killed Olga Sorbalo, 35, and her sons Luis, 8, and Samir, 4. Prosecutors said six other people were taken to hospital with serious injuries, Fox News reports. The New York Post, citing officials, says a tablet playing YouTube was found in the cab. ICE said Skander is a Ukrainian national who entered the country illegally. Sorbalo’s husband and youngest child survived, according to a fundraiser.
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Prosecutors charged Eldar Skander with three counts of involuntary manslaughter.
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A crash on November 9 on US Highway 71 in Kansas City, Missouri, killed Olga Sorbalo, 35, and her sons Luis, 8, and Samir, 4.
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Prosecutors said six other people were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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ICE said Skander is a Ukrainian national who entered the country illegally.
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Reports say a tablet with YouTube open was found in the semi-truck.
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Right-side outlets report that a semi driver killed a mother and her two sons on US Highway 71 and was charged, and they frame the crash around the driver’s immigration status and his YouTube use.
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Headlines lead with the driver’s immigration status or YouTube use; the Far Right PJ Media ties the crash to Democrat immigration policy, while Daily Mail’s headline leads with the victims.
Dehumanizing label“Illegal immigrant”The headline labels the driver by immigration status in a crash story before any trial, and the charges do not establish that status.More neutral: Ukrainian national, according to ICEDisagree with this highlight? trucker charged in crash that killed mom, 2 young sons heading to airport
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An illegal alienMore neutral: The driver
Labels the driver by immigration status in the outlet’s own voice, pre-judging him before the cause is established.
An illegal alien who was reportedly playing videos on his tablet as he drove and speeding caused a…
Used byPJ Media (Far Right)
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Democrat immigration policiesMore neutral: immigration policy
Attaches a partisan label to immigration policy and assigns the deaths to it, a conclusion the crash reports do not establish.
That’s three more casualties of Democrat immigration policies.
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illegal alienMore neutral: unauthorized immigrant or noncitizen without legal status
Appears in some statutes but is widely read as dehumanizing; 'alien' frames people as foreign objects rather than residents.
An illegal alien who was reportedly playing videos on his tablet as he drove and speeding caused a…
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Illegal Alien DriverMore neutral: Semi-truck driver
Labels the driver by immigration status in the headline of a crash report, pre-judging him before the cause is established.
Illegal Alien Driver Watching YouTube Kills Mom and Kids in Missouri Crash
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illegal immigrantMore neutral: driver
Leads the report with the driver’s immigration status, a label that pre-judges him before the cause is established.
An illegal immigrant who was playing YouTube while speeding behind the wheel of a semi-truck crashed…
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illegal immigrantMore neutral: driver who ICE says entered the country illegally
The excerpt labels the driver by immigration status in the outlet’s own voice, before any trial, while the status is only reported as ICE’s claim.
An illegal immigrant truck driver was charged after allegedly causing a crash in Missouri that left a…
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Quotedillegal aliensMore neutral: unauthorized immigrant or noncitizen without legal status
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…Security (DHS) General Counsel James Percival told CBS News in October that illegal aliens overwhelmingly end up committing more than one violation of our laws, and that one…
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- driver’s immigration status
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- the mother and sons killed
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Dehumanizing label“Illegal immigrant”The headline labels the driver by immigration status in a crash story before any trial, and the charges do not establish that status.More neutral: Ukrainian national, according to ICEDisagree with this highlight? trucker charged in crash that killed mom, 2 young sons heading to airport
A tablet with YouTube open was found in the semi-truck driven by Eldar Skander, who allegedly caused the fatal Kansas City crash at high speed.
- New York PostRight
Loaded modifier“Illegal immigrant”Adds the driver’s immigration status to the headline of a crash report, a label that pre-judges him before the cause is established.More neutral: Semi-truck driverDisagree with this highlight? crashed into SUV, killing mom and 2 kids, while playing YouTube in his semi-truck: officials
“Three more innocent American lives were lost," ICE said. "This is our WHY.”
- Daily MailRight
Mother and two young sons all killed after their Honda minivan was struck by semi that failed to stop
A mother of three and her two young sons were killed when a speeding semi-truck crashed into their minivan, causing a chain reaction with 3 dead and 6 injured in Kansas City, Missouri.
Loaded modifier“Illegal Alien Driver”Labels the driver by immigration status in the headline of a crash report, pre-judging him before the cause is established.More neutral: Semi-truck driverDisagree with this highlight? Watching YouTube Kills Mom and Kids in Missouri Crash
Loaded modifier“An illegal alien”Labels the driver by immigration status in the outlet’s own voice, pre-judging him before the cause is established.More neutral: The driverDisagree with this highlight? who was reportedly playing videos on his tablet as he drove and speeding caused a crash that killed a mother and her two little kids in Missouri. That’s three more casualties of Partisan shorthand“Democrat immigration policies”Attaches a partisan label to immigration policy and assigns the deaths to it, a conclusion the crash reports do not establish.More neutral: immigration policyDisagree with this highlight?.
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Daily Mail, Nov 11, 2:32 PM EST
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