Washington Post Article Rating

Second officer acquitted in Elijah McClain's killing

  • Bias Rating

    -40% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -40% Somewhat Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : McClain's death did not gain national attention until 2020, when the murder of Floyd by Minneapolis police officers galvanized new attention to other cases of Black people who died after encounters with law enforcement.
38% : "We must do all we can to stop the unlawful and unnecessary use of force that can result in people dying at the hands of law enforcement.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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