The Mississippi Department of Public Safety released bodycam footage from the police officers involved in the deadly shooting of one-year-old Kohen Wiley in June. The Mississippi Attorney General had previously ruled the use of force as "justified." At the time of publication, Daily Mail (Lean Right bias) was the only coverage from the right AllSides found addressing the new footage, though other right outlets did cover the "justified" ruling.

The Details: Kohen Wiley was shot and killed in a car with his mother and aunt, who were accused of shoplifting from Walmart and were fleeing in their vehicle. Newly released footage shows both store security footage and film from the officers' body cams. The video shows five officers running towards the car with guns drawn as they yelled for the driver to stop. The officers were on the right side of the vehicle as it reversed into another car in the parking lot before pulling forward and turning left. Four gunshots can be heard as the car passed by the officer.

For Context: Officers we called to the Walmart because of calls about shoplifting, though Kohen Wiley's mother nor his aunt, the other two women in the car with him, were never charged. On October 19, Breitbart (Right) reported that the Mississippi Attorney General's office announced that it found the use of force justified, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation said that Wiley's aunt drove towards and struck one of the officers. The officer who fired the fatal shots resigned from his position, though he was cleared of criminal wrongdoing. His lawyer said, "The driver of the vehicle was attempting to kill those 5 officers, and Hunter Foster had no choice but to discharge his weapon."

How the Media Covered It: The footage was covered more heavily by the left and center, with little-to-no coverage from the right found outside the Daily Mail. The Intercept (Left) wrote that the cop "was not in danger" when he fired the shots and claimed that the officer "positioned himself in front of the vehicle" and fired shots after the vehicle passed him and "posed no threat." BBC (Center) included Wiley's family's response that the shooting was not justified and their lawyer's statement that the allegation of shoplifting "does not warrant the death" of a child. It also noted that the Walmart security footage appears to show that one officer was near the front of the moving vehicle when the other officer opened fire.

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Since President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff met with both Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and Russian President Putin last week, new reporting has emerged on both past and potential future peace plans for Ukraine.

For Context: Shortly after the Witkoff-Putin meeting ended, Zelenskyy spoke with Fox News (Right bias) host Brian Kilmeade and said he would accept freezing the conflict along the current lines of control as the first step towards diplomacy and developing a peace plan.

Latest Terms: In an opinion from The Economist (Left), the outlet claimed: "Ukrainian officials lack full details of the latest proposals, but the outline is familiar." The Economist said there would be a demilitarized zone in Donbas, US-Russia business deals, the lifting of sanctions, an investment package for Ukraine, and EU membership in exchange for abandoning its NATO ambitions. It added that the "newest sweetener" is "an offer to restart Russian gas sales to Europe," which are planned to be completely finished by the end of the year. The reported details were mentioned in commentary on X and Ukrainian media, though it remains unclear how much of the information was recently confirmed by The Economist.

Looking Forward: Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov spoke on Russian state television on Sunday, offering further updates on the status of negotiations. Hungarian Conservative (Lean Right) highlighted that he confirmed the US, Ukraine, and Russia will hold trilateral negotiations on November 4. Trilateral negotiations have long been something Ukraine has pushed for, but Putin has rejected. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy also confirmed the trilateral talks. The Washington Times (Lean Right) highlighted that Ushakov believes the European Union should play a bigger role in them than it has so far.

Failed 2023 Effort: Over the weekend, The Financial Times (Center) published a nearly 5,500-word report that chronicled the 2023 back-channel peace efforts of a few influential private citizens. The report claimed a deal was floated to Putin at the beginning of 2023 that he partially agreed to. Russia would withdraw its forces to pre-2022 lines of control, Ukraine would recognize Russian control of Crimea and grant Russia a corridor to access it from eastern Ukraine, Ukraine would get NATO defense guarantees, and Russia would open negotiations with the US on separate security guarantees. Putin reportedly told former East German spy Matthias Warnig, "If we can agree on the border and on NATO, then we can discuss everything else."

Ukrainian film producer Alexander Rodnyansky reportedly "could barely get" Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and his top adviser Andriy Yermak to look at the proposal, as they were adamant about not giving up territory. Reportedly, according to Putin, the Biden administration did not consider the backchannel legitimate and believed its own diplomatic channels with the Kremlin were sufficient. FT said "former US officials" offered a different account and said Ushakov never mentioned the backchannel in official communications. FT said that Putin's demands have since "ballooned" and that the backchannel participants "believe the US and Ukraine missed a potential opportunity to secure peace on far more favourable terms than Putin is now willing to entertain."

FT Reporting Confirmed: A few days after FT's report, Ukrainian member of parliament Oleksiy Goncharenko confirmed the peace proposal's authenticity and contents and added more context. Goncharenko said Russia would have forfeited "300 billion in frozen assets" for the reconstruction of Ukraine, Ukraine would have adopted a law that made reconquering Crimea via invasion illegal, and that Zelenskyy rejected the deal.

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A federal appeals court hearing Sunday over the Justice Department's voting lawsuit against California closed without a ruling.

The Details: The hearing was spurred by an appeal by the Trump administration claiming that a district judge did not act on the matter quickly enough to address the allegations of roughly 20,000 potential noncitizen voters on California's voter rolls. Two out of the three judges on the panel were critical of the Trump administration's emergency effort to set aside thousands of California's mail-in ballots tied to alleged noncitizens. The judges questioned the legal arguments provided by the government and whether the court has jurisdiction to make a ruling considering the Constitution's Elections Clause, which states that state legislatures have authority over the times, places and manner of congressional elections, subject to congressional regulation.

'Trickle Of Prosecutions': Outlets on the left like MS Now (Left bias) and ABC News (Lean Left) tended to highlight officials saying that a preliminary analysis of the 20,000 names showed 200 of the names having "a high percentage" of being citizens. MS Now also highlighted the recent arrests of 28 people on the 20,000-name list, saying these 28 cases "represent just over one-tenth of 1% of the 20,000 'likely noncitizens' who DHS claims are registered to vote in California." According to the article, MS Now reviewed the charging documents that have been made public, revealing that "some of the election-related charges loudly touted by DOJ officials in press conferences and on social media appear to have been quietly dropped." MS Now also compared the "trickle of prosecutions" to the nationwide numbers, saying that while the administration is "portraying noncitizen voting as a civil right epidemic," the numbers remain low.

'Already In Jeopardy': Outlets on the right like The New York Post (Right) tended to highlight the urgency behind the issue, saying that "Los Angeles' top federal prosecutor fears noncitizens could be illegally casting ballots in California as dozens of polling places opened across LA County Saturday," adding that he warns "the state could be trying to run out the clock before disputed votes are counted." The First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli also said it is "very highly likely" that the California elections are "already in jeopardy" as "noncitizens have already voted." According to Essayli, the "biggest fear is they're just going to try to run out the clock until all the ballots have been processed, in which case there will be nothing we'll be able to do after the election," explaining that "Once they count the ballots, there's no way to go back and undo that."

RELATED: DOJ Arrests 28 for Voter Fraud in California

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CBS News (Lean Left bias) and the Trump administration have offered different accounts of a recent deportation involving a Malian immigrant in Texas.

60 Minutes Segment: Moussa Diawara, 57, lived in Texas for about 25 years before being deported to Ghana in July. He told CBS's 60 Minutes that shortly after arriving in Ghana, Ghanaian officials detained him and forced him onto a flight to Mali where he became homeless and was left without money or identification. According to CBS, Diawara feared persecution in Mali due to his Christian religion. It also reported that documents issued to Moussa by the Department of Homeland Security during his deportation, including luggage tags and a medical form, listed Mali as the destination.

Asylum Application: DHS countered these reports and said Moussa claimed to be gay in his asylum application and that he feared being persecuted for his sexual orientation if he was sent back to Mali. Fox News (Right) reporter, Brooke Taylor, shared Moussa's asylum application on X where he had written, "When I became teenager…I was more comfortable being intimate with boys rather than with girls" and "Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without an embarrassment no reserve." Moussa had also written in the application that his situation had "worsened" when he switched to Christianity. The Trump administration also said that the tags were produced by contractors at the detention facility Moussa was at and the medical form's destination entry was a clerical error. 

For Context: Moussa came to the US when he was 32 on a tourist visa. He overstayed his visa and filed for asylum. In 2012, a US immigration judge ruled that Diawara could be deported but that he couldn't be sent to Mali because he'd likely face persecution. While in the US, Moussa married a woman and had two children.

How the Media Covered It: CBS often described Moussa as "a Texas dad" and framed the instance as an outcome of poor immigration policies and bad execution from the Trump administration. It quoted Moussa describing his detention in Ghana as "kidnapping" and included criticism from immigration attorneys and Democratic lawmakers. James Percival, the seventh general counsel of DHS, said Moussa's claim showed just "how bad the immigration fraud problem is." Washington Examiner (Lean Right) focused on the Trump administration's response to the 60 Minutes segment.

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