CNN, in an attempt to underline Minneapolis as a national emergency, held a “State of Emergency” town hall hosted by Anderson Cooper and Sara Sidner. It appears that the town hall was set up to be a Parkland-style event where conservatives were brought before the braying mob and flayed for spectacle. The most notable fact about the town hall is that the recently-published video of Alex Pretti spitting at the Border Patrol and kicking the tail light off a vehicle was not aired until 28 minutes into the town hall. The town hall was clearly set up to be an ambush for dissemination of leftwing talking points. We note that, when examining CNN’s selective airing of town halls, there is never a town hall convened that might disturb media narrative.