EXCERPT:
STELTER: “This story has trickled up from local news to social media and now to the president’s attention. And it’s being used, as you said, Brianna, as a political symbol, with MAGA media calling for more forceful punishments and more incarceration. I have to say, some of the replies to Musk, some of the comments around this story are baldly racist, stocking fear of African Americans because this man attacked a white woman. The open racism on sites like X today, it’s eye-popping. But there are also legitimate questions about this so-called career criminal, someone who had been a repeat offender. And those questions, I hope they’re not lost amid all of the cesspool kind of comments on social media.”