In a pair of recently released political ads attacking former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, two North Carolina fathers describe their children’s killings.
The ads’ framing makes it sound as though Cooper agreed to release their children’s imprisoned perpetrators. That’s not what happened.
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“As the governor, Mr. Cooper was allowing these criminals back on the streets,” Ronald Hayes says in one of the ads after telling about the fatal March 2024 shooting of his 23-year-old son, Shemar, in Charlotte.
On screen as Hayes speaks, Cooper’s image is superimposed over an image of jail
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