MSNBC host Chuck Todd misidentifies speaker as ‘Jacob Blake’s uncle’

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Chuck Todd, host of MSNBC’s Meet the Press, misidentified an unrelated speaker on the steps of the Kenosha County Courthouse as “Jacob Blake’s uncle” after the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict on Friday.

“Jacob Blake’s uncle is speaking right now. We want to listen into that,” Todd said as the segment cut to the misidentified speaker, identified by the Associated Press as pastor Bishop Tavis Grant.

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