After a hung jury had led to the mistrial of former South Carolina law enforcement Officer Michael Slager, charged with shooting unarmed black man Walter Scott in the back, Matt Lauer took his post at the Today Show on NBC to urge calm in the community. In the process, a year-old photo of the Freddie Gray protests was deceitfully edited and aired to make it appear as if it was currently happening in Charleston.

But it didn’t take long for South Carolina Senator Larry Grooms to see that NBC was pulling a fast one and so, he called them out:

“I am proud of my home, and it angers me when media folks like our friends at the Today Show project false and misleading images of my home. After the mistrial, there was no racial unrest, and there were no protests in the streets. However, the Today Show producers decided that there should be. When they aired their story about the mistrial, they showed images of an April 2015 protest that took place in Baltimore, MD.”

Wisconsin Sheriff David Clarke wondered if Lauer “believes all black people look the same.”

“Walter Scott, Freddie Gray. I guess The Today Show just can’t keep it all straight,” Clarke wrote on his blog.

But as Sen. Grooms also noted, words from the protest signs in the original Associated Press photo were apparently photoshopped out so that it couldn't be traced to Baltimore or Gray.

“Behold Charleston as the producers want it to look, not as it actually is,” he said.

The best part: the video was removed from NBC’s website, but a thoughtful YouTuber mirrored it on his page (above).

Next week, Matt Lauer and the entire Today Show gang will let us know what “fake news” to avoid as we navigate a Trump administration. We're sure, however, they won't include their program.