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How the coverage framed it

The four-point bias spread here is driven largely by a single outlier on the left end. The Guardian's headline — "Calls for investigation after video shows ICE officers using batons on protesters" — positions ICE as aggressors and frames demonstrators as victims through active, physical language ("using batons on protesters") and the implication of wrongdoing embedded in "calls for investigation." At the other end, Axios surfaces the DOJ's own label "Alien Terrorist" in quotation marks, a term scored as right-coded by virtue of its emphasis, even though the outlet uses neutral surrounding language. The Chicago Tribune's two headlines occupy the center, relying on procedural and factual framing — "judge doing double take on bodycams" and "ICE agents appeared during traffic stop" — with no charged language in either direction. The spread, while technically 4.0 points, is therefore pulled almost entirely by the Guardian's victim-framing rather than reflecting a broad ideological divide across all outlets.