| BMaker11 said: How often are white kids profiled by a black police officer, then get shot while unarmed? And then, how often is that officer not charged with anything? You want to know why there isn't as much media coverage? Because the wrong that was committed in Utah doesn't happen at nearly the same rate. And it doesn't have to just be homicide. Stop and frisks resulting in physical battery, where the vast majority of people who are stopped are unarmed minorities who are just minding their business. I read a story one time where a straight A high school student getting off the metro on the way to play in a high school basketball game was stopped because he looked "suspicious" due to having a scarf covering his face: it was really cold in Philly that day. And because he was just trying to get to the game and didn't have time for the police annoyance, he literally had his balls ripped off. http://mic.com/articles/79923/cop-stops-and-frisks-black-teen-and-literally-ruptures-his-testicles As someone else has pointed out, there was another case where the police beat a man, then sued him for assault for getting blood on their uniform. There's media coverage and all kinds of outrage because the black community is tired of being seen as a threat just for being a young black male. Even in the Zimmerman case, they tried to make it seem like Martin deserved it, by showing pictures of him throwing up hand signs and saying he had a little weed in his system i.e. he was a thug. So even when a kid dies, he's still profiled as dangerous. Now, flip the script. You got white kids shooting up schools and theaters. How does the media portray them? As all around good and well mannered kids who did well in school; and how nobody saw this happening: a tragic "fallen hero" story. White kids that are proven dangerous are looked on as fondly as possible; black kids that are shown to be harmless are looked at as thugs and gangsters. The reason there's so much coverage in one case over the other is because there has reached a break point on the black side. The black cop shooting the white kid is very much random in comparison to how often it happens to young black men. I'm not saying that it was right in any manner, what happened in Utah, but I will pose a question: had it been a white kid with his hands up, do you think Darren Wilson would have shot him? And for the case with Dillon Taylor, the officer was wearing a camera. We'll have to wait and see how that scenario will play out |
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