| 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 Or how about when the whole "Stand Your Ground" law came into play, allowing Zimmerman to shoot Martin to "stand his ground", yet in the very same state when a black woman didn't even shoot someone, but instead, fired a warning shot, in her own home, to get her violent husband out of her house (someone who hadn't lived there in like two months) who had attacked her and threated to kill her. She was instantly arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was facing a 20 year sentence. It wasn't until after months of litigation that it was overturned, but she is still on house arrest (remember, she was just defending her home) and now the Florida Attorney General is trying to re-prosecute, this time for a 60 year sentence 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. Or in the latter case, not having the law applied consistently when it comes to a black person (in a case where no one died or was even injured, mind you) 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, but we know the officer will have some modicum of responsibility, since there's video evidence. And if the studies about police with cameras on them are to be believed, then officers are more hesistant to use more controversial means of solving a problem when there's video. |
Freaking this.
