| BMaker11 said: Oh god. I love how they immediately said not bias, even though this was their first report on the story and it's not something they updated into an already posted story. People knew how the story would play out if the roles were reversed, so Fox preemptively made that statement in their initial post. And he killed 3 people with headshots and immediately turned himself in....over a "parking dispute"? Guarantee it'll be "he was mentally ill", just like Aurora, Sandy Hook, Elliot Rodger (who explicitly said he was going to shoot girls because he was rejected by them) or even what they tried at my school, Purdue, with Cody Cousins. Somehow, all of them were mentally ill. Whole groups of people won't get looked on in a negative light based on this one man's actions, but instead, they'll try to find out a "deeper problem" with the individual. A benefit no other group gets. Trayvon Martin was a "thug" because he got suspended from school once and smoked a little weed. Mike Brown was "low life scum" because he stole some cigarillos. But this [white] guy? With the way this played out (3 headshots over something petty), they won't ever look at him like the sociopath he is. They'll find out he was "troubled" and was an otherwise "upstanding citizen" and some "bad situation" caused him to snap. I've seen it time and time again. |
I don't think that's true, either. There's always an interest in picking apart criminals who seem more cerebral, whether it's because they are strongly ideological or they pull off an attack that is spectacular in nature or scope. Pick just about any Muslim terrorist in recent years, and you can find heaps of stories about how he was a promising or likeable student, so polite, just a normal kid, etc., until he became radicalized after his professional aspirations didn't pan out or something like that.
As for bias, it's kind of suspect that an outspoken atheist would just happen to kill two visibly religious people after such a petty dispute. But hate crimes are pretty close to thought crimes, so it's understandable if the cops don't want to pursue that angle unless they have clear evidence.
