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Smear-Gel said:
Dumb.

Why dont we report on every shooting that ever happens? 

Doubt that's possible, there are way too many of them. At least not in regular news. A news dedicated channel could do this though.



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Baalzamon said:
SocialistSlayer said:

but is he a white hispanic. 

if he is white hispanic that changes everything. like george zimmerman. lol

I was just going to say that lol. Zimmerman was the first time I had ever heard the terminology white hispanic used.


Then you had never needed to fill out your race on a form? Race is not the same as ethnicity. There are black,white, asian, native, and mixed hispanics.



The_Yoda said:
DonFerrari said:
 

In Brazil a singer that preached hate towards policemen got killed... there was an outcry from fans that police wasn't investigating because he was a funk singer and come from the community...

How bizarre is to say you hate the police and complain about it's repression but then ask for it support whenever you get a problem?

Yeah, no doubt. Funny how some people hate the police until someone is breaking into their house /  car , then who do you think they are calling?  There are no doubt some corrupt police, and unfortunately to many people they give all police a bad name (at least here in the States).

There are too many corrupt people. The criminals (which the communists says are victms and civil right defenders say are profilled) are corrupts as well. And most police officers didn't had opportunities in life as well. So why some decide to be cops and other thugs?? I just because of race bias?





duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

ikki5 said:
because it was a white person that died, You are allowed to kill a white person without being called racist. Remember, you are only allowed to hate a person if they are White or Christian (though Muslims are getting to that point as well).

 

BraveNewWorld said:
I'm going to lay out a few things comparing the situations. Infer what you will...

67.4% of the Ferguson, MO populace is black; that's 14,228 people.
Incident took place August 9th.
212 arrests as of August 22. Copious amounts of looting and vandalizing. Accusations of racism abound.

71.5% of the Salt Lake City, UT populace is white; that's 143,576 people.
Incident took place August 11th.
No arrests as of August 26. Peaceful protests. No mention of religion playing a role. (A lot of Mormons in UT)

Lyrikalstylez said:
Let's all destroy and riot our own neighborhoods, that'll show em >_>
DialgaMarine said:
Because apparently white people have jobs and lives they focus too much on to lose their collective shit over something that, while unfortunate, isn't that great of a deal in the grand scheme of things. Hell, I really don't know. My condolences to the family of the deceased. R.I.P.

 

 

LiquorandGunFun said:
it doesnt help divide and destroy this country. no need to. plus its a white guy, they arent people to media or the narcissist president.

DonFerrari said:
Because using the white oppressor against the poor black people gives more outrage in the pathetic minorities world we live in... in a few more years we will fell ashamed of being white, christian, rich, educated and heterossexual.
DonFerrari said:

 
 


Man you missunderstood... I said because you can be proud of being gay, black, women, poor, dropping college, etc and can demand rights because of that... any manifestation pro white, christian, rich, etc is seen as a spit in the face of minorities and the defensors act like we should feel ashamed of being born this way, it is preposterous.


 

 

DonFerrari said:

 

 You basically answered yourself with prejudice. I have no problem with policies that Help poor people achieve better competition for opportunities against rich guys. But that have nothing to do with race, why should a rich black have access to these privileges and a poor white don't? Are swe saying a poor white have better chances and opportunities than a rich black?


And you ignored I wasn't singling black civil rights fighters, but feminists, gayzists, atheists, etc.


I am aware of profilling and that black officers also profile black, is he racist against himself? Most cases I see in profilling is towards attire and attitude (gangsta and hip hop kind) than pure color. I never saw no one profilling a black guy in suit going to work or church. Usually the profilling comes from black guy being in a majorly white neighborhood and whites on black.


But yes, let's reduce all towards race and hate.


 Never realized this forum was so filled with ignorant people. Just another reason why GAF is superior to this forum.
Some of the dumb, ignorant posts in this thread would have been smacked down immediately in a GAF thread.

Then again GAF is as good at debating social issues as they are at discussing video-games and have a size-able minority and LGBT community plus some active female posters unlike this forum which is probably mostly straight, white males



You know what, let's say this happened, I don't think this is part of a new trend... Most police officers are white, often in "black" neighboorhood, they often harrass blacks (and other minorities) on a daily basis, and this is not just kids in hoodies, I have black coleagues dressed in full office work attire that get 'questioned' about why they stand near a metro station (you know where people usually wait for people), some muslim coleague who get followed all the way home by some police car).

I never experienced that sort of things from the police, maybe some attitude I did not like whenpulled over for speeding, but that's it, if you're white they generally give you the benefit of the doubt, unless you are homeless... There is a serious problem with how the police interact with a lot of minorities, and it should be remedied.



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DonFerrari said:
The_Yoda said:
FentonCrackshell said:
I caught wind of this story when it first happened and I knew it would get no media coverage. Right now the media is in the business of black outrage. This story doesn’t fit the current narrative. There’s a double standard there for sure. Everything about this story would’ve been reported if the victim were black and the officer white. The victim was a probation violator whom had a warrant out for his arrest. He’d committed a robbery and threatened to kill an eye witness. It’s said that the reason he didn’t comply with the officer’s orders is because he had earbuds in and couldn’t hear the officer’s commands. Were the races reversed we’d have this story on the front page of every paper and news station.

Haters and race baiters like Al “The Charlatan” Sharpton thrive on these scenarios. Sharpton was front and center after the Ferguson incident but he’s been silent day after day while black gangs have turned Chicago into a warzone. But it’s not just on bull**** Al. The people over at Fox News and MSNBC are as bad as he is. Fox thinks that any killing of a minority is always because said minority had it coming. They’ll go back and find things like that minority using the N-word on his or her Facebook page as a reason that person may have been violent. MSNBC will always proclaim that a white person pulling the trigger on a minority had racist intent. Both channels sow the racial divide and sit back and profit from it.

Furthermore, I can tell you that I’ve seen very disheartening posts throughout all of this. Whites think that the media is always on the black man’s side and want to vilify the white man at every turn. You ask how come white on black crime gets so much attention while the inverse does not? I’ll ask why missing minorities get almost zero coverage in the media. See, they’re in it for the ratings. They believe that everyone can feel sorry for a missing, pretty white woman. No one cares about a black single mom with hairweave. So yeah, it works both ways.
Finally, I can tell you that the hardest part of all of this has been seeing how we’ve all pretty much used this unrest to make us hate each other more. My wife, a white conservative married to a left-leaning centrist, admitted to me that she’s profiling blacks more and more lately because of what’s going on. Yesterday she saw a black guy in a BMW parked across the street and assumed he was a drug dealer. I told her that the lady who lives in that house is dating a cop and that guy could be the cop. That hurt me a bit.

What also hurts me is how blacks think that every black person is innocent and can do no wrong when things like this happen. WRONG! Know the facts before taking a side. My Father In Law is a white retired police officer. He worked in the worst part of the Palm Beach County for 25 years. That part is mostly black. He was as fair as they come and can tell you that there are good people in that city and there are bad. But I see black people posting comments that all cops are bad and most of them deserve to die. My question to them is this: How is it that I (a 32 years old black man) have never been handcuffed, battered, or beaten by the police? I’ve been pulled over a handful of times and I’ve been profiled. I’ve also complied and stayed calm each time. Look, I’m not saying all cops are good or bad. I’m also not saying that all beatings are justified. But I’m saying that some people need to realize that their actions sometimes lead to these altercations.

The most level headed realistic comment I've seen thus far.

For a site centering around data I'm surprised I've seen nothing but anecdotal evidence.

 

Edit: I hadn't seen SocialistSlayer's comments yet. Those that live by the sword die by the sword, isn't the thug culture wonderful? It even gets non-thugs killed. BTW in my opinion people of any color can imitate the thug life.

In Brazil a singer that preached hate towards policemen got killed... there was an outcry from fans that police wasn't investigating because he was a funk singer and come from the community...

How bizarre is to say you hate the police and complain about it's repression but then ask for it support whenever you get a problem?

Shouln't the police be above that sort of schenanigans?



I'm going to help my fellow white brothers and sisters understand why blacks are so upset.

in 2011(couldn't find factual info on 2012 or 13 or 14) you had over 9.2 million arrest between white and black people 2/3rd's of those arrest were white while black people made up 1/3rd of those arrest. At the end of that same year you had over 1 million black and white males sentenced and of those males you had 46% who were white and 54% of them who were black.

Now how is it you have such a higher arrest rate for white people but a higher incarceration rate for black people?Blacks are targeted by the police force and you wonder why they HATE the police so much?! Blacks can't even wear hoodies at night without making people feel uncomfortable yet whites can wear hoodies and nobody bats an eye. A white person can have weed on them dressed like their favorite rapper and be walking down the street in New York and will not be stopped and frisked. Yet if a black person is walking down the street minding their business dressed like their favorite rapper in New York (because people dress like people they look up to) they will be stopped and frisked, sometimes 2 or 3 times in a day.

We all hate the whole TSA experience when we get on planes now imagine having that experience 2 or 3 times a week just because of the color of your skin? I can see why blacks are so pissed off and white people pretending they have it so hard being white make me laugh.



alabtrosMyster said:
DonFerrari said:
The_Yoda said:

The most level headed realistic comment I've seen thus far.

For a site centering around data I'm surprised I've seen nothing but anecdotal evidence.

 

Edit: I hadn't seen SocialistSlayer's comments yet. Those that live by the sword die by the sword, isn't the thug culture wonderful? It even gets non-thugs killed. BTW in my opinion people of any color can imitate the thug life.

In Brazil a singer that preached hate towards policemen got killed... there was an outcry from fans that police wasn't investigating because he was a funk singer and come from the community...

How bizarre is to say you hate the police and complain about it's repression but then ask for it support whenever you get a problem?

Shouln't the police be above that sort of schenanigans?


I'm not sure what kind of shenanigan you are talking about... but even tough Brazil police have several issues (including, profilling, abuse of power, corruption, etc) they are investigating the crime...  I just say it's funny that a population that preache hate agaisnt the police and asks for its estinguishion are so fast to cry for its support when they need.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."