pontoonlew
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While I denounce the media's selective reporting in search of the controversy which buys Rupert Murdoch and his clones their 4th and 5th vacation homes, this is utter shite — hypocritical, condescending, and incorrect. If you look at the percentage of people killed by police offers in the United States, it largely skews towards one demographic. I say this as a person—one geographically very close to the issue—who doesn't believe the Michael Brown incident was particularly wrong. Now there are loads of other less-profiled cases that are really shocking. The Travyon Martin verdict, Eric Garner, the children with toy guns, etc. — it's clear there is a judicial double standard. I'm not accusing all, or even the majority, of those in law enforcement, but there is a tragic systemic mistreatment of black men and women in America (and likely elsewhere).
Have you seen the e-mails from the Ferguson PD which have surfaced? Or the extreme disparity in traffic citations issued? I don't think there is a correlation between "feeling threatened" and pulling over young black men on suspicion. As someone who drives in this city and surrounding areas daily, it's not just young, black men who are speeding. So why the chronic prejudice?
You see white men shot in exactly the same circumstances, the media sit silent because it doesn't suit them to report it. In the Michael Brown case, there was a white guy in America shot in the similar circumstances just days apart. Do you remember his name? Did you see it reported in the same vein?
It goes on up and down America, the gun laws etc don't help any situation and makes it all the more shocking for people in the UK who aren't used to having such laws in place here. Especially RavenBish who doesn't appear to have ever left his bedroom. Who then just presume it's just black people getting killed by the police for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
There is a problem in America, I do not doubt that whatsoever. But people seem very quick to jump on the fact that these shootings must've been racist and there's no other way it could've gone down. That sort of media drive cost two policemen their lives in New York.
Think of how many people are killed by police on a daily basis, the harsh reality is that it's a lot more than the few reports the media pluck out to put into the limelight. Despite what RavenBish QC says, somebody somewhere is deciding these people who he deems as racist murderers, are innocent. I'm sick of seeing people claim it's just more racism when the verdict doesn't suit them.