On the Anniv. Michael Brown’s Death The WaPo Does it's Best to Raise Tensions & Help The Dem Cause

Flopping Aces ^ | 08-10-15 | Vince

[Starman417]

The Washington Post does its part to continue the collapse in race relations in the United States… and in the process diverts attention from the real issues facing Americans of all stripes such as an anemic economy, a disastrous Iran deal and a feckless administration that can’t seem to do anything right.

On Sunday the paper ran a piece with the following title: A year after Michael Brown’s fatal shooting, unarmed black men are seven times more likely than whites to die by police gunfire. It then proceeds to discuss the deaths of a number of unarmed black men who were killed by police since the Michael Brown case one year ago. The paper helpfully notes:

“Black men accounted for 40 percent of the 60 unarmed deaths, even though they make up just 6 percent of the U.S. population.”

While those figures might be startling, out of context they mean nothing. Certainly the fact that black men accounted for 40% of the 60 unarmed deaths is astonishing given their 6% of the population. But it doesn’t seem quite so startling when one notes that, according to the FBI, in 2012 black men were charged with 38.5% of violent crime; “even though they make up just 6% of the U.S. population.” In addition, of those under the age of 18 charged with violent crimes, 51.5% of them are black males. (Note, in both these cases the FBI stats don’t break down by sex, but according to their statistics men are 10X more likely than women to commit violent crimes such as murder.)

And the word unarmed does not mean someone is not dangerous. Of the six main men profiled in the piece, one of was high on Cocaine and attacking an officer, another led police on a high speed chase and was shot when police thought he was reaching for a weapon after his vehicle was immobilized, while another, according to police, was shot while trying to run arresting officers over.

None of this is to suggest that there are not bad police out there or that black men are never wrongly killed by police. We know it happens, as the killing of Walter Scott show. But thankfully, that is the exception rather than the rule. But that’s not the message the Washington Post is seeking to communicate. As troubling as even one wrongful death is, in a nation of 320 million people, with almost a million police and over a million violent crimes each year, context is everything.

The Washington Post could have used the same data to make the following headline: “Black men, who were charged with almost 40% of violent crime in America, accounted for 40 percent of the 60 unarmed deaths at the hands of police.” But that wouldn’t have moved forward their narrative that the police are racists. They also could have used the total number of people killed by police, 585, to begin a discussion about excessive force, but that too would have missed the mark of their police are racists mark as well, particularly as the number of citizens killed by police is extraordinarily low by historic standards. (In 1971 NYC police killed 91 people vs. 8 in 2013)  Finally, they could have used that same 585 number of people killed by police to begin a discussion on the number of lives saved by the actions of the police. But that too would have been completely incongruent with their narrative.

The point here isn’t that shootings by police are not an important issue. On the contrary, they are and it’s a very important issue as the government, usually in the form of police, is the only entity legally empowered to take your liberty. The point is the value of picking up a copy of  the Washington Post or clicking on one of its links.  Is the supposed leading national paper on politics a source of news or is it a shill for the Democrat party with the objective of helping to get Democrats elected?

[RightGeek]

[Blue Jays]

They should try comporting themselves with manners, grace, courtesy, and in a law-abiding manner. It’s really easy.

[JPG]

[SkyDancer]

And the blacks there destroyed what was a rebuilding of black businesses. Again.

[Crim]

That’s not Brown.

[jocon307]

If these people think flogging “black lives matter” will help the dems all I can say is sure, you’re right! Please disrupt a lot of brunches - remember do that NATIONWIDE the sunday before election day. Yeah that’s the ticket!

[I want the USA back]

Half of all crime is committed by blacks. Did the Post tell its readers that?

[Mears]

I often wonder what the I.Q. is of some of the leaders of these militant blacks.

The tactics are just making things worse.

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[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Glad that Flopping Aces noticed this Wash Post racist hit-piece on the police.

Treating Michael Brown as a “victim” instead of the bully criminal that he was. No frontpage mention that he tried to get a police officer’s gun while the officer was still in his car (left DNA on it).

Typical leftist shit that the WaCompost has been publishing for the last week. Two columnists, one a white leftist slobbering woman named Dvorak, and another one whose name I have forgotten, made it seem like every black youth who was killed by the police were shot down in cold blood.

(No front page article about cops killed by blacks. Never will be).

It is happening now with the cop-killer wannabe who was shot in Ferguson after shooting up a police car. He’s in critical condition and I hope he dies. That might be a damper on the violence plans of the Marxists and the black racists who are inside Ferguson today.

[Bon mots]

[publius911]

The paper helpfully notes:
“Black men accounted for 40 percent of the 60 unarmed deaths, even though they make up just 6 percent of the U.S. population.”

LOL!

What the Post neglects to mention, the rest, and most important, part of the story, is that black men commit 56% of all the violent crimes in the country, although they "also make up ONLY 6% of the population!"

Well, , D'OH!

[JimSEA]

“The tactics are just making things worse.”

That just may be their intent.