Posted on 12/25/2014 9:24:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One of this mornings big news stories is the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Antonio Martin by a policeman in Berkeley, Missouria place that, the Associated Press tells us helpfully, is just a few miles from Ferguson. The Antonio Martin shooting is currently the top story on Google News, and it is being headlined on pretty much every newspapers website.
But why? What makes this a major news story? The Michael Brown and Eric Garner stories that preceded it, obviously. But what made them worldwide news? Or, to go back in time, what made the Trayvon Martin case a cause célèbre, commented on by the President of the United States and followed breathlessly by millions?
The Antonio Martin case wont be as big a story as Browns and Garners deaths. Rather than being your typical unarmed 300-pounder, Martin apparently pulled a 9 mm. pistol on the policeman who responded by shooting him. But every shooting of a civilian by a police officer is now deemed an important news storywith the critical qualification that the civilian, but not the officer, be black.
Are these shootings worldwide news because of an epidemic of racist murders being carried out by American policemen? That is what Eric Holder, Bill DeBlasio and Al Sharpton would have us believe. But it obviously isnt true. Heather Mac Donald writes:
Police killings of blacks are an extremely rare feature of black life and are a minute fraction of black homicide deaths. The police could end all killings of civilians tomorrow and it would have no effect on the black homicide risk, which comes overwhelmingly from other blacks. In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the U.S.almost all killed by black civiliansresulting in a death risk in inner cities that is ten times higher for blacks than for whites. None of those killings triggered mass protests; they are deemed normal and beneath notice. The police, by contrast, according to published reports, kill roughly 200 blacks a year, most of them armed and dangerous, out of about 40 million police-civilian contacts a year. Blacks are in fact killed by police at a lower rate than their threat to officers would predict. In 2013, blacks made up 42 percent of all cop killers whose race was known, even though blacks are only 13 percent of the nations population. The percentage of black suspects killed by the police nationally is 29 percent lower than the percentage of blacks mortally threatening them.
These stories about the killings of African-American men by police officers (or by a neighborhood watch captain, in Trayvon Martins case) are all what my long-time radio and podcast partner Brian Ward calls stories of choice. They are plucked from a nearly endless supply of sad events that occur daily in a nation of 315 million, and are promoted because they further a political narrative. An unholy alliance of activists and newspaper reporters and editors tries to distort our perception of reality by giving undue emphasis to them. Then, of course, reality begins to catch up with perception, and we have riots, murders of police officers, and so on. But understand that the decision to promote these stories, in preference to others that are equally or more newsworthy, is a choice that is consciously made by people with a political agenda.
The media are in the business of stirring up racial hatreds, and so they hyped this one even though it has nothing to do with the other shootings.
Of course not. There were ZERO protests when Gosnell and other creatures like him use scissors to sever a baby’s spine, or drill a hole into the baby’s brain and suck it out.
THOSE black lives matter.
“taxpayer-funded ‘gypsies’ on the fringes of society”
I may have to borrow that.
Obviously you don't have a bum and a criminal as a family member. I do, and honestly, if he were to die from GSW or some other unpalatable means...I would not give a damn, and may respond with good riddance. You have to live it to understand it. At some point you become apathetic, to whatever becomes of them.
Police: Man with knife shot by police after lunging at officers
Posted: Dec 26, 2014 5:44 AM CST Updated: Dec 26, 2014 5:45 AM CST
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -
An allegedly suicidal man with a knife was shot and wounded by a Chicago Police officer on Christmas Day after he lunged at officers, injuring one of them, authorities said.
Grand Crossing District police officers drove up to a building at 6:40 p.m. in the 400 block of East Marquette Road in the Woodlawn neighborhood to respond to a call of a man threatening suicide, according to Deputy Chief Berscott Ruiz of the South Chicago District, the Sun-Times is reporting.
When the officers got out of their vehicle, they saw a man sitting on a porch. The man lunged at them with a knife and twice struck the protective vest of one of the officer, Ruiz said on the scene Thursday night, citing a preliminary report.
The man then started walking eastbound, and when the officers asked him to drop his weapon, he turned around and again lunged at the officers, Ruiz said.
The man was shot twice in the torso and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, Ruiz said.
The injured officer also was taken to an area hospital for treatment of minor injuries, Ruiz said. He was listed in good condition.
The knife used in the incident was recovered, police said.
Ruiz didn’t take questions from the media at the scene of the incident.
The police officer performed as trained with shot placement to the the deadly threat’s body mass.
Unlike the media talking head experts who we know will say that in this case the officer should have shot the knife out of the perp’s hand.
What I am concerned about is, after already being struck by the knife the first time maybe the officer in that split second hesitate to shoot because of fear that he will be crucified by the Leftist media and lose his job, or worse?
You’re welcome to it; use it well. I live outside Newark NJ, and think it is an apt comparison. In-laws from Europe describe real Gypsies stealing chickens and scamming tourists; this is more of the same with a large infusion of violence and hatred.
Click on the article link and at the bottom, click on the link to the 29 dog smiles. So cute!!!!!
Spot on!
Tomorrow, murdered NYPD, Officer Ramos will be laid to rest. At least 25,000 “out of town” police officers will attend with thousands of New York City uniformed public servants, all the various NYC poiice departments, the NY fire department personnel, NYC emergency responders, etc., accompanied by thousands of Puerto Rican Hispanics and rank & file New Yorkers
I would suggest that hundreds of thousands of NYC, African-Americans turn out to honor the memory and public service of Officer Ramos, for the most obvious of reasons that any sane person would see and understand!!! If not, Black Americans will continue to be adrift-at-sea, without either paddle or rudder for many, many years to come. Following Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Bill De Blasio is no way to go through life!!! Wake up, folks....you are alone...except for the radical America haters you pal along with!!! for goodness sake....figure it out....look in the mirror and you will clearly see the problem!!!
Thanks; amazing how this drags on for decades...
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