Posted on 08/15/2014 7:37:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
We do, everyday. Here are two: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom
Erikson’s behind the curve on this one after the video from the store was released this morning. Even Don Lemon of CNN had to cover it.
Guess they haven’t seen the video of this upstanding honor student pushing around the much smaller employee of a convenience store in a strong arm robbery, which is why the cops were called in the first place.
There are plenty more recent ones too. They are a footnote, if that, in the media. And when people came out to support the families of Newsome and Christian during the trial, they were called “the Klan” be the media. Of course, they weren’t looting and rioting, so they had to be “the Klan”.
I suppose not. Fox News just showed it a few minutes ago
In the 70’s, Houston PD was rife with shootings by cops with throw-down guns. Race was not an issue. People being pulled over were cautioned to find a lighted, populated area before stopping.
Just same stuff, just more publicity.
There have been white kids killed by police. It is just not nationally reported and white people don’t use the opportunity to riot and loot stores.
The video was just released a little while ago. Not when Erickson wrote the article, which could have been late last night for all we know
They could have held their fire before pushing this narrative, then. I’m not the media, I’m just a civilian with a computer, and I was able to find the story of this robbery yesterday.
The racists, Barack Obama and Eric Holder, will probably demand that an innocent white kid be shot every time a black thug is shot just to even out the body count.
Not only behind the curve, he’s taking part in the “meme” of the events as described by “witnesses” long before any real forensic investigation. The “shot in the back” could turn out to be from some other’s weapon or the person shot (any number of ballistics trajectories which would be borne out by true investigation).
This entire continuing internet scenario baiting and “what if” and “if” games need to stop. Now.
Political posturing now by ... black panthers? This is starting to come right out of the CPUSA handbook. This summer’s riot (last summer it was result of trayvon, remember— everyone’s darling child, not).
Above all— nothing from our dancing present...dent to calm a situation. No? That’s because his handlers want this to blow up, to continue Alinsky/Cloward Piven.
Such is the nature of the thugocracy put in place in the first election— corruptocrats, gangsters and frankly, morons.
Despite the facts of this particular case, this is a very poignant statement.
How many 18 year old 280# white guys have you seen scuffling with police lately?
My brother was white...and killed by the cops...he took 5 bullets in fact...
I don’t say the cops aren’t becoming more militarized, etc. What I take issue with is the, every time, knee jerk reaction by the media that innocent little kid was just minding his business and hurting no one and nothing when the big bad cop just shot him because he could. They know what they’re doing, and if the broader public had any interest in knowing the truth, they would recognize this invariable pattern by the media by now. But no, everyone jumps on an opportunity to make it all about “racial profiling”, or whatever agenda they’re pushing before waiting for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to come in.
Bad timing Mr. Erickson. St. Michael Brown may not be much of a Saint after all.
And for that matter, we’ve already innocent white kids-like the kid with the BB gun-shot by cops, but I don’t recall the media rushing to judgement ahead of the facts to get in the “he was a good kid” narrative going, because they know what’s coming and have to delay or obstruct it. For that matter, the media doesn’t bother it’s pretty little airhead at all when it’s a white kid who was shot by a cop.
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