Posted on 11/25/2014 12:23:29 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On Monday night, the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri freed Officer Darren Wilson from the possibility of indictment over his shooting of 18-year-old black man Michael Brown. The prosecutor before the grand jury, Robert McCulloch, explained why the indictment had been rejected: the evidence, both physical and eyewitness, supported Wilsons case that he had acted in self-defense.
McCulloch added pointed criticism of the media that drove the case in the first place, ripping the insatiable appetite of social media and non-stop rumors driven by it. The initial accounts pushed by social media, McCulloch said, were filled with speculation and little, if any, solid or accurate evidence. But he saved his harshest criticism for the media machine itself: The most significant challenge encountered in this investigation has been the 24-hour news cycle and its insatiable appetite for something, for anything, to talk about, followed closely behind with the non-stop rumors on social media. McCulloch finished by stating that evidence mattered, and that no ones life should be decided based on public outcry or for political expediency.
The lecture was well-deserved.
Just as the media did during the George Zimmerman trial and in the aftermath of Zimmermans shooting of Trayvon Martin, the media attempted to cram the square peg of the Wilson-Brown shooting into the round hole of white police racism. That meant portraying Brown as the latest sainted racial victim; this time, rather than the Trayvon Martin narrative of hoodies, Skittles, and iced tea, the media hit upon the notion that Brown was a gentle giant. The Brown family, Al Sharpton, MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, and other major media outlets ran with the story that Brown was a gentle giant who wouldnt hurt a fly....
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