How Western media would cover Baltimore if it happened elsewhere

The Washington Post ^ | 4/30/2015 | Karen Attiah

[MinorityRepublican]

If what is happening in Baltimore happened in a foreign country, here is how Western media would cover it:

International leaders expressed concern over the rising tide of racism and state violence in America, especially concerning the treatment of ethnic minorities in the country and the corruption in state security forces around the country when handling cases of police brutality. The latest crisis is taking place in Baltimore, Maryland, a once-bustling city on the country’s Eastern Seaboard, where an unarmed man named Freddie Gray died from a severed spine while in police custody.

Black Americans, a minority ethnic group, are killed by state security forces at a rate higher than the white majority population. Young, black American males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than white American males.

[combat_boots]

“According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund 682 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in the past five years in the United States. That averages out to over 136 dead law enforcement officers each year.

Here are the numbers:

2010 – 161
2911 – 171
2012 – 126
2013 – 107
2014 – 117

Conversely, on average, there were 96 black males who are killed by white police officers each year – and another 300 white males who are killed by police officers according to FBI statistics.
USA Today reported:

Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.

On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the FBI by local police.

Then there’s this… There were 431 black killers of “whites” in 2014, compared to 193 “white” killers of blacks while blacks make up only 13% of the national population. There were approximately 6,000 black on black murders last year.

Remember this the next time the liberal media or some far left crank tries to persuade you there is an epidemic of black men being slaughtered by white cops.”

Read more: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com#ixzz3YpgAXKRH

[combat_boots]

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/year.html

[digger48]

International leaders expressed concern over the rising tide of racism and state violence in America, especially concerning the treatment of ethnic minorities in the country and the corruption in state security forces around the country when handling cases of police brutality.

IOWs, they'd be covering it in exactly the same way they're covering it here

[Inyo-Mono]

Bttt.

[GOPJ]

There were 431 black killers of “whites” in 2014, compared to 193 “white” killers of blacks while blacks make up only 13% of the national population. There were approximately 6,000 black on black murders last year.

Remember this the next time the liberal media or some far left crank tries to persuade you there is an epidemic of black men being slaughtered by white cops.”

The Washington Post needs to understand 'Truth Matters'...

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I don’t give a $hit about ‘international leaders’.

[GOPJ]

Karen Attiah ... you shame your profession....

[driftless2]

I call on all international peacekeepers and assorted bleeding hearts to volunteer their time in the inner-city policing the “oppressed” people and explaining to them how they’re down with the struggle.

[driftless2]

“white” killers of blacks includes Hispanics i.e. Mexicans who frequently engage in gang battles with blacks. The true number of non-Hispanic whites who murder blacks is much smaller.

[GeronL]

I say we give them buy-outs, not reparations. They have buy-backs for dangerous “guns”, I say we do a buy-out of dangerous people.

$300,000 to leave the country forever.

[gusty]

If I could write my own fantasy story about Baltimore, I would give it a more Colombian flavor. “ A narco-terrorist was killed in a clash with police today.....”

[Dad was my hero]

I say we give them buy-outs, not reparations. They have buy-backs for dangerous “guns”, I say we do a buy-out of dangerous people. $300,000 to leave the country forever.

Do we add incompetent, stupid, evil, Marxists to that list? If we do I think Obama will want a lot more. ;-)