Dead is dead and all dead leave loved ones behind. But the bottom line is we’re being programmed to automatically think it’s a black perp when a cop is shot. If it’s a black that is shot by a cop we know it right up front because that’s the way it’s reported.
And we’re programmed to automatically think it’s blacks killing blacks in Chicago. Because it usually is.
“But the bottom line is we’re being programmed to automatically think it’s a black perp when a cop is shot.”
I don’t think intelligent people can be “programmed” however, there are people that prefer to construct a narrative in their head, and often time that narrative does not fit actual events.
The danger of that narrative or as you called it programming, is that police officers cannot hold that bias as at any moment they can be killed and it makes no difference if the shooter is black or white, a cop is dead.