“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.
IT’s the media’s fault. They make the reader assume the perp is black by typically not reporting race unless it’s a white perp.
There are also way too many who automatically assume the black is guilty. There are also way too many who automatically assume the cop is guilty. We must wait on the facts but facts are hard to come by anymore.