Submitted by [deleted] t3_10nkyql in pittsburgh
Eubadom t1_j6afc69 wrote
Reply to comment by Cohomology_ in Any protests/demonstrations planned? by [deleted]
Yeah seemingly. Has any recent incident sparked anything close to George Floyd, regardless of the races of people involved? George Floyd was a perfect storm of circumstances to cause civil unrest. I'm pretty sure if that girl's video didn't hit social media in the middle of the lockdown it would have been swept under the rug and forgotten about like most police murders.
Cohomology_ t1_j6andz9 wrote
Yup it was a perfect storm but besides George Floyd we all probably know names of multiple black folks murdered by cops and probably like 0 white folks. Given the statistics on such events it is clear the media has a bias in one direction. Fear and anger generates clicks and revenue, and making things seem like some sort of police race war helps generate the fear and anger.
One example that sticks out to me is a man who was running from cops and killed himself with a gun running into target. The cops caught up to him and tried to help. People on Twitter posted the videos of them standing next to him, and within minutes the target was looted and destroyed because people just assumed what happened. The genesis of these skewed perceptions is the media.
NovelAuntieGin t1_j6b0alu wrote
>The genesis of these skewed perceptions is the media.
That's not true. The media generally only picks up on these stories when the community forces them to. The murder occurred on Jan 7th. Memphis authorities didn't decide to fire or charge the murderers until after they found out that there was video of the whole incident that was outside of their control.
There is absolutely nothing unusual about what they did. We all know it, especially the KKKops. We're only hearing about it because there was video outside of their control. They only fired and charged the murderers because they knew the video was about to be released.
chad4359 t1_j6aq7sf wrote
Daniel Shaver is the only white guy I know off the top of my head and honestly I had to look up his name cause I just remember him as that pest control guy the cops shot
NovelAuntieGin t1_j6b25ck wrote
He's not the only one. There are stats by race and other factors on police killing people.
If you're a KKKop, you're roughly 8 - 12% more likely to kill a white person than a black one. But white people make up over 70% of the population. If you're a Black person, you're something like 400% as likely to get killed by a KKKop than if you're white.
If you're a young, Black male, you're many times more likely to be stopped, searched, charged, convicted, arrested, assaulted, killed, and/or imprisoned than if you're a young white male.
The usual KKKopsucker response to this is that the young Black men are the ones committing all the crime. But that doesn't hold up either.
We only have stats on closed cases. KKKops only ever close about 1 in 3 serious crime cases. And a whole lot of those few who they arrest and charge turn out to be false charges. That's why we have The Innocence Project.
chad4359 t1_j6b5ttn wrote
I see you couldn't name one though. Maybe if you weren't so married to your k key you could have. Oh well.
aboutsider t1_j6cl7ub wrote
No, we know those names because BLM organizations have made sure to keep those names near the surface. That didn't just happen because of "the media". It happened because one very loud and influential organization who used the media made it happen. As much as I see white folks bitching about how no one cares about police shootings of white people, I never see them do anything but bitch about it. You don't even know what's going on in the news but feel utterly convinced that you're some expert on how the media is tricking us with racism! Hahaha!
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