A black cop shot a white woman.
And there is something wrong with America. Or so says this article from CNN. My thoughts.
There’s a predictable pattern to the aftermath of too many deadly Police shootings: Neighbors and anti-police brutality groups take to the streets. Groups supporting the officers stand up for them. Social media lights up over whether the Victim “did something” to provoke the officer.
This hardly ever happens. Cops kill hundreds of civilians every year and we see protests rarely.
But none of that holds true in the case of Justine Ruszczyk, a white Australian bride-to-be who was killed by Mohamed Noor, a Somali-American black Police Officer in Minneapolis.
All of that held true. Protests happened and the chief was fired.
Because the race and nationality of the victim and police officer aren’t what has typically garnered headlines, people who normally speak up aren’t saying much.
The race of the victim is the race most often killed by cops. As for who aren’t saying much – it’s because even though white people are most often shot by cops, white people don’t think cops are targeting white people.
New York Daily News writer Shaun King wrote a column in which he said “Police brutality jumped a racial fence.”
See above – most victims of shot by police are white.
Love theorizes a different group of people may take the lead in rallying for the victim in this case: “people who may not have emphathized with the victims (in police shootings in the past) because the victims have been mostly black.”
The lack of fact based reporting is staggering. Most of the victims are not black – they are white.
Too often in cases involving unarmed black men, Chatelain says, information on the victim’s criminal history or prior arrests makes its way into stories — even when they are irrelevant to the case.
Criminal history ABSOLUTELY is relevant to interactions with the police.
So what does this say about America in 2017, where the race, gender or national identity of a victim or police officer can affect the public’s reaction to a shooting?
Uumm, the only, and I mean ONLY, time we have cared about the race of the victim is when that victim is black.
“We haven’t reckoned with our history,” Goff told CNN, “so it shouldn’t surprise us to see a different reaction.”
When the victim is black, we have seen mass protests and destruction. When the victim is white we see muted reactions, if any at all. What is Goff talking about?
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