The Euharlee story has actually been making rounds on local stations for a couple of months now. It was one of their top stories when it first happened; the original indictment and subsequent dismissal were also both hot stories, and the public outrage at the time was palpable.
There wasn't much here in Atlanta, the biggest media market in the state. There also weren't any riots or presidential statements.
It depends on whether or not the family has any connections with the press AT ALL.
What preexisting connections with the press did Brown or Garner families have? Or did that connection only come when Irrev. Al got involved?
It has little or nothing to do with Al Sharpton, whose activism and influence is nowhere near as influential as his critics pretend it is.
He is an influential (he even attended a White House conference on race) race hustler who became part of the media by getting that MSNBC show.
You are surely aware that for every Trayvon or Michael Brown who gets killed under suspicious circumstances, there are 10 who are killed without so much as a yawn from the media.
Perhaps, but there is a clear racial bias in what story becomes a huge national story. No whites killed by police under suspicious circumstances has become a big national media story. And when blacks kill whites the race of the perps is downplayed in the media but race is pretty much the only thing they focus on when it's white on black killing, even when the media, like in the Zimmermann case, have to really stretch to make the suspect into a white guy.
The police version of the story is ALWAYS cut-and-dried. Especially when it's bullshit.
It is more frequent that the family story is bullshit. Like Vonderritt Myers who was supposedly holding a sandwich which turned out to be a gun.
Or need I remind you that the initial police statement on Chris Roupe's death was ALSO pretty cut-and-dried?
Yet it turned out to be anything but.
Some of them certainly were. Which any prosecutor will tell you is ALWAYS the case when a major, high-profile incident occurs in view of the public with a lot of controversy afterwards. Prosecutors don't call to testify every single person who claims to have seen an event, only the witnesses whose testimony is both consistent and reliable. Calling witnesses whose testimony conflicts with other witnesses is something the DEFENSE does when they're trying to discredit the prosecutor's witnesses.
We have already discussed why he did that ad nauseam on other threads.
Roupe was white, not black. Or are you claiming he ALSO was an innocent victim?
I am saying that media is portraying blacks as innocent victims even when they aren't. Brown has been called "unarmed" about a million times. Much rarer is the admission that the attacked a police officer.
So Chris Roupe WAS a threat?
Not sure if you are playing dumb or actually confused, but it's not that difficult. Try reading it again.
He answered the door with a "gun" in his hand. He was every bit as much a threat as Brown was.
He didn't have a gun. He didn't rob a store just minutes earlier and he never attacked the cop.
Now should it turn out his controller was gun-shaped then the police officer's mistake might have been understandable, but that still doesn't make Roupe anything like Brown.
No. They were angry because ferguson police officers are confrontational and unprofessional and have fostered a reputation for harassment and persecution of black people.
Or perhaps Ferguson residents have a chip on their shoulders. If you have a court date you show up for it or try to reset the date. You don't get to ignore it and then play the race card and claim "harassment" and "persecution" when you get the inevitable bench warrant.
This in the context of a town whose local politics is and has for a very long time been rife with racial disharmony.
And it's all whitey's fault?
Because "factual case of police misconduct" doesn't usually involve teenagers getting gunned down in the street while they are trying to surrender. The fact that Michael Brown was accused of stealing from a convenience store after his death doesn't change the facts of the case either.
Factual police misconduct would be a minor teenager getting gunned down at his home while answering the door without either committing a robbery or attacking the police officer. As to "surrendering", that is the claim, not a fact.
To the extent that white people are less likely to be alarmed by the unjustified shooting of a white kid than black people are the unjustified shooting of a black kid, this is probably true.
Hell, as we can see with Brown, blacks will get alarmed at a justified shooting of a black adult (Brown wasn't a "kid") too.
It's almost as if the people of Euharlee, outraged as they were, didn't care about it enough to make it a huge issue.
And I think protesting is not the right response anyway. So do so many, blacks and whites alike, protest things like Ferguson when the "victim" is a thug who attacked police? It does't make any sense to me.
No I am not. I think people should be treated as individuals regardless of race. Contemporary faux-liberal ideology rejects that in favor of a very race-based narrative and I run afoul of that. See for example this nonsense.
TEACHER 'WHITE PRIVILEGE CONFERENCE': WHITES ARE NEVER CURED OF RACISM The participants/leaders of that conference are the real racists.
How about we get Sharpton to apologize to Steve Pagones, the man Sharpton and Brawley falsely accused of rape first?
He already did.
Wrong. He never did. In fact, he still insists he did nothing wrong.
Twenty-five Years Later, Sharpton Still Defending Role in Brawley Rape Hoax
Hmm... black people being falsely accused by white community leaders of raping white girls, resulting in some sort of "hunt for justice..."
Do you REALLY want to open that door?
Yes I do. Not only would nobody deny that such behavior is racist (and it's about time we start admitting the reverse is just as racist), it also hasn't been happening for decades. Whereas black women falsely accusing whites of rape and starting a witch-hunt is much more recent. Not only Tawana Brawley but also Crystal Magnum where the media narrative was of "privileged white men" brutally raping a "poor black woman". Also take a look at the infamous
Group of 88. Of course, the whole thing had been a lie from beginning to end but it provided fodder for race warriors for months.
