10-09-2016, 12:54 PM
(10-09-2016, 07:20 AM)Mikebert Wrote:(10-07-2016, 09:21 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Actually police always killed white people in similar circumstances, too. It's just that the police killings of whites are not what's popular to report these days, so when the police shot and killed an unarmed white woman for driving off from a traffic stop, or shot and killed an unarmed white man for lying under his car at a gas station, it isn't reported in national media.
All such events would be reported by local media, and suspicious ones often end up in the national media.
Here's an unarmed white guy killed by police, who was called out by BLM. It became a national story. But if you read the account it looks like suicide by cop.
Despite being a much more egregious case, Noble never became a front page national story. He's not a household word the way Brown and Garner are. You had to resort to twitter to find references.
You also seem to trust the word of a BLM twitterer regarding whether he was a case of "suicide by cop" - not the best source. Even the released body cam footage shows Noble making no sudden moves and walking slowly at all times. He obeyed some police instructions, such as the one to quit walking away, and not others, such as the one to lie down; as in all these cases, it's not clear how much of the police instructions were actually clear to him. He even tries to raise his hands as ordered after he is shot and on the ground, but gets shot again for his troubles.
If failing to perfectly obey police orders is "suicide by cop", then physically struggling against police the way Garner did is much more clearly suicide by cop, and no one thinks the police were blameless in that case. Meanwhile, Michael Brown actually tried to wrestle a gun away from a policeman, then when he failed ran away for a bit and turned back and charged the policeman again before being shot. That's the only one that objectively meets the definition of suicide by cop.
And despite the fact that police shoot twice as many whites as blacks, far fewer of those cases are currently making national headlines. Experiments and statistical evidence shows that police are far more likely to shoot whites than blacks in similar circumstances, because they can get away with it without a major outcry in the press.
Quote:You word think conservative outlets would pick up stories like this (if only as a counter narrative to BLM), but they tend to dismiss them.
The fact that you'd even have to go to "conservative outlets" to find stories like this kind of proves the double standard, and that even those stories blame the victim just reinforces that proof.