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On June 8, 2014, white, anti-government, tea party supporters shot and killed two Las Vegas police officers. Conservative media was conspicuously silent.
On Saturday, Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot and killed NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos as they sat in their patrol car, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Brinsley, who had made very anti-police statements on Instagram, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police spokesmen and conservative media were quick to blame the murders on the widespread protests of police killings of unarmed black males such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, and others.
http://ourfuture.org/20141222/conservative-media-and-cop-killers-of-a-different-color
peacebird
(14,195 posts)Open carry, even when they aim weapons at federal agents (bundy ranch).
Clearly a double standard when a black person holding a toy gun in walmart is shot multiple times and killed by cop, or black child on playgroung.
Just like the actions of white rioters up north in a college town were "hijinks" while in ferguson they were out of control animals.
Clearly a racist double standard. As a white person who was thrilled when Obama won, thinking we had turned a corner, I now realize the 'corner' was also a tipping point for some. The racists who have walked among us silently since the sixties, supremely self satisfied that even if the law said blacks were equal it didn't matter, cuz they knew better. Now with a black family in the White House, and the rising tide of brown skinned Americans they were terrified. White power groups, kkk, and militias grew, as did anti govt sentiment. Tea party cared not a whit until a black man was prez. Two wars on the credit card, rising debt was patriotic with a white prez.
The story of this OP needs to be spread far and wide. Wake up the silent majority, because I refuse to believe these racists represent the views of most white Americans!
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)any person of average intelligence, if given the facts,
would see the double-standard-
It's so blatant!
but the media (and I don't just mean faux news - I include CNN) feed them emotion, not facts.