police shooting
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WaPo Tallies Police Killings–but Holds Back Some of the Numbers That Count
It’s hard for me to escape the feeling that the Post story—by Kimberly Kindy and Marc Fisher—was framed by the paper to minimize the project’s remarkable findings. Continue reading
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Media Were Already Running With Police Fantasy When Video Exploded It By Adam Johnson
The New York Times (4/7/15) released a video of a black South Carolina man Walter Scott being shot, casually and without apparent mercy, eight times in the back by white police officer Michael T. Slager. The media’s outrage after the video’s publication was righteous and swift. The state of South Carolina followed suit, filing murder… Continue reading