Ferguson-like attack in Utah escapes media notice; white kid killed by black cop...

[posty 2,296]

The media with a double standard? I can't believe it...

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/25/critics-see-racial-double-standard-in-coverage-of-/

 

On the surface, the cases appear nearly identical: Michael Brown and Dillon Taylor, two young, unarmed men with sketchy criminal pasts shot to death by police officers two days apart.

 

But while the world knows of the highly publicized situation involving 18-year-old Mr. Brown, whose Aug. 9 death in Ferguson, Missouri touched off violence, protests and an angry national debate, most people outside Utah have never heard of 20-year-old Mr. Taylor.

 

Critics say theres a reason for the discrepancy in media coverage: race. Mr. Brown was black and the officer who shot him was white. Mr. Taylor wasnt black hes been described as white and Hispanic and the officer who shot him Aug. 11 outside a 7-Eleven in South Salt Lake wasnt white.

 

The perceived double standard is fueling resentment and talk of double standards on conservative talk radio and social media, where the website Twitchy has compiled a list of Twitter comments asking why Mr. Browns death has been front-page news for weeks while Mr. Taylors was a footnote at best.

 

Black cop kills unarmed white male #DillonTaylor in Utah, says a Thursday post on Twitter by radio talk-show host Wayne Dupree, who is black. #LiberalMedia cant find [their] way to cover the story.

 

A sarcastic Sunday tweet from Valerie said, CNN Please! We need the name and home address of #DillonTaylors killer immediately. Why hasnt he been arrested??!!!!!

 

From Mark Andersen: Black cop kills unarmed white male #DillonTaylor in Utah. Where is @TheRevAl, @msnbc and @CNN? Is @DOJgov there? Did @BarackObama speak?

 

And this: People need to be just as angry over #DillonTaylor murder by a blk officer in Utah. He wasnt armed! said NeeNee in a Friday post.

 

Critics of the disparity in coverage and outrage said that it is actually the Brown case that is the outlier: Statistics indicate that black-on-black crime is far more common than the case of a white-on-black crime. For homicide, for instance, the FBI in 2012 found that of the 2,648 black murder victims, some 2,412 were killed by fellow blacks and only 193 by whites. (Whites also were likely far more likely to be killed by fellow whites than by members of other races, according to the data.)

 

Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh blamed the discrepancy between the two cases on the liberal world view that portrays whites as oppressors and blacks as victims.

 

n the current climate in the United States, a black person can never be the oppressor, and a white person can never be a victim, said Mr. Limbaugh on his national radio show last week.

 

Rev. Al Sharpton, speaking at Mondays funeral service for Mr. Brown, attacked local policing methods in the case and the militarization of local police forces, but also noted that American blacks also must learn from Ferguson.

 

Some of us act like the definition of blackness is how low you can go, the civil rights activist and MSNBC host said. Blackness has never been about being a gangster or thug. Blackness was, no matter how low we were pushed down, we rose up anyhow.

 

Another difference between Missouri and Utah was that Mr. Taylors death didnt result in riots. There were peaceful protests a week ago outside the Salt Lake City police headquarters covered by local media, but no outbreaks of violence as happened nightly on the streets of Ferguson.

 

CNN news host Jake Tapper acknowledged the disparity in coverage of the Brown and Taylor cases in the mainstream media, noting that the press often undercovers such topics as inner-city violence and the high rates of black-on-black crime. But Mr. Tapper said Monday that media critics fail to see that the greater context of a story such as the Michael Brown shooting, including the reaction it sparked in the St. Louis, in the black community nationwide, and with local authorities and the Obama administration.

 

National media cant be expected to ignore the rioting that occurred in Ferguson, but questions have also been raised as to whether media overkill actually helped fuel and prolong the unrest. Some of the protesters arrested by St. Louis police hail from as far as California, Illinois, New York and Texas.

 

As with the Brown case, what provoked police to shoot Mr. Taylor is under investigation. Officers were responding to a report of a man waving a gun around when they confronted Mr. Taylor, his brother and his cousin leaving the 7-Eleven.

 

South Salt Lake Police Sgt. Darin Sweeten said three officers gave Taylor verbal commands to reveal his hands, but Taylor failed to comply and was visibly upset, said an Aug. 19 report in the Deseret [utah] News. Taylor was subsequently shot and died at the scene.

 

Family members have said Mr. Taylor was unarmed, although police have not confirmed that. His brother Jerrail Taylor told the Salt Lake Tribune that Dillon was wearing headphones and didnt hear police until they surrounded him.

 

Jerrail Taylor also said his brother may have been pulling up his pants before responding to a command to lie down on the ground when he was shot.

 

Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank said at an Aug. 19 press conference that the officer, whom he described as not a white officer, was wearing a body camera. He said the video would be released after the investigation into the shooting had been completed.

 

The officer did not set out to use deadly force, said Mr. Burbank on the press conference video. We have an unfortunate incident where Dillon Taylor lost his life. But I cannot stress enough that this is not Ferguson.

 

Mr. Taylor was wanted on a $25,000 bench warrant for a probation violation in connection with felony robbery and obstructing justice convictions, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, although its unlikely that the officers who accosted him were aware of the warrant.

 

A post on his Facebook page four days before his death reflects his stress over the warrant: im gonna have warrnts out for my arrest soon. ALL my family has turned and snitched on me. ill die before I go do a lot of time in a cell.

 

Video shows Mr. Brown had just robbed a convenience store and shoved a clerk before he was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The officer, who reportedly went to the hospital afterward for an X-ray on his swollen face and eye socket, shot the unarmed victim six times.

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[Sho Nuff 719]

Rush's comments are dumb.

Its not the liberal world view that whites have been the oppressors...its focking historical fact that we were (and in some cases still are).

 

That and the difference appears to be 3 officers corroborating the story...nothing confirmed if the kid was unarmed...reports of someone waving a gun around at some point...and officers wearing chest cameras to be able to really have an investigation.

 

But go ahead and fan the race flames like all good outraged hacks like Limbaugh do (just as Al and Jesse do on the other side).

 

Edit:...and guess what...if the officers were wrong, they will be punished. Also a lesson to anyone of any color...if you have to reach down to pull your pants up to comply with an officer telling you to get on the ground...buy a focking belt.

[Googballz 39]

 

But go ahead and fan the race flames like all good outraged hacks like Limbaugh do (just as Al and Jesse do on the other side).

Congrats Posty, you have Sho Nuff's permission to post this thread.

[posty 2,296]

Congrats Posty, you have Sho Nuff's permission to post this thread.

Phew, I thought I was going to lose sleep tonight waiting for approval...

[Sho Nuff 719]

Shocking...google pilot again followed me around despite being on ignore.

RMFF

 

No actual comments on the topic by posty or google either...another shocking development.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Any word on how many neighborhoods were ruined in the rioting?

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Shocking...google pilot again followed me around despite being on ignore.

RMFF

 

No actual comments on the topic by posty or google either...another shocking development.

Are you aware of the definition of ignore?

[drobeski 3,061]

Any word on how many neighborhoods were ruined in the rioting?

none so far, but stand by, the nra has the tea party gearing up to go kraaayzay

[crackattack 513]

Whites killed by blacks won't bring riots, or Sharpton or Jackson, so there's nothing to see here.

[Googballz 39]

Are you aware of the definition of ignore?

He reads every one of my posts........and still thinks people buy his claim he doesn't.

 

It is too easy to bait him into exposing himself.

[Sho Nuff 719]

Are you aware of the definition of ignore?

Yes...I don't see or read his posts.

I can't help when other people quote his responses showing how often he follows me around and I will still mock that pathetic behavior from time to time.

 

Im sure if it was someone like newbie doing such a thing (always following certain people around even those who ignore him) you would have a quite different reaction.

[MDC 5,891]

Don't know about the particulars of this case but I doubt he was shot six times. The big differences here are what seem to be excessive force in Ferguson and that it seems to be a lot more common for unarmed black youth to he shot by police.

 

Nice to see Al Sharpton focusing on the other half of the problem for a change though.

[mobb_deep 917]

Yes...I don't see or read his posts.

I can't help when other people quote his responses showing how often he follows me around and I will still mock that pathetic behavior from time to time.

 

Im sure if it was someone like newbie doing such a thing (always following certain people around even those who ignore him) you would have a quite different reaction.

You do realize that if you simply ignore him all together, he won't follow you around anymore, right? It doesn't matter if it's directly or indirectly. Just ignore the guy all together. It really is that simple. You just can't control yourself enough to do it.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Don't know about the particulars of this case but I doubt he was shot six times. The big differences here are what seem to be excessive force in Ferguson and that it seems to be a lot more common for unarmed black youth to he shot by police.

 

Shot to death is shot to death.

[MDC 5,891]

Shot to death is shot to death.

You aren't this dense. Or maybe you are.

[Googballz 39]

Yes...I don't see or read his posts.

I can't help when other people quote his responses showing how often he follows me around and I will still mock that pathetic behavior from time to time.

 

Im sure if it was someone like newbie doing such a thing (always following certain people around even those who ignore him) you would have a quite different reaction.

You read every single one of them.

 

Hell, you even keep up with how many posts I have in a thread, and post the number. Here is the difference: I don't claim I ignore you, so me commenting on your posts is no different than me commenting on anyone else's.

 

You claim to ignore me, yet keep track of everything I do.

[tanatastic 2,061]

Reverse racism is just as bad as regular racism. The only difference is that racial profiling is usually erring on the side of caution. Is it racist if I move to the other side of the street if I see a group of black youths coming? sure, thats profiling. but is it the safer thing to do? absolutely. Im sorry but I cant change the fact that black people cause more crime and have a higher chance of being criminals and violent than other races. Im just playing the odds here. I have zero ill will towards a regular black guy i meet through friends and will gladly hold and open doors for black women. I love Obama. i just call it like I see it.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

You aren't this dense. Or maybe you are.

You are still in full court defense on Ferguson when everyone else has gone home and is watching Family Feud.

[MDC 5,891]

You are still in full court defense on Ferguson when everyone else has gone home and is watching Family Feud.

Me: The 2 situations are different.

 

Timmy: Stop defending Ferguson!

 

Okey dokey. I can see someone's getting a little irrational here ...

[Sho Nuff 719]

You do realize that if you simply ignore him all together, he won't follow you around anymore, right? It doesn't matter if it's directly or indirectly. Just ignore the guy all together. It really is that simple. You just can't control yourself enough to do it.

 

For about the last week I have not said a word about him...still noticed people quoting him following me around.

I don't think anything would stop his pathetic behavior really. So, for the most part I don't say much about him (or won't) but from time to time when its quoted I will still mock him as I see fit.

[Googballz 39]

For about the last week I have not said a word about him...

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So... back to 200...better get back to deleting posts again.

 

I didn't even have to go back 2 hours to catch you in another lie.