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...Just like Roman Polanski would have NEVER been arrested if Samantha Geimer instead of being white and living in an upper middle class neighborhood had been black and living in a poor neighborhood,...
....even if he actually was guilty which he wasn't.
WHAT? HE PLEAD GUILTY. Or are you saying you do not think he is guilty?
Originally posted by Avengefire: Major B.S. on you pal...
Have you ever heard of John Floyd Thomas Jr.? I bet you have not.
Sit down kiddo.
You find one example of a skimpily covered crime spree that victimized white people and it negates the FACT that black crime victims are given little regard in the media, and by society in general?? I'm so proud of you for finding the exception that goes against the rule. To apply your logic, the '68 Mets were a baseball dynasty.
Take a look at the totality of media coverage relative to the subject of my post before you find one story and declare BS. One exception does not BS make. You might try broadening your perspective.
I know that I'm just saying as far as media coverage of black crime victims that was was more about police breaking the law. The media loves those "cops running wild" stories until one of them gets shot. It's sad how unnewsworthy most news stations are.
Have you ever heard of John Floyd Thomas Jr.? I bet you have not.
Sit down kiddo.
And you too bubbo:
Inland Empire Courts: May 2009 Archives (http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/iecourts/2009/05/ - broken link)
"The victims in all 30 cases under review were older white women, mostly of lower incomes and often widows living alone, Cremins said. All had been sexually assaulted and most were strangled."
The only reason that the Rodney King situation was in the media is because someone videotaped the beating and sent a copy to one of the local news stations. If the video tape had not surfaced, Rodney King would have been just another black man beaten by the police. No news, no media coverage, and lies from the law enforcement agencies involved had he filed a complaint without the video footage to back up his claim.
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...No news, no media coverage, and lies from the law enforcement agencies involved if he were to file a complaint without the video footage to back up his claim.
OK, so this guy eventually got caught. If you look back over the last 30 - 40 years, cops have gotten away with untold acts such as the one in your link. The vast majority of these events have gone largely unreported.
Things have changed somewhat with the advent of in-car cameras used by a lot of law enforcement agencies. Have you stopped to think about what the driving force was behind the installation of the "cop-cam"? The driving force was lawsuits, protests, and local political pressure applied by those who, as a demographic, got tired of the abuse, and they took to pressuring city halls, city councils, civilian police review boards and commissions. Even with the cameras installed, there continue to be cases where law enforcement is abusive to peaceful, civil, compliant citizens. Do you really think that these cases would be in the media if the cameras were not there?
Getting back on point, your examples do not begin to counterbalance the number of cases in which victims were black and media coverage, if there was any, was sparse.
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