It did look like a mistake but the incompetence, especially for a 26 year vet, was simply baffling. It was like watching something from Reno 911. It's an appropriate charge but I suspect they'll have trouble getting a conviction.
That was fast! Wonder if it would have been different if she’d been a man instead...It did look like a mistake but the incompetence, especially for a 26 year vet, was simply baffling. It was like watching something from Reno 911. It's an appropriate charge but I suspect they'll have trouble getting a conviction.
I think the optics of the way it all played out hurt them significantly. First of all you have the George Floyd trial going on nearby, then you have a white police chief defending a white police officer for "accidentally" shooting yet another unarmed black man. They read the room like a wrecking ball on that one.That was fast! Wonder if it would have been different if she’d been a man instead...
To be fair, if they would stop shooting unarmed black people then there wouldn't be so many stories to cover. The fact that anyone would not consider this news speaks to a larger problem.Not that this isn’t upsetting in both this incident and frequency of similar incidents, but I feel the news is now going out of their way to find their weekly, if not daily, “white cop shoots black person” news story. Sometimes you read a story thinking it’s a current event until you read further and find out they are reporting on something that happened at some point within the last year but wasn’t heavily reported on at the time.
It’s starting to come off as extremely cynical outrage bait and the danger of that is it eventually becoming “Meh, what else is new” in public opinion. Soon cop killing and spree killer reporting will become just as missing from the national news as local street gang killings. It’s all just a part of living in America, not all that newsworthy.
To be fair, if they would stop shooting unarmed black people then there wouldn't be so many stories to cover. The fact that anyone would not consider this news speaks to a larger problem.
Not that this isn’t upsetting in both this incident and frequency of similar incidents, but I feel the news is now going out of their way to find their weekly, if not daily, “white cop shoots black person” news story. Sometimes you read a story thinking it’s a current event until you read further and find out they are reporting on something that happened at some point within the last year but wasn’t heavily reported on at the time.
It’s starting to come off as extremely cynical outrage bait and the danger of that is it eventually becoming “Meh, what else is new” in public opinion. Soon cop killing and spree killer reporting will become just as missing from the national news as local street gang killings. It’s all just a part of living in America, not all that newsworthy.
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