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When The Media Treats White Suspects And Killers Better Than Black Victims [1]

Submitted by will on Thu, 12/04/2014 - 09:05

WHITE SUSPECT

That's how the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal chose to present the story of Amy Bishop, a former college professor who eventually pleaded guilty to killing three colleagues and wounding three others at a faculty meeting in 2010.

BLACK VICTIM

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And that's the headline AL.com ran about the shooting death of a 25-year-old black man in Alabama earlier this year.

On the afternoon of Aug. 9, a police officer fatally shot an unarmed, black teenager, Michael Brown, [2] in Ferguson, Missouri. Details remain in dispute. Eyewitnesses have said [3] that Brown was compliant with police and was shot while he had his hands up. Police maintain that the 18-year-old had assaulted an officer and was reaching for the officer's gun. One thing clear, however, is that Brown's death follows a disturbingly common trend of black men being killed, often while unarmed and at the hands of police officers, security guards and vigilantes.

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[1] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/when-media-treats-white-suspects-and-killers-better-black-victims
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/09/ferguson-teen-police-shooting_n_5665305.html
[3] http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/michael-browns-friend-he-was-shot-animal-officer-n179501
[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/media-black-victims_n_5673291.html
[5] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/category/type-post/world-news-politics