What Would End The Protests?

homeagain wrote: www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/...rest-rates/19043207/

Long article....worth the read IF you are open to the REAL problem.

While I agree, in part, with PS....it is prudent to RE READ the above link (which was on page 5 of 10 pages) UNTIL this part of the equation is addressed EFFICIENTLY and body cameras are required for all police patrolman NOTHING is going to change...SSDD

homeagain wrote: It is truly unfortunate that BODY CAMERAS are not required on ALL police personnel that interact with
the public at large....THAT should be the first and foremost item on the agenda for CHANGE....JMO

Somehow I don't think even body cameras would have been enough to stop this insanity. We all got to see the video of Brown's strong arm robbery... he was a thug, plain and simple. So since that video was discounted as any proof of Browns thuggish persona, I doubt a video from the cop's viewpoint would either. People would say the cop should have aimed for non-lethal areas or should have used a tazer, or should have just let him run away. The excuses would be endless either way.

1. An unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a white police officer.
2. A large aggressive young black man was shot and killed after suspected commission of several crimes.

Number 1. is all that is heard by the left, yet both are true statements.

A little perspective, perhaps?

www.forwardprogressives.com/strong-messa...g-violence-ferguson/

Sharing this quote from K.P. Anderson who nails it, IMO:

“If the news media wants to be of use to our poverty stricken areas, they should not wait until a cop shoots a kid or a natural disaster hits to talk about them and then sensationalize a terrible situation until it baits a riot. Instead, dedicate regular coverage to the good and bad of these areas. Who’s making a difference, what’s working? What’s not working and what’s getting worse? Hire actual investigative reporters to find out where corruption and misuse of public funds is hampering tax paid efforts to provide education and opportunity. When’s the last time you saw a cable news reporter actually break a story as opposed to relay an event, show the worst imagery of it and then throw to a panel of partisan a-holes who bicker about whose fault it is? The news media does not think enough of its audience to genuinely inform. They are positive you’ll get bored and change the channel before the ad for the boner pills comes on. And they’re too lazy to produce stories compelling enough to keep you interested, so instead they find something each day to either scare the s@*t out of or enrage you and cover it until your stomach bleeds and that’s when they roll the antacid commercial.”
— K.P. Anderson

While the media isn't solely to blame for what happened or is still happening, I believe, based on personal experience, they need to take a really hard look at themselves and how they "do their jobs". That's just me, though.

homeagain wrote: It is truly unfortunate that BODY CAMERAS are not required on ALL police personnel that interact with
the public at large....THAT should be the first and foremost item on the agenda for CHANGE....JMO

And what would that have shown home, that Wilson and the numerous witnesses who confirmed that Wilson accurately reported the incident were correct? A body camera wouldn't have stopped the other witnesses from lying about what happened, which is where the whole nonsense about "Hands Up - Don't Shoot" came from. By the time that footage could have been recovered, examined and released the damage from the lying SOBs was already done.

ZHawke wrote: Sharing this quote from K.P. Anderson who nails it, IMO:

“If the news media wants to be of use to our poverty stricken areas, they should not wait until a cop shoots a kid or a natural disaster hits to talk about them and then sensationalize a terrible situation until it baits a riot. Instead, dedicate regular coverage to the good and bad of these areas. Who’s making a difference, what’s working? What’s not working and what’s getting worse? Hire actual investigative reporters to find out where corruption and misuse of public funds is hampering tax paid efforts to provide education and opportunity. When’s the last time you saw a cable news reporter actually break a story as opposed to relay an event, show the worst imagery of it and then throw to a panel of partisan a-holes who bicker about whose fault it is? The news media does not think enough of its audience to genuinely inform. They are positive you’ll get bored and change the channel before the ad for the boner pills comes on. And they’re too lazy to produce stories compelling enough to keep you interested, so instead they find something each day to either scare the s@*t out of or enrage you and cover it until your stomach bleeds and that’s when they roll the antacid commercial.”
— K.P. Anderson

While the media isn't solely to blame for what happened or is still happening, I believe, based on personal experience, they need to take a really hard look at themselves and how they "do their jobs". That's just me, though.

The news media brings forth what the public has shown it will consume. The other problem is that the news media has substituted a preferred ideology for actual reporting for so long now that no one who has the ability to reason that God gave a fence post believes anything they say or report on any longer. In the minds of most they are no more trustworthy than the average politician is, which is the natural consequence of using their position to push their ideology.

ZHawke wrote: Sharing this quote from K.P. Anderson who nails it, IMO:

“If the news media wants to be of use to our poverty stricken areas, they should not wait until a cop shoots a kid or a natural disaster hits to talk about them and then sensationalize a terrible situation until it baits a riot. Instead, dedicate regular coverage to the good and bad of these areas. Who’s making a difference, what’s working? What’s not working and what’s getting worse? Hire actual investigative reporters to find out where corruption and misuse of public funds is hampering tax paid efforts to provide education and opportunity. When’s the last time you saw a cable news reporter actually break a story as opposed to relay an event, show the worst imagery of it and then throw to a panel of partisan a-holes who bicker about whose fault it is? The news media does not think enough of its audience to genuinely inform. They are positive you’ll get bored and change the channel before the ad for the boner pills comes on. And they’re too lazy to produce stories compelling enough to keep you interested, so instead they find something each day to either scare the s@*t out of or enrage you and cover it until your stomach bleeds and that’s when they roll the antacid commercial.”
— K.P. Anderson

While the media isn't solely to blame for what happened or is still happening, I believe, based on personal experience, they need to take a really hard look at themselves and how they "do their jobs". That's just me, though.

Would "doing their jobs" also include stories that show the main killers of young black men in this country?

Rick wrote: Would "doing their jobs" also include stories that show the main killers of young black men in this country?

They would immediately be labelled 'racist'.

Rick wrote: Would "doing their jobs" also include stories that show the main killers of young black men in this country?

Why do you even feel the "need" to post something like this? Is it because I'm a "lefty" and you're a "righty", perhaps? On this issue, I'll agree with PrintSmith in his previous post. And, in answer to your question, yes, it "should" include those kinds of stories, as well.