When there is a major conflict involving the police, the media will either categorized it as having “excessive force” or as “the situation getting
out of hand,” in one there is an adequate amount of officers to either
intimidate the threat down or take him/them down by force before any further
damage is caused, but when “the situation getting out of hand” comes up, the
cops are always to blame even if they conducted themselves properly.
No matter what the original situation might have been, the
media can ‘modify’ it to appear however they want, throwing in facts that
are irrelevant, for example: a statement like “11%
of the American population are black but astonishingly, over half the players fined for
misconduct playing professional basketball are black” attempts to represent the
racial statement that black people are more aggressive than white people but
what the statement overlooks is that the 11% statistic is irrelevant because more than half the players in professional basketball are black.
Many overlook ‘small errors’ like these because they want to
believe what they believe without being confronted otherwise, but someone with
an open mind that will hear beliefs and thinking contrary to his own because he
is confident in what he believes will seldom go a day without learning.
"How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans"
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