He's Asian.

Quote:Major media outlets buried the alleged Asian ethnicity of the cop who shot a black man in Minnesota Wednesday night, after featuring or even highlighting the ethnicity of the white cop who shot a black man in Louisiana just a day earlier.

In their coverage of the Louisiana shooting, major media outlets quickly identified the cop as white, even going so far as to put his race in the headline of one story. But while covering the Minnesota shooting, media outlets buried the fact that the woman who witnessed the shooting identified the cop as Asian.

Here’s a side by side comparison of how major media outlets treated the race of these two cops:

In regard to the Louisiana shooting, The Washington Post ran the headline: “Outrage After Video Captures White Baton Rouge Police Officer Fatally Shooting A Black Man.” But when the same outlet covered the Minnesota shooting, the cop’s ethnicity was only referenced about half way through their story.

NBC also identified the cops in the Louisiana shooting as white in the lead paragraph of their article. But when discussing the Minnesota shooting, NBC ran an article in which the Reynold’s ethnicity statement is not mentioned at all.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/07/media-...ium=Social

White asian.

Unsure the point. I hold all cops to a bit of a higher standard despite the color of their skin. Maybe naive of me

(07-08-2016 03:05 PM)fsquid Wrote:  Unsure the point. I hold all cops to a bit of a higher standard despite the color of their skin. Maybe naive of me

The point is that the media is quick to find a "white person does x" story because it is sensational. The problem is that sensationalism drives us towards more violence.

In this case, a minority shot a black man so race is left completely out of the coverage. But when you leave out the race if fits the day's narrative as "white cops are targeting blacks"

(07-08-2016 03:05 PM)fsquid Wrote:  Unsure the point. I hold all cops to a bit of a higher standard despite the color of their skin. Maybe naive of me

Gee, maybe the media not mentioning it is important. To you and others, I guess not.

(07-08-2016 03:10 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  

(07-08-2016 03:05 PM)fsquid Wrote:  Unsure the point. I hold all cops to a bit of a higher standard despite the color of their skin. Maybe naive of me

Gee, maybe the media not mentioning it is important. To you and others, I guess not.

nope, I like Asians