Quote:However instant media is a good thing.  It holds people accountable knowing everybody can see what you're doing.

It also sensationalizes things beyond what it should in many instances. 

 

Ferguson, MO made celebrities out of the people who thought it would be wise to allow outside agitators to intermingle with the local protestors to burn down the town.  The Justice Department swept in and did a massive investigation, and at the end of it all, the cop who did the shooting was exonerated, although his life was pretty much ruined at that point.  All because the media decided this was going to be ground zero for a new kind of civil rights movement centered on police abusing their power, and only doing it aimed at minorities. 

 

The media has followed every possible shooting that they think they can use to stoke that new civil rights movement only to have almost every instance backfire on them in one way or another.  The few exceptions where there was legitimate abuse of power were dealt with swiftly.  The incidents where a minority cop did the same thing to a white perp fell on deaf ears because it didn't fit the narrative.  Only white cops abuse their positions as far as the media and those who get all of their information from them are concerned. 

 

The reality is that there are bad cops everywhere, covering pretty much every ethnic and racial background, and ever gender.  The only ones that get any real publicity are the ones who happen to be white and who are accused of victimizing a minority.  Then, once the flames have been fanned sufficiently enough where you've got people going around targeting the police in general, the very people who have been attacking police from the start suddenly go mute. 

 

Things had started to calm down, so I guess the BLM folks felt like they needed a reboot to get their followers fired up again, so once again, we're going right back down the same path that started in Ferguson.  We'll see if there was any intent on the parts of the cops involved to take out a perp just because they were black.  No doubt, there will be intense investigation into every aspect of their lives, and once they and their families have been sufficiently terrorized by the protest class, we'll see a report from the Justice Department saying they acted within the parameters of their roles as law enforcement officers.  Of course, that report won't bring as much fanfare as the start of this process has, but by then the rent-a-mobs will be moved on to the next "cause" they can get paid to support so that they can get their faces on one of the 24/7 media outlets.

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