Sound Familiar, Eureka?

It Should.

This is the same accusatory, bigoted and biased nonsense spewed out about the Tommy McClain fiasco. The EPD and so-called news reporters didn't go quite as far as accusing him of being an ISIL radicalized terrorist. No, their espoused legitimate right to confront him at the point of a gun and kill him didn't quite need to reach to that level of deprivation. Either way, both men are just as dead and so are the communities they lived in.

IN BOSTON, MEDIA AGAIN TRASH A POLICE SHOOTING VICTIM BY UNCRITICALLY “REPORTING” POLICE ACCUSATIONS

BY GLENN GREENWALD

As rampant, unjustified police killings have finally entered mainstream discussion, this has become a favored joint tactic of the police and media. Before the killing can be processed by the public, the victim’s character is smeared by media-laundered police claims, often anonymously. Here, the tactic had the sweetened appeal that it could be used to fearmonger over an ISIS attack in the U.S., as Rahim was not only black but also Muslim. As my colleague Murtaza Hussain put it: “14 years after 9/11 law enforcement can kill someone in the street, suggest they were part of a ‘terror network’, and media will just move on.” He added: “Apparently all you have to do to defuse outrage over killing someone is apply the gangster or terrorist label to the still-warm dead body.” 

The point here is not that the police claims are untrue. The point is that nobody knows if they are true or not. Yet they were aggressively and uncritically amplified by an always pro-police media, resulting in the vilification of the dead victim as an ISIS-linked terror operative within hours after his death. Precisely as intended, that, in turn, precluded any rational discussion of whether the killing was justified.

Yeah! Tommy McClain supposedly had a toy BB gun stuck in his belt - end of story...

Read the complete article here.

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--Joe