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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown When it first happened the media framed it with
by umvi 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown
When it first happened the media framed it with the racially inflammatory headline:
"White cop shoots and kills unarmed black teen"
All technically true information. But what really happened (according to forensic evidence and credible testimony) could also be framed as "Convenience store robber attacks police officer and was killed in the process". It's hard to tell exactly what happened since we only have a few facts and the rest is witness testimony, but it seems the media definitely pre-determined that the framing of the story should be that the cop was the "bad guy" and the victim was the "good guy" and that the whole thing should have a racism angle.
- garbagetime 5y agoReminds me of this legendary clip of comedian Sam Hyde bombing massively https://youtu.be/YkiQwVT8ij8 https://youtu.be/YkiQwVT8ij8
- markdown 5y agoHow about "Murderous cop kills convenience store robber who tried to punch him"?
- wutbrodo 5y agoYes, that's another example of squeezing a complicated situation into a soundbite that can be easily understood by those who are terrified by the complexity of the real world.
- jokethrowaway 5y ago*tried to get his gun
- bumbledraven 5y agoThis reminds me of a recent comment (from another post) about borderline personality disorder and abusive parents (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29718798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29718798): > I've dealt with someone with eBPD who was unable to get through a 45 minute therapy session without contradicting themselves. They also habitually selectively report facts to distort reality... Here's an example with details changed: "Joe drank too much last night and we got in a car crash." Reality, Joe was in the passenger seat, and the driver hit a deer that jumped out in front of them. On confrontation: "I never said Joe drove drunk!"
- uoaei 5y agoYour framing implies the normative claim that convenience store robbers should be shot and killed. This is hotly contested on moral grounds, but on purely material grounds it is hard to justify that claim at all.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoIf the teen attacked the cop there is a self defense claim, albeit that doesn't stand if the use of force is greater than the threat (eg shooting someone if you think they're unarmed)
- speg 5y agoYou may have missed the “attacks police officer” part.
- uoaei 5y agoDoes that also warrant shooting and killing? Why do those who take the oath to protect and serve have a seemingly paradoxical right to extinguish life?
- yes_really 5y agoThe framing does not imply that at all. The framing is "Convenience store robber attacks police officer and was killed in the process". The justification for the shooting is clearly that the robber attacked the police officer, not that he robbed a convenience store.
- luckylion 5y agoThere was a great example in Germany recently. A Hamas terrorist killed one Israeli and wounded multiple others and was shot himself by Israeli security forces. German State TV opened with "Israel: one Palestinian killed".