http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/media-and-police-double-standard-wide
There was a shooting in Waco, Texas yesterday. When the smoke cleared, nine people were dead, another 100 or so injured, 100 weapons recovered, and many arrests were made.
Calling it a shooting is far too mild. It was a shootout, with no regard for the safety of innocent bystanders.
The brawl began at a restaurant in a mall in Waco, a place where people go with their families on Sundays. It escalated from chains and knives to guns. I can't even believe I typed that, because I've never had to type any such thing about Ferguson or Baltimore. Only Waco.
In Baltimore or Ferguson, police would have been dressed in riot gear with billy clubs after an event such as that. A curfew would have been imposed. The media would have been all over it. Fox News would trot out every conservative commentator they could to point fingers at those "thugs" who start senseless violence. We would hear about how the parents raised said thugs, and how they fritter away their welfare check on implements of thuggery.
It would go on for a minimum of a week, with Senators and Representatives rushing to the floor of their respective legislative body to decry the terrible thuggery going on in cities.
Police would tangle with said "thugs" while media stands by, aghast at the mayhem.
But this is Waco, and the so-called "biker gangs" are a bunch of white dudes on Harleys, so the media is treating them with the kid gloves they do not deserve.
we have seen this unfold in several recent incidents where White people are engaging in unlawful fighting and menacing and they get a talking to and not even a wrist slap had these things transpired in inner city trappings the title would not say double standard but one we have gotten all to used to in the news, "Black man or teen killed by police, Black woman beaten by police". denying something than expecting us to ignore our lying eyes or ears does nothing toward convincing us of the double standard of life that permeates this country none of the titles worn by the United States of America are true hell the states aren't even united.
until those who uphold the inequality and continue to slice and dice this country and it's people we will still be the hoax that is globally understood to be just that a hoax. the right wing does not want equality they only want what they can acquire for themselves at and by any means necessary such as the health and well being of we the people. Texas the west carry laws and shootouts and dead citizens that is what comes after the equal sign of carry permits for guns what are the pros and cons, cons =????
