[Excerpt from article in ref. to a twitter post stating Tamir Rices father had a history of domestic violence] Weve seen this type of media coverage before, though its often focused on the victims of police violence themselves, rather than on their relatives. After the deaths of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and Michael Brown in August, for example, some news stories evidently sought to paint the slain teenagers as drug addicts, delinquents and thugs. This coverage was criticized by many as an attempt to smear the victims characters and distract from the issue of police violence -- and, more subtly, to suggest that the killing of young black men is somehow acceptable or unsurprising. And it succeeded -- these stories were used by some people to explain why Martin and Brown deserved to die, or how they may have somehow invited their own deaths.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 04:06:07 +0000
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