When Will MSM Admit Its Role in Advancing the Racialist ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Lie? | PJ Media
By Jack Dunphy On March 24, 2015 In Crime,Culture Bytes,Legal,Politics,Race Issues,TV,US News
If I hadn’t been afraid of alarming the neighbors, I would have screamed out the window.
Last Thursday evening’s broadcast of CNN Tonight (transcript is here [1]) featured a discussion of recent events in the world of criminal justice, specifically the long-awaited release of two reports from the U.S. Department of Justice, the first [2] addressing the specifics of the Michael Brown shooting, the second [3] dealing with the general state of affairs in the Ferguson Police Department. I looked forward to watching, as one of the announced guests was my friend, police officer-turned criminology professor David Klinger. Perhaps, I told myself, Mr. Klinger will be allowed to shed some much needed light on the Brown shooting for the benefit of those at CNN — and at most other media outlets — who clung to the belief that Brown had his hands up and was trying to surrender when he was shot down in cold blood by a trigger-happy, racist cop. The DOJ report made absolutely clear, after all, that the “hands up, don’t shoot” scenario relentlessly peddled in the media was a myth, and given all that has followed, an especially harmful one.
Whatever hope I had at the outset that this hour of television watching would be time well spent was dashed within seconds. The program’s anchor, Don Lemon, opened with an announcement of the “breaking news” that the body of a black man had been found hanging from a tree in Port Gibson, Mississippi. A horrific crime, the viewer was led to believe, but what were the details?
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