"With respect to Ferguson, it was very clear, wasn't it, that that second justice department report was a bone thrown to the progressive activists given that the first report could not confirm the popular narrative that Michael Brown had been murdered by Darren Wilson."
Dr. Loury matter-of-factly tells it like it is.
For seven months all the public heard was "Hands up, don't shoot." The rhetoric came hot and heavy: execution, using our children for target practice, murderous cops, The Talk. St. Louis Rams players taking the field with their hands up in a nationally-televised football game. The University of Missouri president forced out for not strongly enough condemning Darren Wilson (who acted appropriately, a fact the DOJ would later cement). And let's not forget the riots all across the nation.
So then the report comes out exonerating Wilson and the media reacts with breathless headline coverage of... Black people in Ferguson seemed to get, statistically speaking, slightly more speeding and parking tickets. (And, as Dr. Loury pointed out, the location of a Sam's store is very likely the entire explanation for that.)
From "hands up, don't shoot" to parking tickets -- and neither the media nor the Democrats have ever apologized for the angst and violence they caused. And, despairingly, it is a media/political formula that has been repeated over and over again since Ferguson.
"With respect to Ferguson, it was very clear, wasn't it, that that second justice department report was a bone thrown to the progressive activists given that the first report could not confirm the popular narrative that Michael Brown had been murdered by Darren Wilson."
Dr. Loury matter-of-factly tells it like it is.
For seven months all the public heard was "Hands up, don't shoot." The rhetoric came hot and heavy: execution, using our children for target practice, murderous cops, The Talk. St. Louis Rams players taking the field with their hands up in a nationally-televised football game. The University of Missouri president forced out for not strongly enough condemning Darren Wilson (who acted appropriately, a fact the DOJ would later cement). And let's not forget the riots all across the nation.
So then the report comes out exonerating Wilson and the media reacts with breathless headline coverage of... Black people in Ferguson seemed to get, statistically speaking, slightly more speeding and parking tickets. (And, as Dr. Loury pointed out, the location of a Sam's store is very likely the entire explanation for that.)
From "hands up, don't shoot" to parking tickets -- and neither the media nor the Democrats have ever apologized for the angst and violence they caused. And, despairingly, it is a media/political formula that has been repeated over and over again since Ferguson.