[Crumpy-Gunt]

I think the problem with this type of issue is the loudest people with the most extreme views make the most noise. I think the majority of people can more or less see the problems or more precisely systemic issues in the USA like poverty, fear, flawed policing practices and under-qualified officers, racial divide, etc. But its the ignorant people who really go into over-drive when something like this happens. While the people who have a pretty good understanding of whats happening just sit silent and kind of shake their heads.

The thing that amuses me is the fact that most people out there arent consciously hateful of any other group. Most people you meet have had good experiences and bad experiences with people of most backgrounds. Most people may make some assumptions about someone based on their appearance but wouldn't necessarily judge someone for their ethnicity.

That leads me to think the media is to fault for a lot of this. Not the bad cops, or the bad people or anything like that. But all of the racial tension. For example numerous white people have been shot by cops on video in the past few years. Its almost never reported. So people then think every time a cop shoots someone, its someone who is black. While unarmed black people are more likely to be shot in the USA by police officers than an unnamed people of other races - I think the way it is run by the media is very much designed for incitement. To anger certain types of people or to cause some sort of divide within the society. They can't be presenting the news in this way by accident.

There are a couple hundred million people in the USA. Crazy things happen every single day. Somehow the news runs a fine comb through all of these events from coast to coast and nit-picks the most juicy ones without getting to the bottom of the issue. Without ever discussing why this is happening or what contributes to these events.

The USA has a policing problem. The cops there have totally different protocol. Sometimes its because they are nervous or scared. That fear is sometimes because they believe a certain person may be armed or perceived as a dangerous person by some other judgement. The USA also has a race issue and has for several hundred years. You couple the two and it makes for the most shameless and ridiculous things to be said by some people about both black people and police officers. Some news CEO is laughing at how well this works. These events arent new black people have been unjustly shot by police in the USA for decades, maybe even centuries... But they (the media) are taking all these shootings the bank now with no interest in reporting on the larger issues of gun control, drugs, poverty, policing etc.

I think its dangerous and negligent on the part of the media. I'm glad they are reporting these events but they are doing so in a very selfish way, for ratings and to generate the most reaction from very ignorant people with a strong sense of racial identity.

It reminds me a lot of the media and their reporting on muslim terrorists only and refusing to abide by the dictionary definition of terrorism, which is basically using violence or intimidation to force someone or a group into doing what you want them to do. The media love that narrative as well. Of course there is a problem with muslim extremists. But they only make up a fraction of terrorist attacks in the US and most other 1st world countries. But rather than brand Dylan Roof and Anders Brevik and people like that as terrorists, the media chooses to brand them as demented mentally challenged murderers, completely removing their violent political agenda from the discussion. Rather than having a special report on extremist beleifs, violence, dialogue, access to weapons etc - they basically fear monger people into thinking all terrorist attacks are done by muslims - and muslim people are to be feared or looked at as suspicious. Successfully preventing the public from ever discussing extremism, hatred, violence as a whole and just leaving people with a fear of muslims and a view of all terrorists as muslim.

Just as this is forcing people to think all cops in the usa are racist trigger happy red necks, or the other side which seems to think all black people in the states are crack selling, gun toting gangsters who are dangerous or deserve to be shot. Neither are true, but it is being fueled by the media and how they have chosen to cover these issues. The wording, the drawing at racial heart strings etc. Basically pinning 2 demographics of idiots against each other.

This is horrible. A man shot 3 times and arrested while caring for an autistic child. He happens to be a black man. But.. The man lived. Do you think this is the most shocking thing to happen in the united states in the past week? Obviously it isnt. But its being reported and pushed down peoples throats - without ever having a serious discussion or report about the more serious systemic problems that lead to events like this.

People feel like they can rely on the media. At the end of the day these are all businesses owned by people with a set of beliefs and values. It is a shame they cant live up to their responsibility and report on things more honestly and point the public towards the sources of these problems and their solutions. They would rather incite hatred and fear-mongering to further divide an already divided nation.