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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Gotta admit I'm kind of drunk and tired and disappointed about the hockey game tonight, but a lot of posts in this thread seem to suggest that black people in the States get a free ride from the media and cops and the justice system in general.
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Yeah....no one has remotely said anything like that in this thread.
People, a lot of people, are just unhappy with the decision by the police force to downplay the racist aspect of this crime. Ironically, probably trying to quell the hate that a story like this could bring out. Now it's all over the right-wing media, and some how in a story where 4 adults tortured and broadcast the torture of a disabled individual, has become a focal point of the story.
You may have missed it, but over the last couple years the race relations has really surfaced and tensions and divisiveness is pretty high in the States (read: Trumpy presidency). You also may have missed the #### hole that Chicago has become. The cops probably had good intentions in just trying to say this was idiot kids doing idiot things instead of trying to avoid the narrative of sadistic "black on white hate-crime" so as not to lead to more violence and hate, more divisiveness. But in doing so, in trying to hide or downplay that aspect of the crime, they have managed to further ingrain the attitudes and beliefs that the alt-right currently share. It's simply not the position of the police to try and build their own narrative, even if their intentions may have been good.