Posted on 05/17/2005 12:34:10 PM PDT by NavVet
A suspect is assaulted by a police officer after a car chase in Philadelphia on April 28, 2005. A local TV news helicopter crew videotaped the incident.
Normally this is the type of thing becomes a mainstream media frenzy. Normally this is the lead report on every network national and local telecast. Rodney King was. So were the incidents in Inglewood and Cincinnati. This also proved true nearly five years ago, when a similar incident occurred just before the Republican convention in Philadelphia.
This time there is no saturation coverage in the national media.
Charles Baum, who is white and a resident of the Kensington section of Philadelphia, had been paroled last August. He served four months less than the four- to eight-year sentence he received after being convicted of burglary, theft, criminal mischief and conspiracy in December 2000.
The video showed Officer Michael Collins, who is black, striking Baum eight times during the arrest – even after he had handcuffed his white charge
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Seriously, where is Jessie when you really need him?
And I don't seem to remember seeing Al Sharpton's bull horn of justice on this one.
I think he is shaking down Mexico for a donation to the Rainbow/Push Coalition.
http://www.macon.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/11577354.htm
But I haven't found the video itself yet.
Jesse is always not there when it really counts.
Locally, they are all over this. For a week or so there not a day went by without at least 5 minutes of coverage of this story.
Meanwhile, in the high desert near Los Angeles, a black kid beat a white kid to death with a baseball bat after a Pony League game. Minimal coverage.
"As I was walking in the square,
I was harangued by a hypocrit who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away!"
It just might mean that most cops regardless of color dislike mouthy criminals and sometime lose their cool and beat the crap out of them.
I think I read about that story, although I don't remember them mentioning skin color. I wonder why this wasn't classified a little league hate crime.
I dunno, you try to out run a cop and you take your chances of pissing him off. I have a hard time feeling sorry for criminals that resist arrest and then cry about the beating.
Exactly.
Sometimes white cops screw up. Sometimes black cops screw up. Sometimes the victims are white. Sometimes they are black. But by only showing white cop/black suspect, the media are spinning this to promote their agenda. It isn't always about race, people.
See my tagline.
I agree 100%. Criminals who resist arrest and make things more dangerous for cops deserve no sympathy when the cops strike back. It doesn't matter what color the thug is or what color the cop is.
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