When does murder get ignored?

  1. gve
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    When the victim is white and the killer black.
    https://hotcopper.com.au/data/attachments/7275/7275855-bec332110f6f28f6811ba721b6f1f3ad.jpg
    A black man kills a white woman in an American city, and the mainstream media gives it zero coverage. Imagine if the races were reversed.
    On August 22, a career criminal, Decarlos Brown Jr., casually walked up behind 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was seated on a train minding her own business, and stabbed her three times in the neck in cold blood, killing her. He sauntered away, still clutching the knife dripping blood.
    The mindless and savage attack was captured on surveillance footage, but Charlotte’s Democratic Mayor Vi Lyles pushed for it not to be released.

    In fact, not a single major legacy outlet – the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Reuters, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and others – picked it up. One would think that, by sheer chance, one of these esteemed outlets would have bucked the trend. But that didn’t happen because, as Matt Taibbi once brilliantly pointed out,

    “Reporting is done in herds, no one wildebeest can break formation without screwing things up for the others. So, they’ll all hold the line, until they all stop holding the line.”

    https://www.rt.com/news/624298-black-man-kills-ukrainian-media/
 
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