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Does anyone else get the sense that "Police Reformation" is a similar thing to "Defund the Police"?
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I wish people who post stories like these would post THE ENTIRE STORY instead of just the headline which makes it sound like a cop randomly beat a young black man for no apparent reason. Whether you believe the officer went overboard or not in beating Miller, why not at least post the whole story so that people know the circumstances and can be better informed of this incident and what exactly happened?
If some random person who knew nothing about this story was simply reading the headline, they would likely be left with the impression of yet another black person being assaulted and harmed by police for being black. Heck even the link you posted just had ONE SENTENCE as to what led up to Miller getting beat up and spent the rest of the article painting him as an innocent victim.
How about posting more facts about the incident to fill in the entire story like here:
Opinion | Trial told it was Dafonte Miller’s idea to break into cars on the night he was beaten
Bradley Goode, who was with Dafonte Miller the night Miller was severely injured, testified he and their mutual friend were out “car-hopping.”www.thestar.com
So if you want to say the cop went far overboard in assaulting Miller and should be punished that's fine, but lets not gloss over Miller's actions and everything that led up to that assault just because it doesn't fit the narrative of 'innocent black people being mistreated by police'. Also its really disheartening to me these days that the media is so much more concerned about pushing narratives than they are of simply reporting the news and the facts.
I mean its not like we've never had that before, but in recent years its gotten so much worse that most times I have to go online and do my own research to find out the whole story. Heck even reddit is so much better at reporting the facts than MSM is these days when they blow up stories that fit the agenda they're pushing and then go radio silent when a story doesn't fit that same agenda/narrative and sadly its been far too effective in brainwashing people now.
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Now imagine if the suspect in these attacks happened to be cauasian and see if the media wouldn't have a radically different reaction in how they would've covered these hate crimes?
Keeping things short and concise is fine, but it shouldn't be at the complete expense of accuracy and leaving out important facts and context to the story. I don't think anyone would mind if there was an extra paragraphy briefly describing the incident so that people have a more complete picture of the story. And also in the link you provided all I found was this:
That's literally THE ONLY SENTENCE IN THE ENTIRE ARTICLE that mentions any of the events leading up to the beating of Miller. The rest of the article talks about how racist the cops were, how incidents like these damages the trusts between black people and the police and how Miller was such an innocent victim in all this. They couldn't even be bothered to mention that Miller and his buddies were rummaging through vehicles looking for valuables that night and anyone who clicked on that biased CBC article isn't going to learn anything about the incident and what actually happened because these days asking the media to report on the facts of a case is asking too much apparently.
Like I said, MSM is biased as hell now and they're more concerned about pushing narratives than they are of reporting stories accurately and truthfully. On many stories like these, they'd rather leave out important information than risk being called racist or bigoted.
As an another example, did you know that several weeks ago that a man was arrested for running around in Scarborough yelling racial slurs and assaulting random people over several months? He did this several times including yelling racials slurs at a woman with her child before assaulting her and in another incident hurling racial slurs at a man and spitting on him before knocking the turbin off his head.
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Did you hear about this story? I sure as heck didn't from MSM and I only knew about it when I read it in the Toronto subreddit. I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY such random, disgusting hate crimes like these didn't receive national coverage and days of talk from the media about how 'we need to have that hard conversation on racism and hate and intolerance in Canada' with regards to this story? I just can't put my finger on it, can you?
As I said its sad to see how differently the media chooses to report stories like these depending on the race/ethnicity of the suspect and victims and how well it fits the narrative they're pushing. They USED to be a little more fair and balanced, but now that's completely gone and anyone who cares about finding out the truth needs to do their own research these days.
Keeping things short and concise is fine, but it shouldn't be at the complete expense of accuracy and leaving out important facts and context to the story. I don't think anyone would mind if there was an extra paragraphy briefly describing the incident so that people have a more complete picture of the story. And also in the link you provided all I found was this:
That's literally THE ONLY SENTENCE IN THE ENTIRE ARTICLE that mentions any of the events leading up to the beating of Miller. The rest of the article talks about how racist the cops were, how incidents like these damages the trusts between black people and the police and how Miller was such an innocent victim in all this. They couldn't even be bothered to mention that Miller and his buddies were rummaging through vehicles looking for valuables that night and anyone who clicked on that biased CBC article isn't going to learn anything about the incident and what actually happened because these days asking the media to report on the facts of a case is asking too much apparently.
Like I said, MSM is biased as hell now and they're more concerned about pushing narratives than they are of reporting stories accurately and truthfully. On many stories like these, they'd rather leave out important information than risk being called racist or bigoted.
As an another example, did you know that several weeks ago that a man was arrested for running around in Scarborough yelling racial slurs and assaulting random people over several months? He did this several times including yelling racials slurs at a woman with her child before assaulting her and in another incident hurling racial slurs at a man and spitting on him before knocking the turbin off his head.
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Did you hear about this story? I sure as heck didn't from MSM and I only knew about it when I read it in the Toronto subreddit. I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY such random, disgusting hate crimes like these didn't receive national coverage and days of talk from the media about how 'we need to have that hard conversation on racism and hate and intolerance in Canada' with regards to this story? I just can't put my finger on it, can you?
As I said its sad to see how differently the media chooses to report stories like these depending on the race/ethnicity of the suspect and victims and how well it fits the narrative they're pushing. They USED to be a little more fair and balanced, but now that's completely gone and anyone who cares about finding out the truth needs to do their own research these days.
