Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]
"I believe the national attention would have been quicker responding (if Zachary was black)," Hammond said. "I think all young lives matter, not just black or white. An unarmed teenager, it should matter just as much."
If I remember correctly, in both the Martin (which wasn't an officer involved shooting) and the Brown case, it took some time before the national media actually picked it up and cared.
Now that it's become a hot topic, they're much quicker to report on cops killing unarmed black kids, but that's still not always the case. And it still usually takes a couple of weeks.
In any case, 16 days isn't that long between the incident and it getting national coverage. It seems like a claim of false reverse discrimination. Why even focus on that right now?
On the actual incident, why are cops even setting up stings for Marijuana bust of individual buyers? Not only is it stupid, but it's a waste of resources. If the kid was shot in the back, this cop should go to jail. Absolutely no justification for that. Even less so to bust some kids buying weed.