On the surface, the cases appear nearly identical: Michael Brown and Dillon Taylor, two young, unarmed men with sketchy criminal pasts shot to death by police officers two days apart.<\/p>\n
But while the world knows of the highly publicized situation involving 18-year-old Mr. Brown, whose Aug. 9 death in Ferguson, Missouri touched off violence, protests and an angry national debate, most people outside Utah have never heard of 20-year-old Mr. Taylor.<\/p>\n
Critics say there\u2019s a reason for the discrepancy in media coverage: race. Mr. Brown was black and the officer who shot him was white. Mr. Taylor wasn\u2019t black \u2014 he\u2019s been described as white and Hispanic \u2014 and the officer who shot him Aug. 11 outside a 7-Eleven in South Salt Lake wasn\u2019t white.<\/p>\n
The perceived double standard is fueling resentment and talk of double standards on conservative talk radio and social media, where the website Twitchy has compiled a list of Twitter comments asking why Mr. Brown\u2019s death has been front-page news for weeks while Mr. Taylor\u2019s was a footnote at best.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlack cop kills unarmed white male #DillonTaylor in Utah,\u201d says a Thursday post on Twitter by radio talk-show host Wayne Dupree, who is black. \u201c#LiberalMedia can\u2019t find [their] way to cover the story.\u201d<\/p>\n
From Mark Andersen: \u201cBlack cop kills unarmed white male #DillonTaylor in Utah. Where is @TheRevAl, @msnbc and @CNN? Is @DOJgov there? Did @BarackObama speak?\u201d<\/p>\n
And this: \u201cPeople need to be just as angry over #DillonTaylor murder by a blk officer in Utah. He wasn\u2019t armed!\u201d said NeeNee in a Friday post.<\/p>\n
Critics of the disparity in coverage and outrage said that it is actually the Brown case that is the outlier: Statistics indicate that black-on-black crime is far more common than the case of a white-on-black crime. For homicide, for instance, the FBI in 2012 found that of the 2,648 black murder victims, some 2,412 were killed by fellow blacks and only 193 by whites. (Whites also were likely far more likely to be killed by fellow whites than by members of other races, according to the data.)<\/p>\n
Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh blamed the discrepancy between the two cases on \u201cthe liberal world view\u201d that portrays whites as oppressors and blacks as victims.<\/p>\n
\u201c[I]n the current climate in the United States, a black person can never be the oppressor, and a white person can never be a victim,\u201d said Mr. Limbaugh on his national radio show last week.<\/p>\n
Rev. Al Sharpton, speaking at Monday\u2019s funeral service for Mr. Brown, attacked local policing methods in the case and the militarization of local police forces, but also noted that American blacks also must learn from Ferguson.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of us act like the definition of blackness is how low you can go,\u201d the civil rights activist and MSNBC host said. \u201cBlackness has never been about being a gangster or thug. \u2026 Blackness was, no matter how low we were pushed down, we rose up anyhow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another difference between Missouri and Utah was that Mr. Taylor\u2019s death didn\u2019t result in riots. There were peaceful protests a week ago outside the Salt Lake City police headquarters covered by local media, but no outbreaks of violence as happened nightly on the streets of Ferguson.<\/p>\n
CNN news host Jake Tapper acknowledged the disparity in coverage of the Brown and Taylor cases in the mainstream media, noting that the press often undercovers such topics as inner-city violence and the high rates of black-on-black crime. But Mr. Tapper said Monday that media \u201ccritics fail to see\u201d that the greater context of a story such as the Michael Brown shooting, including the reaction it sparked in the St. Louis, in the black community nationwide, and with local authorities and the Obama administration.<\/p>\n
Source: www.washingtontimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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