Motivation. Anything else that comes up in an investigation. Testimony, which may not come for some time.
It is news worth. But there are many stories that are news worthy that compete within the attention economy. They may get most of their coverage at a local level. Just like the murder of Mikayla Pickett, the story of Cannon Hinnant may not get much national attention unless it can be connected to a larger story.
You’d be surprised on the number of cases that make it to prosecution and conviction with getting little to no news attention. I’ve got a family member that works on criminal cases. I think at times some of those cases bring on what looks like depression.
I’m not sure that it would. The killing of A’vonta Williams, an African American 7 year old killed by a white man with a shot gun for no identified reason, did not get much attention. She was with her mother and two sisters when it happened.
In Detroit some years ago there was a case that I’ve never understood why it didn’t get more attention. Names are omitted because for the life of me I can’t remember them.
Back in 2015, there was an instance of a no-knock police drug raid. The police threw a flash grenade in the house and it landed in the crib of a 19-month-old. The child had to be put in a medically induced coma. They did not find drugs at the house. And their intended target (the home owner’s nephew) was not in the house. I don’t think the incident itself got much national attention, though the ACLU did give it some publicity as an example of the over-militarization of police.
This is a big factor.
The reasons any given story doesn’t make national news are legion.
Spot on. Why is the movement focusing on criminals as its motivations? Where is the outrage at the number of children killed in one city?ThinkingSapien:
In Detroit some years ago there was a case that I’ve never understood why it didn’t get more attention. Names are omitted because for the life of me I can’t remember them.
Police conducted a raid on a house. The very first action they did was throw a tear gas bomb through a window. It just so happened to land on the couch where a little girl, she couldn’t have been older than 12, was sleeping. She freaked out and when the police broke the door open she got a bullet to the head. I don’t recall any punishments or legislative actions against the officers.
It strikes me how wildly dissimilar cases like that are to cases like George Floyd and Ferguson, Trayvon Martin etc. The media latches on to questionable cases where evidence is conflicting with the mainstream narrative. It’s gotten especially heated in the age of Trump. It’s like the left leaning media want to make Trump’s America out to be as bad as possible no matter what the story. The case with the little girl related above took place under Obama however. The difference is striking.
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Except the cases they are citing as examples aren’t necessarily murders. Michael Brown’s killer was arrested and prosecuted. Same for George Floyd’s killer.
If “justice for the murders of the innocents” is a euphemism for stopping abortion, that is a position on which people widely vary in general. You’ll find a variance on that issue within black communities or within communities of people that express some alignment with the BLM movement. Some people expressing alignment to BLM are against abortion. Some are not. But that could be said with the USA in general.
I linked articles on the number of post born black children that are murdered by gun violence, so there was nothing ambiguous about my post.qui_est_ce:
If “justice for the murders of the innocents” is a euphemism for stopping abortion, that is a position on which people widely vary in general. You’ll find a variance on that issue within black communities or within communities of people that express some alignment with the BLM movement. Some people expressing alignment to BLM are against abortion. Some are not. But that could be said with the USA in general.