I watch NBC nightly news every night, this is national news, I have NEVER heard this mentioned on there???
I watch NBC every night, too, and it’s been there. Maybe you were distracted by something and missed it?
This morning, it was the headline story on the Today Show (NBC).
Perhaps I am more attuned to it because my daughter and her husband live in St. Louis.
It’s very scary.
As for the topic of media responsibility, I am furious with the way the media has handled this story. This morning on Today Show, the reporter (African American) actually said in his report, “the injustice done to the unarmed teenager.”
This statement, totally unsubstantiated, serves only to fuel the perception by the people of Ferguson that some kind of injustice has been done.
**We do not know the whole story. **
Yes, it’s possible that the police officer shot and killed the teenager in cold blood with no regard for human life and with total hatred for young black men.
But’s it’s also possible that the unarmed black man threatened the officer in such a way that the officer felt that his own life and/or the lives of others were in imminent danger, and he reacted correctly by defending himself and others.
We need to know the whole story.
Even if the police officer was a monstrous prejudiced white supremist animal who is even now gloating over shooting the young black man and plotting the deaths of more black people, that does NOT give license for citizens black or white or any color to threaten the police, throw bottles and make-shift bombs and even fire guns at them, to loot and destroy the business establishments of fellow citizens, and to riot through the streets after dark terrorizing the neighborhoods, and to create such mayhem and disorder that SCHOOLS HAD TO BE CLOSED IN FERGUSON TODAY. This is utterly unacceptable behavior. Every day that the schools are closed is one more day of ignorance for the children of the citizens of Ferguson. Shame on them!
