The
Breonna Taylor case in Louisville, KY is an example of today’s media doing such
an irresponsible job of reporting, that the result is needless outrage followed
by rioting and destruction two times over.
First,
the media allege, and then repeat ad nauseam, heinous crimes committed by the
police, ignoring such major facts as were the police acting without cause or in
self-defense?
For
example, it was not until just a few days ago that many people, including
myself, learned for the first time that it was not the police but Breonna Taylor’s
boyfriend who fired the first shot, wounding an officer, after which the police
returned fire.
As
in this case, later, perhaps many months later, it turns out that there are no
actual grounds for charging the police with any crimes at all or only with much
smaller infractions than originally believed.
But
having heard it so many times over from the media, the mob still believes that the
police are guilty of the original accusations, and so any findings that exonerate
the police are disregarded, with the effect being a new round of outrage, destruction,
and devastation.
This outcome is likely to be repeated, probably on a vastly larger scale, when verdicts ultimately come in on the officers involved in the George Floyd case.
