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Black Cops Kill Black American But It is Still Racism Says CNN
Black Cops Kill Black American But It is Still Racism Says CNN
Paul Craig Roberts
When news broke that Tyre Nichols, a black man, was killed by 5 Memphis police officers, liberal media was ecstatic. Here they thought was another George Floyd case that the presstitutes could use to whip up hatred and burn down some more white business districts in US cities. The presstitutes were disappointed to learn that all five cops were black.
This stopped them, but not for long. CNN rushed to the rescue with the headline: “The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they might still have been driven by racism.” As the CNN story put it, blacks are also racist against blacks, because white “society’s message that black people are inferior, unworthy, and dangerous is pervasive.” Evil white society has even created black racial hatred of blacks. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/opinions/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-department-jones/index.html
The same week white cops shot a white man seven times for no reason in the doorway of his home while his wife looked on in horror. The police excuse is their claim they had heard gunfire and for unknown reasons concluded Jason Kloepfer was responsible and was holding a hostage, none of which was true. I posted about this on January 25: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/01/25/what-is-it-about-the-police-that-they-never-learn-and-are-destroying-their-public-support/
The New York Post carried the story–https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/unarmed-disabled-man-jason-kloepfer-shot-by-cops-video/ –but otherwise you had to learn about it from the British media. There were no NPR or CNN specials on white cops shooting white people. It doesn’t fit the official narrative constructed by the white liberal media whores, who have devoted their lives to teaching black Americans to hate white Americans. Interest in police shooting is limited to black victims, and the cause is always white racism even if the cops are black. The whore media never lets any facts get in the way of the narrative.
Some years ago when this official narrative began forming I did some research. Some US police departments were being trained, and perhaps still are, by Israeli firms. The emphasis was on shooting first and asking questions later, if at all. This reflected the Israeli approach to Palestinians and is inappropriate for an American police force.
Gratuitous police brutality and use of deadly force got out of hand because nothing was done about it. It still isn’t unless the victim is a black. Funny how it is only blacks, allegedly seen by society as “inferior, unworthy, and dangerous” whose mistreatment gets news coverage, while whites bestowed with “white privilege” are ignored.
As official government statistics show, cops kill more white Americans than black Americans. It is unlikely that racism is the reason white cops kill white people. The killings result because police are not appropriately trained.
This problem would be fixable, but it is not because of the official racism narrative and because the more numerous police killings of white people are inconsistent with the official narrative and therefore not newsworthy.
Clearly for the corrupt narrative makers, their narrative is more important than lives.