This has been happening for a long time!

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2020

We don't mean that as a compliment:
In print editions, this front-page report in the New York Times appears beneath this headline:
Fatal Encounter Wasn’t First Time Paths Crossed
Eye-catching! But in the actual report, readers seem to be told that there's no particular reason to think that their paths ever had crossed:
FURBER, BURCH AND ROBLES (5/30/20):Mr. Floyd had been a star football and basketball player in high school, moving to Minneapolis about five years ago. When he returned to Houston for his mother’s funeral two years ago, he told a cousin that Minneapolis had come to feel like home. “He was such a happy guy, he loved to be around people, loved to dance and he loved Minneapolis,” said Jovanni Thunstrom, who owned the Conga Latin Bistro where Mr. Floyd worked security on salsa nights. “He walked in every day with a smile on his face.”

It was another club, El Nuevo Rodeo, where both Mr. Floyd and Mr. Chauvin worked. Maya Santamaria, who sold the club in January, said she doubted that the two men interacted.

Mr. Floyd worked the occasional weeknight, she said, while Mr. Chauvin worked security on weekends
over the past 17 years.
That was the full discussion of whether their paths had ever crossed. That said, what the heck! It was close enough for New York Times front-page headline work!

Through a pair of links, the report connects to the formal criminal complaint in which Officer Chauvin is charged with murder and manslaughter. The document tells a more complicated story than any we'd previously heard.

None of that is why we offer this post. We offer this post because of the following sleight-of-hand:
FURBER, BURCH AND ROBLES: The case has become part of a now-familiar history of police violence in recent years in which African-American men have died in encounters that were shockingly mundane in their origins—Eric Garner, who died after a 2014 arrest in New York for selling cigarettes without tax stamps; Michael Brown, who died in an encounter with the police the same year in Ferguson, Mo., after walking in the street instead of using the sidewalk.
The second highlighted passage is stunningly disingenuous.

As has been widely noted, the original police report about George Floyd's death was remarkably deceptive. Everything included was accurate. But dear God! The facts which got left out!

So too with that highlighted passage, which omits the reason why Michael Brown was being sought on the fateful morning when he was spotted "walking in the street instead of using the sidewalk." As someone at the Times surely knows, he was being sought because he'd just assaulted, and stolen from, a much smaller convenience store clerk.

First the police report, then the Times! This is the world we all live in.

22 comments:

  1. Stupid Liberals.
    Don't they realize protesting the violation of the human rights of a black man will lead to Trump being re-elected in a landslide?

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  2. The point of the description of Floyd's security work for El Nuevo Rodeo was to point out that Chauvin and Floyd had performed the same peacekeeping activities under other circumstances. It was also to humanize Floyd, who otherwise might be seen as a stereotypical lawbreaker when he had done nothing demonstrably wrong except buy a pack of cigarettes with a suspect $20 bill. Somerby wastes no effort thinking about whether he routinely examines his own money to make sure it is not fake, or wondering whether he would know what a fake looks like.
    That could happen to anyone and there was no other crime involved. But even if he were guilty, the penalty is nowhere near death for such an act.

    Somerby seems to think that if the reporters fill in all the subsequently known details, it might justify the excessive force used in these situations. Brown bullied a store clerk and stole a trivial item. Did he deserve to die for that? The cop who shot him said he feared for his life. Is that fear the responsibility of the victim or should it be a disqualifier for service as a police officer?
    According to Somerby, those details need to be included in reports -- why? Because it justifies the excessive force of the police? What detail except being armed and dangerous and resisting arrest could justify these killings?

    The point of such articles is to show that these black men are not thugs but are going about their lives just like everyone else, but are met with such extreme treatment that they wind up dead instead of arrested and tried, often for small crimes or no crime at all.

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    1. Well, the officer who shot Michael Brown wasn’t charged.

      Somerby would be right on board with the investigation by Eric Holder in the Brown case, Einstein.

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    2. Did Michael Brown deserve to die for bullying a store clerk?

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    3. It wasn’t a matter of what Michael Brown “deserved”.

      It was determined that the officer was reasonable in interpreting Brown’s actions as being a deadly threat to the officer’s life.

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    4. Yes, and this raises a complex issue because race is involved in how fearful someone is, fear results in a greater likelihood of seeing threat in situations where there is none. For example psychologists primed subjects with black faces and then had them make speeded judgments of whether an item was a gun or a tool (hammer, screwdriver). They were more likely to wrongly identify a tool as a gun after seeing a black face than a white one. It is not a black person's fault if an officer has greater fear of black than white people, and thus greater likelihood of making a mistake about whether a non-weapon is a threat. No one doubts that the officer may have felt fear. Racism enters the picture because fear distorts how an officer interacts with a suspect.

      As long as officers are off the hook just because they felt fearful, there isn't going to be fair or equitable treatment of black people by police. Currently, no one trains them to deal with their fear and they are being excused when they make mistakes that take people's lives for minor crimes.

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    5. "It wasn’t a matter of what Michael Brown “deserved”."

      Well, in a sense it is, I suppose. Once you get involved in violent criminal activity, even if it's relatively minor, there is, obviously, a much better chance for things going terribly wrong.

      If one is concerned about the possibility of being shot by a cop, I'd strongly recommend to avoid assaulting and stealing from convenience store clerks. Or anyone, really.

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    6. That may play out in less straight forward situations, but in the DoJ investigation of what happened in the Michael Brown case, the criteria was less abstract in determining the reasonable use of deadly force.

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  3. If a suspect has committed a murder immediately before an encounter with police and is indisputably guilty of that murder, it still doesn't justify the cops shooting him instead of arresting him and putting him on trial for his crime.

    That's why these details don't matter at all. They are irrelevant to the facts of the encounter itself, in which police are expected to ARREST and not SHOOT suspects. Given that they are irrelevant, why do they need to be included in these news stories, which are about the treatment by police during the encounter, not before or after it? Even in a trial, things that are prejudicial are excluded.

    Somerby perhaps wants these details included because they are negative, would create an impression that the victim deserved his mistreatment, that cops were perhaps more correct to shoot (even though the facts at hand suggest not) because of how badly the victim behaved in some previous situation. Somerby wants to put that thumb on the scales. Why does he want to do that? Who knows, but it isn't consistent with the way most liberals think about these situations. It isn't consistent with considering someone accused of a crime as a human being with rights that need to be protected up to and including a fair trial, because sometimes these men didn't do whatever they are suspected or accused of doing, and they are shot despite being unarmed and not guilty. So, guilty or not, the determination needs to be made in court and not by the cop with a gun in his hand (or a knee of someone's neck).

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  4. "...after walking in the street instead of using the sidewalk"

    Yeah, this is truly, truly goebbelsian.

    There is no other word for it, considering what this blatant lie is used for: to portray one ethnic group as a victim of another.

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  5. "he'd just assaulted, and stolen from, a much smaller convenience store clerk"

    Is it OK to assault and steal from a convenience store clerk who is bigger than you?

    If not, why does Somerby include the fact of the clerk's size? Is he perhaps being manipulative in the same way as the journalists he is accusing today?

    It is anthropologists all the way down in today's comments. Oh, the humanity! Aristotle is rotting in his grave because of human dumbness.

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