The mass media in St Louis has been covering in detail the tragic shooting and subsequent death of this young African-American police officer. It has also been carried on the national news by
all the main media.
It is the first policeman’s
death at a criminal’s hands in St. Louis since 2011. The police department there seems to be fully integrated. The early reports, like the OP, make it sound as if the shooting was a political thing, or it was being reported in a politically biased manner, but that seems to me to be itself quite a biased way to look at the matter, and mistaken. That St Louis has many black cops is great, and the loss of this apparently fine and dedicated man is certainly tragic.
The killer of this black cop, so far as we know, was a typical criminal from my own state of Florida, a genuine gun nut with a personal arsenal and a long record of assault and violence. He was not legally allowed to own guns due to that record.
If he were political, he would presumably not be a supporter of BLM. Nobody has yet argued that this shooting was ... racist.
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Shot and stabbed, run over and run down, electrocuted and thrown from horses.
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