if Wilson was black and brown was white? It would have gotten this much attention....
Critics see racial double standard in coverage of police shootings - Washington Times
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"On the surface, the cases appear nearly identical:
Michael Brown and
Dillon Taylor, two young, unarmed men with sketchy criminal pasts shot to death by police officers two days apart.
But while the world knows of the highly publicized situation involving 18-year-old
Mr. Brown, whose Aug. 9 death in
Ferguson, Missouri touched off violence, protests and an angry national debate, most people outside Utah have never heard of 20-year-old
Mr. Taylor.
Critics say there’s a reason for the discrepancy in media coverage: race.
Mr. Brown was black and the officer who shot him was white.
Mr. Taylor wasn’t black — he’s been described as white and Hispanic — and the officer who shot him Aug. 11 outside a 7-Eleven in South Salt Lake wasn’t white."
"Critics of the disparity in coverage and outrage said that it is actually the Brown case that is the outlier: Statistics indicate that black-on-black crime is far more common than the case of a white-on-black crime. For homicide, for instance, the FBI in 2012 found that of the 2,648 black murder victims, some 2,412 were killed by fellow blacks and only 193 by whites. (Whites also were likely far more likely to be killed by fellow whites than by members of other races, according to the data.)"