If they gunned me down

Wow!

I hope that opens up a few eyes!

It jarred me...put a real punctuation mark on the issue.

It's sickening.

For those who haven't seen them, this is the photo they're using of Michael Brown:



People have been wondering why they aren't using something more like this one:



Note that the graduation photo is from a BBC site.

Instead of lynching black people like in the past, they find it simpler to simply shoot them these days.

I keep an open mind,
knowing from experience
that first impressions r not always accurate.





David

The media no longer reports the news, they like to guide the news. These pictures are on the other end of the spectrum from Trayvon Martin. For Martin they made sure to show a picture of a much younger kid instead of what he looked like at the time of the shooting. A more up to date pic would have worked just fine. Instead they wanted to guide the news and not report it.

The media lost it's way a long time ago. Whether it is right or left, they lost their way.

Very true.

That's a really good observation, Baldimo.

One thing that makes me crazy is that most of these "bad" photos are selfies that people made publicly available by their own hand. By doing so, aren't they perpetuating the idea that young people are dangerous/out of control/to be feared?

My own teenager is guilty of posting sneering, tough-guy photos of himself. I've warned him about it ever since I allowed him to join any social media sites. I sent him a link to this and got the "OOOhhhhh Mom" and eyerolls.

I can't help but wonder what might happen if they'd all just stop posting such things. If the only photo a reporter could find was a happy graduation shot, would our ideas about young people get better?

I understand kids want to appear older and cooler. I did it too. Thankfully there wasn't any internet when I was doing it. A reporter would have had to go to my parents and ask for a photo. You can bet they'd have ended up with the happy graduation photo.

This was just posted by @theanonmessage, a twitter account affiliated with Anonymous' Operation Ferguson. They start talking about the Mike Brown shooting around 11:26:

Bullshit. Trevon Martin was no gangster. Shame on you. Here's the picture that counts. Sometimes I think you landed on your head.





You think this is a thug? It isn't. Its a kid murdered by a racist.

Thank you for posting this. Anonymous sure has been quiet lately. This is a good issue to start back up on.

You really need to learn how to read. I said NOTHING about Trayvon. My comment was directed at the media and how they pick and choose pictures to display on your tv screen. Go back and read it again. I was complaining about the use of a 4 year old pic for Trayvon instead of a pic of him at his age at the time of shooting.

Comprehension problems?

Listen twit, where's you confusion? What was wrong with the current Treyvon? What was being mislead with the contemporary photos of Trayvon? Why are you so ******* coy? Go a head, tell us how the photos of Treyvon were sooooo misleading? Go ahead big man, I dare you to say what you mean.

















I want to see your gangster photos, you know,the ones that have been discredited.

If they gunned me down, I'm sure I would be wearing clean underwear.

You said it right. Its the new lynching.

In a shameless display of racial stereotyping through deceptive editing, a Chicago news station tried to paint a four-year-old African American child who was interviewed after a shooting as a wannabe thug. The interviewer asked the child if he was going to “stay away from all these guns.” The child said no, and that he wanted to have a gun when he grew up — because he wants to be a police officer.

However, the station cut out the part where the child explained that he wants to be a police officer, thus smearing him as a gunman wannabe, as you can see in the full version of his statements below:

I'm glad to see Anonymous get involved but they have been taken to task for some missteps this time -- for threatening to release personal information about the police chief's daughter.

She didn't have anything to do with this.

I couldn't make much out of the recording so I read down the thread a bit and learned that this was the St. Louis dispatch office, not the Ferguson office where the earliest calls went in.

I hope we get to hear those tapes in the future.

I posted that video before listening. It didn't clear up anything for me.

Also, I don't hold with involving innocent bystanders, family or not. No matter the motivation.

Way to go, Bobsal.

The guy was a kid...a decent looking kid who unfortunately managed to cross paths with a nut carrying a gun.