Wednesday, August 25, 2010

"Police Say It's 'Very Possible' Attacks Near Fairgrounds Had Racial Overtones"

"Police Say It's 'Very Possible' Attacks Near Fairgrounds Had Racial Overtones"

“Police say it’s ‘very possible’ attacks near [the Iowa State] fairgrounds had racial overtones:” Tom Alex, “public safety reporter,” DesMoinesRegister.com

That classic example of contemporary journalism’s and contemporary journalists’ lack of backbone is characteristic of how the mainstream media deals with certain racial incidents and criminal activities in America’s and President Obama’s apocryphal and poisoned post-racial atmosphere.

Following stabbings on August 14th, last weekend two cops were injured as were an unspecified number of civilians, three people were arrested, and a number taken into custody and later released after groups of marauding teenagers and young adults, males and females, caused havoc in and around Iowa’s state fair.

A nearby resident indicated she had never before witnessed such “hostility” toward police who had to fend off repeated assaults, many by females.

Des Moines Police Sgt. David Murillo stated in a report, “On-duty officers at the fairgrounds advise there was a group of 30 to 40 individuals roaming the fairgrounds openly calling it ‘beat whitey night.’ ”

Yet the Des Moines Register and its “public safety reporter,” Tom Alex, ran with the intentionally obtuse, evasive, and misleading headline that “It’s very possible attacks near fairgrounds had racial overtones?”

Very possible? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1862)

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