what's really going on with this police beating in nola?

[RepublicanElephant]

as terrible as that beating was, why does the corporate media suddenly give a damn about another black man in america getting a cop beat-down?

is it:

1) they have it on tape, so they think they have another rodney king ratings thing?

2) they're still trying to "prove" how screwed-up any local nola authorities are, just as they "were" pre-katrina?

3) both of the above.

4) i'm reading too much into this.

:banghead:

[jean]

1. don't know why the media is doing whatever, but I bet that video

will scare quite a few folks and make them re-think going 'home' to NOLA anytime soon.

[RepublicanElephant]

3. good point!

i hadn't considered the "ethnic cleansing" angle.

[Pepper32]

8. Bingo! (eom)

[TahitiNut]

12. Huh? You don't see that as a "Welcome Home" mat?

No. I don't either.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. my personal take

the verbal assault on the AP crew... they were blood as it were.

[Lori Price CLG]

4. They want Americans to clamor to federalize the police. n/t

[Tigress DEM]

5. The MEDIA is remembering that the MAJORITY of people is US.

Their RATINGS went UP during Katrina and many of US expressed profound appreciation for them being their PRIOR to OUR government getting its collective head out of its a** long enough to send help.

Reporters on the ground SAW the destruction that happens when the government ignores its people. They SAW the people dying. They were LIVE. And it was GOOD for ratings to be the fourth estate standing their doing their part and documenting the conspicious absence of leadership.

The reporters themselves in general have been MORE on our side all along, but they have been leashed by the highest levels of managing editors who play ball with the administration.

The "white people find food" and the "black boy loots" wasn't allowed to slide. Hundreds of people in DC for the Peace Rally sat in the tent and listened to the Preachers and sang right along, "Moses go on down and set my people free. Go down Moses set my people free."

Half a million people in DC 9/25/2005 - there about Peace, there about Justice, there about Impeachment AND through it all was the additional thread - Get Out of Iraq! Make Levees Not War. Justice for Everyone was different this time. It isn't a "black man" and his struggle, it is OUR struggle. NO Torture in our name, NO racism in our name either. We want the bozos out and we want a new world where the dream of MLK CAN come true.... must come true.

Whatever the administration or any racist cop does to an innocent person is a crime against my humanity and I'm not going to tolerate it anymore. Neither is most of America.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. I think it's 99 percent choice number 1.

[nomatrix]

7. #5 Rove is in LA

Who's who in Plamegate?

Who issues talking point to the press?

Look at the "other" headline from LA Illegal Immigrants taking jobs nobody wants.



Just too much of the same story. No other contradictions in any google search of the news. Federal agents with the police while in plain sight of a news crew filming....

Got to have other headlines to bring up * ratings. I know:tinfoilhat:

[mestup]

9. I posted my rant here earlier. No, you're not reading too much into it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5028046&mesg_id=5028046

"Has the MSM ever shown a WHITE guy beaten by WHITE cops?
This is a HUGH and SERIES!!!!111 RANT

I'm getting so fucking pissed at the continuous coverage of that poor man beaten in NOLA. What happened to him is horrible, obviously, but footage like this just FUELS racial divides! Oh, and the MSM bastards are always careful to find someone who says "but we don't feel it's racially motivated."

The whole country just experienced the trauma of the Superdome and the Convention Center - and the racial veil was lifted JUST LONG ENOUGH for Americans of ALL COLORS to see the UNITING issue of POVERTY!

ASSHOLES!

Thanks for letting me vent."

I agree, what happened to that man is horrible. But frankly, I'd rather have seen the corporate media go in-depth on the Delphi bankruptcy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Delphi bankruptcy, YOU NUTS?

there is talk of violence in the detroit free press...

;-)

[mestup]

13. I know! I read that. I think that's huge news! n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. yes, in countries under a dictartorship this is called a change

in the micro climate and this may not, hell will not bode well for the kids in DC.

:popcorn:

And I have been saying that was coming for how long?

If it happens, I will be sorry for the ones who will die... but it may be the price we need to pay.

[Tomee450]

14. I disagree

I think it is good that the video is being played. It is so horrible, many people will realize just how brutal the police departments in this country can be. That video is so awful, it's hard to watch. That last scene of the victim in a pool of blood just angered me so much and turned my stomach. This kind of scene will continue to be a reality as long as juries continue to acquit cops who engage in such behavior. The reason why they readily acquit is because most of the victims of this level of brutality are black. Those cops seemed like wild animals the way they went at that old man. Nothing they did was called for. Anyone of them could have taken him in without resorting to such tactics. He wasn't even a armed. The world need to see that video over and over again. Who needs people like that as part of any force. Who needs any people like that even on the street. I don't care what level of stress the police have been under, brutality is not called for. They were not even defending themselves. The people of New Orleans have to fear the very people who are supposed to protect them.

[mestup]

16. I understand what you're saying, but whites are less likely to truly

identify with the victim. Plus, after Rodney King, "well it's not as if this hasn't happened before." Another wide play of another black victim practically cements the notion that, yes, blacks get beaten by cops. But the cops themselves still aren't the issue.

I'd like all the white people who watch that NOLA video to close their eyes and imagine the victim was Anderson Cooper.

Then we could get to the real issue of police brutality.

(No offense to Anderson Cooper.)

[kskiska]

10. After Katrina, CNN and others established NOLA news bureaus

down there. Ordinarily, beatings like this are a dime a dozen, but with all these reporters looking for stories, they play up something like this and it becomes national news. It must really piss off the NOLA cops.

[Neil Lisst]

17. They were in New Orleans shooting "Cops Gone Wild!!"

maybe, it coulda happened

Seriously, though, the big story was the way they roughed up media at the same time. All media get behind exposing that. They can't have their peeps being muscled by cops.

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[Skidmore]

18. Caught a bit of the Abrams Report this morning, a program

I can't stand. I hate court and lawyer shows with a passion. I think they are a disservice to the country and contribute to skewing an already screwed up system. Anyway, Abrams working an angle that these cops are suffering from PTSD symptoms as a result of Katrina. Had a psychologist on. NOLA police had reputations as corrupt bad-asses before Katrina. I saw a bunch of out of control cops in that video beating on a man who was not fighting back.