• Kelly Aster 🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Check out how news orgs are covering this story.

    Associated Press: “Milwaukee hotel employees fired after death of Black man who was pinned to the ground”

    NBC: “Video shows Black man being pinned down by Milwaukee hotel security shortly before death”

    CBS: “Milwaukee hotel workers fired after death of Black man pinned down outside”

    ABC: “Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy for Black man who died after being held down by Milwaukee hotel guards”

    CNN: “A Black man died after he was pinned to the ground by security guards at a Milwaukee hotel. Now his family wants answers”

    Fox 6 Milwaukee: “Hyatt Regency Milwaukee death; man’s family gathers outside hotel”

    Fox News: “”

    These are the earliest stories posted by each outlet that I could find. The headlines speak volumes. The local Fox affiliate omits the fact that the man was black in the headline, and Fox News has yet to acknowledge it even happened, which was 12 days ago (June 30). I’m sure they’ll get around to it, though.

    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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      4 months ago

      Why does it matter that the guy was black?

      How about something like:

      Hotel guards kill father of two, holding him down while he cries for help.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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        4 months ago

        “White folks don’t get in disturbances in Milwaukee?” Sharpton said during the funeral. “Do y’all throw white folks to the ground and put your knee on their neck? The sentence for disturbance is death?”

        This is the reason.

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        4 months ago

        Probably because it might have been a hate crime and might have done it for hate reasons, and maybe they will do it again unless they are held accountable. That would be my guess.

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          4 months ago

          Shouldn’t they be held accountable for killing a human?

          I thought murder was bad, as a general rule.

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            4 months ago

            Murder once is bad, yeah, of course. You know what’s worse than one murder? Multiple murders, because the person wasn’t stopped.

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              4 months ago

              Agreed.

              Have the two men in this instance killed before? I didn’t get that from the article.

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                4 months ago

                Cops keep murdering people, the same people too, the same evil fucks killing under the same pretenses. There’s a fucking tendency to kill certain people, wake up

              • prole@sh.itjust.works
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                4 months ago

                let’s pretend statistics don’t exist because the reality of their implications makes me uncomfortable.