St Louis police murder scandal (PLUS: riots, idiotic press conferences, etc.)

[ilikeverin]

The polling is surprisingly less bad than you'd think on this story.  It's kind of sad that "less bad than you'd think" means "white people claim to not know whether gunning an unarmed man down is a bad thing", but, well, there you have it: we're at least not generally saying that the victim deserved it like we do in a lot of these cases.

[ilikeverin]

The polling is surprisingly less bad than you'd think on this story.  It's kind of sad that "less bad than you'd think" means "white people claim to not know whether gunning an unarmed man down is a bad thing", but, well, there you have it: we're at least not generally saying that the victim deserved it like we do in a lot of these cases.

That's worse than I thought. 67% of white people think protesters went too far while only 27% of them think police went too far. There's even 15% of the total respondents that think police didn't go far enough...

You expected to see less than 15% who would think the police haven't gone far enough?!

[ilikeverin]

What about Bell Neighbors?

Went from 53% white in 2000 to 26% in 2010.  Jeez.