his shackles breaking the silence there in the texas courtroom. if, in fact, he is the killer, was 30-year-old shannon miles motivated by an anti-police sentiment? he s accused of murdering this texas deputy early saturday morning. a hughes stan area sheriff is saying miles may have targeted deputy darren goforth because he was wearing his law enforcement uniform. the district attorney did not hold back. she offered brutal details based on what was seen on the surveillance video. they saw a dark-skinned male who was bald with red shirts and white t-shirt run up behind the deputy who clearly didn t see him coming or hear him coming and shot him in the back of the head. deputy goforth fell to the ground and the male stood over
he gunned down a sheriff because of his law enforcement uniform. the district attorney did not hold back, offering brutal details about how goforth died, based upon what investigators saw on surveillance video. they saw a dark-skinned male who was bald with red shirts and a white t-shirt run up behind the deputy who clearly did not see him or hear him coming and shot him in the back of the head. deputy goforth fell to the ground and the male stood over him and fired several more times into the back of his head and his back. the district attorney told the judge that miles emptied his gun into deputy goforth. 15 shell casings were found at the gas station where he was swinging by to fuel his patrol car. the motive is unknown. but this was also said.
thank the liberals nor saving america. let s get a grade from each of you as to how the media generally did in covering the tragedies of this week. jim let s start with you. i ll give them a b, there was plenty of inaccuracies, it was an important story and the media covered it. i give it a b. i agree with jim. it s hard with so much chaos to get everything right. jon: let s that i can a look at some of what was gotten wrong. in the early hours there were stories about how two unexploded bombs had been found along the marathon course. the wall street journal said there were five unexploded bombs a i long the cnn reported there had been a suspect arrested early on, i believe it was on thursday, when that hadn t happened at all and went onto compound that by saying that the suspect arrested was a dark-skinned male. what about some of that, jim?
mcvay didn t represent christianity those his co-conspirator member of the christian movement. this is a time of americans of all faith, religions and ethnic backgrounds need to come together and help rally for the people of boston. how do you think the religion affects people s perception of the attack? that s a very good question, john. i think that perceptions, you know, were created in the very early parts of this investigation even before the tsarnaev brothers were named as suspects. as we all know there were several media outlets that erroneously reported that there was an arrest of a dark skinned male. and that helped to shape narratives also within the general american discourse that it was one of those other guys. you know, when we look at the, you know, aurora, colorado, dark knight batman massacre where people were kill and had
sees itself as a white nation. you look at the language used as part of redeeming and protecting whiteness. even now they re talking about him as an ethic chechen. a racial othering that white people do to exclude people they don t included in terms of their group. dark-skinned male. i think one of the things we have to do is revisit the hunting for the dark-skinned male that took place last week and it s part of the rationization of muslims but also part of a longer history of racialization of crime and terror in the united states. last week, ken burns documentary the central park 5 aired on pbs. it was a perfect example of how it s entangled to great destructive effect. part of this has to do with how they were called dark-skinned. if they re dark-skinned, i m jet black. part of why we imagined the threat to be dark-skinned, the threat to be foreign is because we want to think of or some