In a study of about 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by law enforcement agencies, three law school professors found that posts about serious crimes overrepresented Black suspects by 25 percentage points compared to arrest rates.
In cleveland at this hour a judge has cleared a white police officer charged in the deaths of two unarmed black suspects. 13 officers fired at the suspects car after a high-speed chase but only 31-year-old officer michael brelo was charged. prosecutors say he open fire after the suspects were no longer a threat. right now, you re looking at live pictures of protesters that have started to gather near the courthouse in cleveland. we re monitoring the situation and we ll keep you up to date as news develops in cleveland. overseas after abandoning their positions in the key iraqi city of ramadi government troops are trying to take it back from isis. plus as the islamic state takes credit for a bombing in saudi arabia we ll explain their threat of more quote, black days. live from the nation s capital starts in just ten minutes.
Perhaps, i don t know. you could say that about a lot of black victims of homicide by black suspects. if they were not black they might have lived, too. so that comment is i don t know. it could be true but it could be true in a lot of other instan instances. i was watching another network while at the gym. according to cnn black families are concerned about the safety of their children since the verdict. all families before or after the verdict should be concerned about the safety of their children when you have thousands of black men and women every year you should not wait for the trayvon martin trial to become concerned about your children s safety when your black children are being murderer ered through violence. the media like a scared child, they can t let go of this case. they are afraid to leave and find another story. you see other networks actively