townsend
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Frankly I think white vs. black is an oversimplification of the issue. I think the most prominent issue is the disenfranchisement of the poor. Which, thanks to 200 years of institutionalized racism, disproportionately affects blacks.Hannity has interviewed everyone from a cop who says he knows the others to Freddie Gray's bondman. While he does have an affinity for police he does present sides CNN, MSNBC and others don't. But someone has to with people like you seem to be who already have their minds made up. These cops may well be bad and Baltimore may well be a cesspool, but it will all come out in the trial. But the black lives matter and hands up don't shoot crowd would rather these cops got hung straight away.
As typical in these circumstance you are arguing form the stance that they are already guilty. Towns says Baltimore is a a shit hole so naturally every cop there is bad in that crowds mind. And with this case, it isn't just "whitey kills a black kid, it's cops in general" because 3 of them are black.
Obviously institutionalized racism still affects how everyone (cops included) perceives young black men. But I think there are probably more (percentage wise) poor whites that have been assaulted by officers than rich blacks. The difference is that rich whites don't give a shit what happens to poor whites. Now admittedly solidarity among poor blacks has probably done plenty to entrench hard feelings between themselves and cops as well.