As we all know, many people are outraging right now over any death that occurs at the hands of police officers. Judging by how these instances are being reported, it doesn’t seem to matter anymore if the deceased resisted arrest or was actively endangering the lives of others. Nor does it seem to matter if the deceased was committing a terrorist act.
Today, Vox wrote a story titled “Map: Police have killed at least 1,500 people in the past 16 months” that linked to websites collecting data on any and all deaths at the hands of police, feeding the lying narrative that police are just randomly killing people for no reason. However, if you click on Vox’s links to those stories, you will see that the data they compiled consists of clearly justified shootings, including the deaths of the two terrorists killed in Garland, TX, this week.
I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t make sure that we prosecute bad police officers. We should. But including numbers of any and all civilian deaths during police encounters in order for the purpose of encouraging emotional outrage is careless, irresponsible, unethical, and dangerous…and it’s just not good journalism.
