
War on Cops: A Narrative The Media Ignore
We seem to have a trend here: I’d go so far as to call it a “narrative.” Police officers are denounced as racist killers, an invading army occupying black neighborhoods.

We seem to have a trend here: I’d go so far as to call it a “narrative.” Police officers are denounced as racist killers, an invading army occupying black neighborhoods.

After 18-year-old Antonio Martin pulled a gun and was subsequently shot and killed by a police officer at a Berkeley, Missouri gas station on December 23, Pastor Starsky Wilson blamed the police–saying that “most of the protests [since Ferguson] have been nonviolent” but the police escalated things anyway, which in turn caused violence.

On December 23, a Berkeley, Missouri, police officer shot and killed a teen who pulled a gun and pointed it at him. Thereafter, “approximately 100 protesters” gathered, some of whom jumped and assaulted police, hitting them with bricks.

Wednesday at City Hall in Berkeley MO, Mayor Theodore Hoskins held a press conference to respond to the officer-involved shooting death of 18-year-old Antonio Martin, the protest that followed, and the release of surveillance video of the incident. “I had