Black Perps, Hot Air Balloons & Attempted Narratives | Perception Matters

Adding these as data that applies to crime and policing in the USA.

live capture means white criminal

People commonly say if they hear a violent suspect has been captured alive they assume it is a white perp, because police tend to be hunting blacks.

Willie Godbolt killed 8 people, including a sheriff's deputy and was captured alive. pic.twitter.com/B1c94kSznc
— Donut Operator 🍩 (@DonutOperator) October 4, 2018

the gun lobby trumps any lobby

The misconception of the lack of laws related to obtaining guns is prevalent i the activism space.

After sixteen people were killed in a hot air balloon in Lockhart, Texas, Ted Cruz authored and passed federal legislation improving safety rules.

I guess that's not because laws don't work, but because there's no hot air balloon lobby funding his Senate seat. #txlege https://t.co/X4N8k24YnE
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 23, 2021

mass shooting means white shooter

Outside of the way gang violence in urban areas are not considered mass shootings in the same sense as others, after all most people that whinge about this disparate racist treatment do not live in those urban areas or would go there. I think the key is whites are nto dying in those urban mass shootings.

Some Colorado or school shooting however triggers the predominantly white activists more

In Chicago, 116 people have been killed this year. That is 17 more than 2020.
Tracking Chicago homicide victims – Chicago Tribune

Authorities arrested 22-year-old Rico Marley after he reportedly entered an Atlanta, Georgia, Publix grocery store wearing body armor and with six guns on his person and carrying a cache of ammunition.

This is a picture I obtained of the 6 guns, and ammo, found on the 22 year old suspect at the Atlantic Station Publix today. Police have said he was found with 5 but there appears to be one more handgun. Intentions of the suspect are still unknown. https://t.co/gMZBvbwWT8 pic.twitter.com/kQG9VgSfOx
— Matt Johnson (@MattWSB) March 25, 2021

Shall have more on this topic.