Oddbean

@3bd57d4d Tomorrow, if Minneapolis cops said that a Black man went into "medical distress" and died of "natural causes or a drug overdose," every major newspaper in the US would print their statement unquestioningly.🤦🏿‍♂️ Even though they know that the 1st statement cops give after an incident is usually a lie. Even though they know that this is the 1st statement that MPD issued after George Floyd: https://web.archive.org/web/20210331182901/https://www.insidempd.com/2020/05/26/man-dies-after-medical-incident-during-police-interaction/ So yeah, Black folk not trusting US news reporting about us, is rational.

@af2dd916 Just on a personal note, not only do I never give credence to a newspaper article reporting the police, I never assume the truth of the statements in a police report. I could tell you stories, but that's another story . . . .

@3bd57d4d Same! But that's not good enough for me. Because most white people in this country do believe these lies printed about Black folk. And there are a lot of these white people. And they vote. So the disinformation is very effective. Yes, I want more people to be able to see through the disinformation. But I also want the disinformation to not exist.