{"id":13717,"date":"2012-04-10T11:57:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13717"},"modified":"2012-04-10T11:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T15:57:40","slug":"criminal-justice-related-racial-double-standard-against-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13717\/criminal-justice-related-racial-double-standard-against-whites\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal-Justice-Related, Racial Double-Standard — Against Whites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today at The American Spectator I blogged at length <\/a>about how Eric Holder’s Justice Department uses flagrant racial double-standards in enforcing the law.<\/p>\n

The same habit infects the news media, and apparently some police departments as well: If the perpetrators are black, it is A) not news, and B) sometimes not investigated, much less prosecuted. J. Christian Adams has a new example<\/a> here. In this case, a motorist was targeted by a black biker gang. Result: Nada. Adams writes:<\/p>\n

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Boyd tells me he contacted the crime beat reporter at the\u00a0Birmingham News <\/em>and told her about his story. \u201cNot newsworthy,\u201d was her response. Boyd also tells me that law enforcement officials told Boyd they \u201cdon\u2019t mess with the Outcasts of Alabama.\u201d\u00a0 Comforting.<\/p>\n

Had the attackers been the\u00a0Confederate Hammerskins<\/a>, and the victim been different, we\u00a0all know (at a minimum) the\u00a0Birmingham News<\/em> would have covered the story. DOJ lawyers would be checking on the contract air carrier from Washington to Birmingham. I\u2019ll wager even Soledad O\u2019Brien would have spent at least one show on the attack.<\/p>\n

It is precarious\u00a0when the law, and attention from the media, are so out of balance. When state law enforcement officials flinch from prosecutions of the black Outcasts of Alabama, and national media organizations ignore some violence while elevating other\u00a0incidents\u00a0to\u00a0month-long stories, the rule of law suffers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shame on the Birmingham News. Shame on any police who don’t follow up on such cases. Shame on all of us for letting race affect how we deal with important issues and events, in any<\/em> direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today at The American Spectator I blogged at length about how Eric Holder’s Justice Department uses flagrant racial double-standards in enforcing the law. The same habit infects the news media, and apparently some police departments as well: If the perpetrators are black, it is A) not news, and B) sometimes not investigated, much less prosecuted. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3472,3097,498,1823],"class_list":["post-13717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-biker","tag-christian-adams","tag-eric-holder","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13718,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13717\/revisions\/13718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}