Sh*t White People Say: NYT Writer Explains True Horror Of Eric Garner Chokehold Killing
The death of Eric Garner was back in the news this week when the medical examiner ruled the killing a homicide, giving more white people the opportunity to say something stupid about it. While Garner’s chokehold-related death at the hands of police has raised concerns about police harassment and abuse of power, The New York Times‘ Andrew Ross Sorkin knows who the real victims are in all of this, and they are the cops.
On this weekend’s Real Time with Bill Maher, host Bill Maher brought up the latest development in the story of “this Eric Gardner guy,” and posited that the rash of police being caught on tape using excessive force might indicate that “a lot of them like it.”
Sorkin chimed in that he couldn’t defend the police actions in these cases, but that the real tragedy here is the suffering of police public image, mainly because of all those damn video cameras that keep catching them choking people out.
“My great worry is that all of these cases would give you the sense, and impression, that no police officer is well-intentioned, I think that most of them, by the way, are, but they all sound like sociopaths, and they’re all racists. and unfortunately, that’s become, that’s a function of all the cameras that are everywhere, and all the news reports that are constant.”
There is so much wrong with what Sorkin said here, but it’s important to understand that this is not specific to him; Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial columnist, not a crime or justice reporter, he’s not claiming expertise. He’s just a normal-assed white guy expressing several of the idiotic things that white people tell themselves about police brutality, aside from “watch the whole tape.”
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Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Tommy6860 August 3rd, 2014 at 23:20
So maybe if the NYPD (or police in general) would not get recorded electronically in some way, that these tragedies (or abuses) would not happen O.o #Apologists
tiredoftea August 3rd, 2014 at 23:23
If a black guy dies from a choke hold and no one is there to record it, did it happen?
Eric Trommater August 3rd, 2014 at 23:25
If a man speaks in the woods and their are no women around to hear him is he still wrong?
Anomaly 100 August 4th, 2014 at 10:01
Yes, he’s wrong. Always wrong!
Eric Trommater August 3rd, 2014 at 23:26
Lol! If those Russians stoped driving around with all those dash cams maybe there would be less of those damn metors!
Tommy6860 August 3rd, 2014 at 23:20
So maybe if the NYPD (or police in general) would not get recorded electronically in some way, that these tragedies (or abuses) would not happen O.o #Apologists
tiredoftea August 3rd, 2014 at 23:23
If a black guy dies from a choke hold and no one is there to record it, did it happen?
Eric Trommater August 3rd, 2014 at 23:25
If a man speaks in the woods and their are no women around to hear him is he still wrong?
Anomaly 100 August 4th, 2014 at 10:01
Yes, he’s wrong. Always wrong!
Eric Trommater August 3rd, 2014 at 23:26
Lol! If those Russians stopped driving around with all those dash cams maybe there would be less of those damn meteors!
Eric Trommater August 3rd, 2014 at 23:30
Well I could go on and on about how single incidents that get media coverage distort our view of society and needlessly hype fear however in this case the number of these types of cases of police using excessive force is actually on the rise and all the statistics show that the reason there are more videos of it is because it is actually becoming more and more common. However he would have very interesting point on, oh I don’t know, just about any other subject when it comes to crime in the US.
Eric Trommater August 3rd, 2014 at 23:30
Well I could go on and on about how single incidents that get media coverage distort our view of society and needlessly hype fear however in this case the number of these types of cases of police using excessive force is actually on the rise and all the statistics show that the reason there are more videos of it is because it is actually becoming more and more common. However he would have very interesting point on, oh I don’t know, just about any other subject when it comes to crime in the US.