[Ammi]

...I think that there is something basically and extremely wrong with a police system where a suspect in a robbery/or attempted robbery is shot dead as an apparent first course of action...but that's not the thing for me because I can see how it was a difficult call for the police officer in this case.../a weapon was being pulled etc so I don't think racial profiling...but I can still understand 'black lives matter' with this because who is Tyree King..?...he was a 13yr old child who was just shot dead but I've struggled to find anything about him...where are the photographs in his school uniform/with his childhood friends/with his family/a birthday photograph of him..?...who is he...?...it seems maybe just 'some black kid with a BB gun who should have known better'...I just can't help but feel that if he was white, there wouldn't be a struggle in finding things about him/childhood photographs about him etc...whatever happened, where did it all go wrong/this is Tyree with his family/type thing..?....so I do really strongly feel that race is very much to play in these things with the media...black does not seem to matter as much as white, black does not get the same back stories, black does not get the same understandings, black does not the same analysis and etc etc....

..just off topic quite a bit but it's something that really struck me at the time...when Harambe was shot, there was so much on the family of that child...how the father had been a drug addict/a petty criminal etc in days gone by and how that seemed relevant to report.../how much the parenting of the family was questionable and immediately investigated as opposed to a short time later when the child was taken by an alligator at the Disney resort.../also alligators were killed as Harambe was but not the same negative interest in the family and the parenting of the child from the media..?...it was much more sensitive...I just think it's foolish to not question why these things are..yes, all lives matter so why are the losses of some reported so differently....

[Ammi]

..I'm struggling to find one single photograph of Kyree......and his death is tragic and not an 'every day' thing in the circumstances....

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I think that there is something basically and extremely wrong with a police system where a suspect in a robbery/or attempted robbery is shot dead as an apparent first course of action...but that's not the thing for me because I can see how it was a difficult call for the police officer in this case.../a weapon was being pulled etc so I don't think racial profiling...but I can still understand 'black lives matter' with this because who is Tyree King..?...he was a 13yr old child who was just shot dead but I've struggled to find anything about him...where are the photographs in his school uniform/with his childhood friends/with his family/a birthday photograph of him..?...who is he...?...it seems maybe just 'some black kid with a BB gun who should have known better'...I just can't help but feel that if he was white, there wouldn't be a struggle in finding things about him/childhood photographs about him etc...whatever happened, where did it all go wrong/this is Tyree with his family/type thing..?....so I do really strongly feel that race is very much to play in these things with the media...black does not seem to matter as much as white, black does not get the same back stories, black does not get the same understandings, black does not the same analysis and etc etc....

..just off topic quite a bit but it's something that really struck me at the time...when Harambe was shot, there was so much on the family of that child...how the father had been a drug addict/a petty criminal etc in days gone by and how that seemed relevant to report.../how much the parenting of the family was questionable and immediately investigated as opposed to a short time later when the child was taken by an alligator at the Disney resort.../also alligators were killed as Harambe was but not the same negative interest in the family and the parenting of the child from the media..?...it was much more sensitive...I just think it's foolish to not question why these things are..yes, all lives matter so why are the losses of some reported so differently....

Great point Ammi