Ethnic minority murders get LESS media coverage?
Fresh from lying to the public over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, it seems that Sir Ian Blair has now entirely lost touch with reality. Let me think – which murders have got the most press coverage over the last year or two? Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare (black) and Anthony Walker (er… black). As shocking as these two murders were, they received grossly disproportionate levels of coverage to, say, Kriss Donald, whose murder was even more vicious. In the latter case, the opening of the trial didn’t even get TV coverage.
Of course the fact that this case was a) A white person being killed and b) Asians committing a racist murder against a white person meant that it had a lot less political correctness points than either of the other two I have mentioned. Perhaps if Sir Ian could STFU and do his job, violent crime wouldn’t be soaring and innocent people wouldn’t be getting shot on underground trains.