How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country
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How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country
By Karen Attiah
May 29, 2020 @ 4:57 p.m. EDT
If we talked about what is happening in Minneapolis the same way we talk about events in a foreign country, heres how the Western media would cover it. The quotes and those quoted in the piece below are fictional.
In recent years, the international community has sounded the alarm on the deteriorating political and human rights situation in the United States under the regime of Donald Trump. Now, as the country marks 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the former British colony finds itself in a downward spiral of ethnic violence. The fatigue and paralysis of the international community are evident in its silence, America experts say.
The country has been rocked by several viral videos depicting extrajudicial executions of black ethnic minorities by state security forces. Uprisings erupted in the northern city of Minneapolis after a video circulated online of the killing of a black man, George Floyd, after being attacked by a security force agent. Trump took to Twitter, calling black protesters THUGS and threatening to send in military force. When the looting starts, the shooting starts! he declared.
Sure, we get it that black people are angry about decades of abuse and impunity, said G. Scott Fitz, a Minnesotan and member of the white ethnic majority. But going after a Target crosses the line. Cant they find a more peaceful way, like kneeling in silence?
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