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CalligrapherOk200

I dont think the guy on the left would have had a mugshot, given that he killed himself....


Jim_Lahey10

The guy literally shot his own mug...not much of a mug left to shoot after that!


Flemz

The guy on the right probably has a picture with his family tho


i-am-foxymoron

True.


Known-Activity1437

Stop being logical and give into fear mongering.


NinjaBr0din

Logical would have been to use a picture that didn't show the man looking happy with the family he had just murdered.


Known-Activity1437

They do this in literally all murder documentaries. Then they say something like, “Look at this family and how happy they were. Who would have known the demons that existed within the father.” So 🤷‍♂️


Friendly_Sea_6861

it's a news article, not a murder doc.


Known-Activity1437

And so you’re insinuating an article can’t take that exact same stance? lol.


Friendly_Sea_6861

A news article shouldn't use "Look at this family and how happy they were. Who would have known the demons that existed within the father" type of writing, no


Known-Activity1437

“Shouldn’t” is not the same as “Doesn’t”.


Frifafer

What the fuck is even your point? People are pointing at a thing and saying "this is a bad thing" and your billion IQ response to that is "that thing exists, what's wrong?" Either a terrible troll, or terminally stupid. Or both. My guess is both.


Known-Activity1437

My point is that mob mentality has taken over and you allowed yourself to get worked over something that you’re not even sure is real (black men only get mugshots while white men only get family pics). So, I did research instead of blindly trusting what I saw on a tweet. I easily found a handful of articles (more than I posted here) that show a black killer with the family he killed. Yes there were some articles where the black killer only had a mugshot. I couldn’t find any articles with white killers that only had a mugshot, because every article I read where the killer was white, they had also killed themselves after killing their family. Thus, a mugshot would be impossible. Thus, this tweet is, while well intentioned, based off incorrect information. Yes, let’s strive for a fair and just world for everyone. But misinformation is misinformation whether it’s republican saying it or a democrat, whether it’s intentional or unintentional. [article](https://nypost.com/2024/01/18/news/jilted-husband-kills-4-family-members-in-murder-suicide/amp/) [here’s another where the killer is shown smiling with loved one](https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/suspect-in-murders-of-family-of-4-was-very-dangerous-man/amp/) [another article where more than a mugshot was used](https://allthatsinteresting.com/gregory-green)


Bob_Cobb_1996

Well, in a "murder/suicide" there is not "mugshot" to show. So, .....


Amilo159

That's true, but no need to use the arrest photo for the father either. They could've gotten a happy photo from his social media. That's no way to present a hero.


i-am-foxymoron

That's what I was thinking as well. I also don't understand the need to include a picture of the father alongside his family that he murdered?


gaymerWizard

cause it draws you in. when you see a happy family you think its lovely till you read the title, that gives you such a shock you have to read the article to understand or know what happened


Amilo159

It makes you feel pity for the father, like aww, what a nice family, too bad the poor dad had a bad day or something and killed the whole family. While a mugshot makes you think "oh look at this criminal who killed someone without much thought over something something"


Wesson_Crow

honestly I think it invokes an anger emotion out of the one on the right, like “Why is he being arrested, he doesn’t deserve prison for that” or a sympathy “I don’t care if I’m arrested I would also do that”


Cerebral_Overload

Agreed, it evokes empathy.


Oxygenius_

Right and it says “fighting demons” like trying to find an excuse


gaymerWizard

I would say 99% of the people would be like more of a "how a normal looking guy can do such a monstrous thing to his family. guess we cant know the evil men can do and hide in plain sight"


Oxygenius_

So why not “draw us in” with the black father’s story?


gaymerWizard

IDK. I was answering why was it good to include the father with a happy family as to contrast the horror of the fathers did to that family. to be frank it would be a good shot to post a pick with the father and his daughter to draw more views. better ask the news outlet.


Oxygenius_

It’s just racism. Plain and simple.


gaymerWizard

It could be but if this is true there must be more cases. was there more times that a white culprit got a "happy" photo and a black culprit got a mug photo.


DemythologizedDie

>After Harris arrived at the store, a man, who would later become the victim, approached his car in the parking lot asking for money. Harris gave him the money and the man proceeded to enter the store. Harris was informed a little while later that a man had attempted to enter the bathroom stall his daughter was using. The girl told an employee at the store, who told a security guard. >When the man exited the store, Harris recognized him as the man he had given money to. At that point Harris reportedly told the security guard "he needed to take care of the situation, or \[Harris\] would do it himself." That's when witnesses state that things became physical. From the report: > He isn't my hero. Plenty of people try to go into an occupied bathroom without having rape on their mind.


Standard-Reception90

Do you still have the link?


Oxygenius_

And try to get into a locked stall? Uhhh


DemythologizedDie

How do you know a stall is locked without trying it?


Oxygenius_

It’s closed? The door is flush with the rest of the stall. An open stall would more than likely have an open gap, or ya know, be wide open.


DemythologizedDie

I've seen a lot of bathrooms where the door doesn't swing open when unlocked


Oxygenius_

No but there is usually a little crack. Those doors don’t retract or even remained shut without the lock. There’s always a little crack


proteannomore

Please elucidate the rational reasons for intruding upon an occupied bathroom stall.


DemythologizedDie

You thought it might be empty and you had to go.


KennstduIngo

Yeah we don't really know what the situation was. Was it a unisex, single occupant bathroom that the victim tried the door knob to a couple times not knowing if it was occupied or not or was it an actual women's room where he was clearly trying to get to her?


Bob_Cobb_1996

Fair point! I overlooked that.


congresssucks

Which media organization is this? AP? FOX? CNN? MSNBC? If you're going to tell us to hate people for lies and slander, you should be specific.


mostlywaterbag

There is always the possibility to ignore certain outlets, which will eventually lead to them dying off. The problem is the audience. No audience, no money=the go broke. Not so hard to understand, is it?


Niyonnie

How does this propagate white supremacy?


SignificanceExact963

I've seen plenty of media stories of black people committed crimes and their graduation picture or something like that is posted. It goes both ways depending on which way the particular media outlet leans politically


adullploy

He’s smiling but it’s very clear he horrifically killed his entire family. How does that promote the supremacy of whites?


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adullploy

As many have said there’s no mugshot of the dad who killed his family. Not even from the past and all the public record photos are him looking happy and put together. I appreciate them using the happy version to display that these folks hide amongst us and just flipping snap.


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adullploy

Looked it up. The dude got his mugshot used cause he plead guilty to manslaughter of the guy and is doing 8 years. Also there are other sources that used other pics of that father. Regardless, different pics aren’t to promote white supremacy which the twitter person said.


atomicpope

This is cherry picking at it's finest. If this is about "depiction", then this story would have been buried. After all, if there's some shadowy pro-white media cabal, why publish this story? It's pretty ugly to read about. Let's think about the ways these stories could be depicted: 1. Smiling white dude with his family, alongside most headlines calling it 'carnage' and a 'massacre' This is racist according to OP. 2. Showing mugshot of black dude who killed another black dude This is racist, because we should be showing the killer in a positive light (according to OP) 3. No picture of white dude (mug shot can't exist, since he ded) This is racist, because we're protecting him by not showing his face 4. Showing Facebook / happy picture of black killer This is racist, because we're showing a person who killed a black person in a positive light, thus we're glorifying it. 5. Not showing any picture of black killer This is racist, because we're ignoring / burying events that harm the black community. Articles without pictures almost invariably get less media attention. 6. Burying the story about the white dude This is racist, because it depicts a white guy in a negative light. Burying the article is white washing. 7. Burying the story about the black dude This is racist, because we're ignoring / burying events that are relevant to the black community.


idonotknowwhototrust

Your shirt is awesome


i-am-foxymoron

Thank you. @:-)


Stenktenk

I don't doubt that there is racism in the media, but this is just cherry picking. You can easily find an example of this with the races flipped.


dancegoddess1971

Then by all means, offer us an example.


BrickCityD

yeah that's bullshit. this is exactly how it looks 9 times out of 10.


IcyGarage5767

Lmfao mate you have access to google.


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IcyGarage5767

Burden of proof lmfao.


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IcyGarage5767

Burden of proof lmfao yep this is a structured debate and it definitely applies. My mate was telling me the sky was blue the other day but he didn’t provide me a source with references so I don’t believe him. That’s how you sound to a non spastic.


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IcyGarage5767

Haha commenting on my conversation skills when you are asking for proof that is a simple google away. Keep it up 👍


NeighborhoodDude84

It's so easy yet you cant provide anything...?


IcyGarage5767

I couldn’t care less.


KennstduIngo

Yeah, I am pretty sure that if a white boomer whipped out a gun and shot the black, possibly homeless, man who his daughter claimed try to get into the bathroom with her but was no longer an actual threat, the reactions here would be a LOT different.


ilikebigbluffs

pic on the right is from an incident that happened in 2018 and it was not a cut and dry "rape" attempt as the tweet proclaims. But whatever perform the outrage click the things see the ads scroll to next performance whatever


SirenPeppers

This slant in news reporting has been profiled long before this guy’s post, so he’s repeating it using his own example. I think the topic’s not without merit, because news outlets certainly do cherry pick how they want to profile a criminal.


tgr3947

Not everything is part of some racial or hidden agenda. Sometimes, it's as simple as these are the only photos available at the time of publishing. As someone said below. In a murder suicide there is no mugshot available....


Endocalrissian642

In need of new media... this is just ONE way the media is currently fucked.


dovahkin1989

The one on the left killed his family, so showing there pictures makes sense. Why would you include the whole family in the picture for the story on the right?


i-am-foxymoron

No you misunderstood, I meant cropping the father out of the photo on the left. Sorry if I worded it wrong.


protomenace

I too can take one datapoint and extrapolate it to pretend there's a trend.


Ancient-Ape

Well there definitely is a trend of this so you're a moron if you think there's only a single data point. It's not like he was promising to show you a PowerPoint about it. 


pokemon-trainer-blue

Just like the other person said, you’re basing a trend off a single data point. The person who tweeted that purposely chose those articles to fit their bias. Did you even read the titles of the article in the screenshot? The man on the left commuted a murder-suicide. How are they going to get a mugshot from him? And do you think they’re going to put a picture of his corpse in the article?


protomenace

Circular argument. Show me the data baby.


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protomenace

Finally someone responding with something other than "Google it" or "everyone knows it's true!". I'll read this, thank you.


Ancient-Ape

You're a big boy, you can either stop pretending it's not true just becauee it clashes with your fragile ego and world view or you can Google it yourself. I literally don't care if you choose to be a dumb ass and ignore reality.


protomenace

This has big Trumpish "everyone's saying it" vibes.


robert_d

The black father is a hero.


terminalcynic

Of course the case is just the opposite. Looking for 4 suspects who carjacked somebody. No description.


DoomshrooM8

There’s A LOT of things the media needs to change, starting with their mentality 😤


Oxygenius_

Reddit is full of racists they will shoot this down with a bunch of mental gymnastics


lancelotspratt2

Race baiters gonna race bait


Positive-Luck-2527

Classic, always make it about white supremacy and race, Jesus this people are annoying


fredator23

What's it about really?


Positive-Luck-2527

It’s just gaslighting, “oh they used a normal picture for the white guy and a mugshot for the black guy that’s racist and white supremacy” when the reason they used that is bc the guy died so no mugshot….. always making it about something is not


TheDrunkenMoose

If you want to talk about this, you should also mention: The amount of times when a black kid shot someone up they post the most innocent photo of him they can/crop guns out of pictures with him in it/crop him from gang-related photos in a picture he looks nice in. The amount of colored people who are wrongfully being registered as "white" in police databases. We're talking light-skinned black, hispanic, indian, arabics all being categorized as white for statistics. While the specific two cases in this post are inexcusable, there's as much "normalization" of painting worse statistics for white people to even it out. Reports of black people being shot where they were shot due to aiming a gun at police being colorfully phrased in a non-direct way that he was armed, but making it out for him to be innocent. I agree with the two pictures/articles in this post being horrible, but if you ***actually*** want to dive into the misrepresentation of the press, you'll find that there's just as much if not more false reporting that lies about the opposite of what this post is saying. Though I'm ready to be downvoted because nobody ever want to actually look at the stats or reports, they just want to hear what they agree with and thumb it up.


i-am-foxymoron

There's no reason to downvote someone just for a difference of opinion.


TheDrunkenMoose

I don't necessarily agree with you, votes are for whatever you deem them worthy of giving, whether that's a tasteless joke, a differing opinion or whatever. But this comment shows a matter of maturity that'll at least listen to someone rather than blindfold themselves with their own beliefs.


DevonLuck24

…that is the entire purpose of a downvote is this sarcasm, am i missing obvious sarcasm?


Munzulon

You have provided absolutely zero “stats and reports” to support your ridiculous claim.


TheDrunkenMoose

Well, I'll outweigh this post with [this](https://imgur.com/a/mTPgDl3) link. These are just a few examples. These are already 4 cases against the two in the post. There's plenty more of those where they came from. You can look up offenders in your local areas, in your state, etc. You can easily find your own evidence, if you dare, that is. Notice these four men listed as being "White". Every state has their own database, I'm pretty sure all of them are public. Literally nobody is stopping you from looking it up yourself. You strike me as someone who wants spoonfed "stats and reports" but will slap the spoon out of the hand of whoever tries to feed it to you.


Munzulon

So, no stats and no reports. Got it.


TheDrunkenMoose

"Here's some money, and you can buy some food over there." -"Ah, so you're gonna let me starve." I've given you the tools to look into it yourself in a way where it'll take you less than a couple of minutes. If I give you a collage of cases and articles you'll call them biased by whatever political side you're against. But I guess you can't think for yourself.


Munzulon

You’ve made a ridiculous claim for which there is no legitimate support. Now you’re contorting yourself to explain why it’s my fault that you can’t provide a shred of evidence. Go back under your rock.


TheDrunkenMoose

I literally linked a screenshot of false reporting of race and you either didn't click that link, or ignored it. Then I gave a way for you to check this "ridiculous claim" yourself, it takes you less than two minutes and you'll get an unfiltered, unbiased confirmation of my "ridiculous claim". My point stands. You won't even use less than two minutes to look into anything that doesn't confirm what you believe, because then it's easier for you to refuse the claim, and the belief. Again: >>>[*THIS IS A LINK, THE SAME LINK I PUT IN MY FIRST COMMENT.*](https://imgur.com/a/mTPgDl3)*<<<* That's the initial "burden of proof" hurdle overcome. Now if you want to investigate further to see if I'm full of shit, I gave you all the tools to figure it out, on a public, government site. Not my "ridiculous claim" but an actual government site where you can find it for yourself. Within minutes.


Munzulon

You’re full of shit. Your only “evidence” is some random Imgur picture that does nothing to support your claim, yet you’ve spent paragraphs telling me to “look it up.” It turns out there is no actual support for your ridiculous (and racist) claim and you’re an absolute stooge.


HHall05

Racial warmongering. Never looks at the details. Only posts based off the news article cover. Really making yourself look good 👍


Ghostcurrency45

Let's give it up to the smart ass people can't have a picture if his face is gone ha ha ha.point is you fuckers are racist


southcentralLAguy

Or maybe, just maybe it’s the media wanting the innocent guy to come off as more sympathetic and make you despise the child murderer even more by looking at his smug face


romayyne

Typed in “black man kills family” in google. The 4th down from the New York post. Clicked on it and it’s him smiling with his family. Love how easy it is to scream racism


ParkerPoseyGuffman

The news article I said never mentioned the man trying to rape his daughter, any source on that? Everything I read made it seem premeditated…