White Privilege much?

[TalkingDog]

2000 black youths riot in mall, shots fired. No, wait. Correction: 2000 white kids brawl in mall. No arrests were made

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-s-mall-st-matthews-shuts-down-after-brawls-involving-n486341


"Our officers, they showed great restraint,"

I"m sure they did.

[libdem4life]

1. Too disgusted to Rec, maybe later. This is so freaking true. Thanks for the info anyway.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect

By Vann Newkirk, who tweets as @fivefifths with the Twitter handle “W.E.B.B.I.E. DuBois.

Those white kids were protected.

[Egnever]

3. More like bigoted drivel?

http://www.wlky.com/news/police-on-scene-of-incident-at-mall-st-matthews/37141942

Just look at the all white crowd in the video.

[TalkingDog]

4. Mayhaps you missed my snark.

N/T

[Egnever]

7. Maybe

Cause the video at the link shows an astonishing lack of white faces for an all white crowd.

[TalkingDog]

10. These folks look pretty fair to me.

[Egnever]

11. They sure do

all 2000 of them!

[TalkingDog]

15. Given that the suburb is 90% white,

I'd say statistics are on my side.

[Egnever]

17. And your statistics might hold up if not for

videos like this

Or this


http://www.wlky.com/news/police-on-scene-of-incident-at-mall-st-matthews/37141942

Seems like it was a pretty good mix of all sorts of kids to me.

Amazing that black kid fighting in the top video wasn't shot though...

[Waldorf]

16. This video is from Thanksgiving, not the one that occurred the other day.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/was-louisville-black-friday-mall-brawl-staged/

[Egnever]

19. oops

[Nye Bevan]

5. 2000 white kids?

http://m.wlky.com/news/police-on-scene-of-incident-at-mall-st-matthews/37141942

[anigbrowl]

8. This doesn't seem to match up with the facts

The few videos that I saw suggest kids of all races were involved. It's hard to make out skin tones from poor quality video but some of the participants shown definitely appeared to be black, so the claim that it was '2000 white kids' seems bogus. I was actually rather pleased that police got the situation under control without arresting or shooting anyone.

[TalkingDog]

12. Most of the images of kids fighting show white kids.

See also 2 images upthread.

[anigbrowl]

21. That image is from a different fight in November

Look at the URL of the image (open the image in a new browser window if need be), it has the date of the originating news story in it. If you use Chrome, you can also click on an image and use the context menu to 'search Google for this image' which will often help you track down the original source - which is not necessarily the top result.

This thread is a good example of why you should be cautious about trusting editorial articles and stories about fast-breaking news in general, initial assumptions often turn out to be wildly misplaced.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. I am confused by your OP.

Perhaps you can clarify what point you are trying to make, here?

[TalkingDog]

13. It's a white suburb. Most of the images of fighting are of white kids.

A similar situation involving black kids would probably not have entailed officers using "restraint".

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Maybe you saw a different video than I did.

[Waldorf]

18. Except you keep posting pictures of an incident that happened last month, not the "2000 kid brawl"

that occurred over the weekend.

[Skittles]

20. the "shots fired" were not by the police

and there was never any confirmation shots actually were fired

you're grasping

[Nye Bevan]

22. Time to self-delete to avoid further embarrassment? (nt)