Board Thread:Discussion/@comment-30840557-20170107011507

Ok so as everyone knows, 4 black teens kidnapped a white Trump supporter and tortured him for 48 (yes, 48) HOURS, they streamed it one facebook live, I'm not gonna discuss the specifics but in the video they yell "fuck white people" and "fuck Donald trump", making it obvious that this is indeed a hate crime.

Now, when this story was first publicised on smaller news stations, it had headlines that talked about how the guy was targeted because of his race and the fact that he was a Trump supporter, and the possibility that this was connected to the BLM movement.

However when bigger outlets started getting wind of this story, they changed the headlines to focus on his unspecified special need, and making it seem like that was the reason he was tortured.

That's not my main problem, my main problem is the fact that media outlets are so obsessed with trying to convince people that this had nothing to do with BLM: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/facebook-abuse-video-black-lives-matter-blm-kidnap-is-racist-a7511466.html http://www.mediaite.com/online/angela-rye-its-horrible-that-glenn-beck-assumed-blm-was-involved-in-torture-video/ http://gizmodo.com/alt-right-trolls-use-chicago-kidnapping-to-spread-lies-1790802011 https://www.bustle.com/p/what-is-the-blm-kidnapping-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-activist-group-28129 http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/05/us/black-lives-matter-chicago-facebook-live-beating/ or even worse, trying to make it seem like it's NOT a hate crime and that black people are the real victims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv25bPGoxw4 http://ijr.com/opinion/2017/01/263063-medias-treatment-chicago-attack-need-declare-black-lives-matter/

It's not just those things that piss me off but the fact that media is manipulating this attack to fit their own view

tl;dr: The media is trying to make it seem like you cant be racist against whites 