CNN was once a professional news organization created by Ted Turner. It is now a partisan provider of biased and inaccurate reporting designed to change the narrative of law enforcement.
On Sunday, May 1, CNN aired a one hour piece titled, “United Shades of America.” It was narrated by an African-American male who exhibited a clear bias toward law enforcement. Now in its fifth season on CNN, who describes the series as W. Kamau Bell visiting communities across America to understand the challenges they face. (1)
The story opens and closes in Oakland, California and focuses on the police shooting of Oscar Grant by a Bay Area Regional Transit police officer. The incident was captured on surveillance camera in the station. Mr. Bell is shown assisting in pasting posters of African-Americans killed by police on a wall. Included is the name of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a man who had nothing to do with law enforcement and was a self-appointed neighborhood block watcher. Yet this case is showcased as a “police -involved death.” The officer in the Grant case was convicted by a jury and sentenced to prison.
The show demands “justice” in the case, even though the case resulted in the prosecution and conviction of the police officer for Involuntary Manslaughter, which the show describes as a minor crime. The show alleges that the case was a Murder and should have been prosecuted as such.
The piece further claims that the laws passed post 9/11 were intended to keep black people down rather than to address the safety of American citizens. It also challenges schools needing a law enforcement presence on the campus.
There is absolutely nothing sinister about questioning the decision-making in critical incidents unless you have pre-determined the answer that you want to hear. Airing a piece based on an agenda rather than the actual facts is simply wrong.
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