When It Comes to Killing, Who’s Worth More?
AP has a story today about a Hartford minister who is claiming that cops and media pay more attention to white murder victims than black ones. Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell recently called for an overhaul of the state’s entire criminal justice system in the wake of the horrific killing of a white suburban mother and two of her kids. That crime has gotten national play and enduring media coverage, while the 17 killings in inner city Hartford (two more than this time last year) have gotten, at best, quick one-off coverage. “It’s sending a double message,” says Rev. Cornell Lewis. “One type of life, beautiful and white, [is] valued. Other kids of life are not valued.”
AP has a story today about a Hartford minister who is claiming that cops and media pay more attention to white murder victims than black ones. Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell recently called for an overhaul of the state’s entire criminal justice system in the wake of the horrific killing of a white suburban mother and two of her kids. That crime has gotten national play and enduring media coverage, while the 17 killings in inner city Hartford (two more than this time last year) have gotten, at best, quick one-off coverage. “It’s sending a double message,” says Rev. Cornell Lewis. “One type of life, beautiful and white, [is] valued. Other kids of life are not valued.”

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