How responsible--or complicit--is the media in publicizing violent acts which are invariably imitated?

@spjennifer The only information they keep top secret is information about Slave Patrollers who murder people. They seldom if ever reveal any pertinent background information about the murdering cop thugs but information on all other suspects is very detailed, including how they threw food on the floor when they were babies. They immediately throw the average suspect in jail but they give the murdering cops a paid vacation and a ticker-tape parade.

So, maybe the news should be: "Someone killed someone at someplace and we will tell you about it in 6 months."

@Diotrephes The reality is that there are bad cops just like there are a lot of good cops just trying to do an at times difficult job to the best of their abilities. Most people's interactions with Police is on one of the worst days of their lives and they react accordingly, we leave the Police to deal with them and expect nothing less than perfection from them. I'm not saying all cops should be given a pass but I am able to admit that they don't have an easy job and that some of them also shouldn't be cops, period. I think most news services were very open about what happened with George Floyd and most of them were in agreement that it was an egregious and way over the top action that should have been and was prosecuted properly.

@spjennifer I agree. However when such incidents happen I think the focus should be on how the cops violated the suspects' constitutional rights.

Since cops are agents of the State they are responsible for observing and respecting the suspects' constitutional rights. Now it's a fact that some suspects are rotten people but the constitution still protects their rights and cops should be whacked upside their heads when they willfully violate those rights.

For instance, the Minnesota constitution says:

"Text of Section 5:
No Excessive Bail or Unusual Punishment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted."
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_I,_Minnesota_Constitution

I consider it cruel punishment for cops to sit on a person so that he can't breathe and their actions result in the person's death.

In the case of Floyd, his right to due process was willfully violated. He was willfully killed before he had the opportunity to defend himself in a court of law before a jury of his peers.

"Text of Section 7:
Due Process; Prosecutions; Double Jeopardy; Self-Incrimination; Bail; Habeas Corpus
No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law, and no person shall be put twice in jeopardy of punishment for the same offense, nor be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. All persons before conviction shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless the public safety requires it in case of rebellion or invasion."

Cops are always violation this constitutional right:

Text of Section 10:
Unreasonable Searches and Seizures Prohibited

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized."

It's unclear if the search of Floyd was reasonable but cops in places like NYC engaged in unreasonable searches all the time in violation of the New York constitution =
"Text of Section 12:
Security Against Unreasonable Searches, Seizures and Interceptions

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable interception of telephone and telegraph communications shall not be violated, and ex parte orders or warrants shall issue only upon oath or affirmation that there is reasonable ground to believe that evidence of crime may be thus obtained, and identifying the particular means of communication, and particularly describing the person or persons whose communications are to be intercepted and the purpose thereof."
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_I,_New_York_Constitution

If you want to have some fun, count the constitutional rights tv cops routinely violate.

@Diotrephes While you seem to have a real bone to pick with the Police, i don't, I see them as a necessary evil and haven't seen that many big issues with my local Law Enforcement that seem for the most part to be respectful of citizen's rights. While it's easy to decry the bad ones, I'd be loathe to paint them all with the same brush...

@spjennifer Cops as a whole have moved away from the good ones depicted in old tv series like Dragnet, Adam-12, [b]and CHiPs.[/b]