What's Wrong With This Story: "Man with towel-wrapped arm shot by LAPD......"

The LA Times article was written at 8:36am, however, by 9:11 they had woven other stories within the article. The subterfuge, with an equal word count and three visual aids, consisted of POLICE INCIDENTS COMPLETELY UNRELATED to the Friday night Los Feliz shooting which was still developing news.

The malicious, let’s not minimize it by calling it careless, editorializing is unacceptable. Merging unrelated visual aids and interweaving similar stories, within the article, serves only to manipulate and usher readers into pre-judgment. Let me repeat, this is unacceptable. The entertainment industry annually presents a “The Razzie Awards,” saluting the worst that Hollywood has to offer each year.” ; clearly the LA Times editorial staff should be included for “Worst editorializing based on creating an illusion out of a news item” .

Included in the article was a link to a graphic video shot by a passing motorist. The “graphic video” includes commentary of what has happened.....the head...the brains...look at his hands. It is a very gripping incident, so dramatic comments would be expected. However, what is not included is the video of what happened prior to the shooting. The jury of readers, within the LA Times self-appointed courtroom, has been provided insufficient information. This serves only to set the public up to react.

This sousveillance “watching from below” is wrought with danger as it falls in the hands of irresponsible editors. When the framers of our US Constitution wisely included the mandate of the right for us to face our accusers, it was long before video in any form had been developed. Nevertheless, a picture cropped would have the same effect as an edited video or a directed video: partial truth and manipulated response.

What the LA Times has done, by not reporting facts but including circumstantial evidence, is convict the arresting officers of criminal activity They are lining up past incidents, some still in the justice process, and declaring a verdict and then substantiating all future incidents with police. They have presumed the LAPD as GUILTY.

What is not often talked about today is the number of law enforcement who were at the scene of the Rodney King beating who were unrelated to the arrest, including Los Angeles school police. Yet it was detailed in the first commentary by news media, during the initial release of George Halliday’s video.

What has been largely unreported by the press is the location of the Rodney King incident, today. Is it “Discovery Cube LA”? Perhaps no editor or writer at the LA Times has seen fit to chronologically detail the property history.

One would think all news reports would have equity; but it seems some articles are a vehicle for agendas rather than news for intelligent and discerning readers. Does this not sound similar to the infamous 1984 mantra about all pigs equal except some?

Manipulating stories about police arrests can only lead to offering a solution, an alternative, by rabble rousers , editors, and self-serving politicians: Federalize the local police. However, this would further distance local safety in favor of Federal herding.

It is time Los Angeles residents come alongside the police, the approximately 10,000 officers, as was done in Baltimore, and say we are praying for you, for your family, for your safety, for your decisions.