http://www.vox.com/2015/5/19/8620357/waco-biker-shootout-race
Over the weekend, a shootout between three rival biker gangs at a bar in Waco, Texas, left at least nine gang members dead and 18 others hospitalized with gunshot and stab wounds.
It was a huge, devastating tragedy. The New York Times reported
that law enforcement sources called it "the worst violence in the Waco
area since the siege on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993 that left
86 people dead."
But if you follow the social media conversations around the
incident, you'll see something in addition to the predictable shock,
curiosity, and mourning for the victims: there's frustration and anger
over how the Waco shootout (whose perpetrators appear to be mostly
white) is being talked about — and, specifically, how that contrasts
with the coverage and commentary of crimes when the people involved are
black.
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