Media Slammed As 'Racist' For Using Innocent Photo Of Suspected Michigan School Shooter Praying

[Demovictory9]

Media outlets are under fire for being “racist” after using a seemingly innocent photo of Ethan Crumbley praying when reporting on the Oxford High School shooting.

Crumbley, a 15-year-old sophomore at the Michigan school, is accused of shooting and killing four people and wounding seven in the 28th school shooting this year.

Crumbley was charged as an adult with two dozen, including murder, attempted murder, and terrorism causing death.

Yet, it seems like most people are still trying to paint Crumbley in a more sympathetic manner.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/media-slammed-as-racist-for-using-innocent-photo-of-suspected-michigan-school-shooter-praying/ar-AARrvI2]

When Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman, the media released photos of him smoking, as if to try and justify the fact that he was a “thug” instead of the innocent Black teenager who was shot and killed.

[Siwsan]

1. How in the world can anyone call that racist, unless it's a desperate attempt to deflect, of course

[Celerity]

3. racist as in trying to portray the white killer as a good xian lad, and thus invoke sympathy for him

[Siwsan]

4. My head hurts

I wonder if that Chardonnay is chilled, yet. And, again,

[catsudon]

5. like

two pictures of trevon martin i guess?

[Torchlight]

7. The widely-distributed one where his photo was doctored to make his skin darker?

[catsudon]

11. yes

you remember

[Takket]

2. the media was using that photo yesterday because that was all they had

since the mug shot was released they have switched to using that.

this is a nothing burger.

[Cha]

10. Good to know.. but that is what

they did to Trayvon

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Maybe we're reading this wrong. Maybe they're saying we should be wary of every Church loving kid

which a choir boy face?

[raccoon]

15. Adolf was a choir boy. Nt

[Sibelius Fan]

8. The power of prayer. Christians swear by it, say it's as real as the sun rising in the East.

So I’m going to assume this kid’s prayers were answered when he killed those students.

[Cha]

9. Fucking US "media".. .. NO "sympathy"

for fucking murderous asshole.

[louslobbs]

12. So angelic....

Why he wouldn’t hurt a fly……the little cherub.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. He's posing, not "praying"

I think, taken as a whole, that it's a fine example of modern white mainstream American Christianity.

[raccoon]

14. Was he praying that God would help him to be a good marksman? Nt

[maxsolomon]

16. I see it as a sly attack on Christianity.

I guess the "it's racist" point is that it's a double standard. It's just happenstance.

[Initech]

17. Good god these people suck.

[Retrograde]

18. Has the meaning of "racist" changed while I wasn't looking?

I thought it meant judging someone solely on the basis of appearance or ancestry.

It's a creepy picture, IMHO, and the kid looks like he's about 10. Why a news organization should choose to run it I don't know. The only one they had rights to? The only one in which the accused looks like a normal child? Trying to sway public opinion?

[Sunsky]

19. Exactly

They quickly could find the worst picture of the African American victim but only could find the sweet innocent baby picture of the Caucasian killer. Yeah right. Miss me with that bs. I have my blinders off.