Where is the outrage about the police beating death of David Silva?

[damnedifIknow]

"The Silva case should shake this nation to the core. Yet we stay silent. Perhaps these details will convince you: There were reports that Silva was struck “more than a dozen times” by police batons, that witnesses took videos of the incidents, videos that were seized by Bakersfield police hours after the incident. Silva died in custody. Witnesses have already gone on record to question the police’s story that Silva was intoxicated and struggling with police. There are even claims that one of the cellphone videos has already been erased by police though there is no proof that one of the cellphone videos confiscated by police is missing. The Kern County Sheriff has had to bring in the FBI to investigate. The cellphone videos are now being analyzed by the FBI. And Silva’s family, through Cohn, are raising serious questions as to how the entire matter has been handled."

"Yet where is the national outrage? Where are the tweets and the hashtags and the calls for justice? Where are the cameras descending onto Bakersfield with 24/7 coverage? Is the mainstream media more consumed by Washington issues and Cleveland kidnapping stories? Apparently."

http://nbclatino.com/2013/05/16/opinion-where-is-the-outrage-about-the-police-beating-death-of-david-silva/

[NYC_SKP]

1. K/R. (nt)

[WillyT]

2. K & R !!!

[damnedifIknow]

3. "The Silva case should shake this nation to the core."

I so agree.

[Heathen57]

4. kicked to keep it on top

The militarization of the police in this country is something that has been completely ignored by the regional and the national news.

And that is a tragedy because it takes away the constraints of national outrage on them.

[summerschild]

5. K&R

A senseless tragedy.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

6. Where's the outrage? It's certainly not within the DOJ.

[juajen]

7. It's truly scary and ourtrageous that incidents like this are happening in the Land of the Free.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. They're too busy believing that the one cop delivering milk in Boston makes this go away? n/t

[Logical]

9. +1 n-t

[Logical]

10. Prediction: no cop will get punished for this! n-t

[JI7]

12. ?

[newmember]

13. He would have had organized a march on that town already

He would have media attention that could not be ignored.

Or someone like Al Sharpton

[nlomb269]

14. There will be more cases like this in the future, as the country becomes more like a police state

[Mr.Pain]

15. A few months ago

there was another California police scandal that has been effectively swept under the rug. Jeffery Dorner, former police officer turned fugitive, finished off in a fiery clash with "authorities" in a remote cabin. Although details of that particular case are scarce there was the two Latinos that were shot up due to the fact that they were "discovered" in a truck that looked like Dorners. How 2 latino women equal one large black man I'll never know but the very idea that their truck was shot all to hell leads us to believe there was never any intention of bringing a suspect to justice, only murderous retribution. Similarly in Watertown Mass. it was reported by "authorities" that the fugitive Dzhokhar Tsarnaev fired on the police from his hiding place in the boat, however later it was revealed that no weapons were found in his possession. This points out that the "authorities" have a habit of getting into "unilateral gunfights", Indirectly It must assumed that this means they are afraid of anything that doesn't have a badge, and feel they must kill it before its truth can spread...
Bottom line is your more likely to get shot by a cop than get struck by lightening, or be attacked by real terrorists. Unfortunately for the college kid at Hofstra University, she had to deal with a home invasion before she was shot in the head by a cop. The cop fired a total of eight rounds, only one round hit the victim and was fatal. But why did the cop fire eight rounds if it only takes one round to kill an assailant, or victim, as in this case?
I think that they are scared, bullet proof vest wearing scarety cats that still remember getting beat up in high school for being two bit nosy snitches. I cant count how many times I heard someone in high school say "when I grow up I'm going to become a cop so I can get even with you bastards".