re: #252 ObserverArt

Thanks for bringing that up wrench!

Whew, I thought the dudes looked white in the video that I had seen. They never came out and said it in any of the stories I found. They mentioned Mike Brown in a way that made me think they were since they were quoting the witnesses saw the young African-American shot by the policeman. That seemed to be comparative.

Since we are talking about reporting, I think it would have been pertinent to the Ferguson shooting to have made it clear right off. It adds a whole different perspective to them as witnesses in this affair.

I get the feeling that some saw these witnesses as a ‘game changer’ because they are the first white witnesses and therefore the first that could be believed. That is intimated in the video I linked, which I got from this tweet:

Why are the new #Ferguson witnesses different? @Lawrence explains in his latest #Rewrite: http://t.co/PQiQ7S8wJk pic.twitter.com/MXZYRMpqtA

— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) September 13, 2014

So they don’t want to bring up the whiteness of the witnesses since it would show that they judge trustworthiness on a color scale.