Many editorial cartoonists are genius in the way they portray the
news. Others disgust me. This one, by Gary Markstein, is one of the
worst I’ve ever seen. In it, he shows a guy listing the names of
every thug and criminal ever accosted by the cops on a wall, in 3”
letters to fill up the wall faster. The list includes everybody ever
accosted by the police for any reason, claiming police abuse of
power. In those, he includes black men shot and killed by the cops
for any reason. Good shoots, bad shoots, self defense shoots, where
the cops are dodging bullets sent their way by the bad guys. Also
included are instances of “suicide by cop.” The obvious intent of
this carton is to “fan the flames” and make things look worse
than they really are. And it does a good job of it. The latest
shooting in Atlanta, GA, is billed as “being because he was
sleeping in a Wendy’s drive-up line, asking if that should get him
a death sentence, which is a serious twist of the facts. He got
killed because he was fighting the cops, taking their weapons and
using them on them. He could have “Tased” one of the cops with
his own stun gun, taken his gun, and shot a cop with it. He was in
the act of shooting a cop with that stun gun when shot. They’re
saying he only resisted because he was afraid of being handcuffed,
remembering that George Floyd was handcuffed when murdered by a cop,
which is only a guess. I’d
like to see a similar cartoon listing the names of all the cops
killed by thugs, both from hiding, and while resisting arrest. The
names probably wouldn’t fit on just one wall. (Gary Markstein)
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