By Emily Zanotti Violence again erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina, following a police shooting that left an armed black man dead. But the national media is largely ignoring – or burying – a key fact about the case in order to fit Charlotte into a larger “trend” of racially charged cop shootings nationwide: the police officer involved in the Charlotte shooting was black. The New York Times, for example, devotes hundreds of words to Keith L. Scott’s death, describing, in great detail, Scott’s encounter with police, the demeanor of strangers at his memorial, a Charlotte crime scene from Wednesday night’s riots, and what the … Continue reading Mainstream Media Stirs the Pot of the Charlotte Riots By Failing to Mention the Officer in the Shooting IS BLACK