This kind of confirmation bias-driven sliming of law enforcement has become the norm since the Obama Administration and its leader’s unforgivable sanctification of Trayvon Martin as his crypto-offspring because Martin was black and got himself shot. The news media loves it, however, and you know, Freedom of the Press.
Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez (above) died in February after starting a shootout with police in Elkhart, Indiana. His last stand lasted only a few second, because two police officers who were crack shots put him down quickly and safely despite others being close to the exchange. Yet that rather straightforward cause-and-effect result generated this headline from WNDU-TV, the NBC-owned affiliate in South Bend, about 20 miles from Elkhart, two days after the shooting:
Family of teen killed by Elkhart police seeks state investigation amid wave of violence
The deliberately anti-law enforcement and pro-deadly punk story continued,
“The family of a 17-year-old killed by Elkhart police is calling for state investigators to take over the case as the community grapples with three separate shootings and a stabbing in a 48-hour span. Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez died Sunday around 2 a.m. in an officer-involved shooting. A memorial now sits at High Dive Park where he was killed. Alfredo Ramirez-Gomez, the teen’s brother, spoke at a vigil for Bryan on Tuesday afternoon and demanded the release of police footage: “Bryan was a bright kid, he was a member of this community, this is where he grew up,” Ramirez-Gomez said. “As for his cause of death, we can’t really point fingers yet. We just ask and demand that the footage comes out from the car and from the vest.”
Right. “We can’t point fingers yet” but Ben Crump is on our auto-dial. The response is reflex: the family is angling for a big settlement from the city. Blogger Robert Stacy McCain points out:
Ethics Alarms 
His being decked out in a black ChiSox jersey immediately screamed gang banger to me as well.
And wait. He’s not African American, he’s Hispanic! Although he was Italian, wasn’t Christopher Columbus bankrolled by the Spanish monarchy? Aren’t Spaniards the colonizers of all colonizers? Can I get a program to figure out who’s who? Wasn’t this kid the descendant of settler colonialists who enslaved all kinds of people, including Ben Crump’s forefathers? Shouldn’t his shooting be praised as righteous retribution?
Their ancestors were colonized by the Romans.
And then the Muslims showed up. It’s all Mediterranean stew. My Cuban buddy says Hispanics are mostly middle eastern. Saddam Hussein and Moamar Ghadaffi look just like Fidel Castro or Chavez or Maduro. Or Stalin, for that matter. Cut from the same cloth. Strongmen dominating and abusing a quiescent population.
Or Mamdani, come to think of it! And then there’s Justin Trudeau!
Let’s go sneak up on good ole unsuspecting Justin and snatch some hair sample to do a DNA test. Then we could get Trump to snatch the Castro Bro and compare the genetic results. The WuhanLab conspiracy has been put to rest. This might put to rest one one more. But, long live the JFK and moonlanding conspiracies!
Covid didn’t come from the Wuhan lab?
And what’s your point, exactly? Michael and I were just batting some stuff around.
As a resident of the area for decades, I can add a political aspect to the investigation findings and consequent chastisement of the media. Elkhart is primarily a Republican city as is Elkhart County. Thus the no nonsense response to media coverage of this justified use of deadly force by law enforcement.
What happened to South Bend that Pete Butegige could be elected mayor? ND faculty? The Romers seemed to run the local machine when we were there. Maybe they were Democrats. I forget.
YB, the Democrat party has controlled South Bend politics since the late 1960s. Last Republican mayor was Lloyd Allen whose term ended in 1971, I believe.
Pete was a neighbor of ours in the North Shore Triangle neighborhood. He was infamous locally for his smart sewers project which failed and flooded our neighborhood with sewage into an actual FEMA site in 2018. When neighbors were meeting to try to address the issue at a private home, Pete showed up with his staff while also inviting the local media.
At that point his tone deafness, understated arrogance and poor relationships in the black community would be his undoing. So, not really President Biden then hired him to screw up at a macro level.
Trying to unseat a Dem in South Bend is akin to unseating the Pope.
Ah. So, the Romers were Dems. I clerked the summer of 1979 in the South Bend City Attorney’s office with three other ND law students. The city attorney was Tom Bruner. A Democrat. Nice guy. Peter Nemeth was mayor. And of course, Hesburgh was the Kennedys’ personal family priest, although Ronald Reagan was the commencement speaker at the 1981 commencement.
I still can’t believe ND has gone so far to the dark side.
It appears that Go-Fund-Me has taken the uncertainty out of what some of us know as the “Ghetto Lottery”. Back in olden times, the decedent’s family had to invest time and effort into brow-beating the local political establishment into submission in the form of an out-of-court settlement. That could take months, even years. Now just the mere call for “another investigation” gets the Benjamins flowing.
Thankfully, it seems in this case, since it’s the result of criminal activity (pretty well established by now released police videos showing Gomez initiating the gunfight), family is limited to memorial or funeral expenses through GFM, so no huge payout. They’re asking for $25K.
“Bryan was a bright kid, he was a member of this community, this is where he grew up,” Ramirez-Gomez said.
A feeble comment to be sure, and a tell – even his family can’t extoll his virtues. He’s not a straight-A student, captain of the football team, big brother to a fatherless child. He doesn’t distribute care packages to the homeless, or drive old people to their appointments in his free time ….. nope, he’s a member of the community.