http://nypost.com/2015/01/28/the-times-low-blow/The Times’ low Blow
By Post Editorial Board
January 28, 2015 | 7:21pm
At The New York Times, it seems, some key facts are just not fit to print when they don’t fit the liberal narrative.
That appears to be the case with Charles Blow’s column in Monday’s edition of the paper. It was about how his son, a student at Yale, had been “accosted by a campus police officer, at gunpoint!”
Blow, who is black, described his horror at learning how the officer questioned his son, Tahj, who’s also black, with gun drawn — presumably because of his son’s race.
“In these moments,” he wrote, “what you’ve done matters less than how you look.” In tweets, Blow invoked hashtag slogans from the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, #BlackLivesMatter and #ICantBreathe, saying his son’s experience shows why young black men are right to fear cops.
Yet in his entire 867-word piece, and in all his tweets, Blow omitted a key fact: The officer who drew his gun is also black.
OK, maybe Blow didn’t think this was relevant — black cops can be biased, too. But why not let readers decide for themselves?
There were other omissions and distortions.
Yale’s police chief, for example, is also black. And while Blow did concede his son was stopped because cops were responding to a call about a burglary suspect who fit Tahj’s description, a Yale official says Blow’s claim that his son was “accosted” is “deeply inaccurate.”
As is this: Blow said he worried that Tahj might have been killed if he had responded with a move the cop deemed suspicious. But he also made clear his son had fully cooperated with the officer — without realizing how sharply this contrasts with both the Garner and Brown cases.
Sad — but all too typical of those who put their preferred narrative ahead of the facts.
