As Twitchy reported Sunday, New York Times op-ed columnist and author Charles Blow was fuming when he learned that Yale police had stopped his son, an undergraduate at the school, at gunpoint while investigating a string of burglaries on campus. Police said Blow’s son, “who closely matched the description of the suspect, was briefly detained and released by Yale police.”
In his fury, Blow tweeted the hashtags #ICantBreathe and #BlackLivesMatter. Gawker used the incident to compile a list of “Students’ Stories of Depressingly Common Run-Ins with Campus Cops,” which one person linked with the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #RacialTerrorism.
Students' Stories of Depressingly Common Run-Ins with Campus Cops http://t.co/TkTLmoy2MF #CharlesBlow #RacialTerrorism #BlackLivesMatter
— oc (@ocblues) January 30, 2015
One detail that Blow left out in his retelling of the incident: the police officer who detained his son was also black.
https://twitter.com/rvman765/status/560997927741423616
N.Y. Times' Charles Blow said nothing about cop who arrested his son being black http://t.co/sOyt737ZzT via @DCExaminer
— Davis, Charlie (@DTeambanning) January 30, 2015
I have written about Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Antonio Martin, and Jerame Reid without mentioning race of officer…
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) January 30, 2015
…Most of my columns this month have been about police/public violence w only 1 ref to an officer's race (in a quote from CBS that used it)
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) January 30, 2015
…The suggestion that not mentioning this officer's race is an anomaly is completely contrary to the facts and laughable. But, carry on…
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) January 30, 2015
Please read back columns and find proof of me always mentioning race of officers but omitting it only this time. Period. Can't be done.
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) January 30, 2015
Why not mention the race of the officer, especially when people are crying “racial terrorism” over the incident?
@CharlesMBlow @errollouis Please. The race of the officers involved were already known. You took the role of reporter it was germane.
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) January 30, 2015
https://twitter.com/DAJSamarasinghe/status/560977021451251712
@AC360 @CharlesMBlow Charles Blow won't be happy until no black male is stopped by police for any reason.
— Mary Pat Ryan (@MaryPatRyan) January 30, 2015
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