Source: Kyle Becker
America’s news media is understandably reluctant to report about mass shootings after two horrific incidents in March failed to fit the ‘racism’ narrative: The Boulder supermarket mass shooting and the Atlanta spa mass shootings.
On Friday night, two more mass shootings occurred. A Philadelphia mass shooting led to seven people wounded, three left in critical condition. A Virginia Beach mass shooting led to two people killed and eight people injured.
The corporate media’s lack of reporting on the incidents has been making people wonder if there is an aspect to these particular mass shootings that has caused them to go mostly ignored. It turns out there is an obvious reason: None of the suspects were white.
This leads us to the question: How many more of these “mass shootings” are going unreported and underreported because they do not fit the media’s narrative the nation is systemically racist and under imminent threat by far-right, white supremacists?
It turns out: A lot.
A database that links local news reports on mass shootings and presents mugshots of the suspects gives us an instant picture about why so many “mass shootings” are going underreported or unreported in the mass media.
This is why.
Above is an accurate, representative snapshot of some of 2020’s charged “mass shooters.”
Above is a snapshot of all of the currently known charged 2021 “mass shooters.”
According to the definition provided by the website, perpetrators of a “mass shooting” are those who carry out “the shooting of 4+ people or who died before they could be charged.” This is in accordance to the widespread acceptance of the definition of a “mass shooting.”
Each mugshot is linked to a local news report that substantiates that these indeed are the charged perpetrators of the definition of a mass shooting as reported on the appropriate date. (In two cases, additional reporting was required to confirm.)
The racial demographic breakdown of mass shooters, as corroborated by the mugshots, suspect descriptions, and local news reports is striking.
In 2020, 73% of mass shooters are described as Black; 14% are described as Latino; and 14% are described as white. There were 612 mass shootings coded in 2020.
In 2021 so far, 70% of mass shooters are described as Black; 16% are described as Latino; and 14% are described as white. There have been 105 mass shootings coded in 2021.
Most Americans are only aware of two or three mass shootings in 2021, due to the national media’s intentionally divisive narrative about America being a “racist” country. And in those cases, particularly the Boulder and Atlanta mass shootings, the media has failed to establish they were motivated by bias against racial minorities.
Futhermore, we also have a list of the top cities for mass shootings in 2020.
The top cities for mass shootings in the U.S. in 2020: Chicago (53); Philadelphia (28); New York City (19); Houston (12); and Baltimore (10.) All of these cities are run by the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party’s “solution” to the surging crime in America’s cities is to blame the police or to outright defund them. The following Democrat-run cities are seeing massive spikes in violence, including mass shootings, as noted below.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia is recorded as having 4 mass shootings in 2021. A mass shooting on Friday night went virtually unreported in the mainstream press. It took nearly 24 hours for the description of a suspect to emerge.
“Police responded to the Golf and Social Bar on the 1000 block of Delaware Avenue in Fishtown around 8 p.m. after someone triggered a robbery alarm,” Philadelphia Police Department Deputy Commissioner Joel Dales said. “Police found two victims inside the club and two in a nearby 7-11, and three later arrived at Thomas Jefferson Hospital, PPD Cpl. Jasmine Reilly said.”
“An exact description of the suspect was not immediately available, but a spokeswoman with the Philadelphia Police Department told the Daily News that he’s a Black man and is armed with a semi-automatic handgun,” the New York Daily News reported.
A mass shooting suspect wanted for the murder of a Philadelphia man was also apprehended on February 21st, 2021.
“The 17-year-old wanted for murder in a shooting at an East Norriton bowling alley that left a Philadelphia man dead and four others injured has turned himself in, according to police,” CBS reported.
The city has also seen a surge in violence that has lasted through 2020 and into 2021.
“Philadelphia police crime statistics showed at least 777 shootings as of the week ending March 21,” NBC reported. “There have also been 114 homicides as of March 26.”
Mayor: Jim Kelly, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (14/17 seats; 2 Republicans)
Chicago
Chicago and “shootings” have become synonymous on the Democrats’ watch. In mid-January, a mass shooting took place in the windy city — not that the mainstream media would notice.
“A security guard and four other people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting rampage that began in Chicago and ended when police in Evanston fatally shot the suspect during a shootout,” NBC reported.
Chicago has 3 mass shootings recorded in 2021. The murder spree in Chicago is accelerating, unbelievably enough. It is on pace to set another disgraceful homicides record.
“The fatal shootings appear to be picking up even after a year in which they jumped dramatically in Chicago, from 495 in 2019 to 769 in 2020,” ABC reported. “The city is on a pace to record even more this year: As of Wednesday, there had been 123 homicides in the city since Jan. 1, compared to 94 during the same period last year, according to the police department.”
Mayor: Lori Lightfoot, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (46/50 seats; no Republicans)
Baltimore
Baltimore’s crime is also increasing. Several of the deadly shootings are right on the edge of being considered a “mass shooting.”
“A shooting Tuesday night in South Baltimore’s Brooklyn neighborhood left one man dead and two others injured,” the Baltimore Sun reported on Friday. “South Baltimore experienced a particularly high level of violence in a week that saw seven people killed and 16 shot citywide.”
“So far this year 69 people have been killed in Baltimore, six more than at the same time last year,” the Sun continued. “The total amount of nonfatal shootings also have increased, with a total of 131 shootings this year compared to 121 at this same time last year.”
Mayor: Brandon Scott, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (15/15 seats; no Republicans)
Portland
Portland has been on the forefront of the “Defund the Police” movement. The city is reaping the benefits of slashing the force and driving police officers to resign or go into early retirement rather than perform their duty under such conditions.
“More people died of gunfire last year in Portland — 40 — than the entire tally of homicides the previous year,” U.S. News reported in early March. “The number of shootings — 900 — was nearly 2 1/2 times higher than the year before. The spike has continued this year, with more than 150 shootings, including 45 people wounded and 12 killed so far.”
Mayor: Ted Wheeler, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (4/5 seats; no Republicans)
Atlanta
The biggest recent high-profile mass shooting that has been framed by some media outlets as a “hate crime” is that of Robert Aaron Long, a white suspect who shot 8 people dead in a number of Atlanta area massage parlors.
“Long has so far been charged with at least four counts of murder and a single count of aggravated assault,” Fox News reported.
“Police said two of the victims were White, while the other six victims were Asian-Americans,” Fox News pointed out. “Racism is not currently believed to be a motive.”
“The suspect told the police that he had a ‘sexual addiction’ and had carried out the shootings at the massage parlors to eliminate his ‘temptation,’ authorities said, as reported by the New York Times.
It is far from the only homicide that has occurred in Atlanta in the last year.
“A teen selling water bottles killed over $10. A young man shot at a skate park. A child gunned down on the Fourth of July. Their deaths were among the 157 homicides the Atlanta Police Department investigated in 2020, up from 99 in 2019 and the most in more than two decades,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
According to Atlanta’s police reports, including its COBRA report up to March 13, the sum total of homicides in Atlanta in 2021 stands at 34 victims. This includes the Spa mass shooting, which killed 8 people.
Mayor: Keisha Lance Bottoms, Democrat
City Council: 16 seats (party affiliation undeclared)
New York City
New York City had 19 mass shootings recorded in 2020, but thus far has only one case recorded in 2021.
“Five people were shot as scores of terrified revelers ran for their lives when a gunman started blasting away early Saturday inside a pop-up Brooklyn hookah parlor,” the Daily News reported in mid-March.
The suspect’s name: Kevin Hernandez.
Nonetheless, the city council of New York, with the approval of Mayor Bill de Blasio, is passing a serious of police reforms that “handcuff” the NYPD, the Daily News reported on Thursday.
“City council members laid down the law to the NYPD on Thursday, backing reforms that would strip police brass of their control over the department and forcing police to pay more heed to complaints that they violate citizens’ rights.”
Mayor: Bill de Blasio, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (46/51 seats; 3 Republicans)
Los Angeles
The City of Angels continues to see soaring gun violence after its City Council slashed police funding last year.
“Another 267 people were struck by gunfire, marking a 141% increase from the 111 people wounded in the same period in 2020,” CBS reported in early March.”Homicides in Los Angeles are also up: 64 people had been killed in the city through Feb. 27, up 39% from the 46 homicides at the same time last year, according to Crosstown.”
Los Angeles slashed tens of millions of dollars from the LAPD’s budget last year.
“Amid a nationwide push to defund the police last summer, LA city officials voted to cut $150 million from the LAPD’s nearly $2 billion budget, reducing the number of officers on the street from 9,988 to 9,757 by this summer,” Fox News reported.
Now, there is increasing demand for a police presence from city services.
“The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted Thursday to boost its contracts with law enforcement by $36 million through the end of this year amid a spike in crime across the city.”
Mayor: Eric Garcetti, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (14/15 seats; no Republicans)
Seattle
In Seattle, 50 people were murdered in 2020, compared to 31 in 2019, MyNorthwest reported.
“That represents a 61% increase, or 19 additional people who were murdered this year,” Police Chief Diaz said. “This was the highest number of murders in 26 years. This is unacceptable. We cannot tolerate this level of violence.”
“A national sharp rise in murders is alarming police departments across the country, including Seattle. In 2020, the city saw the highest number of homicides in 26 years,” King5 reported.
Seattle has been under a tremendous amount of pressure from the Defund the Police movement.
“Few cities cut police department budgets in response to public pressure, but of those that did, Seattle went a step further in November by allocating $30 million to a participatory budgeting process that will give everyday people a say in how the money should be used,” the Appeal reported. “Twelve million dollars was directly diverted from the Seattle Police Department, while the remaining $18 million comes from Mayor Jenny Durkan’s Equitable Communities Initiative Fund, which is sourced from cuts to several departments and new taxes.”
Mayor: Jenny Durkan, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (8/9 seats; 1 Socialist; no Republicans)
Houston
Houston, Texas was the site of a mass shooting in early March.
“A gunmen shot four people, killing three of them in southwest Houston,”ABC reported. “Two of the victims killed were just 18 years old.”
Houston has consistently been one of the worst cities for mass shootings. It has the highest number so far in 2021 at seven mass shootings. In addition, it has been averaging nearly a homicide a day.
“KPRC 2 Investigates reported there were 409 homicides in Houston in 2020,” NBC reported in mid-February. “So far in 2021, Houston homicide detectives have investigated 50 cases in just the first 42 days of the year.”
Mayor: Sylvester Turner, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (11/16 seats; 5 Republicans)
Washington D.C.
Despite being the nation’s capitol, Washington D.C. has witnessed an ongoing crime wave that has left hundreds dead since the beginning of last year.
“There have been 91 homicides in the D.C. region during 2021,” the crime database at the Washington Post records. There were 352 total in 2020.
Murders in the capitol continue, despite the heavy National Guard presence. Washington D.C. has 3 mass shootings recorded in 2021. There have also been harrowing high-profile murder cases.
On Wednesday, two teenage girls, all of 13 and 15 years old, were charged with murder for for attempting a carjacking in broad daylight that left an Uber driver dead.
The National Guard troops strikingly left the Uber driver on the sidewalk to die. The victim was 66-year-old Mohammad Anwar, of Springfield, Virginia. It is unclear if the driver might have been saved with immediate medical intervention.
Mayor: Muriel Bowser, Democrat
City Council: Democrat majority (11/13 seats; no Republicans)
Despite the mainstream media’s hysteria about every mass shooting that seems to fit a certain political narrative, there are hundreds of mass shootings going on in this country every year that are unreported to the majority of Americans. Many of these mass shooting cases take place in Democrat-run cities among demographics that overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.
Does the mainstream media avoid reporting these mass shootings because they don’t want to hold the Democratic Party accountable for its complete failure at every level in communities it has represented for decades? Or is it simply a case of racial bias: Black Lives and other POC Lives don’t really matter to the media if their deaths don’t fit the left’s divisive narrative?
