Cops are still getting shot, but the media won't give it the attention it deserves

The media have taken a tragedy in Dallas and run with it. When compared with the fairly muted coverage of a police officer’s murder in Fort Worth, Texas, the contrast is stark and damning.

The two recent tragic stories involving Texas police officers occurred within a one-week period. On Sept. 6, a white female Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, apparently mistook the apartment of her neighbor, a black man, Botham Jean, for her own, and fatally shot him. Claiming she mistakenly took Jean for an intruder, she has been charged with manslaughter.