It has been all of our great misfortune to watch coverage of far too many of these mass shootings. This one is different. The television media keeps posting the photo of a woman of color who just seems to know the person that committed this act.
That is all the American people have been shown in relation to the commission of this act. That leaves a definite impression in people’s minds.
The Pulse nightclub killings were accompanied with photos of the suspect plastered everywhere throughout the coverage.
They keep rerunning her photo, some stations even after police have announced she was out of the country and likely had nothing to with it.
So why does the media keep showing her picture and not his? Over and over again they showed this apparently a completely innocent woman of color over and over again in relation to the commission of this heinous act, but no photo of the actual perpetrator.
We all know images have a powerful impact on human memory and association. I fear this incident will be forever linked to her rather than the actual mass murderer who did this.