I'll go back to reading next in my feed how George R R Martin is racist because he mispronounced someones name (Not an article in the Guardian, and the Guardian's coverage is exceptional for Beirut compared to others like CNN or Fox)
[edit] Does the media not care about the largest peacetime explosion in a capital city because they are Arabs? What exactly is bigger than this today?
The George Floyd bodycam video leaked out, destroying the BLM narrative (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24046940 for DailyMail). ABC doesn't cover it. CBS and NBC edit out "Stop resisting". Youtube suppresses it from trending. NBC even had privately seen the bodycam video a month prior, leaving them no excuse for stoking violence across the country.
We finally got evidence (both flight logs and a victim statement) that a former US president was at Epstein's island.
Both of those are far more important to Americans than a big explosion in a far off city.
Thus, the BLM narrative that police violence is excessive is still compelling if you subscribe to the belief that someone placing their knee and weight on a detained person's neck for 8 minutes is excessive, regardless of other circumstances.
Ask yourself if you think the situation could have been resolved differently, without loss of life. If outcome isn't important to you because of a toxicology report, mannerisms, circumstances of arrest, other reason to deny life... then a certain unorganized group of people would like to remind you and many others like you that _black lives matter_.
But alas, to say the leaked body cam footage "destroys the BLM narrative" implies you won't care about reporting at all if you resort to regurgitating clickbait-language.
It is a gross mischaracterization of the right that "the answer is yes".
There doesn't exist any way to arrest a non-compliant criminal without somebody getting all upset about it. Ultimately, some degree of violence will be required. Leaving criminals to run free is how you get a failed state, and then gangs create their own not-so-nice justice system.
Hiding the video in order to create needless racial strife was just plain evil. Numerous additional people have died as a result.