The Jacksonville shooter, Ryan Christoper Palmeter (21), was subject to Baker Act detention in 2017. Palmeter would have been approximately 15 or 16. He was obviously an unstable and mentally challenged individual who presumably left a manifesto expressing his intention to kill black people. The media are quick to jump on the typeset and report a racist shooting resulting in 3 deaths.
In a pattern that is all too familiar, every Sunday talk show leads with this Jacksonville racist killing story as their lead. The white male killing black people storyline is the apex narrative for corporate media. There is no media narrative that achieves a higher level of promotion than a white racist mass shooter.
As would be expected, NBC’s Chuck Todd grills Vivek Ramaswamy about the Republican support for racist white men and asks why it is only white people who target and kill black people. This is the media frenzy in its fullest form. WATCH:
ps. Palmeter is the first 21yo in modern US history with zero social media presence. Odd.
