Thread by @DrRJKavanagh

The Staten Island man who has declared his bar an "autonomous zone" deliberately drove into a group of sheriff's deputies, hit one, who was thrown onto his hood and dragged for 50 yards.

If a Black person did this they'd be charged with Attempt Murder.

nypost.com/2020/12/06/aut…

In fact in Brooklyn in 2017, a 15-year-old child was charged as an adult with Attempt Murder, after a cop was dragged by a car he was driving, even though the dragging was unintentional.

nytimes.com/2017/06/16/nyr…

.@nypost leaves out some critical details about the Staten Island incident, most critically that the bar owner was not even in his car, but jumped in solely for the purpose of driving into the sheriff's deputies.

I'll tweet a better article when one is posted online.

And there was never any suggestion that the child was trying to drive into a crowd of cops. In fact, even by the police's own version, he was trying to get away.

Also, notice how @nypost doesn't name the bar owner in the dek (subheading) of the story, while @nytimes names the child prominently?

PS. I really should have said in my first tweet, the more likely outcome would be that a Black person who did this would be shot and killed. I was thinking more of the dragging part (and knowing the comparable case) less about him driving intentionally into the cops.