Occupied America

March, 2002

what really caused the cincinnati riotsWhen a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager named Timothy Thomas last April in Cincinnati, residents responded with three days of burning, window smashing and stone throwing. It was the worst such outbreak in years, yet the national media's reaction was remarkably complacent. Riots, tear gas, some 800 arrests--it was all so retro, so terribly Sixties. Pack journalists reached lazily into their bag of clichés for explanations. Papers from The...