The author is right - blacks and whites get killed at about the same rate by cops. The author glosses over the greater incidence of violent, non-lethal encounters for blacks.

The problem with the "media narrative" trope is the fact that videos are everywhere. What once was a cop word vs alleged criminal word vs. word has changed. Cop throws a skinny black teen to the ground at a pool party. Perhaps she had a concealed weapon in her bikini, eh? . There are plenty of other instances out there as well. Then there are the videos of police shootings, the worst being shooting a man in the back, planting a tazer, and letting the man die over a broken taillight.

Perhaps if the media just would stop reporting about the thefts, the prostitutes, the violence and the murders by the police and others in the law enforcement community, the police would feel a whole lot better. Fact: police are rarely held accountable. Let's keep it that way, eh?