More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Anchoring MSNBC’s 1 p.m. ET hour on Thursday, host Craig Melvin acknowledged that had the races been reversed in the brutal Chicago kidnapping and assault broadcast on Facebook Live, the media coverage would be very different. Talking to correspondent Ron Mott, he admitted: “I think that if the races were swapped we would certainly be making probably a bigger issue of this.”
Melvin continued: “Four black teenagers, victim white. They’re shouting – and if you listen to the video, you can hear it – they’re shouting these racist, these anti-trump things at this guy. How are police saying that this is not racial? How are they explaining that?” Mott replied: “I think again, Craig, they think this is just teenagers behaving carelessly and just being dumb....But I think you might find that some people will be upset if this is not labeled a hate crime. They certainly spewed some racial hatred toward this young man in this video.”