By Michael Nam
On Sunday, May 17th, rival biker gangs, the Bandidos and the Cossacks, took part in a brawl that expanded into a deadly shootout at a restaurant in Waco, Texas. Though the melee left nine dead and 170 charged with various crimes, critics of the media pointed out some stark contrasts between how this violent outburst was reported versus the largely racially charged unrest in cities like Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore.
Starting with the way the aftermath looked via photographs taken at the scene of Waco juxtaposed with the way law enforcement responded in Ferguson in the wake of Mike Brown’s death, social media was particularly relentless in pointing out the disparity:
