Michael Bennett Lying? What will the media say?

Apparently, his story is falling apart, and he was not just an innocent bystander.

MB Lying?

The video in this link shows the police doing their job and there were literally hundreds of black people in the casino that they were trying to safely escort out of the building. In fact, the majority of the people in the video appeared to be black. However, after they cleared the building, the police saw Michael Bennett hiding behind a slot machine. Once he saw the police, he took off running and ignored their shouted commands to stop.

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Near the end of the video you can see Michael Bennett, crouching behind a slot machine inside the casino, appearing to hide from police. When the police approached him because he appeared suspicious hiding there, he jumped up and ran away from them, refusing commands to stop, leaping a wall, and attempting to escape from them before being caught and detained.

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The video showed that there was never a threat to "Blow your head off".

Will this be enough to stop the media from portraying this as another example of the racist police force abusing their power and singling out black people for arrest?

I'm guessing that Michael Bennett will defend his actions by saying that he, as a black man has an ingrained fear of the police and felt that he would be in danger if he let himself be taken into custody.

As for the media, I believe they will bring on enough psychologists, civil rights lawyers, and rabble rousers to muddy the waters enough to where they will eventually conclude that the police were racist, anyway - even if this incident isn't a clear cut example of it. Six months down the road, they will be referring to this incident as proof of institutional racism, because by then, they know that everyone will have forgotten all of the actual details of what went down - much like with Michael Brown in Ferguson.