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During a Saturday evening news conference, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said the Dollar General store shooting suspect “hated black people.” Breitbart News reported that three people were killed in the shooting during early Saturday afternoon and that his parents called police to say he had left behind a manifesto. ABC News noted that Sheriff Waters indicated the suspected shooter, who

A person visits memorials for Jerrald Gallion, Angela Carr and Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr. near a Dollar General store where they were shot and killed two days earlier on August 28, 2023 in Jacksonville, Florida. According to law enforcement, the shooter specifically targeted the Black victims because of their race. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) When a at a Dollar General store in

Black Americans see a range of problems with how Black people are covered in the news, and few are hopeful that will change in the foreseeable future, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of nearly 5,000 Black adults.

On several questions, Black Americans are far more likely to view news coverage of Black people in a negative rather than positive light:

Almost two-thirds

This story originally appeared in the Florida Phoenix. A white man in his early 20s shot and killed three Black people Saturday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, with Sheriff T.K. Waters saying the shooter “hated Black people.” “This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people. he wanted to kill n—–. That’s the one and only time I’ll use that word,” Waters said,