by Patrick J. Buchanan – July 15, 2002

Any regular viewer of CNN, MSNBC or Fox News has seen the videotape: A handcuffed black 16-year-old being body-slammed on the hood of a police car and punched in the face by a white cop.

Endlessly, the TV talking heads express outrage, as the tape rolls on, and few there are who defend what that cop did. But why are the media addicted to this story? The teen-ager is not dead. He does even not seem seriously hurt. As for that body-slam, yes, it was rough, but that is what happens every Sunday to NFL quarterbacks who fail to “read the blitz.”