Race-Based Killing In New York Prompts Different Response Than Similar Case In 2014

Published March 24, 2017 at 1:25 PM EDT

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James Harris Jackson appears in criminal court during his arraignment, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in New York. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

This week prosecutors say a 28-year-old white man, James Harris Jackson, traveled from Baltimore to New York City with one goal in mind: to kill black men. And he did kill one, 66-year-old Timothy Caughman.

But the case hasn’t garnered nearly the same level of attention that another similar killing did in 2014 when a black man drove to New York, also from Baltimore, to kill police officers.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer (@jimdwyernyt) about those two cases, and the different way media outlets, the public, police and lawyers have talked about them.

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