Double standards, President Obama: Where was the outrage in 2009?

I am a liberal.

But...

Beyond the terrible trageda of the killings in the church in South Carolina is another tragedy that never received days and weeks of national attention, debate, and mourning.

What troubles me as an American is how President Obama, his Attorney General, and the White House made no public comment about the murder of four white Lakewood policeman by a black man six years ago.  The four persons were not part of a congregation but were carrying out public duties that safeguard the lives of citizens in thier community.

This occured practically in our "backyard," as Lakewood is just south of Tacoma.

I don't know of anyone in the mainstream media that has pointed that it could be argued convincingly that President Obama, because he is African-American, only feels a "national" outrage when the victim of a mass murder is black and the killer white but the reverse.

I wonder even if the victims had been racial minorities but not black if the news would have made such national attention, particularly in the New York Times, where it made the top headlines for several days.  (The recently appointed chief editor of the NYT is an African-American).

In fact, doing a Google search just to find images of the four murdered policeman comes up with one or two stock ones.

Were their lives not as important as any other American lives lost?

This blatently unequal treatment does not bode well, in my opinion, for equality and justice in this country.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/4-lakewood-officers-slain-ex-con-sought-for-questioning/