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The News Has Just Read Last Week's Issue Of Batman

Published Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:00:25 -0500

It's hitting the wires, Batman #44 by Scott Snyder and Jock and being interpreted by different reporters along the way…

From MSNBC:

The story begins with the Dark Knight investigating the murder of a 15-year-old black boy by a white police officer. The crimes takes place when the boy exits his father's bodega in Gotham City after fighting with a local gang. He then encounters the officer, and before he can oblige his demand to lie down, the officer fatally shoots him in the stomach.

The image of the dead, unarmed black teen will likely remind readers of the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. The fictional character's body is left on the street "for the crows," reminding readers of how Brown's body was reportedly left on the street for four hours after he was killed. The boy is also portrayed wearing a hoodie, an apparent direct nod to the appearance of Martin on the night he was killed.

From The Guardian:

Snyder said that during the winter he came up with the idea of addressing the intersection of police brutality and gentrification during the series's current story arc, in which Gotham police commissioner Jim Gordon takes over as Batman. News reports from Ferguson and Staten Island, New York, where police choked Eric Garner to death, helped inspire the story: "If we were going to do an issue that dealt with potent problems that people face in cities that are reflected fictitiously in Gotham, then we want to really put our money where our mouth was and explore something that's extremely resonant right now, and, I think, tricky, murky waters."

From WND: