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Maybe that’s true for you and the people around you, but it’s not true for me and the people around me. Maybe it’s because I’m a minority who grew up in a community that’s always been affected by these issues. 
If you have the luxury of a short attention span for police brutality, I don’t blame you if it’s not constantly on your radar, but let’s not pretend that just because you forget, so does everybody else.
I did not realize those calls ever stopped from all the other incidents. >

Americans have an extremely short attention span. >

Correction: The media has an extremely short attention span. >

No, that's done on purpose. Once they stop covering the story, nobody cares anymore. They know they could get away with it because Americans have an extremely short attention span.