Not just MSNBC, but all the liberal media does it. Here's one egregious example from MSNBC: http://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/grim17/1148-politics-racial-division-dangerous-strategy-built-lies.html Excerpt:
Try to remember that Melissa Perry-Harris is nothing more than a paid commentator and not a news journalist; all she's doing is giving her opinion on various news stories, much like Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Huckabee, Levin, etc. They are opinions and nothing else; people are free to believe or disbelieve them. The have to separate the two.
True, but the way the MSM reports these few cases fuels it. They broadcast it such as, "WHITE cop GUNS DOWN, 'unarmed' black man." Why mention race and why leave out the pertinent info, such as the cop was being attacked or the black guy was breaking the law? Just the way they choose to report it, they make it sound like the cop was targeting the man just because he was black, which was not the case in ANY of these high profile cases. The media wanted to make them racial.