Allen West says the media is "cherry-picking" stories on violence to inflame racial tensions.
FMR. REP. ALLEN WEST: "I think that once again that you have a push by certain individuals within the black community to try and keep, you know, this stoking of racial division. And also, you have a media that chimes in with the sensationalism of that and we definitely saw it in the Zimmerman case, we definitely saw it during the O.J. Simpson case, or the Rodney King case. But then you have so many horrible events such as what just happened in Chicago over the weekend, we know about the murders there; we have the incident down in Brunswick, Georgia where two black teenagers, 17 and 15, shot a 13 month old white baby in the face with a .22 caliber pistol, right in front of the mother. But you don't hear any type of media tension, you don't hear any type of leaders in the black community talking about that. So, I think it's an instance of cherry-picking the type of issues or the type of stories that people believe will keep this type of separation."
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