“I feel like it doesn’t get as much publicity as maybe any other shooting would. For example, maybe when a white kid goes to a school and shoots a couple kids, that would get blown up by the media. Yet when three Muslim kids get shot, it receives a lot less coverage. But I also notice that when this story was being reported on, the victims were not being treated as normal Americans, and the fact that they were Muslim was heavily emphasized. People turn a blind eye to the fact that these kids were people and we’re ignorant to the fact that Muslims are not all terrorists and that they’re being attacked too.”

Bea Benedicto
Sophomore Finance Accounting Major

“I feel like the media has its own bias. They’re trying to propagate their own agenda and the fact that this issue has been represented as a parking issue is what makes me angry. The fact that they try to justify a white man’s actions with an excuse is wrong to me. If a Muslim shoots a white man it’s terrorism, but if a white man shoots a Muslim its a parking issue. You trivialize what happened; you know the media was trying to justify loss of their lives by framing it as a parking issue. This one Fox channel covered the issue, but they presented it with tips on how to not get frustrated when you have a parking issue and that was really disrespectful, because that is not what this is about.”