Check out this article in the Huffington Post discussing how the media are biased in favor of the police. The article states that media often describes police brutality as a “clash” between police and protesters, but “these are not conflicts between rivals of equal proportion, as ‘clash’ connotes. These are incidents of police violence and media should start calling it for what it is. With so much amateur video, the media has little choice but to set aside convention and report what's happening.”