http://www.khq.com/story/23225525/88...arena-has-died
I wonder if the media will try to bury this one too.
I wonder if the media will try to bury this one too.
Australian in U.S. on baseball scholarship murdered by teens because they were bored
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89-year-old WWII veteran BEATEN TO DEATH by two black teens in Spokane, WA
"Delbert Belton was 89 years-old, waiting in the parking lot of his lodge at 8PM. "
You where in the wrong place at the wrong time old man.
"Delbert Belton was 89 years-old, waiting in the parking lot of his lodge at 8PM. "
You where in the wrong place at the wrong time old man.
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That's why it was insane that Obama said something to begin with, a publicist would have said that was stupid thing to do because every case you don't comment makes you look like a hypocrit.
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Managed to live through years of fighting Nazis and Kamikazes, in the end felled down by a pair of Trayvons.
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Really nice write up on not to ignore the race factor of this.. from Time magazine, no less. I agree with it, completely. Has the Obama administration admitted that they have actually "heard of" this story yet? Last I heard, they were "not familiar" with it, while every single other person in the civilized world was grieving.
http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/vie...-lanes-murder/
http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/vie...-lanes-murder/
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Guess this is the new zim thread.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...U-episode.html
And it begins...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...U-episode.html
And it begins...
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There's No 'Reverse Trayon' in Christopher Lane Killing
"These complaints-which, at this point, are ubiquitous on the right-stem from a common assumption: that race, a white man killing a black boy, was the only thing that mattered for supporters of Trayvon Martin. And if that were true, Beck and Limbaugh would have a point. But it isn't, and they don't.
In Sanford, Fla., there was no action from police. Weeks passed before the city began an investigation into Martin's death and filed charges against Zimmerman. Indeed, without the activism of Al Sharpton-and others-there wouldn't have been a trial. If Trayvon Martin became a household name, it's because people perceived a miscarriage of justice, one that harkened back to Jim Crow.
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There was no dereliction of duty in Duncan, Okla. In short order, police arrested the teens who killed Christopher Lane, and brought them to justice. Now, they'll be tried for their crimes. Lane's death is awful, but there's no misconduct to focus on. The system worked.
Not that this will change the narrative in conservative media. If Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Fox News sell anything, it's white anger and racial resentment. And for them, Christopher Lane isn't a person as much as he's a product."
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the premise that this article fails on is that, the police did their job originally in letting zimmerman go because there was no evidence of a crime, he was only charged with a crime after the white house paid al sharpton to go to florida and muck rake up anguish to the point that the state feared rioting so to appease the rioters they bypassed a judicial procedure that would have prevented the case from entering the courts. The daily beasts article forgets the concept that you are presumed innocent until proven guilty and that zimmerman was, they are basically saying mob justice was ok there.
"These complaints-which, at this point, are ubiquitous on the right-stem from a common assumption: that race, a white man killing a black boy, was the only thing that mattered for supporters of Trayvon Martin. And if that were true, Beck and Limbaugh would have a point. But it isn't, and they don't.
In Sanford, Fla., there was no action from police. Weeks passed before the city began an investigation into Martin's death and filed charges against Zimmerman. Indeed, without the activism of Al Sharpton-and others-there wouldn't have been a trial. If Trayvon Martin became a household name, it's because people perceived a miscarriage of justice, one that harkened back to Jim Crow.
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There was no dereliction of duty in Duncan, Okla. In short order, police arrested the teens who killed Christopher Lane, and brought them to justice. Now, they'll be tried for their crimes. Lane's death is awful, but there's no misconduct to focus on. The system worked.
Not that this will change the narrative in conservative media. If Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Fox News sell anything, it's white anger and racial resentment. And for them, Christopher Lane isn't a person as much as he's a product."
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the premise that this article fails on is that, the police did their job originally in letting zimmerman go because there was no evidence of a crime, he was only charged with a crime after the white house paid al sharpton to go to florida and muck rake up anguish to the point that the state feared rioting so to appease the rioters they bypassed a judicial procedure that would have prevented the case from entering the courts. The daily beasts article forgets the concept that you are presumed innocent until proven guilty and that zimmerman was, they are basically saying mob justice was ok there.
