"Blacks are under attack" -- Jesse Jackson.

[foreverbeach]

I've decided to weigh in, briefly, on the interracial murder of a 17-year-old teen from a few days ago: it's horrific.

Teen murder victim begged for her lifeA high school girl repeatedly begged for mercy while she was being tortured by her companions who finally took her outside, forced her to strip and shot her in the back of the head so she

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[gwendally]

The murderers in your story were arrested.

Zimmerman was not arrested.

That's the major difference.

HTH.

ETA: I haven't been reading any of the racial trope. None of it. But I did hear the police say that they didn't think he was guilty of a crime so they didn't charge him with one. That sounded just WRONG to me. He may indeed not be guilty of a crime. But a kid is dead, let's at least try the case in the courts rather than skipping the whole thing. THAT'S where the outrage comes from.

[foreverbeach]

No. There is a grand jury currently convened to determine whether to indict him, but the outrage is much more than his not being arrested, sorry. Most people haven't even heard of the other story because it's not the accepted narrative.

[gwendally]

I believe you that there is knee-jerk outrage. That's why I'm giving it a pass in the media. I don't have time for stupid-people-drama right now.

But I did hear about it the first day it happened. I misunderstood the status of his arrest. I thought he was not even arrested. I'm perfectly happy with a grand jury deciding. My understanding from the very beginning was that the police chief said there was no reason to charge him and so released him. At the time he said something along the lines of "we determined the facts..." and it rankled because it's not for the POLICE to determine the facts. It's for the justice system.

That's where I thought this snowball started.

[ernunnos]

Actually, yes, it is for the police to determine the facts. They do it every day when you drive past them and don't pull you over because you appear to be following the speed limit, have a license plate on the back of their car, and your lights appear to be in working order. If they don't see the facts to support a stop, they don't pull you over. And if they don't see the facts to support a charge, they don't charge. They're the first line. And if you take away that line and start sending everything into the justice system, without that filter, you're going to overwhelm it pretty darn quick. Not to mention waste a lot of people's time and money.

[btripp]

Did you see this? http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=50546 ... Buchanan nails it.