And the story is still pretty young. As for the race not being front and center, considering we are talking about two minors here, there pictures have not been published. Maybe things would have been done differently if this was still the 1990s when the "Central Park 5" introduced us to the term "wilding" and wrongly attributed that to a group of black men supposedly beating and raping a white jogger when that didn't actually happen. Or maybe we would know the race if the minor perps had been white. We were told the race of Dylan Roof, but Roof was 21 at the time of his crime (I checked). Oh...and I don't recall any riots after the Dylan Roof shootings. There were no riots after Travis Jeffrey Reinking shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House. And this News Channel 5 story makes no mention of the race of the shooter or the victims.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/th...house-shooting
I know Reinking is white because I've seen his picture. I'm guessing the four that were murdered were black and hispanic going by the names. "Joe Perez" sounds hispanic. And only black people give their children names like "DeEbony" or "Taurene" or "Akilah."
And Reinking isn't facing murder charges because he was deemed "unfit to stand trial." Nobody ever injected race into that story. The hero who disarmed Reinking was also black, but I know that because I saw his face plastered on the front page of both major Nashville newspapers and he was interviewed quite a bit.
I don't know the race of the murderers of Tara Cole, a black homeless woman who was pushed into the Cumberland River in Nashville by two drunk guys who thought that was funny. I know she was black because I've seen her picture. The news accounts gave the name of the murderers but never made an issue over them being white. And...there were no riots. All of the coverage focused on abuse of homeless people as opposed to making it a race issue. Here is an account of the arrest of the two men who both later confessed to the murder:
https://thehomelessguy.wordpress.com...nsmurder-case/
Note there was no mention of Tara being black or the two men being white in the news coverage of the arrests. It wasn't prosecuted as a "hate crime." (They were from Lebanon and Lafayette TN. There are almost no black people living in either of those towns). Now this was in 2006 which I guess is "ancient history" now, so today who knows? (The Waffle House shooting was just a few years ago). Anyhow all of these murderers are scum, regardless of their race or motivation.
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