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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox & Friends, Daily Caller Falsely Report ’3 Black Teens’ Arrested in Chris Lane Murder
This is a horrific crime and racists are trying to exploit it to further their own sick agendas:
Fox & Friends, Daily Caller Falsely Report 3 Black Teens Arrested in Chris Lane Murder
by Tommy Christopher | 12:33 pm, August 21st, 2013
The senseless, infuriating murder of Australian Chris Lane has drawn comparisons, by some media outlets, to the killing of Trayvon Martin. Fox and Friends and The Daily Caller, for example, have each posited the Lane killing as illustrating some sort of double standard by black leaders like Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and President Barack Obama, but in the process, each of them falsely reported that Lane was shot by three black teens, when one of the suspects is clearly a white male. A Duncan, Oklahoma police source confirms, to Mediaite, that 17 year-old suspect Michael Jones is, indeed, a white male.
On Wednesday morning, Fox and Friends aired a segment in which they ostentatiously wondered why Revs. Sharpton and Jackson havent come forward and said anything, and even though they displayed a photo of the three suspects, which clearly showed that one of them is a white male, they quoted an Allen West tweet that said Three black teens shoot white jogger.
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The three teens allegedly shot and killed Chris Lane for the fun of it, as infuriating a motive as there is, but so far, there is no indication that race played a role in the selection of the victim, and unlike the Trayvon Martin killing, the alleged perpetrators in this crime were almost immediately arrested and charged. Like other crimes that have been posited as double standards, there is no factual basis for comparison, and no one has explained what, exactly, they would expect Rev. Al to say.
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To be clear, their premise would be equally false if all three suspects were black, but the fact that theyve chosen to ignore Michael Jones race indicates a commitment to that premise no matter what the facts say. The oldest of the three suspects, who declared in open court that he pulled the trigger, is a white male, so perhaps these conservative outlets ought to be praising Al Sharpton for not coming out and saying that the lesson here is for black kids not to hang around with white kids. If he did, he would be rightly condemned, but such a declaration would be no more absurd than the idea that he should weigh in on a tragedy that, thus far, appears to be taking as just a course as is possible. Theres definitely something wrong with the people who killed Chris Lane, but its not the color of their skin.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-and-friends-daily-caller-falsely-report-3-black-teens-arrested-in-chris-lane-murder/
by Tommy Christopher | 12:33 pm, August 21st, 2013
The senseless, infuriating murder of Australian Chris Lane has drawn comparisons, by some media outlets, to the killing of Trayvon Martin. Fox and Friends and The Daily Caller, for example, have each posited the Lane killing as illustrating some sort of double standard by black leaders like Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and President Barack Obama, but in the process, each of them falsely reported that Lane was shot by three black teens, when one of the suspects is clearly a white male. A Duncan, Oklahoma police source confirms, to Mediaite, that 17 year-old suspect Michael Jones is, indeed, a white male.
On Wednesday morning, Fox and Friends aired a segment in which they ostentatiously wondered why Revs. Sharpton and Jackson havent come forward and said anything, and even though they displayed a photo of the three suspects, which clearly showed that one of them is a white male, they quoted an Allen West tweet that said Three black teens shoot white jogger.
<...>
The three teens allegedly shot and killed Chris Lane for the fun of it, as infuriating a motive as there is, but so far, there is no indication that race played a role in the selection of the victim, and unlike the Trayvon Martin killing, the alleged perpetrators in this crime were almost immediately arrested and charged. Like other crimes that have been posited as double standards, there is no factual basis for comparison, and no one has explained what, exactly, they would expect Rev. Al to say.
<...>
To be clear, their premise would be equally false if all three suspects were black, but the fact that theyve chosen to ignore Michael Jones race indicates a commitment to that premise no matter what the facts say. The oldest of the three suspects, who declared in open court that he pulled the trigger, is a white male, so perhaps these conservative outlets ought to be praising Al Sharpton for not coming out and saying that the lesson here is for black kids not to hang around with white kids. If he did, he would be rightly condemned, but such a declaration would be no more absurd than the idea that he should weigh in on a tragedy that, thus far, appears to be taking as just a course as is possible. Theres definitely something wrong with the people who killed Chris Lane, but its not the color of their skin.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-and-friends-daily-caller-falsely-report-3-black-teens-arrested-in-chris-lane-murder/
Apparently the two black teenagers are being charged with first degree murder, but the white teenager who is the oldest of the three is only being charged as an accessory even though he admitted to pulling the trigger. Hopefully the prosecution will explain why that is the case.
People are trying to compare this to the Trayvon shooting, but there are two big differences:
1) There's no indication that race played any part. All facts so far point to a random killing.
2) These three punks were arrested and charged immediately, unlike Zimmerman.
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Fox & Friends, Daily Caller Falsely Report ’3 Black Teens’ Arrested in Chris Lane Murder (Original Post)
Cali_Democrat
Aug 2013
OP
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. Recommended!
cigsandcoffee
(2,300 posts)2. Also the Washington Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/21/jesse-jackson-frowns-upon-senseless-murder-austral/
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. took to Twitter Wednesday morning to tell his 24,000 followers that the senseless murder of Christopher Lane by three black teenagers in Oklahoma is frowned upon.
Praying for the family of Chris Lane. This senseless violence is frowned upon and the justice system must prevail, Mr. Jackson said.
Mr. Lane, a 23-year-old native of Australia, was visiting the town of Duncan where his girlfriend and her family live, when he was gunned down by three young men who said they were bored.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)3. Racists seem to have quite an interest in this story.
They don't even care about the victim. All they care about is exploiting the tragedy.
kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)4. Why is the guy who pulled the trigger being tried as an accessory?
Shouldn't he be charged with first degree murder? Something smells to me.
Pisces
(5,592 posts)5. Wasting your breath trying to differentiate. Some people are too dumb for nuance or facts.