Why not more coverage of this?: Union protesters killed in Long Island

[wndycty]

Bodies of two protesters are covered on Sunrise Highway near a Bay Shore, L.I., building construction site where a pickup truck plowed through a group of union picketers. Suffolk County police said. Six people were hurt. Cops said the truck was found soon afterward and the driver apprehended.
http://www.nydailynews.com/includes/dailynewspix/ppages/ppage3.htm

One arrest made after fatal hit-and-run accident at picketing site in Bay Shore

(07/20/04) BAY SHORE - Tuesday morning, a pickup truck plowed into eight men who were picketing on the service road of Sunrise Highway near Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore.

Gerald Geist of Copiague and David Kresofsky of Farmingdale died at the scene. The six other victims were injured and rushed to Southside and Good Samaratan hospitals.
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http://www.news12.com/LI/topstories/article?id=115291

1. it was on the Fox News ticker on 48th street yesterday

Don't know about today, I was in a hurry to get to work.

[wndycty]

3. It does not even seem like it got a lot of coverage in NYC

The only thing I can find on the NY DAILY NEWS website I could only find the picture. . .I will check the NY POST or NEWSDAY.

[JHB]

8. Newsday has something...

...I saw something on it in the dead tree edition I read this morning.

Keep in mind: it happened on Long Island, which as far as the city papers are concerned is still cow country.

And it's not like the guy mowed down a couple of CEOs or anything, so you know what priority corporate media give it....

[rfranklin]

2. Sounds like just another drunk...

from the report. Could there be any other motivation?

[Stephanie]

4. Weird shit happens on Long Island

There's something in the water out there.

[JHB]

9. Salt n/t

[wndycty]

5. Here is the NY POST coverage

HIT-&-RUN CARNAGE

By TODD VENEZIA and KIERAN CROWLEY

A pick-up driver high on drugs slammed into a union picket line on Long Island yesterday, killing two labor protesters and injuring six before speeding away from the scene of carnage, police said.

Cops said Anthony Person, 34, of Brentwood, plowed his Chevrolet into the crowd of carpenters-union demonstrators in Bay Shore at 8:40 a.m.

The workers were protesting what they claimed was the use of nonunion labor on a commercial construction job on the westbound Sunrise Highway service road.

Around 15 workers were on a narrow sidewalk that was penned in by the work site's fence, and they had nowhere to run as the pick-up jumped the curb and raced toward them.
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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/25474.htm

[wndycty]

6. Maybe I watch too much Sopranos. . .

. . .I am not sure if it is an accident, because no matter how you can explain this I can counter with a conspiracy. Between the DU and my TV watching habits I am ruined. . .something stinks here. Damn I need help! (smile)

[Nadienne]

11. Corporate media doesn't like unions

Anti-union bias might have planted ideas into the "stoner's" head... :shrug:

[wndycty]

13. Was he a stoner or hired by someone. . .

. . .I saw something like this on the Sopranos. . .damn I need help!

[AngryAmish]

7. According to NY Times

the guy was gopped up on goop.

[bobthedrummer]

10. I ran an informational picketline for UFCW for over a year.

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[Renew Deal]

12. It's on the Newsday cover today.

This is unfortunate.