I am outraged!
An innocent victim is brutally murdered, and the killer will not get the death penalty. Have we become so calloused that the unprovoked deaths of innocents (of all people) do not merit the death penalty?
Oh, did you think I was talking about the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case?
That is not surprising, since it has dominated news coverage almost every day since it happened. But my outrage is not directed at a case that has been examined and re-examined from the ghetto to the newsrooms to the White House, but at an incident that you probably have not heard of.
Do the names De’Marquise Elkins or Antonio West ring a bell? Generate a vague recollection? “I seem to have heard something like that.” Well, let me refresh your memory, since apparently the national media don’t consider the story worth any major coverage.
On March 21, 2013, Antonio West was shot to death by De’Marquise Elkins. Well, that is not all that big a deal; after all, according to the Slate gun-death tracker, “Last year, there were 32,163 firearm deaths … the vast majority of these deaths are Americans killing Americans.”
And with names like De’Marquise and Antonio, they were probably black. As the statistics show, “Blacks killing blacks ain’t no big deal.” After all, almost 500 blacks have been killed in Chicago since the Martin-Zimmerman saga began to unfold (61 just during the trial period). “So what’s the big deal about some dude named De’Marquis offing another dude named Antonio?”
Apparently there is a little more to the story than that, something the national media obviously did not consider particularly newsworthy. According to several reports (not headline news, of course) which lasted about two days, the following emerges:
Click & Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/outraged-murdered-baby-snubbed-by-media/#qHzAiigUhortLmTE.99
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