Crime, race and media hypocrisy Part I: Selective outrage

While CNN is devoting nearly around-the-clock coverage to last month’s shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was killed by a neighborhood watch captain, the cable network much like the rest of the national news media has devoted no coverage to other recent tragic and even fatal crimes in which the victim and perpetrator(s) (or alleged perpetrators) were of different races.

What follows is a short list of very heinous crimes in which the victim was white and where race seems to have been the only motivating factor, and the national press has completely ignored:

-On February 28, 2012, a 13-year-old boy in Kansas City, Missouri, was doused with gasoline in front of his home and set ablaze. The victim was able to extinguish the flames himself before calling 911.

The boy was taken to Children's Mercy Hospital and treated in the hospital’s burn unit with first-degree burns to his face and head.

Lighting the gasoline “produced a large fireball burning the face and hair” according to the police report.

The victim’s mother, Melissa Coon told KMBC: “You could smell the burned skin. You could smell the burned hair. It was just horrible.”

In addition to losing his eyelashes and eyebrows, doctors are concerned over the long term damage the fire may have done to his eyes and lungs.

Coon gave the following account of the incident: “They rushed him on the porch as he tried to get the door. [One of them] poured the gasoline, then flicked the Bic, and said, ‘This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy.’”

Police have since arrested two 16-year-old black males for the crime. Because they are juveniles, police have not released their names at this time.

They apparently followed the victim home from East High School which is only two blocks form his home.

The attack is reportedly being investigated as a hate crime.

The family fearing further attacks, now plans to move and Coon says that her son will not be returning to East High School.

Sadly, she described the reaction from her younger son, saying: “My 5-year-old came in and asked me, ‘Mom, am I going to get set on fire today?’ I was in tears.”

Coon recently told the American Thinker that the incident likely happened as a result of the treatment her son received at the hands of a black teacher, identified as Mrs. Karla Dorsey.

Coon reports that when her son raised his hand to answer a question about Black History Month, Mrs. Dorsey shot back: “What would you know about it…You’re not our race.”

It was shortly after this alleged incident that her son was set on fire.

-In May 2010, Hampton police announced that an assault case against William Douglas, 25, had been turned over to the FBI, for possible prosecution as a hate crime.

On April 16, 2010, Douglas allegedly followed 59-year-old Sylvia Hollingsworth, who is white, out of a 7-Eleven at the corner of North King Street and Rip Rap Road in Hampton.

As she got into her car, he attacked her.

According to the police report, he punched the woman in the face, neck and arms and repeatedly slammed her legs with the car door. Throughout the ordeal, the woman was subjected to a tirade of racist profanity.

Hollingsworth was actually punched with a closed fist to the throat.

After the attacker’s ride sped away, the man fled the scene.

Police believe that a few minutes later, the Douglas shot at someone.

The victim told WVEC 13 News: “Never once did he try to take my keys. Never once did he ask or try to take my pocketbook or any money. He was just out to hurt.”

Hollingsworth continued: “It leaves me hurt, and I feel like I'm a victim of a hate crime. Just in his own words, he hated whites and he was going to kill my 'f---ing' white ass, as he put it, and that's what he was trying to do.

William Douglas was charged with malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

He recently pleaded guilty to assault and firearms charges, and will have to serve a minimum of three and a half years in prison.

The federal hate crimes investigation was dropped.

Mrs. Hollingsworth informed this reporter that the FBI interviewed her on multiple occasions, but did not offer her an explanation as to why the case was simply dropped.

She also told me told me that she has not been back to the convenience store where the attack occurred. She also said that for a time following the brutal assault, she was called a “racist” by some in her neighborhood for pressing charges against her attacker.

However, Hollingsworth is not bitter.

She said: “I’ve got some good friends, black and white.”

Though Douglas was not prosecuted for a hate crime, Hollingsworth was relieved that he will be off the streets for at least a few years.

The Norfolk and Hampton FBI offices refused to comment on this case.

-On August 18, 2009, Brian Milligan Jr., 18, was walking home when he was reportedly attacked at the corner of Genesee Street and Floss Avenue, by between 10 to 15 black men. In addition to being punched and kicked, Milligan’s attackers hit him in the back of the head with a brick.

Amazingly, despite his severe injuries, Milligan managed to stumble the remaining five blocks to his house where he collapsed.

His father, Brian Milligan Sr. told a WGRZ reporter: "I mean, I couldn't believe that a human can lose so much blood and walk home for five blocks. It didn't even look like my son.”

Milligan who spent several days in the Erie County Medical Center, suffered bleeding in his brain and a broken jaw, which will require the reinforcement of a metal plate and reconstructive surgery, the extent of his brain injuries is not yet fully known..

Milligan’s girlfriend Nicola Fisher, who is black, has told police that the two were often threatened and taunted as they walked together through their neighborhood.

Milligan‘s father believes his son‘s relationship with Fisher was the motivation behind the attack. He said: "They're just in love. They just want to be left alone,"

Police are investigating the attack as a hate crime, and Buffalo Police spokesperson Mike DeGeorge told reporters: "The department is vigorously investigating this tragic incident like it does with all crimes in the city. We understand the family's grief and the department is asking anyone with information about this incident to call the confidential tip call [716] 847-2255.”

Despite that assurance from the Buffalo Police at the time, Milligan’s father expressed his frustration with the investigation, and said: “I don't want to sound wrong, but, what happens if this was a black boy laying up on that bed, and it was twelve white guys that did this to him.”

As it turned out, Mr. Milligan may have had a point…

In May 2010, two assailants, Donte Lee, 18, and Antoine Blackmon, 16, pleaded guilty to assault charges and were both sentenced to six years imprisonment, after authorities claimed there was not enough evidence to charge them with a hate crime.

An unidentified 12-year-old was also charged in the beating.

Also, while robbery may have been the motive, or at least an afterthought, a recent case of a white teenager who was murdered by a young black man in Georgia has received no attention from the same national press now obsessed with a homicide which police determined to have occurred in self-defense.

On March 15, 2012, Brian Beasley was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, without possibility of parole for the shooting death of 19-year-old Albany High School student, Robert Purvis.

Beasley shot the teen to death at a car wash in Albany in February of 2011.

A surveillance video showed Purvis being shot twice in the chest while his girlfriend washes a   car nearby. Beasley is then seen exiting his own vehicle, taking Purvis’ car keys and fleeing the scene in the dead teen’s car.

For the aforementioned victims there were no candlelight vigils, no protest marches and no coverage from a national press seemingly consumed with proving their color-blindness to the viewing public…Of course, the opposite result is now being seen.

The United States is now a very dangerous country, with about 16,000 murders occurring annually.

If we cannot speak honestly and openly about all of the reasons such violence is taking place…How can we ever hope to improve the situation?

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