Why did the press ignore young girl’s vicious beating?

Portland, OR â€" On December 26, 2011, 14-year-old Karley Buckland, an eighth-grader at Centennial Middle School, along with three friends boarded the Max Green Line train at Clackamas Town Center after a day of shopping.

Buckland and her schoolmates sat across from a group of several teenagers who she told The Gresham Outlook: “were trying to start a fight.”

Buckland who is white said one of the teens, who was black, asked her if her male friend was her boyfriend, when she replied “no,” the teen reportedly said: “He needs some chocolate in his life.”

When Buckland laughed at the remark, the three black teenagers surrounded her and commenced with a relentless flurry of punches and slaps, even spitting on her, all the while shouting racial epithets at the white teenager.

The brutal beating was captured on a cell phone video in which other black youths can be seen and heard cheering on the attack.

After viewing the video on Youtube, Buckland said: “It felt like for five minutes.”

While no one made any attempt to stop the beating, another passenger called 9-1-1 and police boarded the train at the Foster Street Station.

Though her alleged attackers had already run from the train by the time police arrived, three teens were eventually charged with the attack. The mother of one of the girls was also arrested.

Selena Estelle Harris, 38, Rakeshia Shamone Burns, 18, and two juveniles were all charged with third-degree assault, riot, second-degree disorderly conduct, harassment and interfering with public transportation.

However, Portland police have chosen not to prosecute the attack as a hate crime.

Despite the obvious racial overtones to this case and the fact that the victim was a 14-year-old girl, this case has received no attention from the national media.

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