Another random attack - 88 year old veteran beaten to death

Jesus ****ing Christ.

No guns this time, just pure evil preying on the defenseless.



This will make you sick

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Updated On: 8/23/13 at 05:56 AM

This makes me upset, especially given his age.

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My anger is at the media - who clearly define the Treyvon Martin killing as racist, but never call the Christopher Lane killing racist - which, by all readings of the twitter accounts of the killers, it clearly was.

Good to know Jess Jackson's reaction is that killings like these are "frowned upon" as opposed to his reaction to Martin's killing of "We need a national investigation of the racial context that led to Trayvon Martin’s slaying. Congress must act."

This is the reason for the widening divide.

Or why do people invoke the name Trayvon Martin when the cases aren't even similar? Unless I missed the part in this case where the kids who committed this crime were never arrested.

erik, people will compare them because one case was seen - rightly or wrongly - as a person defending himself against an attack and being demonized for having done so on a wrongly racial basis.

i read a lot of tweets about how trayvon was an innocent kid preyed upon by a brutal racist killer. it was made into a black vs. white issue of a white man killing an african american boy. and there was widespread outrage.

yes, you can point out the vast differences ebtween the two cases, but what a lot of people see is that there was a huge outpouring of support and attention to the trayvon martin case - the president himself commenting on it. the killer in that case was demonized and pillioried over and over again by national news figures and in the press daily for weeks and months.

regardless of how much attention is being paid to this case, there is not any where near the level of outrage being shown toward the alleged killers by the same figures as those who made george zimmerman public enemy #1.

whether it's right or wrong, whether the cases match in any way. the alleged kilers in this case - which according to the tweets in the chris lane case - were actually racially motivated. that's somethign that was alleged repeatedly against zimmerman and by elected officials. it's not something that is being discussed with any where near the vitriol at the highest levels in this instance.

that's what people see. they see a president who empathized with a person who many saw as a thug now ignoring a truly innocent victim of the same type of thug. i mean c'mon, the wh press secretary pretended the toehr day to have not even heard about this. that in and of itself speaks volumes about the difference between how the cases are seen.

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remember tawana!

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""i read a lot of tweets about how trayvon was an innocent kid preyed upon by a brutal racist killer. it was made into a black vs. white issue of a white man killing an african american boy. and there was widespread outrage""

the whole black vs white thing in this case was mindboggling. Zimmmerman is Hispanic. it was the media who cooked it up to see papers and get ratings.

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Updated On: 8/23/13 at 09:53 AM

Let's stick to the case at hand! This old thug was sitting behind the wheel of a several-thousand-pound weapon, threatening all who went past. Clearly, those kids had no choice but to "Stand their ground" and pre-emptively take out this menace.

No one wants to face facts: this guy was a trained killer, with a strong history of violence. He was waiting for a women to emerge from the building- was he going to rape her? Kill her? Buy drugs from her? Almost definitely.

Thank God those young heroes had the courage to do what needed to be done.

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Papa, wouldn't you say another difference was the zeal with which the victim was demonized? The "He deserved it" or "well he shouldn't have dressed like a thug" that eventually became sheer joy that someone, somewhere finally had the balls to gun down one of them damn dirty apes?

i think that case was a clusterf*ck, joe. go read jeralyn merritt's accoutns of the case from the very beginning on talkleft.com and you'll come away with a very different view of things, i think.

yes, the victim was demonized, but i think that was a reaction to him being lionized.

it's like the lz granderson piece that byron posted that talks about the fact that nobody wants to admit that their kid might not be perfect.

the trayvon case was seized on and exploited and i don't think any side came out of it looking very good.

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So basically it was way more complicated than a team vs team football game.

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In your mother's nursing home bed