More senseless killing....funny, though, I don't hear the usual harpies calling out..........

Police seek 2 young suspects after World War II veteran dies following parking lot beating | Fox News

Maybe the public outcry, which is generally whipped up by the media, is not forthcoming simply because the WW2 generation is probably not a great voter base for the current adminstration. Most of the media is nothing more than a tool based upon the current treands. Maybe Candy Crowley could weigh in ? She certainly jumped into the presidential debates and flexed the media's strong arm ... only to be flat wrong.

Just one tiny example.

The authorities are pursuing the perpetrators, so what would you want the usual harpies to say?

Sure, the cops are chasing the killers. Where's the media's outrage ? Where's the Whitehouse's outrage ? Where's Oprah's outrage ? I hear crickets for the most part ...

This one example of a senseless killing is significantly more outrageous than Travon Martin's deal, a thug wanna-be who attacked George Zimmerman and the thug jumped the wrong guy.

Maybe the audience can explan why the lack of apparent interest? I heard of the Martin deal every hour on the hour to the point of having Martin fatigue.

When did the Trayvon Martin publicity reach a fever pitch? The day after he was shot?

Outrage over what? I believe that your suggestion that there is a double standard is misplaced. The Martin killing got attention because it appeared that the police were not concerned about the killing of a black kid. The case took on a life of its own after that, but the initial outrage was over the appearance of unequal justice. Since our criminal justice system has always been unquestionably skewed against black people, that concern was understandable in the Martin case.

Nope, of course not. But, why should it ? Pretty clear from the start that a thug wanna-be jumped the wrong guy.

Maybe we should post some pictures of Shorty when he was about 12 years old ... maybe a really young kid will spark some interest than a old, WW2 vet.

Well help me out here, do you want Al Sharpton to self-immolate, or do you want NAMBLA to issue a statement? Make up your mind.

what in the world are you talking about ?

There are huge differences in the story. If the cops were releasing the one suspect they have, saying he acted in self defense, you might have something. Martin's case got the traction it did in large part because of the hot button profiling issue and because of the way Z went out of his way to start a confrontation that ended with him claiming self-defense.

But who am I kidding? This line of rap will be with us for the foreseeable future.

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So, those "huge differences" indicate in the WW2 vet case, almost no coverage ... and same deal with the Aussie who got slaughtered and now it appears that those "kids" were not just bored -- check out the social media by these youngsters.

BUT, if you got a case where it's pretty clear that the victim (Zimmerman) got jumped and the perp (Martin) simply jumped the wrong guy, then you get media blitz ? That may be the way the cookie crumbles and our American way of life, but I really don't get it.

It is not clear to me that TM jumped GZ. It is clear that GZ had a lot of time to concoct his story and that he knew what most all of the evidence that was potentially against him consisted of.

The nitwits who shot Lane will be in jail for a long time.

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Almost no coverage . . . and yet here it is being raised on a Mercedes Benz forum. What's your definition scale of "coverage?"

We need to have marches in the street. The parents of Trayvon Martin need to react to the killing of every white person by a black person the same way they reacted to their son being shot. Otherwise there is no justice in the world.

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I read somewhere that there are about 40 murders per day in the USA, which is horrid, imo.

Who can keep up? Would anyone expect someone report all of these to the public in each city each day?