08-22-2013, 01:25 PM
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Fox & Friends, Daily Caller Falsely Report ?3 Black Teens? Arrested in Chris Lane Murder
The senseless, infuriating murder of Australian Chris Lane has drawn comparisons, by some media outlets, to the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Fox and Friends and The Daily Caller, for example, have each posited the Lane killing as illustrating some sort of ?double standard? by black leaders like Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and President Barack Obama, but in the process, each of them falsely reported that Lane was shot by ?three black teens,? when one of the suspects is clearly a white male. A Duncan, Oklahoma police source confirms, to Mediaite, that 17 year-old suspect Michael Jones is, indeed, a white male.
The three teens allegedly shot and killed Chris Lane ?for the fun of it,? as infuriating a motive as there is, but so far, there is no indication that race played a role in the selection of the victim, and unlike the Trayvon Martin killing, the alleged perpetrators in this crime were almost immediately arrested and charged. Like other crimes that have been posited as ?double standards,? there is no factual basis for comparison, and no one has explained what, exactly, they would expect Rev. Al to say.
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To be clear, their premise would be equally false if all three suspects were black, but the fact that they?ve chosen to ignore Michael Jones? race indicates a commitment to that premise no matter what the facts say.
The oldest of the three suspects, who declared in open court that he ?pulled the trigger,? is a white male, so perhaps these conservative outlets ought to be praising Al Sharpton for not coming out and saying that the lesson here is for black kids not to hang around with white kids.
If he did, he would be rightly condemned, but such a declaration would be no more absurd than the idea that he should weigh in on a tragedy that, thus far, appears to be taking as just a course as is possible. There?s definitely something wrong with the people who killed Chris Lane, but it?s not the color of their skin
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