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13-year-old black boy found guilty of first-degree murder of 9-year-old white boy
American Thinker ^ | September 5, 2015 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 09/05/2015 6:18:39 AM PDT by artichokegrower

In a case that has received remarkably little national attention, 13-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn has been found guilty of first degree murder (by stabbing, on a playground) of 9 year old Connor Verkerke in a Kent County (Grand Rapids) Michigan trial. The relative inattention to the case may have something to do with the respective races of the perpetrator (black) and victim (white).

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: connorverkerke; crime; jamarionlawhorn; lawhorn; michigan
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Haven't heard much from the Black Lives Matter crowd on this case.
1 posted on 09/05/2015 6:18:39 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Well, it seems Farrakan has a loyal follower.


2 posted on 09/05/2015 6:22:13 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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Note to American Thinker: You can’t use ‘black boy’ in a headline. Two violations of thought crime rules. !)’Black’ must always be capitalized when referring to a Negro (and conversely, white, as properly used here, must be lower case) and 2) ‘boy’ when referring to a Negro male, even one who is a boy, is by definition racist.

Someone’s targeted themselves for the re-education camps.


3 posted on 09/05/2015 6:25:27 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: artichokegrower
The relative inattention to the case may have something to do with the respective races of the perpetrator (black) and victim (white).

Ah.... white race grievance pimps.

4 posted on 09/05/2015 6:26:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Will be sent to juvie, out at 21 ....


5 posted on 09/05/2015 6:28:14 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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The SILENCE on this black murder of a white child has been DEAFENING.


6 posted on 09/05/2015 6:29:48 AM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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But the question remains: why did Lawhorn choose the victim he selected?

Was he influenced by the racial rhetoric that was pervasively present on August 15, 2014, the day of the murder? That was only five days after the shooting in Ferguson, MO that sparked national outrage and violence on the false premise of a young black man gunned down while his hands were up. k

One can only imagine the Hate being spewed at home against Whitey & the Police. ...a home where violence was dished out to him almost daily.

7 posted on 09/05/2015 6:32:21 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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8 posted on 09/05/2015 6:33:24 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: SkyDancer

Tried as an adult and found guilty of first-degree murder, which certainly will be appealed.

Kid was raised by savages, regularly beaten, and lived in filth. That alone will give him a reduced sentence, but maybe this kid is so broken that he should never be returned to society.


9 posted on 09/05/2015 6:38:53 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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juvenile = no crime


10 posted on 09/05/2015 6:40:25 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, .. Iran deal & holocaust: Obama's batting clean up for Adolph Hitler)
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Sounds to me like we have one family grieving the loss of a son, the other really does not give shit.
Not to diminish the death of Connor Verkerke, but Jamarion Lawhorn actions are clearly the result of worse than terrible parenting AND the influence of groups like Black Lives Matter and the NAACP.
Being tried as an adult, I assume as soon as he turns 18 or maybe 21 he will be transferred to an adult prison. There he can really be educated I the Black Lives matter and NOI teachings.
Two lost lives and one lost soul.


11 posted on 09/05/2015 6:43:28 AM PDT by Tupelo (Trump is no Reagan, but he is a fighter.")
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"Note to American Thinker: You can’t use ‘black boy’ in a headline."

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;"

12 posted on 09/05/2015 6:45:19 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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Besides, 13 is too young to be referred to as a ‘buck’.


13 posted on 09/05/2015 6:48:51 AM PDT by PAR35
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Will be sent to juvie, out at 21 ....

Yes. When I was growing up in Queens, around 1966, a neighbor of mine went over to a bus stop and asked a young Jewish man who had recently been discharged from the Army, where he served as a first lieutenant and platoon leader in Vietnam, if he had the time. When he looked down at his watch, my neighbor drew a knife and plunged it into his heart, killing him almost instantly, in front of a mixed race crowd in line for the bus. My neighbor 'just happened to be' a 15 year old black male. His mother dragged him, in his blood soaked clothing, into the 113th Precinct shortly thereafter.

Fast forward six years. The yute is now 21 and released from juvie hall. He takes advantage of his freedom by strolling over to the laundromat, and tossing a young white man into a dryer and setting to 'wash and wear'. How did New York ever get along with out all these displaced southern agricultural workers?

14 posted on 09/05/2015 6:50:06 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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In an often repeated story, the 13 year old boy has been deprived of his life by the actions and inactions of his parents and role models. At 13 he should have been old enough to know what he was doing and understand the consequences. He learned this murderous behavior at home and in the street.

Two lives lost.

15 posted on 09/05/2015 6:51:58 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: artichokegrower

And even less from the media.


16 posted on 09/05/2015 6:52:33 AM PDT by sport
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Lawhorn said he choose a victim he didn't know, because he didn't know him. His motive, according to himself, was to induce the Police to kill him so he would no longer suffer the beatings at home.

If that was true, why did he not remain at the scene?

17 posted on 09/05/2015 6:53:00 AM PDT by ASA Vet (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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He’s 13 now. Twelve at the time of the murder.


18 posted on 09/05/2015 6:53:55 AM PDT by ASA Vet (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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This is just tragic, for both boys.


19 posted on 09/05/2015 6:54:44 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I hope after the second time they had enough sense to keep the idiot in jail forever.


20 posted on 09/05/2015 6:58:11 AM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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