White Girl Bleed A Lot...
Posted on 01/08/2017 7:49:19 PM PST by digger48
A chilling act of brutality largely ignored by national media because of racial implications
You probably have not heard the names Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
But I remember those names, and the tears that were brought to my eyes when I heard about what happened to them.
On January 7, 2007, the young white couple—Channon was 21, her boyfriend Chris was 23—was abducted, beaten, raped, tortured, and murdered. Chris eventually shot to death before being set on fire, and Channon left to die with a plastic bag over her head in a trash can. The perpetrators were all black.
If you have not heard their story, it’s because the racial nature of that black-on-white crime was uncomfortable for the national media a decade ago. Even now, it’s uncomfortable, as the delayed and reluctant coverage of the Chicago tortures showed.
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............. “If it bleeds, it leads” is often touted as a journalistic mantra, but the truth is that black people who make white people bleed are often simply ignored, downplayed, or bizarrely “justified” in some bizarro world where white people can’t be victims of crimes perpetrated by black people.
Something is very broken in our national media, and there is no place this is more evident than in the selective reporting of black on white vs. white on black crime.
Damn
Hit post instead of edit. Wasn’t done with it yet.
Lots more at the link
Anyhoo...I think most of us here remember this well and Fuzzy does a good job in this piece of retracing it all.
From the background on the kids to the savage crime the sentencing and especially reaction (and lack of reaction) from the media.
Now, are you sure this article isn’t Russian disinformation? /s
Driving through Knoxville earlier this year, I couldn’t wait to get out. I pray for them on a regular basis. And I hope that someday my Lord will take full vengeance.
Can’t read it. Took too long to get the mental image out of my head.
For those that haven’t read it yet, horrific isn’t the word.
Even what was done to that poor disabled kid pales in comparison to this horror of horrors. (Not to undermine the HORRIFIC experience that he had at all)
I’m a big Horror movie fan, A movies, B movies, hell, C movies.
Haven’t seen many sicker than what real live human beings can come up with.
White Girl Bleed A Lot...
Why were you in such a hurry to get out of Knoxville???
I’ve seen this story on a few different ID shows. Awful, senseless murders.
“White couple killed by 5 blacks. What did the white couple do to deserve this fate? Stay tuned to NBC News”.
There is nothing scarier than man’s inhumanity to man.
Every time I learn of another Black on White crime, this is the event I always think of. My wife and I love to travel and this is the event I think of when we are underway. When folks use the word feral, this is the event I am reminded of.
I am a very situational awareness person, I profile constantly and I am always armed. This heartbreaking event is one I will never forget.
My prayer is that this young couple made it to Heaven, because they had already been in Hell.
I remember it. If memory serves,they were Clemson students. I can’t bring myself to read the story. Was the sentencing fairly decent? Obviously, there can be NO justice.
Unable to read about this case, even after the time passed. Gruesome, very disturbing. MUCH MORE evil than what was seen streaming on Facebook by millions this past week. Not even the coroners could hold their stomach contents inside. It birthed nightmares for weeks.
if you’re not familiar with the wichita massacre, you might want to google that one too
from the link...
[J]uries have convicted the five people who authorities say were involved; the judge who initially oversaw the first trials experienced his own fall from grace; and state leaders have passed judicial laws somewhat connected to the tragic murders.
. . . . In late January that year, a Knox County grand jury returned a 46-count indictment against the small crew. The allegations included various degrees of murder, robbery, kidnapping, theft and rape.
Named were Davidson, who was 25 at the time; Cobbins, 24 then; George Thomas, also 24 at the time; and Vanessa Lynn Coleman, who was 18 and dating Cobbins.
A fifth suspect, then 35-year-old Eric Boyd, was charged in federal court with being an accessory to carjacking. He was the only one of the five who didn’t face murder charges. He also was the only one not tried in Knox County Criminal Court.
The state presentment said Davidson, Cobbins and Thomas participated in the carjacking and Coleman was at the house when they brought Christian and Newsom there by gunpoint.
In April, 2008, a federal jury found Boyd, who had a felony record, guilty of hiding Davidson after the slaying. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison
In August 2009, a jury found Cobbins guilty of murder and the facilitation of murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In October 2009, a jury found Davidson – the man prosecutors called the ringleader – guilty of 35 counts, including murder, robbery, kidnapping and rape. The jury recommended death.
In December 2009, a jury found Thomas guilty of 38 counts, including murder, robbery, kidnapping and rape. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In May 2010, Coleman was found guilty of facilitation in Christian’s murder, kidnapping and rape. She was sentenced to 53 years in prison.
In early 2011, Thomas, Cobbins, Davidson and Coleman appealed their convictions.
The move followed Judge Richard Baumgartner stepping down as details began to emerge that he had carried on an affair with a woman in the drug court that he supervised, using her to secure prescription pills for a drug habit.
The judge’s judgment and competency were questioned, so many in this monstrous gang got retrials.
WBIR continues:
The courts determined that Baumgartner’s drug addiction impaired his ability to conduct trials and ordered retrials for a number of them, including Thomas and Coleman.
In November 2012, a jury convicted Coleman on similar but lesser charges and she was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
In May 2013, a jury convicted Thomas on almost every one of the same charges, although he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 51 years.
Thomas appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in early 2016, asking the justices to review his case. His attorneys argued that Thomas was homeless at the time of the slayings and only staying at the home where the crimes took place. They argued he was not a willing participant. No DNA was presented in court linking him to the crimes.
The “disabled kid” was very lucky. Those subhumans would have continued to entertain themselves until they murdered him just as,horribly as Newsome and Christian were murdered.
Three words: Feral Black People
Why these feral savages WEREN’T charged with a hate crime is still to this day something I don’t understand. The brutality of it was one thing but to have only one get the death penalty (deservedly so) and the others prison could be because it wasn’t ruled as a hate crime. I’ll never get it out of my mind. It rears it’s ugly head every time I hear of some young girl getting abducted, raped and murdered and young men getting murdered at an alarming rate also. We have a beautiful 21 year old granddaughter and a 20 year old grandson both in college and that makes this case even more heart wrenching. There are now as in the past demons walking among us who have no soul and all we can do is pray for the safety of everyone we hold dear.
I am familiar with it....also quite brutal.
Thanks.
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