If the crowd were white and the victim black, not only would their races be prominently featured in the article (and in news reports in all of the national media), but Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would already be in town organizing national protests.
“Juneteenth”
Sheesh.
“identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40”
Just a guess here but I’d say just mexicans doing the work Americans won’t do.
I'm not sure how "white" he is, but odds are he's not particularly "black".
Got to believe some alcohol was involved here.
This might possibly be a case of over-reaction.
I believe Juneteenth is another black holiday. So put 2 and 2 together.
I had planned to bake a nice Juneteenth cake and everything. Damn.
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/240/JunteenthNational_Freedom_Day_observed
Juneteenth is a “African-American” holiday. (I’d never heard of it, had to look it up)
Being from Texas I am sure you know that Juneteenth is celebrated exclusively by the black population.
That is very hard core for Austin.
Perhaps, Detroit, Boston, LA or New Orleans but not Austin.
Sounds like jungle-injustice to me. F-ing thugs! It’s a shame that nobody will ever be charged (mark my words).
Austin’s a zoo. Obviously the animals were restless.
Strange how underwraps this story appears to be.
Hopefully someone with a cell phone camera and a conscience recorded the murder, and will turn it over to police.
One could assume black Juneteenth celebrants beat Mexican descended (either legal or not) man to death in Austin for trying to get them not to kill a man whose car injured a kid...not too seriously either.
I would bet the driver was not black either.
This is like third world stuff. When I lived third, one did not stop the car for any accident. It could be a one way ticket just because of stuff like this.
This is more of what America is going to become down the road almost inevitably.
Animals.
The last line of the article gives you the hint on the crowd’s ethnicity. The passenger’s name hints as to the ethnicity of the occupants of the vehicle. Whites aren’t the only group people of that ethnicity (the crowd) have enmity with. Articles with this sort of omission are more of a case of not bringing up inconvenient statistics or reminders of statistics that might affect the perception of certain hyphenated Americans.
(wow, is it hard to write without mentioning specifics).
>>killed<<
Very neutral-sounding choice of words, isn’t it? I guess that “lynched” or “murdered” would have been too inciting. And it leaves the actual details regarding the manner of death completely unclear. Was the victim hanged, burned alive, shot, or killed by lethal injection?
“Juneteenth”? And all this time I thought it was called “Juneteenf”!
This was a racial murder, along the lines of Crown Heights.
i wonder if this relates to the black teen killed by APD last month...the local black community was already twitchy