There is a lot that the authorities aren’t telling right now. Sometimes their silence is for legitimate investigative reasons and sometimes it’s to adhere to the Leftist agenda. Had the public known certain facts immediately after this horrific incident things would have happened that may not happen if they can delay announcing the inevitable. They can let the anger subside and adjust the narrative and by next week this falls off the radar. This ploy is just the opposite for the victims of fictitious white on black crime where a narrative is produced from thin air and the public is ginned to a furor.
I lived for a number of years in Lafayette County, MS, which is adjacent to Panola County, where the murder occurred. Most of the cops and prosecutors in the region are professional and they don’t follow the “big city” example of trying the case in the media, through carefully-timed leaks.
In one of their few public statements on the crime, local authorities said the victim was able to communicate with first responders before being airlifted to the trauma center in Memphis, where she died. They have not said what the young woman conveyed to them before she lost consciousness. The prosecutor and sheriff (along with the state police) will build a solid case, and announce the arrests—after the accused are taken into custody.
Panola is a working-class area; still a few factories in the area (including Batesville Casket, which dominates that industry), along with smaller employers. Poverty rate isn’t as high as in the Mississippi Delta counties that lie to the west. Fair number of the locals are on the dole and there is a meth trade, though it’s not as widespread as other areas of the state.
The trail in this case looks like it will lead back to the former boyfriend. Given the racial component (and recent events in Ferguson), local authorities are being very careful to develop overwhelming evidence before making the arrests. And it won’t take a Mississippi jury long to convict the killers, regardless of the racial composition of that panel.
” Had the public known certain facts immediately after this horrific incident things would have happened that may not happen if they can delay announcing the inevitable. They can let the anger subside and adjust the narrative and by next week this falls off the radar. This ploy is just the opposite for the victims of fictitious white on black crime where a narrative is produced from thin air and the public is ginned to a furor.”
Excellent points.