Posted on 04/08/2012 10:30:13 PM PDT by Qbert
If were were looking for a mirror image of the Trayvon Martin incident, here you go. This happened a few days ago, but oddly enough the national media hasn’t made it into a big story. I wonder why?
Police are saying more about a shooting at a Taco Bell Tuesday night in which one man died.They’re also identifying the victim as 29-year-old Daniel Adkins.
About 7:30 p.m., a 22-year-old man and his girlfriend ordered food at the Taco Bell drive-thru and were told to pull up while their order was prepared.
At the same time, Adkins stepped around a corner into the path of the vehicle and angry words were exchanged between he and the driver.
They got into an altercation and Adkins was shot once by the driver. He died at the scene.
The driver, a 22-year-old black male, called police but has not been arrested.
At first, the couple claimed that Adkins had a metal pipe that he swung at them — but it turns out he was holding a dog leash with his yellow lab on the other end.
Family members want that driver arrested, but he’s claiming self-defense.
“He needs to be behind bars. I’ll never see my brother again,” says sister Marina Reyes. “If he felt that my brother was threatening him, he could have easily just rolled up the window and called the cops.”
In this case the shooter’s name hasn’t been released, so at least he’s spared from Spike Lee tweeting his address. But why don’t we know his name?
Like Florida, Arizona has a stand your ground law but nobody seems interested in any comparisons.
Can you imagine the furor if a “white hispanic” gunned down a black man with the mental capacity of a 12-year-old in a state governed by Jan Brewer? Heck, Obama would take up residence for a month if he thought it could win some votes, the Justice Department would be crawling through the state and the media that has mangled the Trayvon Martin story would gladly skip town from Sanford for the latest outrageously outrageous outrage.
Instead, we haven’t seen a single story on the national news about this story. Why is that? Where is the 911 call that NBC can manipulate to gin up the racial outage?
More from the family.
The dog, Lady, stayed by Adkins’ side until the Humane Society came. Adkins lived with his mom and dad. He’s 29, but his family says he’s mentally disabled and has the mental capacity of a 12-year-old. He didn’t drive, and walked wherever he went.“This person is still on the loose and I don’t agree with that. So he’s saying self defense, then where’s the weapon? Where’s the pipe? They didn’t find anything on my brother,” says Reyes. “He was just too aggressive, you don’t need to go that far.”
The shooter’s name has not been released. The investigation is still ongoing.
(Full Title: "Black Male Guns Down “White Hispanic” With Mental Capacity of 12-Year-Old, National Media Curiously Disinterested")
I’m sure that Sharpton and the President would consider the shooting justified, since the “Dissing” of a brother with a vicious yellow lab is a capital offense after all.
Zer0 is a white black.
Double-Standards rule our nation.
Work - get money taken from you
Don’t work - get money given to you
Are conservative - you are held to an impossible standard of perfection
Are Liberal - you can get away with anything you want
White - you are assumed to be racist, even if you have never uttered a racist statement or taken racist actions your entire life.
Non-White - you are never considered a racist, even if you speak out as such, take action as such, and don’t even try to hide it... you just can’t be racist.
Absent rabies, you lost me there. LOL
bump
Now, now. You know the msm isn’t allowed to report anything without prior approval from Dear Leader.
0bama’s s0n implementing 0bamaCare Death
Panels.
Now WHY on God’s good green earth would the US MASS DRIVEBY MEDIA want to do ANYTHING that would urinated all over their established, pre-programmed, well-thought-out Narrative, Agenda and Framed Issue(s) for 2012 (with you know what in mind for November). They would not want to pull a “reverse Saul Alinsky” and thereby undercut THEMSELVES, now, would they???? / sarc
the media want to generate a race war in which the white suffers, not one which generate hatred of black which commit majority of crime in the country
Have the idiots in the media figured out that they’ll be among the first casualties in their “splendid little race war”? Incredible.
"Double-Standards rule our nation"
When people allow the leftists to manipulate the language and bully people with accusations of "racism" or other terms, that's going to happen. The double standards have been allowed to flourish for decades, and weak-kneed Repubs are partly to blame, unfortunately.
“Disinterested” means neutral or unbiased, which is obviously NOT true of the MSM. The word I would choose is “UNINTERESTED”.
No the big cheeses in the MSM all have armed bodyguards. To protect them from “right wing crazies”.
If a race war were to come, the media would benefit from the increased sales of newspapers and viewers of news programs.
Maybe the “biggies” do, but the little fish don’t — and those are the wannabes the bosses send to cover riots. Think: target rich environment.
Where’s NBC,ABC?
Work - get money taken from you
Don’t work - get money given to you
Are conservative - you are held to an impossible standard of perfection
Are Liberal - you can get away with anything you want
White - you are assumed to be racist, even if you have never uttered a racist statement or taken racist actions your entire life.
Non-White - you are never considered a racist, even if you speak out as such, take action as such, and don’t even try to hide it... you just can’t be racist.
Sadly, an outstanding summation of the State of the (What Once Was a) Union.
Not so sure this tragedy compares well to the Florida incident. And I’m OK with waiting for the justice system to run its course in both locales. So far, from what has been published (Is it true? Is it accurate? Is it balanced?) this shooter seems to have less “cause” than Z in Florida, but facts not yet in evidence could change that.
This was well-reported in the local media, but not the national, and true, that’s more likely because of the shooter’s race, in my opinion. But that’s only a guess, so I won’t be asking for patrols based on my opinion.
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