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Why the Left Ignores the Killing of a Pakistani Immigrant Uber Driver
Townhall.com ^ | April 13, 2021 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 04/13/2021 4:03:17 AM PDT by Kaslin

On March 23, Mohammad Anwar of Springfield, Virginia, a 66-year-old immigrant from Pakistan earning his living as an Uber Eats driver, was killed by two girls, ages 13 and 15. They carjacked Anwar, Tasered him and then, as he held on to the car (the source of his livelihood) in an attempt to stop them from stealing it, floored the gas pedal and crashed the car, killing him when he was thrown from the vehicle.

As reported the next day in The Washington Post:

"Anwar tried to force his way back into the car by climbing on top of the teen in the driver's seat, (Detective Chad Leo of the Washington, D.C., police homicide unit) said. Before he could get all the way in, though, the 13-year-old reached over from the passenger seat, turned on the ignition and 'manipulated' the gear shift, Leo said. With Anwar 'hanging outside the car' through the open driver's door, Leo said, the vehicle lurched forward and accelerated down the block, made a sharp right turn, struck a curb and overturned, landing passenger side up. Anwar was ejected and suffered broken bones and injury to his head."

After the unharmed girls climbed out and joined the onlookers milling around the car, one of them could be heard yelling, "My phone is in there!" (The Washington Post, March 31) and, "He has my phone!" (CBS News, March 30).

I found no mainstream media that identified the girls as black.

In The Washington Post report cited above, there was no mention of the girls' race, just, "Two girls ages 13 and 15 have been charged with felony murder."

CNN's report on March 27 made no mention of race: "Two teenage girls have been charged in the carjacking death of an Uber Eats driver ... The girls, 13 and 15, assaulted Anwar with a Taser while carjacking him ... The younger girl is from the southeast section of DC, the older from Fort Washington, Maryland, police said."

In a March 31 Washington Post editorial on the subject, there was no mention of the girls' race.

The New York Times never even reported the incident.

Why is this significant? Because white perpetrators of violence are always identified as such. When a white man engages in a mass killing, the first thing we learn, and are told over and over, is that he is white. If a white policeman kills a black man, no matter how justified (as in Ferguson, Missouri) or morally ambiguous (as in most other cases), we are reminded in every news story that the officer was white. In the very first New York Times report on the Atlanta massage parlor killings, the Times reported, "The suspect in custody is white."

The mainstream media have a mission that has nothing to do with reporting truth. Along with the Democratic Party and the rest of the left, their mission is to portray America -- that is, its white population -- as racist. Reporting that nonwhites have perpetrated violence -- particularly against nonwhites -- undermines that narrative, and these inconvenient facts are therefore consciously omitted. Or worse: The implication placed in people's minds is that whites are the perpetrators.

This was my point in a previous column when I wrote: "Another New York Times article (about anti-Asian-American violence), under the headline 'A Tense Lunar New Year for the Bay Area After Attacks on Asian-Americans,' opens with this: 'The videos are graphic and shocking. In January, a local television station showed footage of a young man sprinting toward, then violently shoving to the ground, a man identified as Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, who had been out for a morning walk in the Anza Vista neighborhood of San Francisco. He later died.' The Times piece never reveals the name or race of the perpetrator: Antoine Watson, a 19-year-old black man."

Why? Because the Times wanted its readers to believe that Ratanapakdee, the elderly Asian American, was murdered by a white.

Truth, it is necessary to say again and again, is a liberal value and a conservative value, but it has never been a left-wing value.

Here is another example from just the past two weeks:

Last week, anti-black and anti-Semitic graffiti were discovered at Albion College, a school about 100 miles to the west of Detroit. As is usually the case with such incidents, police soon discovered that the culprit was not a white racist but a black person seeking to inflame anti-white hatred. Yet, here was how the Detroit Free Press headlined the discovery: "Albion Student Suspended Over Racist Graffiti.""

Nowhere in the article did the Detroit Free Press note that the suspended student was black.

America is drowning in left-wing lies. And it is being asphyxiated by the left's substitution of "social justice" for justice. The two girls, who committed a very adult crime, will not be charged as adults, will likely not be imprisoned and very possibly will not even be punished. And the Albion student -- whose name has not been released -- most likely won't be punished either.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; dennisprager; leftwingagenda; leftwingmediabias; mohammadanwar; newyorkslimes; springfield; virginia; washingtoncompost

1 posted on 04/13/2021 4:03:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I learned more about this horrible crime in five minutes of reading this here than from any and all other complicit ‘news media’.


2 posted on 04/13/2021 4:30:27 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: Kaslin

I could say what I really think, but I think I will restrain myself. ๐Ÿ˜


3 posted on 04/13/2021 4:44:06 AM PDT by Mark17 (US Air Force, retired. It was a long 20 years. )
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To: Kaslin

The media deliberately and intentionally, with full knowledge and awareness, chooses to lie so as to demonize Whites to prepare the folks for the forthcoming Grand Elimination.

PS - media folks, if you’re reading this: when you leave out the race of the perp we KNOW what it was. Two uncaring “teen” age girls who try to steal and who care more about their smartphone that we paid for than about the man they killed, well we know the race. You don’t have to tell us.


4 posted on 04/13/2021 4:49:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I have ZERO confidence in my government, and almost zero in the medical industry.)
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To: Kaslin

The new narrative is that White people are dangerous and must be clamped down on.


5 posted on 04/13/2021 4:54:14 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Mark17

Don’t be yet another honky, cowed into silence.

Tell us how you feel about these poor girls; who were merely acting out what many feel when they see someone different from themselves in a position of power:

HE owned a car.

HE had a JOB.

HE decided which path to take them on.

HE controlled the radio music.

THEY had to sit in the back seat.

Yada, yada, yada...


6 posted on 04/13/2021 4:55:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin
Because the Times wanted its readers to believe that Ratanapakdee, the elderly Asian American, was murdered by a white.

Surely by now, anyone whith those two brains cells in close proximatey KNOWS that a failure to mention RACE is ALWAYS (Well, not always, but at least 99.999% of the time) an indicator that the race of the perp(s) is/are _______.


What did YOU fill in the blank with??
HMMmm...

Your answer, or NON-answer PROVES you are a racist!

7 posted on 04/13/2021 4:59:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Well, this is not exactly what I was thinking of a few minutes ago, but picture this in your mind. Itโ€™s what I wish I could say to some of the professional racists out there. If I have racism in one hand, and a place where the sun donโ€™t shine in the other. I just kind of wonder if the two could kind of join each other. ๐Ÿ˜


8 posted on 04/13/2021 5:02:37 AM PDT by Mark17 (US Air Force, retired. It was a long 20 years. )
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To: drSteve78

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=13+15+girls+car+jack&ia=web


9 posted on 04/13/2021 5:14:50 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

Boy, I’m just getting all weepy eyed about another dead muslim... That sob would call me an “infidel” and cut my head off if given a chance. Boo freakin hoo.


10 posted on 04/13/2021 6:15:00 AM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: I want the USA back

America is drowning in left-wing lies.


11 posted on 04/13/2021 6:48:37 AM PDT by MarvinStinson ( )
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To: Kaslin

How long will Uber & Lyft even be around if ButtBoy gets his 25 cents a mile tax???

How about Pizza deliveries?
How about floral deliveries?

My mobile Veterinarian drives her truck to ranches & farms & treats large animals. Last year she had about 27,000 miles of such work. Her tax would be an additional $6,750 annually. The state gas tax is about 40 cents a gallon, and she gets about 15 MPG on her heavy truck...due to the “Vet Pack” she carries. That represents about $720 in current fuel taxes.


12 posted on 04/13/2021 9:25:27 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The mainstream media have a mission that has nothing to do with reporting truth. Along with the Democratic Party and the rest of the left, their mission is to portray America -- that is, its white population -- as racist. Reporting that nonwhites have perpetrated violence -- particularly against nonwhites -- undermines that narrative, and these inconvenient facts are therefore consciously omitted. Or worse: The implication placed in people's minds is that whites are the perpetrators.

13 posted on 04/13/2021 9:38:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: drSteve78
After the unharmed girls climbed out and joined the onlookers milling around the car, one of them could be heard yelling, "My phone is in there!" ... I found no mainstream media that identified the girls as black.

_________________

It's time to re-imagine the black community as 'lawful'... STOP pretending it's lawful. Tell the press to stop lying for the black community. It's NOT helping. It's enabling.

Then re-imagine the press as 'honest' NOT pretend that they're honest now. They're not.

Dennis Prager's late to the party? All of us know when race is left out of a crime story it means the criminal is 'of color'.

"Gun violence" happens most often when the killer is black... When a cop kills a black man it's NEVER 'gun violence'...it's always 'cop kills black man'...

14 posted on 04/13/2021 10:52:53 AM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like stupid white trash...)
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To: Kaslin
Some other victims they're ignoring, from Syracuse in Upstate NY...

2 elderly women killed and now an innocent baby: Who is safe in Syracuse?

15 posted on 04/13/2021 10:56:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: rbg81
Nowhere in the article did the Detroit Free Press note that the suspended student was black.

Commies are attempting to start a race war so they have an excuse to 'clamp down' on traditional Americans. I'm not sure what else it could be...

It's evil - it's sick. Maybe the fools in the press are doing this because they're hooked on democrat 'news packets' from war rooms (the kind that don't worry about 'journalistic ethics) .

It's time for an 'intervention'... America is drowning in left-wing lies.

16 posted on 04/13/2021 11:09:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like stupid white trash...)
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