Ya think?
Posted on 10/29/2007 7:00:14 PM PDT by yetidog
Where has the MSM been since the terrible crime described below was committed? Why have not Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton been excited like they were for the Duke Lacross players? And where is CNN, ABC and NBC to tell the nation about this one. What are they waiting for? This happened the end of January and have you heard about it yet?
The young couple was car-jacked, raped Christopher Newsom , cut off his penis, then set him on fire and fatally shot him several times while they forced his girlfriend, Channon Christian, to watch. Channon was beaten and gang-raped in many ways for four days by all of them, while they took turns urinating on her. Then they cut off her breast and put chemicals in her mouth ... And then murdered her. Read it:
Dozens of New Charges in Double Murder Case Announced Posted: 5:05 PM Feb 1, 2007. Last Updated: 11:40 AM Feb 8, 2007. Reporter: Whitney Daniel , WVLT Staff
Knoxville (WVLT) - The District Attorney General of Knox County announced the list of charges facing now five suspects in the double murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom .
The District Attorney General Randy Nichols is not saying whether or not he will seek the death penalty, but he does say the State will seek conviction for all charges filed in a 24-page indictment from the Knox County Grand Jury.
Lemaricus Davidson, 25, faces a total of 46 charges. Davidson was indicted on 16 counts of Felony Murder growing out of rape, robbery kidnapping and theft of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, 2 counts premeditated murder of Christian and Newsom, 2 counts especially aggravated robberies from Christian and Newsom, 4 counts especially aggravated kidnapping of Christian and Newsom, 20 counts aggravated rape of Christian and Newsom, and 2 counts of theft from Christian and Newsom.
Letalvis Cobbins, 24, faces a total of 46 charges. Cobbins was indicted on 16 counts of Felony Murder growing out of rape, Robbery kidnapping and theft of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom , 2 counts premeditated murder of Christian and Newsom, 2 counts especially aggravated robberies from Christian and Newsom, 4 counts especially aggravated kidnapping of Christian and Newsom, 20 counts aggravated rape of Christian and Newsom, and 2 counts of theft from Christian and Newsom.
George Thomas, 24, faces a total of 46 charges. Thomas was indicted on 16 counts of Felony Murder growing out of rape, robbery kidnapping and theft of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, 2 counts premeditated murder of Christian and Newsom, 2 counts especially aggravated robberies from Christian and Newsom, 4 counts especially aggravated kidnapping of Christian and Newsom, 20 counts aggravated rape of Christian and Newsom, and 2 counts of theft from Christian and Newsom.
Just last night, police in Lebanon , Kentucky , arrested 18-year-old Vanessa Coleman. She faces 40 Tennessee state charges. Coleman was indicted on 12 counts Felony Murder growing out of rape, robbery kidnapping and theft of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom, 1 count Premeditated Murder of Christian only, 1 count Especially Aggravated Robbery of Newsom only, 4 counts especially aggravated kidnapping of Christian and Newsom, 20 counts of aggravated rape of Christian and Newsom and 2 Counts of theft from Christian and Newsom.
Eric Boyd, 24, also arrested in connection with the fatal carjacking, only faces federal charges as an accessory after the fact. He was not indicted by Knox county grand jury.
Felony Murder carries a possibility of death, life without the possibility of parole and life with parole. Especially Aggravated Robbery is a Class A felony that carries a possibility of 15 to 60 years in prison. Aggravated Rape is a Class A felony that carries a possibility of 15 to 60 years of prison.
At a news conference Thursday , Nichols commended the cooperative efforts between several departments and credits that cooperation for the fast pace this case is moving through the court system.
Nichols says he hopes to move the case to trial on the first day it's set.
The four are expected to make their first court appearance within ten to fifteen days.
This is certainly a case garnering a lot of public interest, Nichols recognizes that and says he expects all kinds of requests filed in this case, including a change of venue in order to receive a fair trial. But he says he does hope 12 Knox County jurors will be able to determine the guilt or innocence of these suspects.
Where are Reverends Al and Jesse on this evident hate crime? Are they providing counsel and help to the families of the victims? Why hasn't this received National coverage by the news media like the Duke "rape" case? Why hasn't the NAACP, ACLU, New York Times, etc., called for an investigation? Why hasn't the FBI been called in to investigate this as a hate crime?
I’m looking real closely at the girl’s picture.She looks like she could be a very light skinned black girl.
Even if she is not,do you think a factor in the crime might have been to punish the”white boy”for messing with”a sister”?The perps THOUGHT she was black.
Like I said,that may be preposterous but I know some blacks who are lighter than the victim.
P!ss on the leftist press!
And we’re still waiting to find out who hung that noose at Columbia University. Everybody got real quiet about that when it was discovered that security cameras may have filmed the guilty party.
I remember watching the reports of the Knoxville murders on local TV a few months ago. I knew immediately that this case wouldn’t receive much national news coverage since the victims weren’t the right skin color.
Knoxville’s a great town, but like any city it has neighborhoods that are like the third world.
with all due respect that is ridiculous.
Hear me out,Wardaddy.I SAID it might be absurd.And cuss me out and call me out of my name,but I’ll be damned if the girl doesn’t favor Mariah Carey just a little.
Not saying that makes it any LESS of a heinious crime but only speculating that the perps might have VIEWED her as black and wanted to punish who they saw as a “traitor”
What most likely happened is that some asshole thugs who needed dope money picked the first easy target they saw.
I have lived the exact same scenario with my oldest son where they bussed in ghetto kids who caused 10 times the trouble for their numbers
They raped and tortured the poor girl for days. Does that sound like a quickie murder to get drug money? Not that it wouldn’t still be a heinous crime if that’s “all” this was.
I guess my California experiences affect my analysis.
Out here,black criminals and murderers pretty much victimize each other.Occasionally,Asians and Mexicans are victims since they are considered weak and less likely to report crimes to the police.
The last Black racist murders that I can recall out here was the Zebra killings of 1973-74.And I was living in San Fran then.I can tell you one thing-EVERY black man I saw represented a possible killer during that time.
I am ashamed to say that but its true.No one knew how extensive their network was.
Now I fear very little.Yet if I was a young black man,I would fear my own folks first because that is the group who will most likely take me off this Earth.
Your reality on race is a lot diffeerent than mine. This we already have known for years.
I think you guys just like to deny black on white racism or equivocate it away.
Why?....in your case I have no idea to be honest if I am to believe that you are who you claim.
Other FReepers do this because at the OJ verdict they were the side that cheered....not all but many of the louder ones here....some admit it...some don’t
Aside from James Byrd, I am unaware of whites doing anything remotely like this in recent years...and this is but one.
Whites and Asians are executed in robberies by blacks steadily.
White women are exponentially more likely to be raped by black men than black women by white men which is almost nil.
I could go on....it’s a plague.
I’m going to deny it just to get along.
More racist, sexist, homophobia against minorities! The thought that these victims will get a fair trial is a joke!
(/sarcasm)
You cite Wichita, and are of course referring to the Carr Brothers, who perpetrated an orgy of brutal murder and degradation very similar to this one in Tennessee.
Of course a tiny fraction of ONE percent of Americans could even identify the names of either of the Carr brothers even while that case was being adjudicated. Likewise a probably even smaller sliver of Americans have even heard of this case or ever will. You ask, (rhetorically, I hope) where are Sharpton and Jackson in all this??? Others also bring up the fake Duke prosecution of innocent white LaCrosse players-— I see no contradiction or “hypocrisy” there, would never expect these considerations from the likes of Jackson or Sharpton, and I think to do or expect otherwise is to fatally misread the true awfulness of what’s really going on here. “Leaders” like Sharpton and Jackson, the NAACP, their white Liberal handmaidens like Mike Nifong, are ALWAYS busy looking for fictitious causes to exploit as proof of White Racism, PRECISELY in order to drown out and divert attention away from the infinitely more commonplace , and heinous examples of black racism, and black-on-white “hate crimes”.These 3 criminal liars (just three among many) HAVE to follow this line, because the more they’re able to perpetrate the fiction of white racist hate-crime, the more they are in effect “justifying” stuff like the Wichita and Knoxville murders-—let’s not say “justifying”, let’s just say they’re tacitly “explaining” it, by seizing on stories like Duke, creating fictitious scenarios around them, thereby ratcheting up every chance they get, the whole idea of white-racism-in-action. The racial climate being what it is, stories like Wichita and Knoxville are always possibly “just around the corner”, and HAVE to be kept at bay, undisclosed to, and unattended by the MSM. The ONLY way to do this is to fabricate an artificial universe of manipulated imagery and trumped-up emotion, which proves the racist’s points and can be exploited for political and personal gain by them and their ilk.
It’s as if their unspoken message is always “In case you heard about what the Carr Brothers did, keep in mind what the Duke LaCrosse players did,and that that kind of racism is endemic in AMerican Society, so what do you expect?
Stop racists like the Duke players, and people like the Carr Brothers won’t exist”.
Consider also the strategies of the media in saturating us with the Duke case: everyone knows that even if it WERE true, it “doesn’t happen every day” and is a special and rare case, but when it gets news coverage LITERALLY EVERY DAY FOR THREE OR FOUR HUNDRED DAYS IN A ROW, IT QUITE LITERALLY DOES HAPPEN EVERY DAY!!!!! That is INTENTIONAL!
What they are doing is creating a FALSE REALITY “for your approval” , as it were, and presenting it to you over and over, to make the “crime” seem to have happened, OVER and OVER and OVER.....
They never address black racism itself, let alone these worst two examples of murderous and brutal black racism, because THEY DON’T ALLOW THEMSELVES TO SEE OR ACKNOWLEDGE IT. It’s as though they’re in a race with the reality of events like Wichita and Knoxville, to try to chalk up more examples of white on black than there will ever be black on white. When they can’t find any real examples, (and most of the time they can’t) they just make it up, like Sharpton made up Tawana Brawley, and like all of them colluded to both magnify the fiction of the Duke case and keep presenting it to the public over a very good long time, the whole story slowly inflating, reaching its bursting point, and blowing up right in their disgusting faces. Take a look , just to isolate those two cases, at the horrific details of these unimaginable crimes, and even granting how common black on black crime is, find me ONE example of black on black crime that is anywhere NEAR as brutal and inhuman as the casual humiliation, torture, rape and murder, the entire awful process that was carried out by these animals against their tragic white victims. Even if there were examples to match them in the annals of black on black crime, they too would receive no coverage, because they don’t fit into the hate-crime category.That’s the profoundly sad irony of all of it, and a measure of how intentionally twisted the public face of “race-relations” has evolved in this country. In a fair and just world, Nifong would be in jail for the rest of his life, Sharpton would just be getting out for the Brawley hoax, and Jackson would be laughed off any and every stage he tried to take to spew his criminally self-serving and duplicitous and dishonest message.
May the appeals be fast-tracked, and the sentences carried out with great speed.
I certainly thought OJ was guilty and so did most blacks I know.
I don’t deny blacks commit anti-white crimes.Yet its nowhere nearly as bad as in the Sixties when the whole black power movement was in full swing.
Today’s black kids don’t give a flying fig about Malcolm X,The Black Muslims,etc.They want to”get paid”,tho maybe in ways that aren’t always on the up and up.
But rabid black nationalists they are NOT.
I’m glad someone is listening. They are NOT surviving the hatred they played. They are leaving this world to be handed to their maker! DONE!
Why would you even try to spin it that way?
Ya think?
I was talking about the VICTIM,not the perp!
Maybe I spin it that way comes from my three years or so in New Orleans,when I got to know many”racially ambiguous” people who fooled me on several occasions.
Not to mention I like to think outside the box.
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