Posted on 06/20/2017 6:21:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
The liberal Washington Post underlined its reputation as a liberal rag on Tuesday by burying the immigration status of a man who killed a Muslim teenager in suburban northern Virginia. They wear "Democracy Dies in Darkness" T-shirts and then put anything in the "darkness" that's inconvenient to their liberal agenda.
The front-page headline was "Police in Va. probe road rage in girl's killing. There was a picture of the victim in her hijab. The alleged assailant appeared in the third paragraph of a story by Justin Jouvenal and Julie Zauzmer:
The driver, Darwin Martinez Torres, a 22-year-old construction worker from Sterling, got into an argument with a teen on a bike and then drove his car over a curb, scattering the group of as many as 15 teens, police said.
He caught up with them a short time later in a parking lot and chased them with a baseball bat, striking 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen and then abducting her in his car, police said.
Martinez Torres assaulted Nabra a second time, in Loudoun County, before dumping her body in a pond next to his apartment complex, where it was discovered about 3 p.m. on Sunday, police said. The medical examiner ruled Monday that the girl died of blunt-force trauma to the head and neck.
One can easily imagine an editor overlooking this story: "Let's not inflame the Trump fans and say anything about immigration status." Why inflame the Latino lobby? Inside the paper on page 11, in paragraph 23, they sprinkled in the D-word -- deportation -- but never used an I-word in 35 paragraphs, for "illegally in the country."
Martinez Torres was held without bond following a brief arraignment Monday in Fairfax County juvenile court. All cases involving juveniles are heard in juvenile court in Virginia, even when defendants are adults.
Appearing on a video monitor from the county jail, Martinez Torres spoke through a Spanish translator to answer a judge’s questions. He was appointed a public defender, and his next court appearance was set for July 19. U.S. immigration officials requested that a “detainer” be placed on him at the county jail, meaning they are interested in possible future deportation proceedings.
Fairfax prosecutors offered no new information about the case during the Monday hearing for Martinez Torres and declined to comment afterward.
An aunt who was at the court but declined to give her name said Martinez Torres’s family is shocked and mystified about the charges against him.
The aunt said Martinez Torres was at a Sterling park with her mother hours before the incident. She said Martinez Torres left the park at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday to head home.
Family members said the man worked in construction. He is Salvadoran and has a 4-year-old son and a girlfriend. He attended school briefly in the United States.
The aunt said she thought that Martinez Torres did not know Nabra, adding that family members also did not know the girl.
The online story was accompanied by a heartbreaking video of the mourning father, who cannot understand why this man would kill his teenaged daughter. (The video didn't have a peep on immigration.) In print, the father insisted "he killed her because she's a Muslim -- that is what I tell the detective." The Post story did include an Islamophobia tweak in paragraph 7:
Many feared it was another hate crime targeting Muslims, coming shortly before a man driving a truck in London plowed into a group of people who had just finished Ramadan prayers. It follows a national upswing in attacks targeting Muslims since the November election.
So far, Fairfax County police said they have no indication that Nabra was targeted because of her religion, saying her killing was probably a “road rage incident,” although they continue to investigate the motivation.
“There was no indication of any racial slurs or any back-and-forth other than a verbal argument,” Lt. Bryan Holland said.
It’s just another young girl dead at the hand of someone who shouldn’t have been here in the first place.
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Its cases like this where we can see the progressive pecking order. We now know that illegal > muslim. That surprises me, I would have thought muslims would be on top.
The illegals won, so now they face off against the LBGTQ!
So, her live is no longer worth mentioning because a white man did not kill her.
Her live is devalued because they can not call this a hate crime representing the conservatives in our nation.
Her live is worth less to the liberals because they can not connect this madman to Trump.
Talk about POS reporters.
Trump’s fault./sarc
The diversity is making my head spin
An ILLEGAL kills a MUSLIM girl?
Liberal Heads Explode!
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...
...a national upswing in attacks targeting Muslims since the November election.
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Uh-huh, more Fake News.
Democracy dies in darkness when a country has a press that doesn’t keep the sunlight on the govt regardless of political party running the govt.
Also buried on ABC nightly news.
Not sure what park is open after dark, let alone until 11:30pm?
I thought muzzies would be at the top of the pecking order as well. This has got to be a scenario that the libtards were dreading, where an illegal alien kills a muzzie. The reverse probably would also be a conundrum. How about if an illegal MS 13 dude killed an illegal Mexican Mafia dude? Wouldn't that also be a scenario the libtards would rather not deal with?
We now know that illegal > muslim. That surprises me, I would have thought muslims would be on top.
The ONLY thing that ‘saddens’ the MSM is that the doer is NOT a White middle aged male with a CCP and Trump stickers on his 4 wheel drive pick up.
Setting the hierarchy for democrat victim groups.
It looks like illegal aliens now trump muslims.
Blacks are still on the bottom rung of the ladder.
Lately homos, perverts and sexual freaks have usually been at or near the top,
Muslim??....my give a shi’te meter just shot up.
Deportation is nothing but a get out of jail free card for murderers and rapists.
The only time it seems to be used is when the government doesn’t want the expense of the upkeep on foreign nationals illegally in the country. All other instances the government is willing to shield their residency and give them taxpayer handouts.
And the media was playing this up as another “hate crime” (linked in coverage to the van attack in England, no less) until that lie fell apart. I could tell it would disappear when the booking photo of the suspect was released.
It’s just all part of living in a big city, no?
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