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THE VICTIM MYTH
New York Post ^ | 1/04/03 | WILLIAM TUCKER

Posted on 01/04/2003 12:15:50 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:55 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

January 4, 2003 -- A TEENAGE thug is shot dead while holding a BB gun to the head of an undercover detective posing as a deliveryman. So what happens? A mob assembles outside the restaurant and starts harassing employees.

The exact same day, the papers carry the story of a 15-year-old Brooklyn teen gunned down in a street robbery. In Queens, a Hispanic college student is run over and killed by a 25-year-old with whom he had had an argument. Where are the demonstrations protesting those murders? Oh - they don't count, because they didn't involve the police.


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1 posted on 01/04/2003 12:15:50 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
So what do friends and neighbors do? They go down to Wimpy's and start harassing employees, breaking furniture and charging the restaurant with "setting up" the killing. There's even talk of starting a boycott.

If anybody set up the killing it was the little bastard that got himself killed.

There's even talk of starting a boycott.

All they really want is free sandwiches.

2 posted on 01/04/2003 2:38:15 AM PST by SantosLHalper
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To: kattracks
What is this intelligent, practical, thoughtful piece of journalism doing in the NYP?
3 posted on 01/04/2003 6:01:10 AM PST by isiti
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To: isiti
What? You expected to find this piece in the New York Times instead of the Post??
4 posted on 01/04/2003 6:17:08 AM PST by Jim Ralls
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To: isiti
You didn't catch the liberal more police / more gun confiscation bit? The main reason crime goes down is criminals do more time in prison. An important side benefit of prison time is they father less children.
5 posted on 01/04/2003 9:48:51 AM PST by Reeses
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