[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

It’s getting some attention, but not as much as it would if the roles were reversed. But that’s just how society is these days.

I would not have heard about this at all if I didn’t use FB. The craziest thing is that it’s not my white friends or black friends that have shared it, it’s actually been my mixed race friends... that really surprised me. (I did have an older white ‘friend’ on fb share something about it, but it was propaganda and I’m just going to ignore that)

...I’ve tried to find some USA news reports on YouTube because it must have had some coverage, a story of a 5yr old boy being ‘executed’ and with no apparent motive known and in front of his sisters...I mean, that’s just in itself, a huge story...a world news event...?...but any vids I clicked on, we’re all just voice over things...they weren’t from the news channels out there, I don’t think...

[Ninastar]

I’m sure the likes of Fox News have reported it. But I don’t have cable so I wouldn’t know.

I think the main reason it hasn’t been reported on tv is cause the guy was caught straight away? I’m not 100% sure though

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

I’m sure the likes of Fox News have reported it. But I don’t have cable so I wouldn’t know.

I think the main reason it hasn’t been reported on tv is cause the guy was caught straight away? I’m not 100% sure though

...oh thank you, Caitlin...I just got a report from Fox News on YouTube...on there it was mentioned again that him mum and grandmother feel it’s a ‘colour killing’, there are some quotes from them....but still the police are releasing no motive...

[Ninastar]

I don’t think it was colour related tbh. I think it was drugs related. It will be interesting to see how it all unravels though

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

I don’t think it was colour related tbh. I think it was drugs related. It will be interesting to see how it all unravels though

...yeah it’s most definitely a story I’m going to follow as best as I can with the reports we get here...and I agree, his father and the killer were apparently friends and had known each other a long time...So colour related doesn’t make sense...but that’s obviously what his mum and grandmother believe, though...

[Oliver_W]

I'm not gonna play the "no-one cares because he's white" card, but it is curious that a woman who phoned the police because a black dude was harassing her and her dog got more Internet attention than a murderer.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Ammi

friends and had known each other a long time

The killer's drugs-offense list makes it very, very, very unlikely that they were actually friends, rather than "friends" in a drugs (probably dealing) capacity. Drugs were almost certainly involved in the killing (I struggle to believe that anyone sober could murder a child in the street in cold blood) and money was almost certainly involved in the motive.

Obviously I don't "know" anything more than anyone else, I'll just be very surprised if that doesn't turn out to be the case.

[Tom4784]

It's a terrible story that's now being used to fuel racist propaganda. Lots of racists are trying to position this poor child as the face of White Lives Matter and it's just awful. It reminds me of how racists and bigots cling to Lee Rigby for justification of their hatred and it just enrages me.

If I was killed, I would hate it if a bunch of dumbass racists tried to use my death and my image as a tool for their hatred.