Justice?

[MtnMax/Magniac]

[FONT=&quot]"You won't recognize me. My name was Antonio West and I was the 13-month old child who was shot at point blank range by two teens who were attempting to rob my ...mother, who was also shot. A Grand Jury of my mommy's peers from Brunswick GA determined the teens who murdered me will not face the death penalty...too bad I was given a death sentence for being innocent and defenseless.

My family made the mistake of being white in a 73% non-white neighborhood, but my murder was not ruled a Hate Crime. Nor did President Obama take so much as a single moment to acknowledge my murder.

I am one of the youngest murder victims in our great Nation's history, but the media doesn't care to cover the story of my tragic demise, President Obama has no children who could possibly look like me - so he doesn't care and the media doesn't care because my story is not interesting enough to bring them ratings so they can sell commercial time slots.

There is not a white equivalent of Al Sharpton because if there was he would be declared racist, so there is no one rushing to Brunswick GA to demand justice for me. There is no White Panther party to put a bounty on the lives of those who murdered me. I have no voice, I have no representation and unlike those who shot me in the face while I sat innocently in my stroller - I no longer have my life.

So while you are seeking justice for Trayvon, please remember to seek justice for me too. Tell your friends about me, tell your families, get tee shirts with my face on them and make the world pay attention, just like you did for Trayvon."

Thank you.[/FONT]

 

[old timer]

A sad but true fact...:confused2:

 

[rusty]

You just brought tears to my eyes MtnMax

 

[dannymax]

Antonio West

 

[SpecOps13]

There's no political gain to be made to be made in highlighting the death of a White Mother and Son by two African Americans. Addressing the real problems in America and abroad in a truthful manner doesn't concern the current administration. Or for that matter, how far back in History does this attitude really go. A Long Way and a lot of administrations.

Sad But True.

 

[Rusty McNeil]

Antonio West case made national headlines for about two weeks.
Interest waned as the suspects were arrested.
I think that was business as usual. Very few cases merit national attention for weeks and weeks.
At no time did anyone need to plead or protest for justice to be done in the West case, the police investigated, located the suspects and arrested them promptly, therefore the media went away.
As much as I agree with the Zimmerman case and the verdict I believe its disingenuous to draw parallels with these cases.
The initial uproar on Zimmerman was over the refusal to arrest and charge The KNOWN shooter, Zimmerman.

In the West case the justice system acted promptly in investigating, locating and arresting the suspect.
Also several of the suspects family members have also been charged with tampering with evidence.
The West suspect WAS charged with murder in a robbery that occurred ten days prior to the baby killing. I suppose because evidence was stronger in that case.

Also...The West case has been completely muddled with accusations and cross accusations between the mother and estranged father, and other family memebers, that have put suspicion on the mother her self...

And most importantly the statement about the grand jury or prosecution not seeking the death penalty in the West case....
There is no way they can seek the death penalty in the West case, the suspects were minors. Georgia state law forbids death penalty for minors.
So it WAS NOT a decision that was an option for the grand jury or prosecution could have even made.

I wish someone COULD find a truly parallel case of supposed black on white crime that parallels the Zimmerman case but apparently based on the hundreds of False Internet memes, or ones that fall completely apart with 10 minutes of investigation, no one really has.