I wonder if Obama will attend Kevin Joseph Sutherland’s funeral?
If a young black guy asks you for anything, you’re risking your life if you refuse.
Chaim Amalek:
This is depressingly predictable, but still worth noting: The Washington Post almost always offers a ‘comments’ section with each story it publishes. For example, a story on the economic situation in Greece has over 1600 comments. Except this one, about something much closer to home that directly impacts most of the Post’s readers. For this story, there are no comments. Nothing. The Post is owned by Corporate chieftain Jeff Bezos, who is supported by and who supports both democrats and republican politicians.
Also this story has gotten amazingly little national press play, especially considering that this attack occurred on the 4th of July in the early afternoon, and on a line with very heavy ridership. White lives count! Except when the national press corps is doing the counting. This sort of violence happens all the time in DC and usually gets no press.
I often go to the forums on “city data” for the kind of local discussion that one used to be able to get on radio. So for local reaction to the Metro stabbing, I checked out their DC forum ( http://www.city-data.com/forum/washington-dc/) . NOT ONE THREAD on this subject, NOT ONE COMMENT. Obviously this is not because the people of DC who use this forum don’t care, they care plenty. But they are being censored by those who control the DC city-data forum. And this is how it is in America today.
Court filing details violent struggle on Metro train in July 4 slaying
Jasper Spires boarded the Red Line Metro train at Rhode Island Avenue shortly before 1 p.m. on Saturday, joining fellow passengers from the District and elsewhere headed to various July 4 festivities, among them the Foo Fighters concert at RFK Stadium.
As the train rumbled toward its next stop at NoMa-Gallaudet, a three-minute ride, D.C. police said the 18-year-old Spires — who may have been high on synthetic drugs — tried to grab a cellphone tucked into the waistband of a recent American University graduate headed to a gathering with friends.
The two struggled, police said, and the terror began.
Police and a witness interviewed said passengers trapped in the moving train huddled at both ends of the car and watched in horror as Spires allegedly punched 24-year-old Kevin Joseph Sutherland until he fell to floor, then stabbed him until he was dead. Court documents say the victim was cut or stabbed 30 or 40 times in the chest, abdomen, back, side and arms. Police said the assailant then threw the victim’s cellphone and returned to stomp on Sutherland’s body.
“We were in a moving train,” said a 52-year-old woman who spoke on the condition she not be named because she is both a victim and a witness to a crime. “You’re not really sure what you need to do. . . . This man is holding a bloody knife. I don’t think anyone was going to try and stop him.”
