Posted on 08/25/2009 1:04:12 PM PDT by ferrgus
In a case that's been widely ignored by the mainstream media, justice prevailed today as Letalvis Cobbins was found guilty of the vast majority of charges, including that of first-degree murder. Cobbins was one of a group of thugs who carjacked, then raped, tortured and murdered two Knoxville residents. For more on the story, see the Knoxville News-Sentinel. http://digg.com/d311xYc
Are they going to the gas chamber? That would be the only good news.
Suppose there’s any chance the MSM will cover this even now?
Not one.
Possibly, in about 20 years.
I read about this case when it first happened. Perp deserves to be thrown into one of Vick’s dog kennels.
I’m going to intentionally watch CNN and MSNBC tonight, so I can get full coverage of this case.
“I’m going to intentionally watch CNN and MSNBC tonight, so I can get full coverage of this case.”
Be sure to bring a good book and popcorn. It is going to be a long night....like watching the Red Sox!
This society is much better off with these people behind bars.
The only way the MSM will cover this story is if a mob busts Letalvis Cobbins out of jail and they find him hanging from a bridge support the next morning.
But, then THAT would be a “hate” crime.
This is the first I have heard of this case. These guys were animals.
Lethal injection is too good for these people.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_COUPLE_SLAIN?SITE=NHPOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
AP has a story on it - where it goes from there, who knows.
They need to turn them over to Channon’s dad. Anytime I see him here on the local news, he’s the picture that would go next to the word “tightly wound.”
I believe the jury consists of 7 blacks, 4 white and an Asian.
Good for them, doing justice without reference to race.
I’ve never been more disappointed in my life than on the day the jury acquitted OJ because he was rich, famous and black.
I'm sure any year now, Jessie and Al and the ACLU will be screaming “Hate Crime” and “No Justice No Peace”
There was a similar murder by a gang of black men & women of a white woman that they kidnapped raped, then scrubbed with Clorox and wire brushes before killing her. It barely made the national news and you had to read to the end. Even with the killers admitting their motive was race, it was considered a “local story”.
Sadly, the fact that these horrible crimes are all but covered up by the media sends the signal that racism, even brutal racism is okay, as long as the victim is white.
I'm sure any year now, Jessie and Al and the ACLU will be screaming “Hate Crime” and “No Justice No Peace”
There was a similar murder by a gang of black men & women of a white woman that they kidnapped raped, then scrubbed with Clorox and wire brushes before killing her. It barely made the national news and you had to read to the end. Even with the killers admitting their motive was race, it was considered a “local story”.
Sadly, the fact that these horrible crimes are all but covered up by the media sends the signal that racism, even brutal racism is okay, as long as the victim is white.
So...how in the hell was this NOT a hate crime?
Minorities are incapable of hate. Only whites can hate.
Personally, I don’t like hate crime legislation - anything that elevates one group above another because of the nature of that group is wrong.
That being said though - if you’re going to charge for hate crimes, you might as well charge every case of one race against another race as a hate crime - until they get rid of hate crime laws.
Yeah...exactly!
Why do these laws only work one way?
Our politicians are idiots.
You definitely have to wonder whether the 2 victims would have had a chance had they been carrying (a) firearm(s) (a right the Left wants denied to law-abiding people), and used them effectively. An even stronger case could be made regarding the 5 white victims of 2 black thugs in the "Wichita massacre" case. They were victims of a home invasion. At one point, there were 3 unarmed white males against one armed black hood. A white woman about to be raped found herself within 2 feet of her assailant's abandoned pistol, while he was involved with opening his zipper. She was afraid to grab it, partly because she did not know how to operate a gun.
You might also try Fox News, the online new site does not think it worth reporting. I am glad to see that you didn’t even give ABCCBS even a nod.
That’s the problem with hate crimes. If you’re gonna have them, you need to do em all. Every inter-racial murder isn’t a hate crime, but how do you tell them apart? Murder is murder. They should fry these b*stards ASAP.
parsy, who figures it will take a few years
I really don’t see why we cannot have a prompt, public hanging. Or, why couldn’t be put them in a third world hellhole prision for a couple of years, then have the hanging.
what we have is an injustice system, not a justice system.
Some conservative Internet commentators and white supremacist agitators accused the national media of reverse discrimination by failing to give the case involving white victims and black suspects the same attention paid to white-on-black hate crimes. Investigators said the attack wasn't a hate crime, just a carjacking that went terribly wrong.
Hmm.
I guess with that logic that the Black Panthers or the KKK were church and philanthropic groups that went terribly wrong.
Crucify the bastard and then burn the cross on which he is nailed. I’m serious.
Amazing.
A carjacking gone “wrong” usually ends with a dead thug lying in his own blood and fecal matter.
At worst, the car owner is murdered.
Rarely are they abducted, raped, tortured and systematically murdered.
Don’t forget the “Wichita Massacre” where a group of black thugs staged a home invasion and succeeded in raping, torturing and murdering three people. One survived.
No “hate” there, either.
The jury wimped out and gave him life without parole.
Today the Cobbins jury sentenced the law abiding taxpayer to a life of labor without parole to provide at their expense a lazy, cowardly murder, degenerate rapist, sadistic torturer, and worthless thief with 3 square meals and snacks to eat, comfortable clothing to wear, soft bedding to sleep, a blanket to cover a chill, a soft pillow to rest his weary head, a roof to keep him dry, heat to keep warm in the winter, exercise equipment to stay in shape, water and other beverages to quench his thirst, light to see, a library to read, a chair to sit, friends to talk to, and a recreation room to have fun, everyday for the rest of his life.
His two victims however, have been sentenced to eternity to nothing but a cold dark grave.
To the jury and others this is justice and right, and as it should be.
To me this is the logic of a society goaded by political correctness to have sympathy for the devil and apathy for his victims.
RE: Letalvis Cobbins. Yet, Misha Davidson admits that Christian’s and Newsom’s killings were so savage, Cobbin’s late mother backed off helping him hire a lawyer.
“She didn’t want to get herself involved in it and not really know what happened.”
Beyond his murder and rape convictions, Cobbins faces new charges leveled while in custody; of assaulting Knox County Corrections officers.
February 2, a guard alleges, Cobbins attacked him as he was being removed from his cell and pulled him to the ground.
July 24, another guard alleges Cobbins struck him with a drinking cup after refusing to go into lockdown.
Court clerks say Cobbins faces hearings on the “behind bars” charges next Monday.
Family members say Cobbins father lives close by, but he was not in court Tuesday to hear his son pronounced guilty,.
Nor Wednesday, to help make the case for sparing his life. http://www.volunteertv.com/news/headlines/55186682.html
BTTT for those who missed this a long time ago......
My son lives in the Nashville area. The sentencing is in and he did NOT get the death penaly.
Why was this not tried as a hate crime. . . Aggravated black on white crime? (as if I didn’t know)
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