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Prosecutors Downplay Racial Element in Kansas Murder Trial
CNSNEWS.com ^ | 10/10/02 | Jim Burns

Posted on 10/10/2002 10:08:53 PM PDT by kattracks

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To: timpad
I hope the screams of horror of their victims haunt them in their sleep and in their wake. And each day, the screams become louder and more tormented to the point these pathetic beings cannot hear their own thoughts nor the voices of others.
21 posted on 10/10/2002 11:42:44 PM PDT by zeaal
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To: kattracks
However, Sedgwick County, Kansas District Attorney Nola Foulston reportedly said she would not charge the suspects with committing hate crimes because she believes the murders were motivated by robbery and not racial hatred.

and besides......

[Foulston noted that] the state of Kansas does not have a hate crime statute.

22 posted on 10/10/2002 11:43:16 PM PDT by Psycho Francis
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To: Auntie Mame
Unless one considers their families victims as well......
23 posted on 10/10/2002 11:44:23 PM PDT by Psycho Francis
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To: Black Agnes
Not to worry. Blacks won't be charged with any hate crimes.

Two black recidivist sociopaths recently attacked some gays with baseball bats in their supposed West Hollywood gay paradise.

Charge: Burglary.

As if LA robbers regularly use bats in their trade. De be gone fut dees faggots up!

Not that the perpatrator of any violent crime should be mindscanned as a hate criminal, where all and any such action is, by its very violent nature, a hate crime.

But every PC thinkin' honky know that thee groups be legally exempt from racist acts. It be fact 'o nature.

Ya' know wah' I'm sayin"?

24 posted on 10/10/2002 11:55:58 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: timpad
To: oreilly@foxnews.com; cnn@cnn.com; comments@foxnews.com; world@msnbc.com; executive-editor@nytimes.com; feedback@ap.org; nightly@nbc.com

Dear Sirs,

Your refusal to give national coverage to the trial of Jonathan and Reginald Carr currently in Wichita is shameful. This is yet another example of the media's double standards when it come to crimes committed by minorities.

In case you are not familiar with this story, these men are on trial for 113 counts of rape, aremed robbery, burglary, assault, murder and attempted murder of 5 white victims over the course of a week. These men are accused of raping not only women, but men as well. They are accused of stripping their victims, lining them up on their knees in the snow, and executing them. They then drove a stolen pickup truck over four of the victims. Fortunately, one of the victims survived to tell her horrible tale.

WHY is this story given so little media attention?! I can take a guess.... The defendents are black, and the victims are white. And to classify ANY crime perpetrated by blacks as a hate crime would bring the anger of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakan to your news desks.

Even FoxNews.com, a news organization I respect for not shying away from these types of stories, gives only a watered down version of the story (Link).

CNN's search page shows nothing on this story. MSNBC's website also has failed to report this story. A search of wire.ap.org reveals no story on Reginald Carr or his brother. This story is apparently not "news fit to print," because yet another search on the NY Times website shows another blatant example of the media ignoring the story of a horrible crime.

These men are accused of 113 felonies! Rape, assault, armed robbery, sodomy, attempted murder, and murder. These are two stone cold killers that have shown no remorse-- a terrible act committed in the heartland of America.

And none of you... not a damn one of you, have the courage or journalistic integrity to report this major story.

Shame on all of you for your cowardice!

Derrick Murray
Coppell, TX

26 posted on 10/11/2002 3:12:38 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
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To: RAT Patrol; AdA$tra; Free State Four; TroutStalker; The_Reader_David; rwfromkansas; ...
PING
27 posted on 10/11/2002 3:29:31 AM PDT by jonefab
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To: jonefab; TroutStalker; alfa6; mjaneangels@aolcom; carlo3b; dennisw; Judith Anne; AK2KX; ...
Thanks for the ping, jonefab.


"Wichita Massacre" murder trial "Ping List".

Please let me know if you want on (or off) this list.

28 posted on 10/11/2002 3:35:19 AM PDT by KS Flyover
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To: Lunatic Fringe
I did the same to those loosers but it wont do any good they know about the trial and are porposlly sp ignoring it.

but man what a durn good letter

Regards RB
29 posted on 10/11/2002 4:09:29 AM PDT by Rightly Biased
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To: onedoug
True!
30 posted on 10/11/2002 4:10:05 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: KS Flyover
ping me
31 posted on 10/11/2002 4:58:17 AM PDT by moneyrunner
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To: moneyrunner
OK

This mornings trial summary thread is here:

Reginald Carr had $996, victims' credit card, watch [Wichita Massacre Day 4]

32 posted on 10/11/2002 5:04:52 AM PDT by KS Flyover
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To: KS Flyover

Carr brothers crime spree timeline:

Map and timeline (.gif 144k)

Map and timeline (.pdf file 80k)


33 posted on 10/11/2002 5:16:14 AM PDT by KS Flyover
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To: kattracks
The randomness of the attacks was especially chilling. It could have been anyone.

Yes, Mr. Editorial Board of the WEB. But it is statistically flabbergasting that 100% of the randomly chosen victims were of the same racial makeup. Just gobsmacking that such an anomaly could occur. fsf

34 posted on 10/11/2002 6:33:54 AM PDT by Free State Four
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To: ImphClinton
Nothing here indicates these people were killed because they were white.

Yes it does! Hours of rape and torture are a prima facie indication of hatred. The robbery part would have taken one trip to the ATM with everyone's card. This type of gratitous degradation of the victims was exactly why the Shepard case a few years ago was prosecuted as a hate crime.

35 posted on 10/11/2002 6:39:01 AM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: Lunatic Fringe
Excellent letter.
36 posted on 10/11/2002 6:59:29 AM PDT by hot august night
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To: BlazingArizona
And your panties are in a twist because.......?
37 posted on 10/11/2002 7:04:00 AM PDT by Psycho Francis
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To: kattracks
Perhaps in the next election someone should run an ad where family members of the victims say that Nola Foulston's refusal to call it a hate crime was like having them killed all over again.
38 posted on 10/11/2002 7:09:39 AM PDT by republicman
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To: republicman
Or maybe they could work for passage of a hate crime statute in Kansas......
39 posted on 10/11/2002 7:24:12 AM PDT by Psycho Francis
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To: Psycho Francis
Its amazing isn't it, that a DEMOCRAT DA, could be so unconcerned with there not being a hate crime statue, nor investigating whether there was racial bias involved which under Kansas law enhances penalties.

40 posted on 10/11/2002 7:33:08 AM PDT by republicman
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