On 11/21/15 12:52 PM,
awool...@gmail.com wrote:
> My name was Antonio West. I was the child who was shot in the face at
> point blank range by two black teens, who were attempting to rob my
> mother, who was also shot.
>
> I think my murder and my mommy's wounding made the news for maybe a
> day, and then disappeared.
'The Antonio West killing did garner a fair amount of national coverage
(particularly on CNN) at the time it occurred, but that level of
attention soon waned when suspects were arrested and charged within days
of the shooting. In a country that sees over 16,000 homicides every
year, only a small handful receive prolonged national attention, and the
Antonio West case had no sensational or controversial aspects of the
type that typically drive ongoing national media coverage.'
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/antoniowest.asp>
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https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#tbm=nws&q=%22antonio+santiago%22+murdered>
Looks like a lot of coverage to me...
> A Grand Jury of my mommy's peers from
> Brunswick, Georgia ruled the black teens who murdered me will not
> face the death penalty... too bad it was me who got the death
> sentence from my killers instead, because Mommy didn't have the money
> they demanded.
'The defendants in that case did not face the death penalty if found
guilty, not because (as claimed above) a grand jury decided they should
not, but because Georgia law precludes capital punishment for crimes
committed by persons under the age of 18:
"District Attorney Jackie Johnson of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit said
in a statement she would not seek the death penalty against either
suspect because Georgia law doesn't allow capital punishment for
defendants charged with crimes committed before they were 18."'
Most importantly:
'On 30 August 2013, De'Marquise Elkins was convicted of murder and
sentenced to life in prison.'
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/antoniowest.asp>
So he didn't get off by claiming he "feared for his life", did he?
>
> See, my family made the mistake of being white in a 73% non-white
> neighborhood, but my murder wasn't ruled a 'hate crime'. Oh, and
> President Obama didn't take a single moment to acknowledge my murder.
> He couldn't have any children who could possibly look like me - so
> why should he care? I'm one of the youngest murder victims in our
> great Nation's history, but the media didn't care to cover the story
> of my being killed in cold blood.
>
> There isn't a white equivalent of Al Sharpton, because if there was
> he would be branded a 'racist'. So no one's rushing to Brunswick,
> Georgia to demonstrate and demand 'justice' for me. There's no 'White
> Panther' party, either, to put a bounty on the lives of the two black
> teens 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. Isn't this a great country?
>
> So while you're out seeking 'justice for Trayvon' and Michael Brown,
> please remember to seek 'justice' for me. Tell your friends about me,
> tell you families, get tee-shirts with my face on them, and make the
> world pay attention, just like you did for Trayvon.
>
> I won't hold my breath, I don't have to anymore.
Were his killers allowed to claim they "feared for their lives" as a
defense?