The day after two whites were arrested in the killing of the black jogger/prowler Ahmaud Arbery, a young black gunman murdered two octogenarian whites, Paul and Lidia Marino, while they were visiting their son’s grave at a veterans’ cemetery in Delaware:
takimag.com/article/racial…
takimag.com/article/racial…
In contrast to Arbery’s killing, this second interracial killing case has gotten virtually zero national media attention even though it’s fairly spectacular in scale and quite curious in motive.
takimag.com/article/racial…
takimag.com/article/racial…
Imagine that the circumstances were reversed and if on Friday a young white man had hunted down an elderly black couple visiting their son’s grave at a veterans’ cemetery.
But what happens when it’s The Megaphone itself that may have egged on the killer?
But what happens when it’s The Megaphone itself that may have egged on the killer?
No confession note, social media, or interviews with the shooter’s family have yet emerged to explain his motivations. To be frank, the press doesn’t seem all that motivated to get to the bottom of this seemingly random long distance rifle shooting.
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