Loading ...Mychal Bell, with two previous convictions for battery, became a martyr. Of course he was still alive and had not retained the services of Ben Crump and Ryan Julison, so he did not achieve the apotheosis of St. Trayvon and St. Michael.
Ordinary European-Americans rallied to the causes of the Ferguson cop and the Sanford neighborhood watchman. (By the way, as far I know, it is perfectly legal to question someone in your neighborhood who you don’t know and who is acting suspiciously.) But these folks were not among the People Who Count, our bi-coastal betters.
George Zimmerman? Darren Wilson?
Not my people.
Both events received wall-to-wall coverage 24/7 for weeks. But it did not occur to any reporter in the Zimmerman case to phone the national HQ of 7-Eleven in Dallas and ask what the videotape of Trayvon Martin revealed. I know because I did. And the director of public relations expressed her surprise that I was the first reporter (OK, I lied) to contact her. And so American Thinker became the first news outlet to reveal that Martin had left the store between 6 and 6:30. The 7-Eleven is about a 15 minute walk from Brandy Green’s apartment, and so when spotted by Zimmerman, who called 911 at 7:09, St. Skittles [Trayvon] , an accomplished burglar, had probably been loitering around the apartment complex for 20 to 50 minutes.
If the media had no interest in what Martin had been up to before Zimmerman reported him, they had, and have, even less interest in letting you know why the “White-Hispanic” vigilante, along with Darren Wilson and the President’s grandma Madelyn Dunham, might have been a tad wary of a young black male acting suspiciously. According to a 30-year study of homicides by the Justice Department, spanning 1976 to 2005, African-Americans, currently 13.2% of the population, committed 52.2% of all murders. They were 7 times more likely to kill than whites. For the most recent year for which arrest records by race are available, 2012, blacks committed 49.4% of murders, 32.5% of rapes, 54.9% of robberies, 30.8% of burglaries, and comprised 43.8% of prostitution and “commercialized vice” arrests. Since the percentages don’t include crimes not reported or where a suspect was not apprehended, a lot of gang-related violence is unaccounted for. Victim surveys discredit the idea that the arrest records are skewed by police bias.