By Jerry PDX
monday, october 23, 2023 at 7:31:00 p.m. edt
"22-year-old black woman is stabbed to death in portland friday night. police announced no suspects or suspect information is being released."
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/portland-se-south-tabor-stabbing-assault-woman-died-hospital/283-1d22325d-1eae-4554-890f-0153e1e30987
Almost certain it's a black perp, and these kinds of murders are so common they barely get noticed anymore. I try to follow the stories, but usually lose track of them because you never know when police or the media follow up on them, if they even do, that is. Media gets most hysterical when it's a White perp and black victim, which is rare but when it happens...look out. We're still getting regular updates on that White guy who stabbed two black guys on a max train a couple months ago.
By Anonymous
monday, october 23, 2023 at 8:55:00 p.m. edt
"you never know when police or the media follow up on them"
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"blacks in Portland"--JUST in time for Halloween.
Rated "R".Not at your theater--on your streets.
--GRA
YES. Must have been a whitey that did it. The Great White Defendant type story sells a lot of papers and makes good gist for the evening news.
"Media gets most hysterical when it's a White perp and black victim"
Maybe. Depends.
"We're still getting regular updates on that White guy who stabbed two black guys on a max train a couple months ago."
But it will get more attention if it's assumed to be, or treated as, a "hate crime", which is true of the case you are apparently thinking of.
UPDATE: Man charged with stabbing Black teens on MAX train rejected from jail twice
https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/12/earlier-releases-man-charged-with-stabbing-black-teens-portland-max-train/
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Adrian Cummins was supposed to be in jail when he uttered a racist slur and then stabbed two Black teenagers on a Portland light rail train on Sept. 2, Multnomah County prosecutors alleged in court records.
Cummins, who is white, was indicted by a Multnomah County grand jury last Friday on charges that include attempted murder, assault, robbery and bias, Oregon’s statute for hate crimes.
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So the reason this crime is getting enough attention to annoy "Jerry PDX" is that it is being prosecuted as a "bias" crime. The white guy allegedly used racial slurs as well as stabbed the black victims. Since he was also indicted for robbery it looks like he was trying to rob them too.
In general white on black violent crime is a man bites dog story, so an incident of it may get a little bit more attention.
But without the "bias" crime angle and the reported use of a racial slur, the Portland stabbing incident would get less coverage, probably a lot less.
So it's somewhat intellectually dishonest to use that story as a kind of yardstick to compare the coverage it gets to a garden variety black on black killing, which typically involves the underclass, people no one really cares about anyway, no matter what color they are. This is why the staggering number of opioid overdose deaths (5x the number of homicides in 2022, and that ratio is typical of many previous years) were ignored for so long: the deaths were among the underclass.
An astute observer of the modern media landscape like "Jerry PDX" ought to be astute enough to see the inaptness of this comparison. But seems not.
jerry pdx
"Media gets most hysterical when it's a White perp and black victim"
No maybe about it, no "depends" about it eahilf.
The volume of media attention slathered on White on black killings by far exceeds what black on White killings receive, OJ notwithstanding. It's inarguable.
The fact that you cannot perceive that (and you mock my observational capabilities?) invalidates everything you wrote.
Why don't you just post your name eahilf? We all know it's you. Are you embarrassed about what you write?
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