North Carolina man shot and killed 5-year-old neighbor while he was playing in his yard, police say

I really can't think of a similar case to this except involving pedophiles and the like. Even the parents of the kid aren't alleging anything racial.

 

Was George Floyd's death racial?

 

And are all those networks talking about the RACISM of it?

If the roles were reversed would they ignore the race factor, or would they be shouting it from the rooftops like berserkers?

 

Did you jump to that conclusion with George Floyd?

 

Has a racial motive been identified? If no, why would they be talking about racism?

 

Racial or not, he needs to fry. Extra crispy.

And the result should be the same for a white guy that walks over next door and shoots a black boy in the head. Equal justice, right? Death penalty.

 

No... and the eventual charges backed me up...

 

Precisely. Now let's move to my second question .. if the roles were reversed and a white man murdered a 5 year old black kid .. would racism be mentioned by media?

 

Depends on his motive...

 

And that's a YUGE win for you, considering George was high at the time and had just passed a counterfeit bill, and had a history of violent crime.

I mean, where's the criminals' responsibility in all of this? Sure, the cop might have intentionally applied too much force because (I'll grant for sake of argument) - he hated black people...

Charge him. But there's no way Floyd should serve as a role model for anyone. He, perhaps if he stopped using drugs, might be alive today if he wasn't a criminal. His actions played a part.

I mean, let's say he was busted passing counterfeit money, got arrested, went peacefully and said, "hey, I know I'm being arrested, but I'm having a lot of trouble breathing" - maybe things would have turned out otherwise.

 

Depends what “media” you are consuming.
The ones that I read would identify as much information on the topic as possible, if there are grounds for a racial motive it would be addressed.
But then again I don’t follow fox news, briebart, newsweek, msnbc, or mother jones.

 

I somewhat agree with this but we should always expect more from our police and our politicians than we do from everyday citizens.

 

I've had the same question about George Floyd's death.

 

Let's say no one knew the motives (because no one can, obviously) - in either case. Just take the facts of the incident, and tell me what you think.

If a white man had shot and killed a black child, would media have mention racism?

 

No... Not without some background... Not any media I read and support...

 

How would you know there were grounds for racial motivation, if all you knew was that a white man killed a black child, or a black man killed a white child? Tell me what, just on those essential facts, indicates racism.

 

Well you're reading some very very non-partisan media (and such a thing barely exists, so well done on finding it!).

No mainstream media on this planet would be silent on racism if a white man shot and killed a black child. They would absolutely not need any more than the colour of the skin of both parties, to decide racism was involved. Incidentally, that's how you find racists. They're the ones with double standards predicated on skin tone.

 

Nothing.
Racism has to do with intent.
I would agree that anyone that purposely and with malice harm a child should be executed, skin color is irrelevant

 

How can you know their intent is racism, and not some other variant of crazy?

 

You don’t unless their are other elements.

 

Why else kill a 5 year old? What could a 5 year old child do to an adult man to elicit that response, other than he sees race to kill?

 

The 5 year-old obviously called him the N word egged on by Trump.

 

Investigation on the background of the murderer

 

There could be thousands of reasons.
Mental illness, mental breakdown, the perpetrator could have been having an affair with with one of the parents, jealously, drug abuse, gang initiation — could race have had something to do with it? It could have been a combination of any of the aforementioned.
Absolutely, if it was then I hope it comes out.
I hope he is executed regardless of what the issue was.

It is strange to see the same posters here saying this is racism that were in previous threads saying it wasn’t when the races were reversed — and many of those same posters vanished when racial contexts were discovered.

Seeing that he was their neighbor for over 8 years I doubt it is something as seething hatred for white people. But it could be.
We will have to wait till the investigation concludes.

Edit* After doing a quick search for an update, it appears the perpetrator had an issue with PCP. So drug induced psychosis could be added to the list of possibilities.