Sunday, May 18, 2008

De-Policing and the Knoxville Horror

/* Did politically motivated negligence on the part of the Knoxville Police Department contribute to the Knoxville Horror? [...] Eleven days after the carjacking-kidnapping-gang-rape-torture-murder of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, a federal prosecutor charged that Eric Boyd had been on a months-long crime spree with the alleged ringleader of the crime, Lemaricus “Slim” Davidson, then 25, and sometimes with Davidson’s half-brother, Letalvis “Rome” Cobbins, then 24. The alleged spree began with Davidson’s August 2006 release from West Tennessee State Penitentiary, and ended only with the January 11, 2007 arrest of Boyd, Davidson, and Cobbins. */ Haven't heard of the 'Knoxville Horror?' Most national-media outlets ignored it, as they do almost all black-on-white crime.

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