Where Is The Media Outrage? Where's Reverend Al??

Two days ago in the small town of Duncan, Oklahoma, a college student from Australia was shot in the back and left for dead while he was jogging.  The alleged perpetrators were three juveniles, ages 15, 16 and 17. The three boys have been arrested by Duncan police and one of them, the oldest, told police they were bored and shot the young man for fun.

One of the interesting things about the case that is not making the headlines is that two of the three boys are black while the third is white.  The victim was also white.

In a move sure to draw the ire of some, prosecutors charged 15-year-old James Francis Edwards Jr. and 16-year-old Chancey Allen Luna with first-degree murder on Tuesday. Police say the two killed 22-year-old Christopher Lane on Friday to overcome boredom. Under Oklahoma law, anyone who is 15 or older and facing a first-degree murder charge is automatically tried in adult court.

Also Tuesday, 17-year-old Michael Dewayne Jones was charged with being an accessory after the fact and with using a vehicle during the discharge of weapon. Jones is charged as a youthful offender but will still have his case heard in adult court.

So by now some are screaming that the only reason Jones was charged with a lesser crime is because he's white.  I would venture to guess that while that is very possible - Jones most likely cut a deal when he started talking.  Jones rolled over on his buddies to save his own butt and got a lesser charge because of it. Let's face it - only one of those boys pulled that trigger and in my opinion, if you're going to charge two with first degree murder than you should charge all three.  The second kid, regardless of color, didn't pull the trigger any more than Jones did.  

Of course, there may be other evidence against the two or it could be that Jones is blaming them for the entire thing and he is just "an innocent victim who was in the wrong place at the wrong time."  Yeah, right.

Either way, where is the media outrage for the senseless murder of this 22 year old Australian kid?  Unlike the Zimmerman/Martin case - these boys admittedly stalked their victim and shot him for the thrill of it.  But in three of the four articles I read earlier today there was no mention of the color of the alleged perpetrators at all.  

When the Zimmerman/Martin story broke it took less than two hours for the mainstream media to identify Zimmerman as white and portray him as a racist. Why is there no major coverage of this and why aren't those in the race hatred industry raising their voices?  Could it be because the victim was white?  Could it be because one of the alleged perpetrators is white so that makes it OK?  Or could it be because black on white crime doesn't further the racial agenda of the mainstream media and the likes of Al Sharpton?

There are a lot of unanswered questions about this case that hopefully will come out during the investigation. One of the boys' mothers (the article didn't say which one) said the boys were "in a wannabe gang."  Where did they get the gun?  What else have they done in the past?  Was this a foreseeable incident?

Things like this don't normally happen in small town Oklahoma.  (The population of Duncan is around 24,000.)  Let's hope the police and prosecutor get things done correctly and by the book and all three are convicted.  And let's hope they reconsider the charges against Jones so he can be sentenced commensurate with his buddies and they can all go to prison (or the gas chamber) together.  Of course - since they're all under 18 there will be no death penalty consideration.

As far as I'm concerned - they all should be tried on the same charges and face the same punishment.  When you decide to run like a big dog you need to be punished like a big dog.