Race may be factor in fatal stabbing of JBLM soldier

[alp227]

LAKEWOOD, Wash. —

Lakewood police are looking for five black men in their mid 20s after a 20-year-old Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was stabbed to death early Saturday morning, police said. Friends have identified the victim as 20-year-old Tevin Geike.

The stabbing happened after 2:30 a.m. in a parking lot in the 12500 block of Pacific Highway Southwest.

According to authorities, a vehicle passed by three active duty JBLM soldiers and yelled something about being "white." One of the soldiers then yelled back something about the men treating combat solider with disrespect.

The car turned around and stopped next to the soldiers.

full: http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/jblm-soldier-killed/nbGjn/

Unfortunately, some media used sensationalist flamebait headlines. For example, CNN used "Police: Black man kills white soldier in possible hate crime", and the Daily Mail used "White soldier, 20, 'stabbed to death by group of African American men in possible hate crime'". And of course a lot of people commenting on such stories are out with the typical copycat "where are Al Sharpton and Obama and the protests?"

And I'm not even going to look up how the right wing media ghetto covered this story.

[Stargazer99]

1. Find them and give them the death penalty

when the idiots in our own country start killing our soldiers....the taliban must be laughing all the way home
Find them. try them and put them to death
These soldiers keep us from harm's way and the stupid, idiotic I presume, (American) that stabbed the soldier
should rot in hell.

[maxsolomon]

2. I bet you're fun at dinner parties.

This incident aside, how do modern US soldiers "keep us from harm's way"?

[alp227]

3. Oh c'mon, aren't we as bad as our enemies with capital punishment? nt

[seveneyes]

4. No, life without parole would be fitting

That would insure they do not ever kill an innocent again.

[seveneyes]

5. sensationalist flamebait headlines?

CNN used "Police: Black man kills white soldier in possible hate crime"

What is sensationalist flamebait in that headline? The headline matches the events of the story, so that rules out sensationalist. As for flamebait, that would require a reference or back story.

[alp227]

6. Sadly, the right wing has FETISHIZED "black on white crime"

Which is why such headlines sink CNN into WorldNetDaily/The Blaze/Drudge territory.

See these articles:

http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/05/here_we_go_again_the_ginned_up_race_war_of_the_2012_campaign.html
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2013/wndflaherty.html
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2012/wndracebait.html

[seveneyes]

8. WND and other delights

There is some severe nuttery at that WND place. I can see why such stories would be like a magnet to those frothing for a fight. Whenever I see WND referenced, I first see WMD instead. Much like unclear reads as nuclear when glanced at.

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7. Wait. You're not lamenting the unprovoked stabbing death of

a man because of his skin color, but instead your problem is that the media reported it?

Would you have the same reaction if the races had been reversed?

[alp227]

9. I was railing against the needlessly sensationalist titles by CNN and Daily Mail.

It would've been enough just to use the "race would've been a factor" wording that Seattle TV station KIRO did.