White-On-White Crime Strikes Again In Waco

[bemildred]

Following a spate of white-on-white violence over the weekend in Waco, Texas, that claimed nine lives and resulted in scores of casualties and over 190 arrests, there has been a marked lack of interest in talking about where the event fits into the epidemic of such white criminal behavior in the U.S. -- despite the fact that every year, more white people are murdered by white people than by any other group.

In recent years, a national pattern has begun to emerge in the wake of shootings in which a black man is killed by a white man. Of course the death is a tragedy, goes the narrative, but the dead man probably provoked the killing somehow -- and more importantly, if you truly care about young black men, why aren't you more concerned about black-on-black violence?

The same pattern doesn't hold even when white-on-white crime unfolds in full view of the nation, as it did in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks Restaurant on Sunday.

Yet white-on-white crime should be a huge concern -- because it’s out of control. Granted, there are 201 thugs off the streets for the time being, but what about the rest of them?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/18/waco-texas-biker-gang_n_7307050.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Kick

But what about the childreeeeeeen bemildred?!?!?!?!

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. Nothing to see here, just move along FERGUSON, Michael BROWN jaywalked!!

[JustAnotherGen]

5. These guys just opened fire

Over some stupidity.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

6. White privilege...you wont see AfAm doing that, they cant even protest the murder of their family

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. And interestingly ...

no one is excusing the violence by pointing to the alleged criminality of the victim ... even, when the victims are ALL CRIMINALS.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. They were 1strong

These guys down in Texas - meth, heroin, cocaine, you name it. Bad, bad dudes.

[Igel]

8. Nor doing the opposite.

Making the victims into symbol.

The attitude is, A pox on both their houses. No calls for understanding or for trying to fix the social environment that these poor, troubled men grew up in.

No. They're thugs and it was a shoot-out. Nothing to soften either side, and nobody's taking either side, mourning the guilty on either side except possibly for their families and close friends. Innocent bystanders, that's a different matter, and that's appropriate. The gang members are excluded by nearly any social group or community that anybody cares about. If anything, they're like a malignant tumor and rejected by most sane folk.

Nor is anybody acting defensively, saying that somehow it's others' fault or an internal matter. Their blood be on their own heads. This is in spite of those who want to somehow score political points. Such faux pundits are irrelevant and apparently quite loudly insist on having nothing to add and being as marginal as possible.

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. Really? That's the response you want to make? ...

comparing the community response to the conditions that allow for yet another unarmed Black man/kid killed for walking to motorcycle gangs killing each other? Really?

[malaise]

7. K & R

Good read

[wingzeroday]

10. Link for anyone interested

In looking through some of the mugshots. There are a lot so you can side scroll through it.

http://www.wfaa.com/picture-gallery/news/crime/2015/05/18/mugshots-waco-biker-gang-shooting/27543607/

[world wide wally]

11. I've heard it blamed on the restaurant owner and too much alcohol, but haven't heard much about the

guns they all had at all.

[bemildred]

12. +1.

The one thing you won't see is anybody blaming it on the "White Race" and their habitual criminality, and yet you can make that case easily.

[Lodestar]

13. How can anyone tell they're white through all those tatoos? n/t