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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Deafening silence" LOL, sure.[/quote]

This. The incident has been widely reported. The man was arrested quickly and is held pending trial. Other media reports that people rushed to the victim.

It was an awful crime, but your news source is laughably bad. [/quote]

This incident was only widely reported after Twitter outrage that major media outlets had not picked up on it. I’m glad it’s being covered now.

I read that her family does not want her returned to Ukraine, but rather buried here in the United States. I found that so heartbreaking.

[b]Another murder that I’m not sure if it’s being widely reported, because it’s local to us, is Dacara Thompson[/b]. Both are complete tragedies and senseless murders. 
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There are almost 50 murders a day in America. Most are not going to get nationwide coverage unless there's something particularly "newsworthy" about it--i.e, it is particularly brutal, has unusual details (e.g., the kinky sex/au pair angles of the local murder of Christine Banfield), involves a certain combination of races of the victim and perpetrator, or feeds a specific political narrative. What about the Thompson murder do you think merits nationwide attention given the high number of daily murders in America? [/quote]

I see your point. I’m not sure why it felt big to me. Maybe because she was a pretty young teenager and he’s an ugly middle aged man. Honestly, yes, the racial aspect felt significant to me to merit wider publication, and that was before I learned of his illegal status AND Gov. Moore’s statement. Just my two cents.

Sadly, they’re too many murders to report them all.

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I keep thinking about your question as to why I thought this merited national coverage and I think it’s because as a Latina I’m hyper aware of incidents involving Latinos, in which case this was. Negative events feel very big to me.[/quote]

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