Look where I found this sentencing of a white supremacist

[malaise]

in the Japan Times. Did you see coverage of this last week?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/14/world/crime-legal-world/white-supremacist-gets-life-killing-ny-black-man-sword-bid-spark-race-war/#.XG8K8PlKjIU
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White supremacist gets life for killing NY black man with sword in bid to spark race war
AP

FEB 14, 2019
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NEW YORK - A white supremacist who killed a black man with a sword wanted to ignite a worldwide race war, a prosecutor told a judge who sentenced the man Wednesday to life in prison without parole.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance read excerpts from James Jackson’s hate-filled manifesto as he decried the “horror of his actions” when he fatally stabbed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman in March 2017 after stalking a number of black men in New York City.

“James Jackson is a white supremacist and a terrorist,” Vance said of the Baltimore man and veteran who served in Afghanistan.

Given a chance to speak, Jackson, who is white, said he wanted to apologize for “this horrible and unnecessary tragedy.”

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but Jussie Smollett all damn day

[ADX]

1. It was covered in the New York Daily News and the New York Post...

...but you're right, I didn't see a whole lot about it anywhere else...

[rurallib]

2. Fairly sure someone posted it here

otherwise I probably wouldn't have seen it.

[2naSalit]

6. Never would have seen it either if

it weren't posted here in recent days.

[malaise]

3. No national coverage - I never saw this on cable n/t

[PeeJ52]

4. Never heard of it... Wow...

We need some Angel Moms for people killed at the hands of white nationalists...

[Yonnie3]

5. I saw coverage in the media, but not much.

On DU as well.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211816800

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142265422

I think there was not a lot of coverage between his arrest and the conviction. There should have been more. Domestic terrorism is the largest terrorism threat in the US. The Coast Guard man who was just arrested didn't get all that much coverage either.

This coverage of Smollett is over the top. We come so far from the "if it bleeds it leads" days. (sarcasm) Now, race, minor celebrity, lack of shootings today, and so forth bring this story to the lead. If all the viewers and surfers reading and watching were to push that button and move on it would stop.