Tolstoy: "Where are the angry protesters?"

The Washington Post: "Nationally, the case has drawn wide attention from parents of children with Down syndrome and advocacy groups. More than 1,000 angry messages also fill the Facebook page of the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office."

Tolstoy: "Where is the media?"

You literally posted a link to this story being covered by The Washington Post. Last time I checked, the Washington Post was a major newspaper and online media outlet.

Because whites aren't organized. It happens so often to minorities that they are organized.

Also white lawyers don't want to handle these cases because they won't collect enough to make it worth their time. I know from experience when the lawyer told me that I had an ironclad case, but it wasn't profitable for him.

Also, this story is from March 2013. Why do you expect to see people posting about it on the webDip forum today?

Obvious troll is obvious.

@Randomizer,

You had an iron-clad wrongful death claim and the lawyer wouldn't take it for profitability reasons?

Randomizer has Down's Syndrome and the cops choked him to death. The lawyer still wouldn't take it.

"Nationally, the case has drawn wide attention from parents of children with Down syndrome and advocacy groups. More than 1,000 angry messages also fill the Facebook page of the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office."

A thousand angry messages on facebook is nothing. There were no protests, the president of the United States and the Attorney General took no note of this murder, and there were no angry marchers. Nothing but a shrug and an "aw shucks, that's too bad".

"You literally posted a link to this story being covered by The Washington Post."

I did. I bet in the print version, it was a quarter page on A47. In contrast, Michael Brown's death and the resulting news was front page daily. Why?

"Also, this story is from March 2013. Why do you expect to see people posting about it on the webDip forum today? "

To be honest, I didn't check the date. I remember when this story was first reported on, and it seemed like about a year ago, which would've meant that about now would be the right time for a grand jury to finish with a hearing. Apparently my impressions of the chronology were way off. But the fact that there wasn't a single forum post on this story when it occurred, whereas some victims of police homicides have had several the last few weeks, makes my point no matter when this happened.

"Because whites aren't organized. It happens so often to minorities that they are organized. "

The majority of victims of police homicides are white. And whites are certainly organized - we are told, after all, that we control everything. I'd be willing to bet that the board of the ACLU is majority white. But aside from anti-government libertarians, groups which ought to be concerned about homicides like this are oblivious if the victim isn't black. Why?

I remember hearing about this case at the time from various sources. I can't recall many more details about it because it was a long time ago, but certainly it's not true that the world failed to notice.

"Smith said that when the deputies placed Smith on his stomach, it was for “one to two minutes” and that once Saylor began showing signs of distress, the deputies removed the handcuffs, called for help and administered CPR."

Sounds like they at least tried to do something. This was incredibly stupid to use so much force on a man with Down's Syndrome, but I wouldn't call this murder.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/ca-cop-fired-violence-resolve-situation/

That is absolutely terrible. The police officers who started tasing a kid who had already backed down should be fired. The campus officer was the only sane person involved...