L.A. shooting brings out the online haters
A shooting in a Los Angeles parking garage early this morning in which two men were wounded may or may not be a hate crime — it’s too soon to tell, say the L.A. police and the city’s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. No comments yet. You can be the first!
The men were going to a prayer service at Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic, a synagogue in North Hollywood, when a gunman shot first one and then the other in the leg. Both men are recovering. Here are links to some of the news stories about the event:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-noho-synagogue-shooting,0,5720530.story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_us/us_synagogue_shooting
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/10/detectives-search-for-suspect-motive-in-la-synagogue-shooting.html
Hate crime or no, coverage of the shooting, not just the shooting itself, has brought the usual Web-emboldened anti-Semites crawling out onto the media comment pages. Sure, there were the right-minded posters, like the person on the LATimes site who asked, “Isn’t it time to look past the differences and realize that we are all one people, one planet? Will that day ever come?” But they are all too frequently in the company of the conspiracy-minded haters.
Another person writing on the Times Web site wondered why there were several stories on the shooting “and how many other people are shot down killed today and theres hardly any mention of those, if at all? and certainly not the rolling out of resources as is the example here? why is that?”
Oh, right — the story is getting covered because the Jews run the media. Silly us for thinking it was because a potential hate crime is worth reporting on.
29 Oct, 2009 >