Three Little Hispanic Boys -vs- One Blond Girl

[dogday]

Now I am sitting here wondering why they did not initiate the "Amber Alert" for these three boys. On TV the blond girl gets all the air time and the little boys just a mention.

This is sad and pitiful. I am more concerned about those three little boys than I am about the grown up girl. Why aren't they?

[knowbody0]

1. what three little boys are you talking about?

[dogday]

3. Three lost boys in New Jersey (Camden)?

have been gone since Wednesday. Dogs picked up the trail of one of them by the River. Looking for a known criminal in the area....

[friesianrider]

4. Missing from Camden...

...as you prob know, a desperately poor city in New Jersey. All the boys are under 10, I am fairly certain. It's been all over our local news, but I am just outside of Philadelphia, PA. They apparently just went missing one afternoon - vanished without a trace. One is mentally handicapped and needs daily meds, too.

[David Zephyr]

2. I agree.

Racism.

[democracyindanger]

5. Apparently the cops considered it, but

decided against issuing an Amber alert because they felt the circumstances didn't warrant it.

Last night, CBS News, to their credit, counted up the minutes the Aruba blond and Runaway Crazy Woman got, compared to the three boys.

[dogday]

8. I am wondering what warrants the "Amber Alert" when you have

three kids missing under any circumstances. Now they are finding the scent of one by the river and that is not good....

[redqueen]

9. WHY didn't it warrant it?

If anything happens to those boys, those idiots should be sued... teach 'em a lesson.

What was the tally of minutes? Do you recall?

[dogday]

10. I think they thought the kids left on their own accord, however

they found them dead in a trunck of a car. My god

[dogday]

11. My God, they are dead

they were in the trunk of a car.....

[Kraklen]

14. Now are they going to have...

24 hour coverage of the murder investigation and the trial?

Of course not.

[redqueen]

16. AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

:banghead:

[bilgewaterbill]

19. I haven't heard that, yet. Please tell us where you found that info.

[dogday]

26. CNN announced it

said they were found in the trunk of a car....

[bilgewaterbill]

35. OMG! That is SOOO sad!

[redqueen]

12. ASSHOLES!

:grr:

And now those boys are DEAD!

:nuke:

:cry:

Praying for their families... holy God in heaven... fuck those idiot cops.

[dogday]

15. If they had searchers scouting the area earlier,

they might of been saved....

[redqueen]

17. I know!

Those families should SUE!

:mad:

[Kraklen]

20. I wish them luck finding a lawyer.

Camden, NJ is a pretty poor city, they'll be lucky if they don't bankrupt themselves buying caskets.

[dogday]

22. That is freaking sad man. No wonder the

media and alert search teams ignored these kids....

[redqueen]

24. This just gets worse and worse...

I hope there's some well meaning lawyer who will force the PD to at least ADMIT they made a mistake, and forget any financial reward... all that matters is that they are shamed... to hopefully ensure it doesn't happen again...

Holy God...

[friesianrider]

30. Oh, no...

How horrible...something like that is just beyond words. Beyond imagination.

Their poor families...my heart is with them. God can only imagine what they must be going through.

[bicentennial_baby]

23. According to whom?

There's no report of that on Google or Yahoo News

[dogday]

25. Just Reported on CNN

[democracyindanger]

13. Don't remember the exact numbers, but

the boys clearly received only a fraction of what the others did during a comparative time period (they used morning talk shows and, I think, cable news from the previous day). The CBS reporter made it clear that the difference was unfair, and said race and class was obviously part of the reason.

They didn't explain why the cops didn't think an Amber Alert was warranted, though.

[redqueen]

18. I can't believe these people...

the media... those idiot cops... sometimes I just can't understand how people can be such MONSTERS.

[SoCalDem]

6. and poor families who are probably not "tele-genic"..

:(

[Career Prole]

7. Odd. I was just thinking about that right now.

I'll bet if the talking heads can't come up with something besides Iraq to talk about this weekend these boys might just break through the missing kid color barrier.

[Piperay]

21. The blond disappearing

in a foreign country makes it an international incident, one reason it gets more press perhaps. (??):shrug:

[medeak]

27. the car was in the boy's yard

and it took this long to explore it?

[left hand man]

32. they were found when they "ripened" piss poor job by the police

[ls317]

28. Better Link

http://newscenter.ninn.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11479


http://www.nbc10.com/news/4642218/detail.html

[dogday]

33. All those people searching for them and they never checked the car..

More than 100 searchers, including police officers, volunteers, firefighters, helicopters, dive teams and bloodhounds, were looking for the three children.

[ls317]

34. That happens often

Remember Chandra Levy???? They had walked past her on several occasions before they found her.

[dogday]

36. Thisshould be on their list with kids

empty appliances, old cars, we have all been warned about this. How many kids have died like this. It just seems like they would of searched the vehicle.

[ls317]

38. No kidding

[wakeme2008]

29. Did not do one in the Jessica Lundford case

Amber Alerts have strange rules. You have to have a car or be able to point to another person before they will call and Amber Alert.

Nothing strange about this case, no car or perp.

[ls317]

31. For what its worth guidelines for Amber Alerts ( PDF)

http://www.amberalert.gov/docs/AMBERCriteria.pdf

[bluestateguy]

37. This story was a pathetic attempt at token equality for the media

"See! See! We're not racist! Really!" Then the corporate media whores can always refer back to this case to deflect criticism and go back to covering well to do, good looking missing white kids again.

The story was very much reported as an afterthought, and as a sideshow, rather half-heartedly.

It will take a lot more than this one story to convince me that the media has changed its ways.