The Travon controversy didn't get selected anywhere... Outrage grew when a month after he was shot... the killer still hadn't been arrested.
Amazing to watch conservatives play the poor suffering victim.
Oh yeah, that's right...I remember last year on 4th of July the national media and Obama and all the civil rights leaders were debating the same issue when in Reno NV a white male was shot dead by another white male and never arrested. It was HUGE news.TIC
Watch video below...Same EXACT situation as in Florida EXCEPT they were both WHITE. Where was the outrage? I guess since the murder victim doesn't look like it could have been Obama's son it wasn't worthy of national attention. AMAZING!
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Seven Months After Killing: No Arrest Yet It's an agonizing wait for a Reno mother whose sone was shot and killed over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Even though police know who did it, no charges have been filed and after seven months, no one has been arrested. We have decided to keep the suspect's name out of this story since he has not been charged with a crime. But we went to the police and the district attorney for answers. Joni Spade says her son Michael Boyle's obituary which appeared in the local newspaper is about the only publicity the case has ever received. Michael was shot and killed at point blank range on july third outside the Freight House parking lot in downtown Reno.
He was shot by a young Iraq War veteran and a friend of Michael's who had just shown up to give Michael and another friend a ride. For some reason as Michael opened the door to get in-- police say the driver picked up his gun and shot his friend dead.
According to a one paragraph news release from Reno Police, the shooting happened when the victim startled the suspect.
Police say Boyle was unarmed though and its unclear at this point why the suspect felt threatened. He'd clearly been drinking. Officers say the shooter had a blood alcohol level of nearly twice the legal limit to drive when he was tested five hours after the shooting.
District Attorney Dick Gammick says police on the scene that night decided not to make an arrest after consulting with his office.
"My chief deputy was the one on-call. he's the one that got all of the facts. he asked them if they wanted to make an arrest. and the decision was made by the reno police department, not by us," Gammick told News 4.
But soon after, Reno Police Did want to make an arrest. Chief Steve Pitss says the suspect's claim of self-defense did not hold-up.
"The issue of self-defense, the alleged issue of self-defense, I don't think that existed at all," Pitts says.
Pitts says Reno Police asked for an arrest warrant three days after the shooting but the district attorney's office declined, saying more investigation was needed. Nearly a month later, on August first, RPD submitted its completed investigation to the D.A.'s office and again recommended the suspect be arrested. But the district attorney's office again declined, according to Chief Pitts.
"They had probable cause to make an arrest but the district attorney had asked that we continue to collect follow up information." said Pitts.
For Michael Boyle's family, the tragedy has been followed by seven months of waiting and wondering.
"Losing a child this way is the worst," Joni Spade told us. "Having no arrest made is killer. It's unbearable. So yeah, I'm highly frustrated."
The district attorney's office has had the case since August first to do some of its own investigating, and has yet to request an arrest warrant. The question is why ? "We don't do O.J. Simpson cases here. We don't go to a trial and wait to see what the lab is going to come up with or wait to see what the doctors are going to come up with . We go into a trial prepared," said Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick.
But with so much evidence pointing at the suspect, why not arrest him ? News 4 posed that question to Gammick on behalf of Michael Boyle's family and friends.
"Are you protecting the susect for some reason?" We asked. "I think I've answered that question for you 14 ways from Sunday. I don't know how else I can answer it, we're not going to go off half-cocked because people are concerned about the timeline," Gammick told us.
Gammick says his office is waiting on additional lab tests and doctors information from the V-A hospital. He says he thinks there could be significant information in the suspect's medical records that could effect the prosecution.
But here is where the timeline becomes important: From information given to News 4 from the district attorney's office, Reno Police and the V-A, the case was turned over to the district attorney's office in early August. It took about three months until anybody asked for the records. When police called the V-A asking how to get the records that call was made in late October. They asked for the military records in November in a letter and were denied. So in December, the V-A received an administrative subpoena from Chief Pitts. That was rejected by the V-A. Then in January police got a search warrant for the records and that search warrant was denied by the V-A.
So what does it take get someone's medical records if they haven't been arrested ?
"You need a signed release by the patient and in this case they didn't have that so we had To deny it," said Darin Farr, spokesman for the V-A hospital.
As time marches on, Joni Spade is not only dealing with tremendous grief over the loss of her only child, but mounting frustration as well.
"I was told it could take up 3 months," she said. "I was patient. Then 4 months hit. And then 5, and 6. And i know so little about the case. That seems strange to me."
A new USA Today/Gallup poll in a dozen battleground states finds President Obama leading Mitt Romney, 51% to 42%.
"The biggest change came among women under 50. In mid-February, just under half of those voters supported Obama. Now more than six in 10 do while Romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points, to 30%. The president leads him 2-1 in this group." (No Doubt the result of the Republican War on Women)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The stock market just had its best first quarter in 14 years. Stocks could rise 10 percent more before the end of the year. That would be enough to push the Dow Jones industrial average to an all-time high and the Standard & Poor's 500 close to a record.
For the first three months of the year, the Dow was up 8 percent and the S&P 12 percent, in each case the best start since the great bull market of the 1990s. The Nasdaq composite index, made up of technology stocks, has had an even more remarkable run – up 19 percent for the year, its best start since 1991.
(ReElection!)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I'm glad to see Wall Street is doing well. Obama is hoping the unemployed and those whose median income shrunk during his administration will vote for him because how well the corporate bankers are doing.
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A new Public Policy Polling survey in Nevada finds: President Obama 51% Mitt Romney 43%.
Five months ago they were tied at 46%.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell to a four-year low last week, as layoffs slow and the job market strengthens.
Weekly applications dropped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 357,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's the fewest since April 2008.
The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 361,750, also the lowest in four years. The average has fallen nearly 13 percent in the past six months.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell to a four-year low last week, as layoffs slow and the job market strengthens.
Weekly applications dropped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 357,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's the fewest since April 2008.
The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 361,750, also the lowest in four years. The average has fallen nearly 13 percent in the past six months.
How many have stopped filing because they are ineligable and still unemployed?
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
March NFP big miss at just 120K. Unemployment rate declines from 8.3% to 8.2%. Futures slide, for at least a few minutes before the NEW QE TM rumor starts spreading. The household survey actually posted a decline in March from 142,065 to 142,034. Considering Birth Death added 90K to the NSA number, the actual number was almost unchanged. And as always, as we predicted when Goldman hiked its NFP forecast yesterday from 175K to 200K saying "if Goldman's recent predictive track record is any indication, tomorrow's NFP will be a disaster", Goldie once again skewers everyone. Finally, Joe LaVorgna's +250,000 forecast was just 100% off... as usual.
The unemployment rate drops to 8.2% for one simple reason: the number of people not in the labor force is back to all time highs: 87,897,000.
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