Not Reporting Race

BBC: "The court heard how the men drugged the girls and took them to towns and cities to be raped"

I thought the headline strangely bland - UK: 7 men convicted of sex crimes against girls

LONDON (AP) — A London court has convicted seven men of committing sex crimes against underage girls, some as young as 11.

The guilty verdict Tuesday followed five months of testimony indicating the gang exploited girls between 2004 and last year in the Oxford area.

The case follows several other high-profile cases of sex rings that took advantage of underage girls who were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to commit sex acts.
 
Charges in the latest case include rape, trafficking and child prostitution.
 
Two men were cleared of the charges Tuesday. Those found guilty will be kept in custody until they are sentenced next month.

That's the story in its entirety. This is international news?

So I went over to the BBC where I find the above picture and the news

Kamar Jamil, 27, and brothers Akhtar Dogar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 31, and were convicted of rape, facilitating child prostitution and trafficking.

Matt Lewis [Email him] of the Daily Caller makes a semi-defense of Jason Richwine but then qualifies that he has some “problems with the IQ thing.” [Some thoughts on Heritage, Jason Richwine, and the IQ scandal, Daily Caller, May 13, 2013] He expresses his problems with a number of rhetorical questions, which have pretty simple non-rhetorical answers, which shows just how hopeless even most conservatives are in understanding

The man accused of kidnapping Amanda Berry and two other white  girls and holding them prisoner for ten  years is a Puerto Rican who lived in a Puerto Rican neighborhood and had a Puerto Rican flag on his porch.

His name is Ariel Castro, although two other Puerto Ricans are also charged.

The Tampa Bay Times, which a reader of ours described as "compulsively liberal," has on its website a comprehensive list of local violent crimes in their website:

Tampa Bay area has a long history of violent, heinous crimes

A comprehensive list of some of the most notorious crimes around Tampa Bay since 1980

Pictured is Rigoberto Gutierrez, accused of rape in Mount Kisco. He's referred to by Lohud.com as a "Mount Kisco Man", but he appears to be from Oaxaca, or someplace. Is he illegal? Uninquiring minds at Lohud.com don't want to know:

Cops: Mount Kisco man, 41, raped 11-year-old girl

Apr. 25, 2013

Written by Shawn Cohen

MOUNT KISCO — A 41-year-old village man was in court Thursday on charges of raping a girl under the age of 11, police said.

Rigoberto Gutierrez of 104 Grove St. was arrested by Mount Kisco police Tuesday and charged with two counts of first-degree rape, a felony. He had intercourse with the girl on two occasions at a residence in the village in April, police said.[More]

In a separate case, a man named Mykyta Panasenko was charged with possessing explosives on a train. He's referred to as NJ man (New York Daily News), "Jersey City man" (NJ.com), "Man" (Yahoo.com) and  27-year-old man (News 12 New Jersey) but his Facebook page says he's from Kiev, so he's actually, of course, "Ukrainian man".

Who is reporting that? (Besides bloggers?)

When you see in a headline that someone has died in a fraternity hazing incident, it's almost always a black fraternity. This is a fact unlikely to appear in a headline, but the Daily Caller seems to have removed it altogether:

Police charged four men in a hazing catastrophe that led to the deaths of two Virginia State University freshmen who drowned in the Appomattox River while completing an initiation ritual.

The students were attempting to become members of “Men of Honor,” a group with no official relationship to the university, officials said.Two students drown in hazing incident, By Robby Soave, [Email him]The Daily Caller, April 24, 2013

There's no mention of race, and this is the only graphic:

They do say that

Earlier this month, three students, including the student government president, were also charged with hazing pledges at the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Alpha Phi Alpha is a black fraternity. (There are, officially, no white fraternities, because of the Civil Rights act of 1964. There are sill black fraternities, as there are black colleges. ΑΦΑ claims that it's been open to "men of all races" since 1940.) But Alpha Phi Alpha was not the group involved in this drowning incident.

A university spokesperson described the group as “an underground,

You may have heard reports of Canada's arrest of two Muslim immigrants in Canada on charges of conspiring to blow up a train.

What you have not read but just assumed from their names, was that they were Muslim immigrants. The official Royal Canadian Mounted Police announcement gives their names ["two accused, Chiheb ESSEGHAIER and Raed JASER"] but has nothing on either their religion or their citizenship. Toronto's Globe And Mail reported, based on a press conference, that

Four Hispanics in the Bronx randomly beat a Bangladeshi man who hadn't even heard of the bombing.

As usual in hate crimes that don't involve white people, the victim's race is mentioned in the headline, the attackers' race mentioned only in the third paragraph.

An alternate headline would be "Four Hispanics Beat Man". That headline you won't see soon.

Bx. idiots beat up ‘Arab’ in revenge

By JAMIE SCHRAM, LAUREL BABCOCK and BOB FREDERICKS

Last Updated: 9:12 AM, April 18, 2013

Posted: 2:13 AM, April 18, 2013

A Bangladeshi man out for dinner at a Bronx restaurant was viciously beaten hours after the Boston Marathon bombing by thugs who called him “a f--king Arab” before pummeling him to the ground, sources said.

Abdullah Faruque, 30 — a native of the South Asian country who grew up in The Bronx — was at Applebee’s on Exterior Avenue in Melrose at about 11:30 p.m. Monday when he went outside for a smoke.

Three or four Hispanic males he’d noticed drinking at the bar followed him and angrily got in his face, he recalled yesterday.

“One of the guys asked if I was Arab.

The bombing of the Boston Marathon was said by the NY Post  to have resulted the arrest of a Saudi suspect.[Authorities ID suspect as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospitalLast Updated: 5:24 PM, April 15, 2013]

Milton A. Tingling is the Judge who ruled against Bloomberg's stupid soda ban. Emily Bazelon, shocked that any nanny state regulation should be struck down, accused Tingling of being a "conservative" judicial activist in Nanny Mayor, Meet the Nanny Judge | How conservative judicial activism took down Bloomberg’s big-soda ban., By Emily Bazelon, Slate.com, March 13, 2013