A “Brutal Race Killing” Between Friends?
A number of news sites and blogs have been reporting that the depraved murder of 30-year-old Anthony Hill by 19-year-old Gregory Collins is a hate crime driven by Collins’ hatred of Black people. The problem with this theory? The victim’s family says that they know Collins, he was friends with the victim and definitely not a racist:
Of course that little factoid just gets in the way of a good old fashioned “smear the South with charges of redneck racism” story. Even now sites like Hip Hop Wire are running photos of Klan lynchings even though they are aware that Collins was friends with the victim. Global Grind is claiming that this is a racist killing and they too are aware that that is not the case.
Police are looking at an argument over a girl as a possible motive. For my money, and I don’t mean to offend anyone, but when a 30-year-old man is “friends” with a 19-year-old who kills him in a love triangle, I tend to doubt a woman was involved at all. But none of that matters. The dragging of Hill may have been an ill-conceived notion to get rid of evidence or a psycho’s attempt to desecrate a corpse. Either way it’s horrendous enough without injecting the class/race warfare narrative into the discussion that tends to be the fall back position of the lazy and those with an agenda.
People want this to be a hate crime because, secretly, they want the South to be full of people they hate so that their elitist bigotry is justified. South Carolina deserves better, and so does Anthony Hill. He deserves better than to be used to promote a hateful agenda. He deserves justice so let’s concentrate on that.
Home Tattoos Are a Really Bad Idea … Unless You Want to Contract a Potentially Fatal Infection
If your kids have turned up with a mysterious tattoo on them get them to a hospital, because the scumbag giving them to teens is spreading staph infections to kids with his no doubt unsanitary practices:
NEWBERRY, S.C. — South Carolina authorities are looking for a man who is tattooing young people in their homes without their parents’ permission.
Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said 25-year-old Jesus Lopez is unlicensed and has given at least tattooed at last five people under age 21 without their parents knowing. Both are against the law.
Foster says at least two of the people who got tattoos from Lopez have also come down with staph infections, which could cause serious complications if not treated immediately.
Serious complications like death. You can read up on staph at this excellent site. Sounds like Lopez is reusing dirty needles so staph is the least of the problems, though a serious problem in and of itself. Hepatitis, HIV and a host of other blood borne pathogens can be transmitted via illegal tattooing.
We don’t know where else he’s been operating so keep an eye on your kids.