Once again, crime reporter James Queally of the “Red” Star-Ledger is refusing to report black on white crime. While many media outlets admit to having a policy of censoring black crime, James Queally is actually quite proud of it. Most reporters will tell you the race of the perpetrator if you call them. Queally will not and is quite adamant that it is his duty to censor black crime. (See below.) When reporter Kyle Rogers exposed Queally and Star-Ledger on Examiner.com, the newspaper responded by printing a fake statistic to downplay black on white crime. The fake claim was very easy to debunk.
In this latest examples. A couple was attacked in the parking lot of a Nordstroms. The male victim was shot in the head and died in the hospital. According to media reports, they were attacked in a crowded area with a lot of witnesses. Yet, the paper censors the race of both the victims and the perpetrators. Two perpetrators fled in the victim’s car, then abandoned it a short distance away. Police say they have no motive for the attack. It looks like another hate crime/thrill killing.
Queally intentionally places the public at greater risk by censoring the description of the dangerous at large suspects. We know the two suspects are black because Essex county prosecutors said so at a press conference last night. The Star-Ledger posted a two minute excerpt from the press conference online, but did not show the part were the description of the perps is given.
Queally’s article was updated after the press conference, but still did not add any description of the perps.
The names of the victims have not been release. Only a one blurry picture of the male victim being rushed to an ambulance has been shown in the media. He appears to be white or Asian.
From Star-Ledger…
An evening of Christmas shopping turned into a violent nightmare tonight when a man returning with his wife to their parked Range Rover at an upscale New Jersey mall was shot in the head, and their vehicle carjacked from a parking deck at the Mall at Short Hills.
Police said the two suspects both fled in the stolen car and had an alert out for the 2012 silver Range Rover with the license plate U26BVD.
The man, who was not identified, was shot once in the head and rushed to Morristown Medical Center where he was in “grave condition,” said Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray. His wife was not injured.
Murray said the shooting occurred at about 9:10 pm. She said the victim, 30, of Hudson County, had been out with his wife shopping and they were returning to their vehicle when they were confronted by two men. She said the husband had opened the door for his wife and was getting into the driver’s side when he was shot. Murray believed multiple shots were fired.
Authorities believe the two assailants fled in the Range Rover and headed east on Route 24.
“We do not know why that car (was targeted), but it obviously was a car with some value,” said Murray.
The mall, which normally closes early on Sunday, was open for extended holiday shopping hours.Examiner article by Kyle Rogers, from May 9th, 2012…
As concert goers walked to their cars after the show, a mob of what the Newark Star-Ledger is calling “teenagers,” brutally attacked several people. Five people were injured, some of them very badly. Three of the injured victims are teens. Two of the victims suffered serious facial fractures.
Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio said the attacks were motivated by a desire to cause injury. He says the perpetrators were laughing during the attacks.
Sounds like the attacks were racially motivated hate crimes right? Well the Newark Star-Ledger only describes the attackers as “teenagers.” Any details that would clue the reader as too the race of the attackers appears to be intentionally omitted.
I called the Star-Ledger and asked if they had a policy of omitting the race of at large crime suspects. The first woman I talked to went to ask her superiors. She came back and told me that there is no formal policy, “but we generally do not publish race.”
I then asked to speak to crime reporter James Queally who wrote Star-Ledgers’ two articles on the attacks.
Queally told me that the police report did list the race of the perpetrators and that he censored this information in his two articles on purpose. He also stated that it was the newspapers’ policy to censor race in crime stories.
Then the conversation took a comedic turn. I asked Queally what race was listed in the police report and he refused to tell me. He also said he interviewed three of the victims, but refused to tell me what race they were. Queally did however volunteer that “it’s an 80% black area and the concert was full of white rock and roll fans.”
Queally denied that the attacks were racially motivated. He said that if it was blacks attacking whites, then that was just a factor of probability. Keep in mind that Queally admits knowing the race of the perps and refuses to say.
I told Queally about numerous other black on white mob attacks all over the nation and explained to him this was part of a trend of racially motivated hate crimes. At this point Queally went from a friendly demeanor to a very arrogant sounding tone. He replied “well somehow myself and everyone else in the media have missed all of these.” I told Queally I have been documenting these hate crime mob attacks and would be happy to e-mail him lots of information. Queally then hung up the phone without a reply.
During the conversation Queally hinted at his reasoning for wanting to censor the race of the perpetrators. He asked “if all the attackers were black fifteen year-olds, would you avoid all black fifteen year-olds in Newark?” I told him I would, especially a group of black fifteen year-olds. I told him that avoiding a specific demographic known for brutally attacking my demographic at random was “common sense.” Queally replied, “that’s your opinion.”
In other words Queally places political correctness above public safety, even though “public safety” is one of the topics he is supposed to be covering. The LA Times, for example, is very candid about having a policy of censoring race in crime stories. They say they don’t want to “stigmatize racial minorities.”
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