A double standard at work

In September of this year, Marine Sergeant Jan Pawel Pietrzak got married. He and his bride bought a home and began their life together. October 15, Mrs. Pietrzak did not show up for work. Her worried mother called the police. When the police arrived at the Pietrzak home, they found the front door open. Inside the house, they found the couple bound, gagged, and shot. Mrs. Pietrzak had been raped.

Investigation led them to four suspects, all marines. Two of the marines were Sergeant Pietrzak's men. The police theorize the motive was robbery, because some of the Pietrzaks' belongings were found in the the possession of the suspects. I had another suspicion. When I saw the photos of the suspected murderers, my suspicion was reinforced.

You see, Sergeant Pietrzak was white. His wife was black. At least three of the four men who murdered them are black. I think the fourth one is as well, but it was hard to tell from his photograph. I think this was a race crime. Yet the news media has not breathed one word or intimation that that may be the case. If the perpetrators were white, don't you think Al Sharpton, the Black Panthers, and all the rabble-rousers would be shouting, "Hate crime"? (See my post of October 29, "Hate crime or 3 thugs hanging out together").

Why do I think it was a racially motivated crime? Why would a group of four men plan to rob their own sergeant? Being in the Corps themselves, they would know that a sergeant's pay is certainly nothing to brag about. And certainly their own sergeant would be able to identify them. If they didn't expect the couple to be at home, why the brutality of the murders? They could have just shot them and left it at that, but evidence indicates this couple was tortured. That sounds more like an emotional motive than a material one. I think they didn't like the fact that a white man married one of "their" women.

So where are the Black Panthers demanding justice for this crime? They seem to be mysteriously absent.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6204853