Post by Scumhunter on Mar 10, 2019 17:03:37 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: Chicago Sun-Times)
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Nearly two and a half years after 15-year-old Demetrius Griffin was burned to death on the West Side, his family has announced the reward for information about his killer has increased to $15,000.
Griffin, a freshman at Steinmetz High School, was found inside a burning trash can in the Austin neighborhood on Sept. 17, 2016. Officers discovered his body when they responded to a call of a refuse fire in the 5500 block of West Cortez Street.
The teenager’s death was ruled a homicide and an autopsy later determined he had been burned alive. His case has remain unsolved.
New contributions from community and faith leaders increased the reward from $10,000, Griffin’s aunt Rochelle Sykes said Monday.
Sykes said her family continues to be “heartbroken” by her nephew’s death.
Griffin’s image — along with those of four other child victims of Chicago violence — is included in a stained glass window at the West Side New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, 4301 W. Washington Blvd. The window, Sykes said, will be officially unveiled Sunday.
Sykes said it’s important that people don’t hear about these cases and forget. For low-income families from poor neighborhoods, Sykes said, homicides are all too often “swept up under the rug.”
“That’s not right,” Sykes said. “No child deserves what he got. My family has no closure … and this city is doing nothing.”
chicago.suntimes.com/news/demetrius-griffin-murder-burned-chicago-austin/
Thoughts? While I am not condoning Empire actor Jussie Smollett's alleged actions, I find a bit odd how is there so much media coverage dedicated to that one Chicago incident when a 15 year-old boy was BURNED ALIVE and I can not find many articles outside Chicago media. If the media truly cared about what's important, we'd be talking about Demetrius Griffin on the news every night and trying to solve his case rather than talking about one story where no one was even harmed severely (if Smollett did indeed stage his beating), let alone killed.
Also, I hate to go there, but Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old white female in Mississippi was also burned to death, and national media was all over it. Jessica was a beautiful young girl and beloved members of her family and it's not her fault the media coverage is that way, but it's another example of the media's subconscious bias at best and outright not caring at worst.
I hope Demetrius gets his justice. But to get there, people have to pay attention and care.
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