In Knoxville, Tennessee, four African-American men: Lemarcus Davidson, age 25; Letalvis Cobbins, 24; George Thomas, 24; and Eric Boyd, 24; and one African-American woman, Vanessa Coleman, age 18, had been recently charged with the murder of Christopher Newsom and his girlfriend, Channon Christian, a young white couple, after carjacking Newsom's car, kidnapping the couple, and then murdering them. However, even more significantly, before killing the couple, the assailants forced Channon Christian to watch while they cut off his boyfriend's penis, set him on fire, and fatally shot him several times. And then, she herself met an even more cruel and painful end. She was beaten, gang-raped and sexually violated multiple times and urinated upon by all five assailants, after which both of her breasts were cut off, her mouth was stuffed with chemicals, and she was also eventually shot to death multiple times. What is quite remarkable was, had the victims been black and the perpetrators were white, considering terrible inhumanity of the criminal acts inflicted upon the victims, there would have definitely been national outrage and extensive news media coverage like the "Duke University rape" --- the Reverend(s) Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have probably immediately flown to Tennessee to help console the victims' relatives, publicly condemned and loudly decried the heinous crimes, and demanded a full FBI investigation---and they would have definitely been joined by the NAACP, the ACLU, the New York Times and other members of the news media, various social activists, etc. But since the victims were white, Sharpton and Jackson, the NAACP, the ACLU, the feds and "human rights" people could have cared less, and there was no widespread coverage by the news media --- in fact, the incident barely got a blip in the news. That's why hardly anyone has heard about it.
The Assailants
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