But if the baby had been black and the neighborhood white, it WOULD have been a national event, whether there was evidence of racial motivation or not.
Complete speculation
Not really, the double standard has been well documented many times.
I saw this same shit happen in the UK under Blair.
Compare the outrage at the killing of Antony walker by a white kid in a knife fight that walker initiated .
With the murder of Kriss Donald by 5 adult pakistanis.
The BBC refused to cover the Kris's Donald case.
3 hours or more each day to the walker case.
But al least the BBC were honest about it, their news manager clearly stated that a white kids murder was not newsworthy.
KDs murder was the most horrific murder of a schoolchild in British history, the murderers stated goal that day was to gouge out the eyes of a white guy.
So they singled out the small, underweight and short statutered 15 year old Kriss Donald.
Tortured and sodomized him for 23 hours.
Castrated him, gouged out his eyes, stabbed him more than a dozen times, soaked him in gasoline and set him on fire.
Still the kid survived, crawled 30 yards to a roadside, then died.
The dog walker who found the body reported it as a dog that had been burned.
Such were the injuries , he was no longer recognizable as a human being.