Tulsa Shooting Spree Linked to “Revenge” Motive....

Jake England, 19 (L), Alvin Watts, 32 (R)

Earlier this morning ((April 8^th, 2012) Tulsa police arrested two white men (Jake England and Alvin Watts) accused of killing three black residents and injuring two others in a shooting spree that authorities called "unprecedented."

The shootings occurred just one day after the murder of one of the shooter’s father by a black man (Pernell Demond Jefferson). At the time of the murder, Jefferson had a lengthy criminal history that included "feloniously pointing a firearm, domestic assault, assault with a dangerous weapon and several drug and weapons crimes."

Pernell Jefferson

On Jake England posted a message on the 2^nd Anniversary of his father’s death; “Today is two years that my dad has been gone shot by a fu*king ni**er it's hard not to go off between that and sheran I'm gone in the head.
RIP...”

Such misguided “revenge” is a relatively rare motive for such violence, as most violent crimes are triggered by a lust for power and control by those who feel the most powerless.

This is also the most frightening kind of violence, given that once the killer decides that he must extract revenge, ANY member of the group associated with the act he feels must be avenged will suffice.

In such circumstances, everyone in the targeted group is a potential target. Such killers rarely, if ever consider the very palpable irony that their misplaced “act of revenge” will only create more people who will feel robbed of those they love, creating the very real potential for even more such misguided revenge.

On the heels of the home invasion of the Bob and Nancy Strait, resulting in the murder of Nancy Strait, Oklahoma has seen more than its share of violence lately.

Here's the REAL question though; WHY does the U.S. media ALWAYS focus national attention on the relatively rare white-on-black violence (like this) and even include some Hispanic-on-black violence (George Zimmerman is as Hispanic as Barack Obama is black) as "white-on-black" violence, while ignoring the comparative epidemic of black-on-white violence? They even assiduously avoid any focus on the most egregious examples, like the Strait home invasion/murder, the David James killing and the Christian-Newsom torture-murders in Knoxville?


It's NOT an accident, any more than the NBC "editor" mangling the Zimmerman 9-1-1 call was an "accident."