PENNSYLVANIA MEN GUILTY OF RACIST MURDER

You know that line that WPs like to throw around about how if a white man killed a black man it would be in all the papers and Sharpton would be protesting in the town every week or something, while blacks killing whites in heinous crimes never make the news? Yes, we know it’s BS, but this story drives that point home. Tacony, PA is a suburb of Philadelphia. Some of us actually live in Tacony. And this is the first time we are hearing this one! That’s right, in 2007 two white men shoot  two African Americans, one a 15-year-old, because the older of the two had a child by one of the white men’s sister – and no one has said one word about it. That doesn’t mean the courts ignored it though. It just might be the death penalty for Gerald Drummond and Robert McDowell, so no one is giving these two any breaks, not to them or their siblings. Gerald’s brother Michael is currently sitting in jail for allegedly threatening one of the witnesses! Happily the system worked in this case, and we are really not complaining that it wasn’t the big story WPs opine it would be – although we are a little ticked at ourselves for missing it. It’s just another example, both with this sick crime to begin with and with the usual racist narrative we note here, how unrealistic racists ultimately are.

Philly.com

Two Tacony men charged in a 2007 racially tinged double slaying were found guilty this morning of first degree murder.

Gerald Drummond, 26, and Robert McDowell, 28, face possible death sentences in the July 13, 2007, slayings of Damien Holloway, 27, and Timothy Clark, 15, in the 6900 block of Vandike Street.

In a concession to the end-of-year holidays, a penalty hearing will take place in January.

The jury of seven women and five men heard testimony from witnesses who told of bad blood between Drummond and Holloway over race – Drummond and McDowell are white – and because Holloway had a child with Drummond’s sister.

Prosecutors said Drummond ordered Holloway and Clark to kneel on the sidewalk, hands clasped behind their heads, and told McDowell to shoot them. When McDowell said he couldn’t do it Drummond took the revolver and shot the teen in the back of the head and Holloway in the face as he tried to run.

The gun was never recovered, and there was no blood, DNA, or other forensic evidence that linked McDowell and Drummond to the murders. But by September 2008, detectives testified, the men had told enough friends for them to be arrested.

A procession of those friends – mostly heroin addicts, tearful and terrorized, with criminal records – testified against the pair. Several said Drummond boasted of killing Holloway for disrespecting his sister and Clark because he was “a loose end.”

Assistant District Attorney Carlos Vega acknowledged the criminal and drug problems of his witnesses but argued that the information they said came from Drummond and McDowell could only have been known by the killers. Vega said his witnesses’ shaky bearing was caused by fear of retaliation from the Drummond and McDowell families.

One of Drummond’s brothers, Michael, 24, was charged with intimidating a trial witness last week in a courthouse hallway. He is in custody pending a preliminary hearing on Dec. 29.

Other trial witnesses told of intimidation by Drummond’s older brother, David, 28, or McDowell’s sister, Tara, 25, who is married to Gerald Drummond and the mother of his two children.