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According to CNN, On January 20, 2014, in Oklahoma, Thorsten Gunter Rushing, 18, called the police to report what is supposed to be a home invasion after he shot his father, Uwe Rushing, 49, and his 13-year-old brother, Stefan. Thorsten Rushing and his friend Ethan Alexander Thompson, 19 charged with two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Timothy Alan Delahoy Jr., 18 and Cody Xavier Davis, 19 were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of accessory after the fact of murder. Wesley Bankston, 17, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder. They all have pleaded not guilty to all counts.
Thorsten Rushing and four of his friends Ehan, Timothy, Cody, and Westley have elaborately planned on what they would do, how they would hide the weapons, and whom they would blame it on. They displayed the crime scene by shooting the wall as if the intruders attacked them and have his friend Wesley Bankston disposed the evidence. Initially, Rushing told the police that two black men invaded his house but he then changed his statement to one white man and one Hispanic man. The motive for the shooting has not been determine. Unbelievably, these type of crimes happen every day and it has become somewhat such a norm to almost everyone. This raise questions to why some people would commit these type of crimes while others do not. Not only that, how does the media coverage influence the way that these crimes play out in real life? Criminal behavior is not something that is ingrain in their DNA. It is not something that someone is born with. In fact, it is something that is learn just like everything else. In addition, the way that the media p...

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...e a social phenomenon. African American males are blame and accused for many crimes that they did not commit mainly because of the color of their skins. There is something wrong with the fact that these teenagers think of African American to blame the crime on because society today shown that they are the one that would most likely to commit these type of crimes. Is it because how the media have portray the role of African Americans play in crime stories? The media focus a lot of their attention on African American offenders and white victims rather than the other way around. Not only that, TV crimes show also contributed a lot of their time doing the same thing. This may be reason why Rushing and his friends thought it would be more believable to blame it on the Black men just because today’s society portray them as the one who would most likely to commit crimes.

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