U.S Marines killing Marines

[Pentangeli]

Four Marines face death penalty -- if found guilty -- after torturing and killing a fellow Marine and his wife in their California home. There's not a great deal of attention to this story, but here's a few articles (yes, one of them's Wiki).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jan_Pawel_and_Quiana_Jenkins_Pietrzak


http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/01/21/2009-01-21_suspects_in_murder_of_brooklyn_marine_ja.html

[Homyrrh]

Casting aside any possiblity of Wikiskew (especially since I hadn't heard any of this before), this is a definitive racial crime. Rape, torture, burning the evidence...

They need more rigorous standards, hot damn. Doughboys in the Army is one thing, but holy crap...

[Pentangeli]

Definitely a racial crime:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/03/2009-04-03_grim_twist_in_tortureslay_of_marine_sgt_.html

I thought California would be a more multi-cultural, less racist environment. There are obviously some who don't like to see different colours mixing. And it always seems to be men that have the biggest problem with it. I don't understand it. If you see a woman with another man, she isn't with you, so who cares who she's with, what does it matter. Madness.

[Jon Lyrik]

California has a shitton of racist skinheads and white supremacists. Actually, the American West in general is far more politically polarized than the rest of the nation is.

[Pentangeli]

California has a shitton of racist skinheads and white supremacists. Actually, the American West in general is far more politically polarized than the rest of the nation is.

Really, I'm surprised to hear that. Is there friction between African-Americans and Latinos? how about Asians? or is it just racism between blacks and whites?