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I've been trying to find out more about this because the story doesn't make any sense:

"he approached the sleeping woman, and then lit her on fire with what was believed to be a lighter. She added the victim's clothes became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds."

Clothing shouldn't just be flammable like that without some kind of accelerant.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-Laws--Standards/Statutes/Flammable-Fabrics-Act

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The suspect being an immigrant is the main reason this will be a multi-day national story. It's a fucked up way to kill someone, but even with that in mind, there's no way they'd make a national story out of a homeless woman being murdered in NYC except to serve a broader agenda.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh come off it. Burning someone alive is why it’ll be a multi-day national story.

How can you even say that given that the last multi-day story was a fare jumper being shot at and the one before that was someone being choked to death? Neither of which, to my knowledge, involved immigrants.

Keep stirring that race pot though.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

23 people were murdered by fire in 2023.

And "immigrant" isn't a race, but if you're playing ignorant about how this intertwines with current sociopolitical movements (just like the other two national-coverage murders you cite), this isn't a particularly surprising slip up. And if that wasn't enough jumping to "stirring the race pot" paints a pretty clear picture.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, there's also the burning person on a subway.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean how often does that happen? Like legitimately?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I don't know. But I'm sure it doesn't happen so much that it would be ignored by the news.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yeah them gosh darn immigrants comin'ere stealin' our murder stories

fucks sake