In the summer of 2012, 17 year-old Marley Lion was shot and killed while sleeping in his SUV after a party.  Marley went to park his car in a bar’s parking lot and slept there until morning, but as the night went on there was a change of events.

Around 4:05 am police found Lion lying on the ground bleeding. The death that took place was not too far away from a robbery, and the two men from the robbery passed by Lion while he was sleeping in his car. Fearing for his life, life Lion pushed an emergency button in his car to alert the police. The two black males heard this and ran away. After a while, one of the black males came back to Lion’s driver’s windows and fired several gun shoots towards Lion and fled the scene of the crime. After being shot, Lion fell out his SUV and the police came onto to the scene. As Lion was lying in his own blood he told the police that it was two black guys that came up to his car and one of them shot him. Later Lion died at MUSC. In the court house the two black males testified that whole event was a misunderstanding between the two black males.

This type of story should have made it to news as soon as the event happened. In my opinion, it made it directly to the news all because Marley Lion was a white teenager who got killed by a black male. The story didn’t seem as important as a black teenager getting killed by a mixed raced Hispanic male.

So in my opinion if a non-African American person kills an African American it is more important than a white person or of a different raced person getting killed. People say that everyone has equal rights but do people really have equal rights. The last time I checked, The United States is out of the Civil Right Movement. I am not saying that it couldn’t have been a racist act, but many people were not at the crime scene to really have a say.