There goes the narrative, and with it, the protests

oh? well, never mind

Houston police have arrested two black men for the murder of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes. It now appears to have been a gang-related killing, and a possible case of mistaken identity.

The Reverend Al Sharpton must be incredibly relieved that this change in the story came before he had time to get down to Texas to join the protests by “community organizers” and assorted congressmen demanding “Justice for Jazmine”. The little girl’s murder was called “a national issue” by all the usual suspects, like this one, quoted in The Daily Beast:

Civil-rights attorney Lee Merritt, who is working with Jazmine’s family, concurs with the mother’s belief that the shooting was racially motivated and is working with community activists to make their theory known. “That’s why I was brought on,” he told The Washington Post on Wednesday. “We want to emphasize the racial nature of the attack and that hate-crime charges are appropriate.”

Obviously, the tragedy of this little girl’s death remains unabated, for those who care about the lives of children as children, and the pain of her parents is still the same, but with the switch in the story from a mysterious white triggerman to a couple of black gangbangers, I predict that the attention from our national media will end, protests will cease, and business as usual will resume. Until another pawn appears.