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

  • capital@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.