90 Miles From Tyranny : WashPost Buries Uncomfortable Fact: Gruesome, Slashing Killer Is An Illegal Alien

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

WashPost Buries Uncomfortable Fact: Gruesome, Slashing Killer Is An Illegal Alien

On the front of Sunday’s Metro section of The Washington Post came this headline: “Gruesome images test jury during trial in Md.” Post reporter Dan Morse reported on a trial in suburban Montgomery County surrounding the murder of 36-year-old Oscar Navarro: “prosecutors were allowed to show jurors eight of the most disturbing photos -- a key to their obtaining a first-degree murder conviction Friday against Mauricio Morales-Caceres, 24.”

It was only in paragraphs 29 and 30 that the Post acknowledged what they clearly felt was the least relevant news detail in this court case: The convicted murder is an illegal alien:

In December 2014, armed with a 15-inch butcher knife, Morales-Caceres stabbed and slashed Navarro at least 89 times in the basement of Navarro's townhouse in Silver Spring.
"The defendant took the knife and sawed," prosecutor Douglas Wink told jurors during closing arguments, standing next to a large image of the body of Navarro on his back in his basement. "This man reached in with his bare hands and took out his liver. He probably thought it was his...Read More HERE

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