Laken Riley’s Funeral Service Gets Scant Media Attention, While Joe Biden Tweets About . . . George Floyd
“Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act so we can make police reform the law of the land,” Biden tweeted.
On a rainy, gloomy Friday in Georgia, services were held for 22-year-old Laken Hope Riley, the University of Georgia nursing student who last week was horrifically murdered during her morning jog.
Fox News reported that “hundreds” were in attendance:
Laken Riley’s Funeral Held Today pic.twitter.com/2qVbOWa5ML
— Melanie Q (@mel39169) March 2, 2024
From the New York Post‘s write-up:
The streets around the church were clogged with cars as what appeared to be hundreds of people braved the rain to pay tribute to the jogger, photos from the Daily Mail showed.
The family received visitors for two hours ahead of the service, Riley’s online obituary noted.
“Laken was special. She was a gift to anyone who knew her. Smart, kind, compassionate and thoughtful don’t even begin to scratch the surface,” pastor Samer Massad wrote before the service, FOX 5 Atlanta reported.
“She was a loving daughter, sister and friend. She had a gift for making anyone she was around feel comfortable and seen,” he added.
Riley was found dead on campus last Thursday afternoon after a friend reported her missing. A 26-year-old Venezuelan man, Jose Antonio Ibarra, who authorities say is in the country illegally, has been charged with her kidnapping and murder.
On Monday, a vigil was held at UGA for Riley and another student, 19-year-old Wyatt Banks, who reportedly took his life the day before Riley’s murder. The vigil was packed with people:
Thousands gathered at a vigil for Laken Riley and Wyatt Banks at UGA’s Tate Plaza#LakenRiley #LakenHopeRiley #WyattBanks pic.twitter.com/4O5145SHEl
— Crime With Bobby (@crimewithbobby) February 26, 2024
Though Laken Riley’s case has sparked a conversation about illegal immigration and how crimes like Riley’s might have been prevented if Joe Biden was not an open-borders president, the national news media hasn’t been much interested in talking about that aspect.
Nor does it seem they were much interested in covering Riley’s funeral beyond giving it the obligatory treatment, with national news outlets like the New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post posting one article each on their respective websites as of this writing.
Of the three, as of midnight Saturday morning, only CNN mentioned Laken Riley on their website’s front page. None of the “big three”—CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News—had mention of her funeral service on their front pages.
Contrast that with how the MSM saturated their airwaves, newspapers, websites, and Twitter feeds with wall-to-wall coverage of George Floyd’s funeral in Houston and his Minneapolis, and Raeford, North Carolina memorial services:
The mainstream media went wall-to-wall in their coverage of George Floyds funeral, will they cover the funeral of Laken Riley today who was smashed in the head and killed by one of President Bidens criminal illegal aliens? Or are the facts surrounding her murder too inconvenient? pic.twitter.com/H75dCtJM60
— Righteous⚡️Crusader (@Craftmastah) March 1, 2024
And these clips were two of many from the 24-7 non-stop coverage the media gave of the funeral services for Jordan Neely:
"Jordan, you didn't die for nothing."
The Rev. Al Sharpton called for justice and better support for the homeless and mentally ill during a passionate eulogy at Jordan Neely's funeral Friday.
Neely was choked to death in a New York City subway car earlier this month. pic.twitter.com/YqR6qCpVkB
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 20, 2023
Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton delivered a eulogy at the funeral of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old put in a chokehold by a former US Marine and died pic.twitter.com/pwKSnYuKrj
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 19, 2023
Though then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden gave a pre-taped speech for Floyd’s funeral calling for “racial justice,” he was nowhere to be found for Laken Riley’s funeral.
And to add insult to injury, on the day of Riley’s service, Biden was tweeting about . . . George Floyd:
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act so we can make police reform the law of the land.
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 1, 2024
Needless to say, this did not go over well:
As someone who attended Laken Riley’s service today, this post makes me sick. Wrong priorities man.
— Jeff P (@dooley7uga) March 1, 2024
How about you say her name and propose the Laken Riley Justice and Border Closure Act? You POS. https://t.co/VLLfJIvgFe
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) March 1, 2024
How about passing a Laken Riley Immigration & Criminal Justice Reform Act to properly vet folks coming into our country & take/keep violent criminals out of our communities? 🤷♂️ #LakeBoss 🇺🇸 https://t.co/noQyjJHjgP
— Lake Boss 🚤🐟🐕🦺🇺🇸 (@ClayDeux) March 1, 2024
Imagine during a week when a young girl is murdered by an illegal, multiple officers attacked, and cops are literally not allowed to protect innocent citizens in most major cities due to defunding the police and BLM changes to law enforcement they put this out today… https://t.co/oBcJyGdAfe
— The Mel K Show (@MelKShow) March 2, 2024
I should also note for the record that First Lady Jill Biden was in Georgia on Friday, but she had other priorities:
Happening today: First Lady Jill Biden will launch a national organization in Atlanta that aims to mobilize women behind President Joe Biden’s bid for a second term. #gapolhttps://t.co/S8tSZ6CwUN
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 1, 2024
Atlanta is about half an hour to 45 minutes from Woodstock, Georgia, where Laken Riley’s family and friends paid their final respects.
RIP, Laken Riley.
Laken Riley’s funeral will be held in Woodstock, GA today at 2:00 pm est. If you would be so inclined, would you join me for a moment of silence at that time to honor the life of Laken Riley that was taken too soon? HER NAME IS #LakenRiley ! ❤️🩹🍑 pic.twitter.com/WYVvJr7275
— The REAL Politically Savvy 🇺🇸 (@patriot_savvy) March 1, 2024
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What’s the difference between Laken Riley and George Floyd?
Saint George died of a drug overdose while a white cop held him down with his foot.
Laken Riley died because a career illegal military age invader bashes her head with a blunt force object.
Of course, since Laken is white, she didn’t get the same sainthood as two career criminals did.
Go ahead. Keep voting for liberals and your daughter could be next.
You have to understand, that to the US government and their controlled media Laken Riley is disposable collateral damage. What they are upset about is that Ibarra is actually being kept behind bars this time for this crime, which may deter other foreign invader criminals who are coming here.
Subotai Bahadur
The counter argument:
1) “Illegal immigrants are main bolster of the economy.” To be true suggests that this is because the illegals are being given money from feds and states and not from individuals earning income. Pumping money into the economy is not the same as really adding to the economy.
2) “Illegals commit crimes at a lower rate than Americans.” Firstly, just how many illegals are in the country? How many when arrested are listed by nationality, race and immigration status? How many are folded into other groupings such as “white”. The 4473 form specifically requires listed latino or not… but where else? Since blacks account for about 50% of serious crime.. any number close but below that isn’t a great thing. But… should the number be higher…look for the number of illegals to be increased to water that down.
Every loss of an American citizen at the hand of an illegal entrant is ANATHEMA!!!
If she was sexually assaulted, the charges should be aggravated murder and subject to the death penalty.
It is or it isn’t. WHERE IS THE NEWS!!!!
PS: He deserves the death penalty regardless.
What? No hate crime? Gotta throw that in there somewhere, or is that only for preferred minorities?
There has to be a case where an illegal murdered an African American. The right wing should do everything it can to draw attention to that case. It would be very interesting to watch the media and left try to ignore that case. I could see the media and Democrats ignoring the case have the result of undermining their support with important demographic groups.
I am not saying at all that it would be wrong to call attention to blacks being murdered by the hostile foreign invaders; but I have to note that if that was brought up then anyone to the right of Stalin and lighter colored than George Floyd would be publicly accused to trying to instigate a black -v- hispanic race war.
Mind you, I rather expect such to happen anyway in urban areas as the invaders include a large proportion of gang members and their gang culture is a lot bloodier than American urban black gang culture.
Subotai Bahadur
You’re just trying to play gotcha with that tactic. The msm won’t pay any more attention to it than they did Laken’s funeral.
We need to win elections then start taking apart the bloated gov. End the education, eneregy and pretty much all the other departments.
Hold congress accountable for those departments because they don’t want to do the hard jobs of defining all the crap we get from those departments.
And end tax free entities and stop giving out government grants. The leftists are using those loopholes to fund their agenda which means we’re paying for our destruction.
I don’t see how that puts the media in any more of a quandary than all the black people being killed by other legal black residents, that they are also currently ignoring.
It would also be a time to watch the usual troublemakers. Sharpton, Farrakhan,various congresscrooks, Mizzz Goldberg, et al. Listen to them all yes-but-ing the situation, and, somehow finding a way to blame whitey, or in Farrakhan’s case, the Jooooz.
Maybe those in Congress, among others, that do care should wear pins with her picture in unison until it is impossible not to cover.
Although the story is likely well known. Ecxept to the superior out of touch people busy demonzing fantastical bogeymen between themselves.
Teacher: “Can anyone give me an example of something that is upside down and backwards?”
Little Johnny: “President Biden tweeting about George Floyd when there is a funeral going on for the nurse who was murdered by an illegal alien.”
Teacher: Young man, there will be a note put in your permanent record!!!
That is too close to the truth to be funny.
Yes. I know. To this day, I shake in my boots about my school days “permanent record”. One instance of chewing gum in class, another was a fist-fight. I wonder if these two incidents held me back from good job offers.
It was truly coincidental that the second they finished stealing the election, all of the ‘protests’ over Saint Floyd and Buy Large Mansions, and Antifa burning down federal courthouses, all magically disappeared forever.
Not forever.
It’s almost November. The Dog Days of Summer will bring them out in force.
Sarge, I am seeing where I have a sufficient gap in my calendar to make a trip out west to see friends and just take a break. I don’t want to go any time after about mid-May as I don’t want to be caught far from home when the riots and street fighting begin.
The I-10/I-20 corridor is gun friendly (until you hit the CA border).
George Floyd, Jussie Smollett and Mike Brown on steroids. The biggest fraud perhaps of all.
That people fell for it and abused it says so much about the present age.
Commend others to this letter from a Berkeley history professor written in the wake. It’s even good a second time. It speaks of Saint George toward the end:
“As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.
And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species.
I’m ashamed of my department. I would say that I’m ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It’s hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.”
https://jonathanturley.org/2020/06/16/berkeley-condemns-letter-on-blm-sent-by-anonymous-history-professor-that-called-for-free-speech-and-academic-freedom/
What a comparison to show how amoral and out of touch the sanctmonious can be, as they drive themselves down out throats without a care who it touches.
Well, that is one eye opening letter.
One point I take from it is that the only time Saint George’s family ever benefited from his existence was after the shït bag died.
Then the gravy train came a rolling.
Not a single one of them apparently wanted anything to do with this scum bag until they could walk on his dead body to lift themselves to greater heights.
May he rot in hell, as many of those who continue to dine off his carcass should rot.
I suspect most of them weren’t saints either 🤷♂️
I’ll guarantee that the money they all extracted from this incident has long-since been lost to gambling, luxury cars that were neglected or stolen, homes they do not care for, and bling.
“Check out the new rims!”
The horse-drawn hearse was a particularly hilarious and tacky highlight of the multiple St. Floyd funeral processions.
Well, Saint George was a horse’s ass.
that’s blacks for you. Tacky as heck. Did the hooptie hearse also have expensive rims and did it have a sound system pounding out (c)rap music?
No, that wasn’t me grinning at that, because that would have been wrong. YOU did!
Just all part of the “look at me!” gene so many of them possess.
Neither funeral is significant except as a political play to a soap opera media business model.
Blacks get more clicks because they loot and riot so it’s fun to watch.
What an utter disgrace!
Fuck Joe Biden!
Democrats are right though. There is a war on women being waged but it is absolutely being waged by Democrats.
Well if SCOTUS decides that presidents don’t have immunity, then let’s charge Joe with felony murder
Open borders biden policies murdered Laken Riley.
Say her name!
Biden has a soft spot for Floyd because he reminds him so much of Hunter.