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 :^Raya is different. Whereas the trafficking in this case was heinous and got local coverage, the coverage was contained mostly to the region it occurred in. It was news, but most newsworthy events aren't actually that notable. Raya however got national coverage. He was a Iraq war veteran, used an ""assault rifle"", killed a cop, wounded another and got into a shootout with SWAT. On top of it all, much of it was caught on video and the story was heavily covered by national media. I'll also say that it had an impact on law enforcement in terms of tactics and helped spur them to start looking into the military-gang connection more. Bith events were newsworthy, Raya became notable.   "