It is honestly probably not you. The story has apparently been getting a lot of attention on blogs, but not in major news sources. It's slowly been picking up, but there was a big rally there on Thursday with thousands of people, and unfortunately, I have heard from a lot of people that they didn't know about it until the rally and they would have gone down if they had. I certainly didn't start finding out a lot of the more specific details until then-- a lot of the newspapers have been misrepresenting the story as "OMG six black boys beat up a white boy and people want them to be let out of jail scot-free!"