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Friday, April 09, 2021

Commentary: When Hate Crimes Don’t Matter

On a Saturday afternoon in late March, middle-aged Charles Edward Turner walked into a McDonald’s in downtown Pittsburgh, tackled a 12-year-old boy, and stabbed him in the neck with a box cutter. 

It took three family members to free the boy of Turner, who resisted being held down by shoving and biting one of them on the bicep, spilling blood in the fast-food restaurant. The family had stopped by for a quick bite after the diabetic boy’s blood sugar fell low. As the family’s everyday outing turned into a chaotic scene of blood and violence, they found themselves fighting for his life. 

By the time police arrived, Turner had managed to get outside the restaurant. “White n——,” “white devils,” he shouted as officers and witnesses tried to get him under control. Turner fought with officers, striking one in the face, kicking and punching another, hurling racial slurs. According to the criminal complaint, he kept brawling with police even at the station house, kicking an officer and calling all the rest “white devils,” “rapists,” “white n——,” and “white satan.”

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8 comments:

  1. I was playing "guess the race" until the embedded link provided the answer. And any publication that uses a phrase like "It may feel like a Chomskyan cliché" is quite alright in my book. Kudos for the link and the TN Star.

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  2. Thanks for the heads-up on The Star News Network, turns out Star-TX is about to go live! Signed up for notification.

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  3. The Texas Lone Star is coming soon. Thanks for the heads up!

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  4. "Turner fought with the officers". They coulda easily stopped his resistance by kneeling on his neck for a few minutes.

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  5. The day this happened, the original reports stated the adult who committed the crime was black and the boy who was critically injured was white. Within hours, the identifying races were gone. Obviously, little white boys' lives don't matter. Makes me sick. "Yinzer"

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  6. As of Monday, they have not pinpointed a motive.

    Let's see here,,,
    Dude attacks a White CHILD,from behind, with no provocation
    Screaming shit about
    White Devils
    and the geniuses are unable to determine a motive...

    Well, MAYBE we could lessen the confusion. Let's try a mental exercise.
    HowBout, let's just Saaay

    White guy walks in, tackles a Black kid tries to kill him by jamming a razor knife in his neck and starts screaming Black Devils and other racist things,
    Do you just Suppose they would attribute the attack to Racial HATRED?
    No, me neither, COFF COFF
    The feigned confusion and inability to see the obvious when the subject of the conversation is the wrong color to support the rhetoric is really getting old.
    The
    Black people can't be racist
    White people are racist
    Bullshit started Off
    Old.

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  7. Buy a gun,
    Learn to use it,
    Carry it always'
    Shoot to kill!

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  8. How is this NOT a "hate crime" and why isn't it the lead story in the MSM? Yep, we both know why.

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