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I’m curious whether they ever reported the gun flashing behavior to local police. If so, the DOJ or the FBI should start taking a look at their failure here too.
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Top notch police work there Chapel Hill police. Looks like they were going to handle this case just like they do sexual assault claims on campus. Yeesh.
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The shooter had a concealed carry permit…look how he put it to use. He used it to intimidate and harass the people in his community.
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And murder three people who weren’t a physical threat to him.
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I think she has gotten ahead of the investigation. Maybe she shouldn’t go on Morning Joe until things have stabilized a bit.
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If it was indeed a visitor space, it was first come, first served, and did not in any way “belong” to Hicks’s wife. It’s like those people who think they own the street parking near their houses, when if fact it is public parking available to all.
Yet another boy-man with the mentality of a self-absorbed adolescent in an oversized body.
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And a gun.
Becuz 'Murica and 2nd Amendment freedoms!
Love it or leav… what the hell, I’ll shoot you regardless.
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Just calm down? The girl’s father said yesterday that they were each shot once through the back of the head. I don’t know if it’s true but that would only happen if they were forced onto their knees before being shot. Over a fucking parking space?
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Umm, why?
Isn’t the law in the South entirely on the side of gun owners and their desire to flash their guns?
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Yes, let’s let DOJ handle it. She says he had confronted them about the parking spot with a gun previously…but finds it “outrageous” that the shooting was about a parking spot?
In fairness to her though, she just had 3 members of her family executed. It is reasonable to expect her to have some bias and also to be outraged, especially at this stage. She should be livid.
DOJ will thoroughly investigate (interviews, etc.). My guess based on what is available now is that it’s not a hate crime. The motive was the parking spot, and in a hate crime the motive is race, gender, religion, etc. If more evidence surfaces, that could change of course.
As to Morning Joe, they just want ratings, like the rest. All the media will milk the piss out of this with family members, neighbors. “experts”, etc. Let’s let the pros handle it instead.
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I don’t think anybody is condoning these killings. The shooter isn’t going to walk. It seems he murdered three people and will pay. The only question is whether it was a hate crime based on religion or something equally stupid.
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Her outrage over the idea that the shooting was motivated by a dispute over a parking space is understandable. It is insulting and insensitive. It’s not like he lost his temper and flew into a rage. It was premeditated. There’s more going on here than a dispute over a fucking parking spot.
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People kill for less. Angry out of control people for far less.
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Someone repeatedly using their sidearm as a means of intimidating and threatening people is obviously cause for alarm and caution anywhere and could easily be interpreted as one of many crimes that are fairly universal across all states. States with looser gun laws should consider it even more of a concern.
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Well then, I guess getting out in front with some bullshit story about a dispute over a parking spot served it’s purpose then, huh?
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Whatever we do let’s not discuss the constant vilification of Muslims by the media and certain politicians.
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Chapel Hill Police: “The victims just happened to be Muslim. Which we had to be told to notice. Because we don’t see race or religion. Because we’re not racist or Islamophobic. At all.”
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Not sure how it is a BS story when even the sister said in this article that the previous confrontations were over a parking spot.
They did not, and I am not surprised. American Muslims live in an extremely hostile environment. Hardly a day goes by that some publication, or some news program, isn’t painting a picture of them as murderous, evil monsters. And, you think they’re going to run to the authorities every time a white American harassers them? What have we done, or said, as a society to convince them that they’re valued as fellow Americans, and human beings?
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