I’m so glad for the hate crime charge. It adds an entirely different dimension – we need to have that out in the open more often.
Majors’ conflict with the Jabara family also put him at odds with his late husband, Stephen Schmauss, who came to befriend Khalid and thought of him as an apprentice, teaching him how to use power tools and computer circuitry.
Schmauss told the AP in 2016 that his husband was “textbook bipolar” and a diabetic who refused to take any medication. Schmauss said then that anything Majors said to the Jabara family was “done under the bipolar situation.”
Even if he was bipolar, I find it odd that a gay man - a member of a group that is all too often the victim of hate crimes - would harbor racist and anti-Muslim sentiments to the extent of committing murder.
The Judge who set the low bond should be removed from office.
So here’s an idea: if someone is mentally ill and has a history of violence, KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THE EFFING GUNS. And don’t let them out on bail.
Well, I’d hardly say he’s OK…
Yeah, I did a double-take and had to re-read that part to make sure I hadn’t misread it.
Firing squad for this monster. Be done with him.
It’s gratifying to hear that even here in deep red Oklahoma, this is not considered to be “ok.”
The man is ill, he belongs in an institution - and the people, who failed to keep him locked up, should be prosecuted…
In the early 1980s, at work, I got on an elevator with an older white man who worked for the same company. The company had a lecture hall which was used by the lunch crowd sometimes. But that day it was occupied by a speaker and big crowd of people. The speaker was a prominent black politician. I was dropping off something and after I was going to the lecture. The man in the elevator was coming from the lecture hall. Clearly agitated. What followed in the elevator was a minute of a horrid rant full of slurs against the black politician. I couldn’t reconcile at the time the very visible tattoo on his forearm with what he was saying. The man was clearly a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp.
No, minority group membership doesn’t immunize from hate.
Can the judge who let Majors out on bond be sued ?