Police: Unmasked Man Stabs 77-Year-Old In Mask After Argument At Michigan Store | Talking Points Memo

A man who walked into a convenience store in a suburb of Lansing, Michigan without a mask Tuesday morning allegedly stabbed an elderly man who argued with him about it, a Michigan State Police spokesperson said.


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I guess the stabber was trying to “find something new?”

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What’s there to say when two worlds collide.

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I’m not trying to be picky but the argument may have had something to do with an executive order by Governor Whitmer put into effect yesterday that everyone that goes into a business wears a mask. That may shed some context to what happened between the two men. Of course its no excuse for violence.

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[The unmasked man fled the scene and was later shot dead by a Eaton County sheriff’s deputy after allegedly coming toward the deputy with a knife. The stabbing victim is in stable condition at the hospital, police said.]

Emphasis mine.

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Not to pour salt into the 77-year-old’s stab wound but the clerk refused him service.

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Suicide by cop is a lot quicker than catching the Covid and hanging around an ICU for a couple weeks before drowning in your own lung fluids.

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As a southeast Michigan resident, I’m glad to see so many local sheriffs publicly declining to enforce mask laws is going so well.

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Except it was the 43 year old that ended up dead (he could have been mentally ill), not the 77 year old that was refused service. He’s the one that was wearing the mask.

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No surprises here…the anti-mask brigade is turning to violence so that they can avoid helping anyone else’s attempt to stay healthy. It’s just an extension of the same attitude where people think they should be able to do whatever they want…carry an AR-15 anywhere, be racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or whatever damn thing they think their “freedumb” allows now. It’s only going to get worse going forward…the next six months is going to be a real shit show.

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Neither local reports nor Oleksyk have thus far shed much light on the specifics of the argument between the two men

I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out the specifics!
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Having to wear a mask = assault on freedumb
Having to wear pants = no issue

Yet, going pantsless will not give anyone a serious infectious disease, while going maskless could…

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Starts tomorrow here in Oregon.

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Oh I got that, I was just commenting that the 77 year old didn’t need to say anything, because the clerk refuse the guy service. And the 43 year old probably was mentally ill, which is another reason why the 77 year old shouldn’t have said anything.

The state police spokesperson, Lt. Brian Oleksyk, told reporters Tuesday that MSP was taking over the investigations of both incidents due to the involvement of the sheriff’s deputy, who he said had 22 years of experience as a cop. The deputy has not yet been identified.

And I’m not sure why this sounds off to me. Not that I don’t think that the MSP shouldn’t investigate but why state that the sheriff’s deputy had 22 years of experience?

I should probably go take my walk and clear my brain.

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Its become pretty lax on the west side of the state as well. It started out as a show of solidarity until those morons started making a ruckus in the State Capitol and raising a fuss. Little by little some people didn’t begin wearing them voluntarily and businesses backed down from telling customers they had to or they’d have to leave. Now its mandatory and I doubt a lot of businesses want to be caught telling customers they have to even though its their responsibility towards everyone that comes to do business with them. I’m finding this more and more now. Let’s see if “mandatory” makes a difference. With some people it never will but there is a $500 fine if they don’t. So yeah, who’s gonna call the police?

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“A man who walked into a convenience store in a suburb of Lansing, Michigan without a mask Tuesday morning allegedly stabbed an elderly man who argued with him about it…”

That’s just…what’s the word I’m looking for here?

Maybe…oh, I don’t know…“deplorable”?

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Just wait till Trump loses and his army of batshit KKKultists decides that they’re going to try to deliberately spread COVID to everyone as punishment.

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it’s the ‘do it my way or I’ll kill you’ brand of civilization that’s all the rage in republikkkan circles. they’re so happy to have found a totally repugnant supreme asshole to fill the role as Dear Leader.

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Haha. Another failure, but mid-November we’ll probably be at 60% infection rate anyway.

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These anti-maskers are dangerously stupid snowflakes.

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