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You have to ask? It's pretty obvious.
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Because mentally ill black man kills white woman? Is it really that reductive and stupid?
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When the Constitution was signed only about 20% of the nation were church members. It was in single digits in North Carolina and Georgia. Oh, the halcyon days of yesteryear.
Then about 1800, they had another wave of the Great Revival and shit started going downhill ever since.
Remember, his first wife said he raped her. He’s been found liable for sexual assault.
Trump is good with male-on-female violence.
Black attacker; attractive blonde victim. Caught on video.
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“… The care with which David Sacks tracks his days in Washington has been described to me, variously, as matching the focus of a banker avoiding New York City taxes or as a (pre-GLP-1) dieter on Weight Watchers.
That’s because Sacks, Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, is a special government employee, a status that typically limits government service to 130 days a year. That has led some to assume Sacks’ White House run is ending. In fact, the White House has interpreted that 130-day cap to refer to non-consecutive days, one of his White House colleagues confirmed: “He has no intention of leaving.”…”
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That’s because Sacks, Donald Trump’s AI and crypto czar, is a special government employee, a status that typically limits government service to 130 days a year. That has led some to assume Sacks’ White House run is ending. In fact, the White House has interpreted that 130-day cap to refer to non-consecutive days, one of his White House colleagues confirmed: “He has no intention of leaving.”…”
David Sacks’ rules for success in Trump’s Washington
He’s emerged as perhaps the most effective representative of America’s business community in Trump’s new Washington. How?
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The Bibles are embarrassing enough, but nothing beats Trump Guitars...
BTW, there's a link to the Trump Guitars site ON the Bible site.
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The guy had 14 arrests, multiple that were violent in nature, and did only 5 years for armed robbery in 2014.
This is an issue because it's perceived as yet another Democrat "soft on crime" situation.
Dems will counter by claiming it's all about race for Republicans...
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Re: the light rail stabbing: The randomness of that act is what makes it so incredibly horrifying, as does that image posted.Video shows fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte light rail – stirring debate on crime in major US cities
Gruesome video shows a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee getting stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail train – a case that has turned into a flashpoint as the Trump administration vows to crack down on crime in large, predominantly Democratic cities.
The unprovoked attack happened shortly before 10 p.m. August 22, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. A caller said a woman was stabbed in the throat.
The victim, Iryna Zarutska, is a refugee who recently fled from war-torn Ukraine, CNN affiliate WBTV reported.
Video of the attack shows Zarutska entering a train car and taking a seat directly in front of the suspect, court documents state.
The likelihood of being a crime victim while riding the light rail in Charlotte is very slim, and the presence of cameras adds a crime deterrent (though something like that is not a deterrent for someone who is severally mentally ill and capable of committing a random act of violence without much, if any, thought or fear of consequence).
The one thing that the city can do to further address safety concerns with regard to the light rail, however, is having security personnel check fares at every stop. The way it works now (or at least before this incident) is that fares are checked randomly. And based on my experience, they are very rarely checked. People constantly board the train without paying the fare.
As I understand it, the killer here did not pay the fare (not surprising). Had fares been checked, this particular killing never would have happened. Granted, there very well may have been another victim; perhaps somebody sitting at whatever light rail stop he entered the train from. But I do think it’s most likely that virtually any crime committed on the light rail is committed by someone who boarded the train without paying the fare.
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It is like “white cop kills black man”, but for the right. People love getting mad about things they think are racially motivated, even if that doesn’t end up being the case. Division sells.
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This is where disinformation/misinformation comes in to affect a narrative along with people not taking the time to understand how things work.
With regard to the robbery conviction, he was sentenced to a minimum term of 6 years, 1 month. That is the highest minimum term he could legally receive for a robbery with a dangerous weapon conviction under North Carolina Structured Sentencing absent a finding of a statutory aggravating factor (which can be found only by either the defendant’s admission/stipulation in court or by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, if one exists at all). The sentence he received also consisted of the highest possible maximum term of 8 years, 4 months. (In NC, you go into prison facing the maximum sentence but you have the opportunity to work it down to minimum term— and no less than that— upon completion of rehabilitative and vocational courses, through doing jobs while incarcerated, and by avoiding too many/certain kinds of disciplinary infractions).
As for the other arrests, most of them were for misdemeanors, including things like misusing 911 and disorderly conduct. Those are not charges that anyone is going to sit around in jail for. I also believe that the “14 arrests” referenced are actually referring to 14 charges vs. arrests. In other words, he wasn’t arrested 14 separate times. He was arrested fewer times, and some of those times he faced multiple related charges.
As for the assault charges, they were misdemeanors. If you have any familiarity with how things generally work with those types of charges, the prosecuting witnesses typically don’t want to have anything to do with charges after the arrest. They frequently duck subpoenas and don’t show up to court if they are served with a subpoena. I cannot say for certain any of that happened with his assault charges, but I do think it is very safe to assume that that is exactly what happened. In my 20 years of experience, it occurs much more often than not.