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Police say Sunnyvale crash driver targeted family thinking they were Muslim,
Mercury News ^ | 4/26/19 | ROBERT SALONGA

Posted on 04/26/2019 4:40:14 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

are treating attack as hate crime

Police call evidence for hate crime “appalling and disturbing”
SUNNYVALE — A driver who used his car to intentionally run down pedestrians earlier this week apparently was targeting a family he thought was Muslim, police said Friday, at a news conference held shortly after the suspect in the attack was arraigned in court.

Police are now treating the crash as a hate crime. They said they believe the driver, Isaiah Joel Peoples, targeted the family, believed to be South Asian, purely based on their appearance. Three family members — the father, a 13-year-old daughter and her 9-year-old brother — were among the eight people injured in the crash. The daughter was the most severely hurt. She is in a coma and fighting for her life, police said.

“New evidence shows that the defendant intentionally targeted the victims based on their race, and his belief that they were of the Muslim faith,” Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety Chief Phan Ngo said. He declined to say whether Peoples, 34, had followed the family or whether his attack was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

Chief Assistant District Attorney Jay Boyarsky said there was “very appalling and disturbing evidence” that the family had been targeted based on religion.

Ngo said of the injured 13-year-old girl, who in an investigative summary submitted to the court was identified only by her first name, Dhriti, “Our hearts are with her and her loved ones as we pray for her recovery.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: falseflag; hatecrime; sunnyvale
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Pics and video at link. Here's a pic of the suspect

UH, OH!What's wrong with this picture?

BTW, if he's convicted would Breadlines Bernie be OK with him voting from prison? Asking for, well...you know..

1 posted on 04/26/2019 4:40:14 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Local paper.

This won’t get national play.


2 posted on 04/26/2019 4:42:51 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Impala64ssa

Black America needs to wake up and smell just exactly where they are on the Liberals Victim Hierarchy Chart, because I think Muslims and Latinos are moving ahead of them.


3 posted on 04/26/2019 4:43:29 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady ( Political correctness forbids discussing any negative outcomes of Left-wing ideology. -PMcL)
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To: Impala64ssa

She unfriends you!!


4 posted on 04/26/2019 4:45:48 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Impala64ssa

He’s a stupid, racist idiot who should never drive anything again. He is now guilty of acting like ISIS or the Taliban.
Lock him up, for ruining all those innocent lives.
Americans are supposed to be better than that.


5 posted on 04/26/2019 4:47:14 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Impala64ssa
Police say Sunnyvale crash driver targeted family thinking they were Muslim

Anything from the Commie Prog Mercury News is a:


6 posted on 04/26/2019 4:48:18 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Gays are already starting to figure out that they’re almost all white men and thus targets for “progressive” violence.

Blacks are next off the stack, because they have too many American traits and too few foreign ones. They’re just not exotic enough for the multicult anymore, not when you have have “transwomen” and half-Jamaican half-Brahmin candidates for President.


7 posted on 04/26/2019 4:49:38 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: ifinnegan

I live in San Jose and the only thing this newspaper is good for is ass paper. The Mercury news is always good for anti police articles. Don’t believe a thing this paper has to say.


8 posted on 04/26/2019 4:51:49 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: Navy Patriot

False flag, agree.


9 posted on 04/26/2019 4:51:50 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: Impala64ssa

We don’t know if he identifies as black.


10 posted on 04/26/2019 4:53:07 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Impala64ssa

This man is mentally ill. Is it possible the Sri Lanka bombings set him off?

More here:

https://heavy.com/news/2019/04/isaiah-peoples/

From that website:

>>>>>> The brother said that the suspect previously served in Afghanistan and suffers from PTSD. The brother added that Peoples spent a year in a mental hospital and was taking medication. <<<<<<

>>>>>>> Another witness [said] . . . “He kept repeating, mumbling over and over again, ‘Jesus, I love you.’ He seemed to be dazed. At this point, I walked back from where the car was, toward the intersection and dialed 911. I was so nervous and upset, I was having trouble dialing.” Draper then reiterated that he heard the driver say, “Jesus, I love you.” <<<<<<<<


11 posted on 04/26/2019 4:56:21 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: Impala64ssa
I still vote for 'off his Meds' as the cause, but what struck me was the breathless way that the Police chief (or head Safety Officer - I forget what Sunnyvale calls them) and local news heads announced this theory.
When an Islamic commits an obvious act of terrorism, the authorities agonize, and take many days - and the accumulation of a lot of evidence - before they pronounce the connection. I'm not sure if they ever admitted this connection regarding the Orlando and San Bernadino terrorist murderers. Maybe this indeed is the case with Isaiah from Sunnyvale, but I'm just skeptical - and surprised how quickly the authorities reached this conclusion.
12 posted on 04/26/2019 4:58:33 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: thoughtomator
Reminds me of an incident in NYC back around 1991. Badlands was a notorious gay bar in the West Village, located on the same block where the Village People did part of their infamous YMCA video. It got shot up one night, sending about 12 people to the hospital, miraculously they all survived. The media instantly went into a feeding frenzy, which became more intense when the suspect was ID'ed as "the son of a preacher man". The media really went apesh!t when it came out he was not just the son a any preacher, but an NYPD CHAPLAIN. UNTIL his mug shot was plastered on the front pages of the Post and Daily News. Suddenly, the story...silently...faded......away. Apparently, Black, no pun intended Trumps gay.
13 posted on 04/26/2019 5:00:52 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: thoughtomator
half-Jamaican half-Brahmin candidates for President

Half-Brahmin? As in, she's half cow? (I thought brahmin was a cow breed.)

14 posted on 04/26/2019 5:06:38 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Impala64ssa

He sounds like a mental case.


15 posted on 04/26/2019 5:07:38 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: Impala64ssa
Sunni vs. Shia?

16 posted on 04/26/2019 5:13:14 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: lee martell

Nope nope nope! He is most likely a muslim who targeted other muslims to gain sympathy for the ROP and blame it on an “American”. The media is “appalled “. Where was the media disgust when Americans were beheaded at the the business out there BY a muslim? Oh yeah. There was no media outrage. The media will always hide the truth when it goes against their “peaceful Muslim” narrative. Always.


17 posted on 04/26/2019 5:14:20 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in. ...like yesterday!!!)
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To: Impala64ssa; All

The website at the top requires a subscription.

Here’s another website:

https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Girl-in-coma-after-car-plows-into-13799177.php#photo-17290068


18 posted on 04/26/2019 5:14:42 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Keep fighting, Nick!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Don’t forget the LGBTQ.

Actually, I think they may be at the top of the food chain. Number 1 or 2, depending on the situation.


19 posted on 04/26/2019 5:15:32 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: exDemMom

It refers to the Hindu caste, but close enough.


20 posted on 04/26/2019 5:18:17 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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