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New details emerge after deadly playground attack
FOX 17 (West Michigan) ^ | August 5, 2014

Posted on 08/05/2014 9:50:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Police said four children were at the playground inside the mobile home park when a 12-year-old pulled out a knife and began stabbing Michael Conner Verkerke, 9, repeatedly in the back.

Adam Zachow, who lives across the street from the Verkerke’s, said his kids spend the weekend playing with Michael, who goes by his middle name, Conner.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox17online.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: knives; playground; stabbing
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21 posted on 08/06/2014 4:13:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nothing makes the left happier than a race fixation.


22 posted on 08/06/2014 4:16:12 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: House Atreides

You’re right. He planned it because he brought a knife with him. Glad they’re charging him as an adult.


23 posted on 08/06/2014 4:28:41 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: BenLurkin
only in the warped minds of people who are predisposed to think that way.

Historical evidence points to racial motivation.

Only those ignorant of history would think otherwise.

24 posted on 08/06/2014 6:27:08 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: cherry

Switching around TV channels the other night, I heard one of the talking heads on a nightly news channel say of a crime (not verbatim) “It is reminiscent to some of the Trayvon Martin situation where a white person...” That was enough for me. The national news is guilty!


25 posted on 08/06/2014 6:54:07 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: j. earl carter
You'nique didn't even have the courtesy to include a sarcasm tag.

The way those comments read I'd say it's 50:50 that someone just made up "You'Nique" as a stereotypical joke.

26 posted on 08/06/2014 6:55:38 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: House Atreides
came equipped to carry out the murder

From what I've read, it wasn't that he had a knife on him (came equipped).

It was worse. He pulled the knife out of the sand. Which means he planted it there before he invited the other boys to the park.

27 posted on 08/06/2014 8:20:40 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: FrdmLvr
He planned it because he brought a knife with him.

That is not what the article said.

28 posted on 08/06/2014 8:23:20 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Gang initiation.

Why do I say that ?

KNIFE planted in the sand at the playground. Perhaps by the gang member who was running the initiation.

Right after the ‘kill’, the initiate goes to the nearest house, asks to use the phone, calls police, says “I took some pills then killed a boy. I want to die.”

Someone told him to do this to keep himself from getting hunted and killed by police, and to set up his ‘defense’.


29 posted on 08/06/2014 8:31:55 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
I doubt the "knife in the sand report." I see that in an Aussie paper and repeated in the Daily Mail. I think it's an over-intepretation of "pulled a knife" in American reports. Possibly "pulled a knife" is an americanism.

BTW, here is a Google Maps view of the entire scene, including the victims home and the "playground", which is not actually in view because it was evidently added since the Google image was made. The scene is nevertheless identifiable by the shed-like building at the entrance to Pinebrook Village. In the Google view there is a dumpster in the alley there, and the climbing set is near that along a fence between the PV property and the back of the long house to the left. This house or one next to it was the victim's home, based on news reports with the cop cars and crime scene tape.

Also BTW, note the photo of the perp as a young boy which has proliferated. I was thinking he is a lot younger than 12 in that picture. Then when I watched a Fox 17 video on "neighbors' reaction", the "young" photo was shown several times, then right at the end ( 2:33 out of 2:36 ) what looks like a police photo pops up and is visible for just a second or less before the video ends. Very strange, and quite a contrast, if that's really him, and I believe it is.

30 posted on 08/06/2014 5:49:29 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

So... you think it’s an over-interpretation or misunderstanding. I see that as very possible.

Which means you think he came prepare with the knife. Probably true.

Ergo, you seem to agree that it was all planned and possibly some kind of gang initiation.

New gang members are taught that they WILL go to jail.
That they need some ‘street cred’ before they go in (like murdering someone).

Since they are juveniles, they usually get out rather quickly, and are ready to join the gang life with two items on their resume. Street-Cred and Prison-Time.


31 posted on 08/06/2014 9:01:03 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: dr_lew
what looks like a police photo pops up and is visible for just a second or less before the video ends. Very strange, and quite a contrast, if that's really him, and I believe it is.

I looked and all that's out there is the baseball cap picture.

Our 'masters' don't want to get the public all riled up.

32 posted on 08/06/2014 9:36:56 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Well, the video is still up at fox17online.com . When it cuts off it shows in plain white font, “Title: Neighbors react to young murder suspect.” The headline on the page is, “Neighbor of 12-year old suspect says ‘no surprise’ over arrest”.

This morning there’s a thumbnail of a somewhat older Jamarion for a link to “Mother of 12-year old suspect’s brother says he left Michigan to escape bullies”. He looks older yet in the mysterious flash I refer to, but I do think it’s him. I caught a screen shot, but I don’t want to upload it, if you know what I mean.


33 posted on 08/07/2014 7:59:44 AM PDT by dr_lew
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To: ConservativeStatement
“Because of the nature of comments being left on this post comments have been disabled”
34 posted on 08/07/2014 4:47:00 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: ConservativeStatement

It is not even close to Detroit. Maybe the Teen was auditioning for a gang?


35 posted on 08/07/2014 4:48:18 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Washi

Jamarion. An Teen type name.


36 posted on 08/07/2014 4:49:42 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: House Atreides

I do think it was a gang audition.


37 posted on 08/07/2014 4:51:15 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: j. earl carter

“MY LITTLE ANGEL WOULD NEVER TELL A LIE”

Not far from reality: Back in the 70’s, in Court, Black mother was testifying about her son (14-yr old), a son that was literally caught as he crawled backside first out of a small window of a store he just burglarized. Landed in my partners arms as he dropped.

MAMA: “Well, he said he didn’t do it, I don’t care if’n dey say they caught him in da act, if he said he didn’t do it, he didn’t do it!”


38 posted on 08/07/2014 4:54:04 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: MarMema

Wyoming is a city which borders GR to the south and west.


39 posted on 08/07/2014 4:55:08 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: informavoracious
Check out this from the Boston Globe today:

Police told CBS Boston that the suspect was described as “Hispanic, short, and bald with facial hear.” The report added that at the time of the attack he was dressed in blue jeans and a blue shirt.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/08/08/woman-assaulted-esplanade-says-attacker-fled-bike/OLkA2g4fpxuqYX9K3OBMZN/story.html?p1=Topofpage:sub_headline_2

40 posted on 08/08/2014 6:41:30 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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