Posted on 04/10/2016 1:48:56 AM PDT by Zakeet
Haruka Weiser, 18, from Portland, Oregon, was a first year theater and dance student at The University of Texas in Austin.
Weiser was reported missing Monday morning by her roommates and was found dead Tuesday in a creek that runs through UT's campus.
Haruka had been walking back to her dorm from the drama building on campus when she was assaulted, then killed.
On Friday, Austin police arrested Meechaiel Khalil Criner, a black, seventeen-year-old, homeless, six-foot-tall punk and charged him with first degree murder.
Poor Haruka. A gorgeous, eighteen-year-old girl with big hopes and dreams gets raped, has her life snuffed out and is then dumped in a damn creek by some homeless, teenage, drifter toad.
If found guilty, I hope Meechaiel is slowly and painfully executed in the great state of Texas where we do not coddle criminals. Call me carnal.
Regarding Harukas parents I cannot begin to fathom what they're feeling. I know my wife and I would be inconsolable.
Murders like Haruka's, and the thousands of other females who've been abducted, rape and/or killed, is why I insisted both my daughters, at an early age, train in jiu jitsu and know their way around handguns, shotguns and rifles.
When our girls started out training, some of our lame neighbors and their lame kids thought I was "crazy" to "make" my sweet daughters learn how to fight and shoot.
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I must agree. I hope the poor American taxpayer is up to the job. I suppose they will be until indoor plumbing is considered the zenith for all of us. I’m glad I’m old but so sad for my chidren and grandchildren. I got to live in the good times thanks to patriots like my dad. I could have done more to prevent the current state of affairs I suppose but it’s too late now.
No. No capiche, no agreement.
There are many places less safe that a college campus. However, there are few places as continually populated with young women as a college campus. You’re confusing opportunity with causality.
The perp was, from all reports, a ticking time bomb. He could have killed anyone, anywhere, anytime. This, like many other crimes of violence, could as easily have happened on a parking lot or in a commercial district.
I’m sincerely sorry that this young woman was his victim, but misplacing blame on the college is not helpful.
I have no connection with UT and have a certain antipathy for many of their administrations’ hijinks over the past several years. However, this is not their fault.
People smarter than me have told you what they think. Have you addressed the hidden crime statistics of colleges?
I’m glad I saw the heyday of the 1980s, but also glad my children didn’t; they would this so grim. Nobody alone could have changed this; your contribution of children, if matched by many others, should have been sufficient!
...likelyhood of getting ‘zimmermanned’ for defense of one’s self has emboldened perpetrators.
“Meechaiel” has not yet seen his eighteenth birthday.
Our masters in black robes have decreed he must die of old age.
Haruka is half white, half Japanese and her name is of Japanese origin. From what I know, she at least identifies with her Japanese side; she mentioned wanting to visit her relatives in Japan before she was killed. She understands the meaning behind her name, Haruka. Also, it’s kind of a big deal someone has died on the UT campus. Noone was killed there since Charles Whitman had his mass shooting there in 1966. As much as I agree there are a lot of black on white crimes on the news, I don’t think this one applies.
In today’s world, non-Africans are considered white. The half Mexican that mercifully rid the world of the Trayvon goon was identified as white by the old media.
You’re going for a culinary degree? How cool!
We visited the CIA campus upstate and were really impressed with their campus and programs.
Are you looking to become a chef? Will you still do theatre?
See ya’,
Ed
I’m not going to the CIA, lol, 65,000 a year!
No, I’m going to a local technical college for the standard 2 year degree if I can make it. Yes, I still do theater but I let my husband take care of most of that now. The collaborative process has begun to wear thin...
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