Posted on 05/27/2017 7:06:10 AM PDT by rktman
I wonder if there is some device allowed in Portlandmania where folks could protect themselves with, like, you know ...
Actually, that’s the Seattle Police Dept. guideline. I can understand the mistake. Not much distinction between the two.
If you’re packing do you have to let him stab someone b4 shoot to kill?
Thanks for the post rktman but you can include a lot more if you manual excerpt so we don’t have to go to NBC news.
It looks bad, he’s a white male, cursing at Muslims. Will be cast as Trump inspired I’m sure.
It was anti-Muslim hate speech by a guy named Christian.
A good example is the two white female entrepreneurs who were driven out of business because they learned to make burritos in Mexico and brought the method back with them.
First of all they are women - that would have given them carte blanche just a few years ago. But now cultural appropriation is the new weapon against society so that is what was used to take them down.
The two women are partners in business and possibly more; could they have played the lesbian card and would it have trumped the new culture card? It is hard to say.
What might come of all this if they say they "self identify" as Latinas when they are making burritos? ... or is that card already played out too?
I'll bet they can't even safely choose a bathroom in Portlandia.
Well, looking at the pic in follow up post, he certainly looks like a typical Trump supporter. Even if he isn’t, I’m sure Trump’s hate filled talk about evil losers caused the guy to go wack a doodle. You know, like body slamming a reporter.
Trying to sort out what happened.
So someone was engaged in free speech, was attacked by two ‘liberals’, and defended himself?
Looks like Eugene on the Walking Dead.
Shave and a crew cut and he could pass for a deputy sheriff.
Somebody takes a knife out and threatens people with it you can claim you were in fear of your life, etc etc.
He did not initiate the physical altercation it appears, so self defense may be an possibility.
Respect the hair game.
It was anti-Muslim hate speech by a guy named Christian.
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You need to CAREFULLY read the story again and get help translating the following paragraphs from someone who speaks ‘modern media’:
Some of Christian’s speech was allegedly directed at two young Muslim women, one of whom was reported to have been wearing a hijab, but Simpson said the witnesses reported that the suspect’s comments were not exclusively anti-Muslim.
“According to some preliminary witnesses statements, he was kind of spewing hate about a lot of different things,” Simpson said. Those who tried to intervene in the situation tried to de-escalate the encounter, he said.
That’s what it sounds like. How do you try to “calm” someone who is ranting?
Did they try to physically shut him up?
Would not go that far, but if all he was doing was ranting and not actually approaching anyone then I would have moved away, not said anything, and kept alert. Ridden NYC subways all my life. Those are the rules.
A person with a knife can be as dangerous as a person with a handgun in close quarters especially.
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