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Portland jury clears black man of assault because white man he stabbed had said the n-word
Daily Mail ^ | 12-5-25 | Rachel Bowman

Posted on 12/05/2025 12:47:31 PM PST by MarlonRando

A black man was acquitted of stabbing a white man in Oregon after he claimed the attack was self-defense because the victim called him a racial slur.

Gary Edwards, 43, was charged with second-degree assault for stabbing a man in Portland near a light rail stop on July 8, KPTV reported.

However, he was found not guilty of the crime on October 31 after the jury learned the victim was using racial slurs in the aftermath of the altercation.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education
KEYWORDS: crime; race
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To: JSM_Liberty

“to see if he would trade his knife for cigarettes”

Gimme dem cigarettes or I cut you honkey.
Likely how the “trade” occurred.


21 posted on 12/05/2025 1:07:35 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Political Junkie Too

RE: A Portland jury just declared black people incapable of controlling their emotions?

That’s like the anti voter ID contention that minority voters have too much trouble finding a way to show their identity and residence.

As though people who can rent a car or UHaul, register at a hospital for elective surgery, have a prescription filled at a drug store, or in the old days rent a movie on dvd, are not smart enough to cope with voter ID requirements.


22 posted on 12/05/2025 1:07:38 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Ronald77

At least in democrat rat magnet cities.


23 posted on 12/05/2025 1:09:38 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: MarlonRando

If this actually happened this way, which I doubt, I’m sure the story will be picked up by a news source with at least a shred of credibility.

Until then, I’m not going to get all outraged by something from the Daily News.


24 posted on 12/05/2025 1:09:43 PM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: MarlonRando

Reparations via the courts.


25 posted on 12/05/2025 1:09:53 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: MarlonRando

Another report

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/12/use-of-racist-slur-by-wounded-man-in-portlands-old-town-stabbing-spurs-jury-to-acquit.html

“Both are alike in other respects. Each is 43 years old, with arrest records reflecting the cycles of homelessness and violent disorder.”


26 posted on 12/05/2025 1:11:12 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“after the jury learned the victim was using racial slurs in the aftermath of the altercation.”
OMG we are doomed. I might use the n-word too if I was stabbed by a black man. The feeling of a knife entering your body can produce impolite reactions.


27 posted on 12/05/2025 1:13:54 PM PST by brookwood (First the left said it was OK to steal. Next they said it was OK to kill.)
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To: JSM_Liberty

Also from that same article about Howard (the stabbing victim)

“Howard, meanwhile, has been arrested several times in recent years and was convicted of felony rape of a child in Washington’s Kitsap County in 1997, records show. He couldn’t be reached for comment. “


28 posted on 12/05/2025 1:14:05 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: MarlonRando

He called him the N word AFTER he was stabbed??? Outrageous!


29 posted on 12/05/2025 1:14:23 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MarlonRando

One moral of the story: Stay out of any city run by radical Democrats.

I put “radical” in there because although my town is run entirely by Democrats, they are of the JFK kind. They still believe in law and order.

I haven’t seen any weirdo Bernie Sanders types yet. But I am seeing more and more Muslims. Can’t figure that last part out. I live in an old mill town. I suppose any infidel territory is fair game.


30 posted on 12/05/2025 1:15:01 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: MarlonRando

Moments later, body camera footage from security officers captured Howard shouting a racist slur at Edwards after he had been stabbed.

It is unclear if there is any evidence to suggest that Howard used the slur before he was stabbed.


31 posted on 12/05/2025 1:19:41 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: doorgunner69
So, if some negro calls me a honky, cracker etc. I am clear to open fire?

Only from your helo.

32 posted on 12/05/2025 1:19:53 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

if somebody stabs me, getting called me names is the least of their problems


33 posted on 12/05/2025 1:22:48 PM PST by MarlonRando
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To: MarlonRando

Sticks & stones
Gets stabbed for words?
Too bad victim didn’t have a big gun


34 posted on 12/05/2025 1:22:52 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: brookwood

You know, I know about a half dozen times when a black guy called a friend a “honkey”, “white POS”, or “white supremacist”, yet not one of them stabbed the black guy making the slur. By precedent, I guess it’s okay to stab them now.


35 posted on 12/05/2025 1:23:04 PM PST by econjack
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To: frank ballenger

Every lefty say they aare not.


36 posted on 12/05/2025 1:24:31 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MarlonRando

This is the court ruling blacks have been waiting for.


37 posted on 12/05/2025 1:31:46 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: doorgunner69

“...So, if some negro calls me a honky, cracker etc. I am clear to open fire?...”

Sure enough sound like it... Of course, in this screwed-up judiciary we have in this country today, it may only be good for the ‘n” and not for us....the day’s coming though.


38 posted on 12/05/2025 1:34:32 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: MarlonRando

Another case in which the Jury needs to go to jail because they did not take their responsibility seriously.


39 posted on 12/05/2025 1:39:18 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MarlonRando

I’ll bet everyone on that jury was white.

“using racial slurs in the aftermath of the altercation.”

What a crock of s. AFTER the fight he allegeedly uttered “NEIGHBOR” and the jury thought this after the fact was enough to declare the violent pavement ape was not guilty... I would avoid Portland.

One of the engineers who interned for me moved to that fetid city. He is a black St Lucian. He HATED the patronizing subtle racism of the Portlanders. They treated him as if he were a child. He went to college in Texas and even when he faced some southerners using more...colorful... language he just rolled with it. But the liberals were insufferable racists.


40 posted on 12/05/2025 1:39:59 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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