Posted on 02/13/2011 6:55:48 PM PST by ColdOne
NEW YORK NEW YORK (AP) A man accused of going on a 28-hour stabbing rampage through New York City says he was the victim of a "setup." He shouted that as he was led from a police station.
Maksim Gelman was arraigned Sunday in Brooklyn on charges he hacked three people to death and killed a pedestrian with a car.
Police say he stalked the city, attacked innocent strangers and hijacked vehicles.
A small throng of Brooklyn residents taunted Gelman as he was escorted out of a police precinct wearing a white jumpsuit.
The 23-year-old cursed and yelled back it "was a setup" as he was led to a vehicle.
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Glad to see everyone is willing to condemn this guy on the basis of a few online newspaper articles.
Why do we even need a justice system? The New York Post says he’s guitly! Hang him high!
The Russian Mafia is very bad indeed. For a great (horrible) movie about the Mob, see "Once Upon a Time in America." This was back at the turn of the last century when the mob was Italian and Jewish with a number of Irish runners and enforcers. But even though the capo was busy rubbing out his enemies, the overall feeling you get is of total anarchy.
Isn’t that the truth...
The typical anti-social personality disorder: It is someone elses responsiblity.
One less Obama voter off the street.
Get a grip
More calls to ban knives?
Wait.
That assumption of innocence thing is vastly over rated. It’s for juries anyway. I assume he’s guilty, therefore I couldn’t serve on his jury.
Somebody has an ethnic chip on his shoulder.
Appears so. Some kind of a chip anyway. *sigh*
It's called "jumping on the band-wagon." They want to be on the winning side.
I do have to ask why the double decker Roland D-20, released in 1988, is in a picture of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald from 1963 ?
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