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Meet Brenda Edwards, Mother of Accused ‘Bored’ Teen Killer James Edwards
PJ Media ^ | August 21, 2013 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 08/21/2013 12:33:54 PM PDT by jazusamo

Did “bored” teen James Edwards learn about crime from his mother? Edwards is the 15-year-old apparent gang member accused of shooting Australian baseball player Chris Lane in the back last Friday. He appeared in court Tuesday and reportedly made a mockery of the proceedings.

A search on Mugshots.com turns up one Brenda M. Edwards, 50, of Stephens County, Oklahoma. I called the Stephens County district attorney’s office today and confirmed that Brenda M. Edwards is James Edwards’ mother.

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Edwards is currently incarcerated in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections . Her extensive rap sheet begins in 1994 with a conviction for larceny, and spans her son’s entire life. Click on the image to enlarge.

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She has three known aliases. As things stand now, her relationship with Oklahoma’s criminal justice system won’t end for several decades. Her multiple convictions include distribution of cocaine. She was in court in Duncan, OK, as recently as May 2010, when she was found to have violated her parole by obtaining prescription drugs by fraud. Her probation was revoked.

If we’re going to blame a “culture” for James Edwards’ alleged part in Chris Lane’s murder, as some want to blame the so-called “gun culture,” shouldn’t the culture of recidivist criminality come under scrutiny?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: blackfamily; brendaedwards; chrislane; edwards; gangs; jamesedwards; murder; ok
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To: kcvl
Let’s say a prayer for this woman, who at least is not saying, “Not MY boy! He wouldn’t do soemthing like that.” Also, she’s expressed sympathy for the victim’s family.
61 posted on 08/21/2013 1:54:47 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: jazusamo

Single mom household right? No Dad around, maybe we should talk about that? Just heard a stat, 84% of prisoners are from single mom household’s.


62 posted on 08/21/2013 1:57:55 PM PDT by thirst4truth (www.Believer.com)
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To: utahagen

There are reports per Fox this morning that family members are wanting the yutes to plead not guilty because there is “more to the story.”


63 posted on 08/21/2013 1:58:12 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: thirst4truth

Yep...Both Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams have said quite a lot on the fact that around 70% of black kids are raised in one parent families.


64 posted on 08/21/2013 2:03:03 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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65 posted on 08/21/2013 2:04:51 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: Thom Pain

‘Someone (or something) f****ed that?”

In Ebonics it’s called “unique sex.”

You wait until she’s snoring, unique up on it, hit it and run.


66 posted on 08/21/2013 2:08:31 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: utahagen

Jennifer Luna, whose son reportedly is one of the suspects, told ABC in Australia that she didn’t think he was involved.

“I know in my heart that he did not pull the trigger but if he had anything to do with it, yes he does need to be punished,” she said. “I don’t believe he needs a life sentence or a death penalty. That’s my baby boy. It would kill me if my son got that kind of sentence.”

She told ABC that her son had been acting normally on the day of the shooting.

“He seemed like he always was, he told me he loved me. Then he said he was going to go and hang out, it’s the same thing every day,” she told ABC. “He didn’t act no different than any other day. Every kid likes to fight but as far as getting in trouble, he’s never been in trouble.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-oklahoma-australia-20130820,0,1628182.story


67 posted on 08/21/2013 2:09:11 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Toespi

“There are reports per Fox this morning that family members are wanting the yutes to plead not guilty because there is “more to the story.””

Like what, I wonder. Something that would justify murder?


68 posted on 08/21/2013 2:09:45 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: PLMerite

They need a little time to gin-up their stories, like MSM v. Zimmerman.


69 posted on 08/21/2013 2:11:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: PLMerite
More to the story . . .

Like the victim called them Wankers or something?

Geez, the thugs have already confessed to the cops and on Facebook from what I've heard.

70 posted on 08/21/2013 2:12:11 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: PLMerite

Don’t know, it was a blurb during reporting by Martha McCallum this am.


71 posted on 08/21/2013 2:12:49 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Thom Pain
Someone (or something) f*cked that!!??

There are called sperm whales.

72 posted on 08/21/2013 2:14:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jazusamo

IF Obama had three sons their names would be James Edwards, Chancey Luna and Michael Jones, and would star in Obie’s new NBC TV Show, “My Three Sons”.

Well, the POS liked Trayvon Martin who was less evil than these three bastards, so why not?

I’m waiting for Obama and Holder to make some comments about this cold blooded murder of Chris Lane.

Might go something like this.

“Well, he was white”.

“Just another bump in the road”

“No civil rights violations here, whitey”

“Lane shot himself in the back; these three yuts just happen to be in the neighborhood, and because they are black, they got blamed for it. The gun in the car with Edwards fingerprints on it? Irrelevant. Inadmissible.”

Jones doesn’t look black though there was another photo of another black kid posted elsewhere. Anyone notice this apparent discrepancy?


73 posted on 08/21/2013 2:16:04 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: pallis
I blame blacks, and gangs, and hip-hop, and rap, and leftists who won’t face the truth about black on white violence. I blame a spineless, leftist media that creates false issues like gun violence to avoid naming the source of violence. Every time the media ignores black racism, or finds ways to cover it up, they help cause more black violence.

Don't forget to blame LBJ's Great Society, the root of all this evil, which destroyed the black family, subsidized illegitimacy, and promoted single motherhood.

74 posted on 08/21/2013 2:20:25 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: jazusamo

Brenda Edwards has overstayed her freedom and will turn into a pumpkin.


75 posted on 08/21/2013 2:30:17 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: All

The Bell Curve was correct. Not politically correct mind you, just the plain kind of correct. Most of these juvenile feral Negroes have the perfect range of low IQ to predispose them to nothing but a violent life of crime. It is not possible to integrate them into a civilized society. They are violent and dangerous and to pretend otherwise will get you killed.


76 posted on 08/21/2013 2:37:53 PM PDT by 762X51
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To: Toespi

Hilarious ..... maybe even true.


77 posted on 08/21/2013 2:43:41 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: jazusamo

Black woman abducts white boy of 12 on Christmas Eve and tortures and kills him with a blow torch. Not a word in the media!

http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/censored-news-black-woman-kills-12-y-o-white-boy-with-blow-torch/


78 posted on 08/21/2013 2:45:41 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Sickening...The murder, the woman and the enemedia.


79 posted on 08/21/2013 2:58:10 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

The South Carolina Supreme Court greatly expanded the use of the state’s SYG law. The first SC citizen that uses SYG to defend himself based on that new ruling will cause obuma’s and Holder’s heads to explode.


80 posted on 08/21/2013 3:30:53 PM PDT by sergeantdave (No, I don't have links for everything I post)
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