Posted on 10/07/2013 2:26:42 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Three soldiers have been arrested over the fatal stabbing of one of their comrades in what was originally described by officers as a 'hate crime', it emerged today.
The trio were held at the weekend when one of them allegedly bragged to a friend that he had murdered somebody and cut his hand on a knife.
Tevin Geike, 20, was left for dead in a parking lot near his base in Lakewood, Washington in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Previously police said they believed the attack was racially motivated because the attackers - a group of five African American men - called Tevin a cracker, a racist term for a white person.
However, after interviews with those involved in the confrontation officers today said they no longer believed the killing to be a hate crime after speaking to everyone they believe was involved.
All the suspects are from Joint Base Lewis-McChord and served in the same combat infantry unit as Tevin.
The accused are Jeremiah Hill, 23 - the alleged murderer - Cedarium Johnson, 21; and Ajoni Runnion-Bareford, 21. Two others are still being sought.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Tevins mother Jennifer Rose fought back the tears as she said that she had got a text from her son just hours before his death saying he was going to get a tattoo to celebrate his military graduation.
She said: Tevin trusted everybody until they gave him a reason not to trust them. He was really kind-hearted and he would give you the shirt off your back.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I was not a Soldier, I was a Marine, and I trusted every ‘Dark Green’ with my life. I don’t know what’s going on nowadays, it’s just sickening.
Such is the abyss of reporting today....
"Those involved" would, of course, be the murderers themselves, since by definition the involved murderee can't be interviewed.
Where is that on the Periodic Table again?
Or as Kirsten Powers would say “What about all those right wingers and their school shootings!”
Why were Holder’s people even arrested?
They were just celebrating their ethnic heritage?
Surely hundreds of years of racism and white oppression justifies killing a few crackers?
No hate involved. Just an understanding that the white oppressor must needs be extirpated, right?
Welcome to the fundamentally transformed Amerika, comrades.
Notice tag line: ...don’t call me Cracker!
Must be a lot of RINOs there... afraid of their shadows.
click-> America the Beautiful......
One more for Travon.
Unfortunately, that's not news.
In the local Tacoma paper, they say:
The crime does not appear to be racially motivated, although police initially believed it may have been because of the comment yelled about the soldiers being white boys.
Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/10/07/2826063/three-arrested-in-fatal-stabbing.html#storylink=cpy
It’s the unfortunate breeding.
Obama induced hatred syndrome.
That whole Materials Science thing is racis' anyway.
If they're anything like some of my old officemates -- and I suspect many are -- they think they have to stick it to the religious right. They just go along with the rest of the leftist agenda because they are allies in the war on Jerry Falwell and the Pope.
No Press Conference with The President discussing whether, if he had a son, he would look like the perpetrator.
ping!
Turn this around with five white soldiers killing one of their black comrades, and watch the race hustlers bait the black masses into a hate whitey’s hate crimes circus.
I think the original ‘story’ was close to correct. (For a change)
The white guys were walking down the street, the Black guys drove by and ‘yelled’ at them. The White guys yelled back, the Blacks came back...one of the Blacks supposedly said ‘they are Combat Vets too’, lets get out of here’, and the one of the White guys got stabbed.
Thought the ‘original’ story said it was about 130AM so would imagine alcohol involved and would almost be willing to wager that if any or all in uniform, this may not have happened?
Captain puts down phone, visibly distressed.
“Officer get over here!”
“Yes, Sir.”
“You go back out there and withdraw that ‘hate crime’ comment right now!”
“But Sir ...”
“NO BUTS! Go take it back now or you're writing parking tickets on MLK Boulevard until retirement!”
**Fade to black**
There may be more to this than meets the eye. That is, what if it *wasn’t* about race? What if the black soldiers knew him for some other reason? The two that come to mind are drugs, or if he was a homosexual.
Right now, I doubt there is any command in the Army that will say a homosexual soldier was murdered because he was a homosexual. For a command to assert this would be to invite tremendous mass punishment on everyone in that command.
So everyone involved, even the murderer, will be inclined to say it is for *any* other reason than homosexuality. For example, offer the murderer a deal: if he insists that it was because the victim was a homosexual, he will get life; but if he says it was because he was stealing his wallet, he will get three years.
In this case, it gets even thicker, because they don’t want to call it a hate crime either. Granted, a hate crime is actually better than killing him because he was a homosexual, but it is still embarrassing to the command; so I think they will find yet another reason.
Drugs is convenient, because even if they don’t find any drugs at autopsy, they can say that he was skipping out on a drug debt. If even that is too raw, they can get the murderer to say that it was mistaken identity, that he looked like somebody who had skipped out on a drug debt.
Water finds its own level. The purpose of the military justice system is not justice, but to maintain good order and discipline in the military.
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