Posted on 02/09/2016 11:24:33 AM PST by robowombat
Black Lives Matter Activist Fatally Shoots Himself in Front of Ohio Statehouse, Reportedly Leaves Behind a Message
Feb. 9, 2016 12:38pm Carly Hoilman
An Ohio man and Black Lives Matter activist fatally shot himself Monday evening on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus Dispatch reported.
MarShawn M. McCarrel II, whom authorities say was spotted on the Statehouse grounds just moments before killing himself, was pronounced dead on the scene.
No one witnessed the suicide, authorities told the Dispatch.
“We don’t have any evidence to know the reason why he did it,†Craig Cvetan of Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
McCarrel reportedly posted on his Facebook page shortly after 3 p.m., however, saying, “My demons won today. I’m sorry.â€
The last tweet posted from his Twitter account read, “Let the record show that I pissed on the state house before I left.â€
In addition to his activist work, McCarrel, 23, worked with youth mentorship programs in Franklin Township and also launched a nonprofit group called Feed the Streets to provide meals to the homeless, the Grio reported.
“All everyone needs is love,†he told 614 Columbus in 2014 while speaking about his nonprofit. “That’s a human being. That’s a pulse. We’re feeding everyone, we’re sending the message — today I got you; tomorrow, I could be right there.â€
The Pursuing Our Dreams Facebook page posted a message Monday honoring McCarrell. McCarrell started the organization in 2013:
We are sadden by the lost of founder of Pursing Our Dreams We never know what a person is going through RIP Marshawn
Posted by Pursuing Our Dreams POD on Monday, February 8, 2016
I see what ya did there. ;)
That was a gun free zone, right?
Not at all. The TV "newscasters" followed the script that was handed to them and gushed about what a wonderful half time show it was.
His life mattered!
What a hypocrite. I thought black lives matter.
Don’t forget, he also relieved himself on the State House before eating his gun.
Reichstag fire.
Not even the blm activists believe their own blm.
It was the Nation of Islam that dragged Malcolm X out of a life of crime, moral penury and racial victimhood. It was then what he called "True Islam" that drew him away from the cultish Nation of Islam and its anti-white racism, through an eye-opening Hajj pilgrimage.
And having split acrimoniously from the Nation of Islam, it was people of his own faith who would order and carry out his assassination, in which he was shot repeatedly on 21 February, 1965, at a talk in a New York ballroom half a century ago.
Before he was murdered, Malcolm X recanted his past beliefs about the inherent nature of white people being racist and evil. He eschewed his hatred without losing his rage at the injustice suffered by blacks in America. But his Islamic faith only ever deepened.
It is a good start.
where’s the outrage from the gun grabbers?
Whatever his ‘demons’ were, I pray that he has finally found his peace..................
Good points.
But my little voice is telling me that he may have intended his suicide to spark something. They talk about Mohammed Bouazizi the vendor in Tunisia who torched himself to start the Revolution and the wider “Arab Spring”.
(10Dec2010)
Maybe in DC or NYC, but Columbus, Ohio? Not even a mention on the news today.
Took you long enough!..............
But the authorities have ruled out terrorism. Or murder.
I wish they would all do that, and really teach us a lesson.
Odd pic.
No grills, no guns, no drugs, no gang signs, no tattoos....
Suicide is the sincerest form of self-criticism.
I guess he must have arrived at the conclusion that "Black Live Don't Matter"?
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