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Police: Former Texas A&M football player randomly hacks jogger to death in Dallas
Dallas News ^ | October 12, 2015 | Tristan Hallman

Posted on 10/12/2015 5:08:38 PM PDT by PAR35

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And, Dallas police say, he was angry. Johnson allegedly took out that rage Monday morning by hacking a jogger to death with a “large-edged weapon” on the White Rock Creek Trail, police said.

“It appears Mr. Johnson picked this victim at random. Absolutely random,” Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin said. “He just attacked him … It’s just very unusual. It’s quite shocking.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at crimeblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: dallas; machete; race; texasam; thomasjohnson
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To: PAR35
And, Dallas police say, he was angry.

Gee, ya think?

21 posted on 10/12/2015 5:37:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PAR35

It appears this poor woman’s jogging route took her to the wrong side of the Bell Curve.


22 posted on 10/12/2015 5:39:39 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: PAR35

I would not attribute this to a racial issue. Johnson has had mental issues and does unpredictable things. The article seems to indicate that he was arrested when he called 911.


23 posted on 10/12/2015 5:40:46 PM PDT by DrewsDad (Environmental Extremism Eventually Endangers Everyone)
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To: PAR35
“large-edged weapon”

An M-1 Garand with a fixed bayonet?

24 posted on 10/12/2015 5:41:22 PM PDT by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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To: Gamecock

Machete?


25 posted on 10/12/2015 5:45:02 PM PDT by pingman (Cruz or lose!)
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To: PAR35

Sounds similar to the ‘random’ killing of an Aussie who lived in Duncan, OK in 2013.

Teen perps claimed they were ‘bored’ and picked Chris Lane at random as their victim.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/teen-convicted-murder-killing-jogger-when-he-was-bored-n344036


26 posted on 10/12/2015 5:46:17 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: pingman

Nah.

The MSM wants it to be an assault rifle.


27 posted on 10/12/2015 5:47:56 PM PDT by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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To: Dagnabitt
**It appears this poor woman’s jogging route took her to the wrong side of the Bell Curve.**

He just attacked him

28 posted on 10/12/2015 5:49:03 PM PDT by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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To: PAR35

Reckon the race war has begun. Remember, only one side has to declare it. Situational awareness, a 100 ft. perimeter. No black person is your friend...and if they get you it’s your own craven stupidity. I deplore racism and bigotry... but one has to deal with it regardless of whichever side of it you’re on. I’d never willfully harm a black person, but I no longer trust them, and for the time being I’ll regard them all as a mortal threat unless they prove otherwise. We are no longer one country of one people.


29 posted on 10/12/2015 5:52:37 PM PDT by VR-21
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30 posted on 10/12/2015 5:55:12 PM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: Vendome

Oh come now, what’s the big hurry!!!!!!


31 posted on 10/12/2015 5:57:26 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Never in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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To: VR-21

Walked into a men’s room in a McD’s on the south side of town a few weeks ago. A big guy was standing in there. He was hispanic, so I didn’t think much of it. If he’d been black, I’d have gone back out the door. The line between acceptable risk and non-acceptable risk.


32 posted on 10/12/2015 6:05:51 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Gamecock; Dagnabitt

The guy that got hacked was jogging. The girl was in her car, on the way to the nearby Mormon church. Cops aren’t saying how she was killed.


33 posted on 10/12/2015 6:09:28 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Charles Henrickson

White privilege on the loose.


34 posted on 10/12/2015 6:10:50 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: PAR35

Western culture, and the American nation is in a death struggle. I frankly am tired of tiptoeing around that fact. We have allowed the leftist/racialist snake to coil itself around us to the point that, well.... Be armed (and skilled with them), be sober and aware of what’s around you...and never again kid yourself about the nature of your fellow “citizens.”


35 posted on 10/12/2015 6:16:47 PM PDT by VR-21
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To: PAR35

One of those urban jogging/biking trail violent crime themeparks. Surprising a killer looking for someone to murder would choose a wooded urban area with a streaming supply of ready-made victims.


36 posted on 10/12/2015 6:17:05 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: PAR35

“It appears Mr. Johnson picked this victim at random. Absolutely random,” Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin said.


Repeating a phrase like that tells me the phrase is a lie.


37 posted on 10/12/2015 6:27:43 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: PAR35

Thomas Johnson is schizophrenic. A talented athlete, he played about half a season for A&M before disappearing and then dropping out of school. He has been seriously mentally ill for years.

If he had used a gun today, we’d be hearing calls again for tighter gun control.

I’m glad he used a machete.

From what I’ve been told, when having an “episode”(like off his meds), he considered himself a character out of a 1970s movie. This isn’t the only time he’s acted out, but may be the first time he’s killed.

He, like the shooters in almost all of the mass killings of recent years, have in common untreated illness. When is our society going to realize that the mental health “reforms” of the 1960s-70s made it almost impossible to keep homicidal maniacs off the street?


38 posted on 10/12/2015 6:35:13 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: lonestar

Schizophrenia. For years.


39 posted on 10/12/2015 6:36:24 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Shimmer1

My ADHD will takeover...


40 posted on 10/12/2015 6:40:38 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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