All
to familiar was the oppressive language of North Carolina law
enforcement. As soon as the deaths occurred the law enforcement
immediately came out and stated it was not hatred that caused the deaths
of three wonderful young people. It is the voice of oppression that is
well practiced in the USA south.
While that oppressive voice is easily notable, what surprised me more than any police officer and/or sheriff was the US Attorney sounding off in the same oppressive tone and words.
Hicks is another Zimmerman. There are plenty throughout the country. They purchase guns and take way territorial rights from citizens to call that land their own. There is a social movement within the gun enthusiasts owners. They are their own law enforcement. "I (the male voice) am the sole protector of my family."
This is a hate crime. There needs to be truth gathering by everyone moved by this level of hate in this North Carolina community. Those gathering the information now are looking for methodology and law to suppress as much of the truth as possible.
My deepest sympathies to the family who knew these young people so well. From what I can see of them now in the social media is incredible. We don't even know how much we miss them. It is obvious the three were nothing short of pure joy.
The coffin of one of three
young Muslims who were shot in Chapel Hill, N.C., this week was carried
to a funeral prayer service on Thursday in Raleigh, N.C.
Credit
Travis Dove for The New York Times.
February 12, 2015
By Jonathan M. Katz and Michael Paulson
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Neighbors (click here) knew Craig Stephen Hicks. He was the angry man on Summerwalk Circle, they said — irritated about noise, irascible about parking, hostile to religion. And armed.
While that oppressive voice is easily notable, what surprised me more than any police officer and/or sheriff was the US Attorney sounding off in the same oppressive tone and words.
Hicks is another Zimmerman. There are plenty throughout the country. They purchase guns and take way territorial rights from citizens to call that land their own. There is a social movement within the gun enthusiasts owners. They are their own law enforcement. "I (the male voice) am the sole protector of my family."
This is a hate crime. There needs to be truth gathering by everyone moved by this level of hate in this North Carolina community. Those gathering the information now are looking for methodology and law to suppress as much of the truth as possible.
My deepest sympathies to the family who knew these young people so well. From what I can see of them now in the social media is incredible. We don't even know how much we miss them. It is obvious the three were nothing short of pure joy.
February 12, 2015
By Jonathan M. Katz and Michael Paulson
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Neighbors (click here) knew Craig Stephen Hicks. He was the angry man on Summerwalk Circle, they said — irritated about noise, irascible about parking, hostile to religion. And armed.
Mr.
Hicks was such a disruptive presence in the Finley Forest condominium
complex that last year, residents held a meeting to talk about him.
None
of them, of course, could have foreseen that he might be charged with
murdering three people in a neighboring apartment on Tuesday: two
sisters, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, and
Yusor’s husband, Deah Shaddy Barakat — all of them Muslim. But some
neighbors felt threatened by his behavior....
