Ohio man kills neighbor because ‘he thought he was a Democrat’

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News
Wed, November 9, 2022 at 1:46 PM




A southwest Ohio man was killed by a neighbor who “thought he was a Democrat,” according to the victim’s shocked widow.

Austin Gene Combs confessed to shooting Anthony Lee King “several times with a revolver” while the 43-year-old victim and his wife were doing yardwork shortly before noon on Saturday, The Journal News reports.

The victim’s son called police to report the 26-year-old alleged shooter had come over “multiple times making statements” before killing his father in their Okeana, Ohio backyard.

“He’s insane,” the boy told a dispatcher, according to the Journal.

The victim’s wife reportedly told the dispatcher, “He has come over like four times confronting my husband because he thought he was a Democrat.”



She added that Combs had approached the victim four times before opening fire as she struggled to understand what had just happened.

“Why?” the woman asked. “Please, I don’t understand.”

The killing reportedly occurred when King’s wife came indoors to let the dog come inside. She heard gunshots, then saw Combs walking away as her husband laid dead.

The Journal News said Combs was booked on a murder charge and is being held on $950,000 bond in the Butler County Jail. He will appear in court Thursday.

Political violence leading up to Tuesday’s midterm elections has crossed party lines.

The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was attacked in his home by an alleged hammer-wielding conspiracy theorist who falsely believed the 2020 presidential election was rigged. Prominent Republicans including Donald Trump Jr., whose father lost that election, joked about the assault on social media.

In late September, A North Dakota man was charged with using his automobile to kill an 18-year-old he believed to be part of a “Republican extremist group,” according to Law & Crime, which reports that killing followed a debate over politics.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/ohio-man-kills-neighbor-because-204600966.html

 

White Alabama Councilman Arrested For ‘Sucker Punching’ Black Mayor

Murjani Rawls
Thu, November 10, 2022 at 8:35 AM



Photo: Tarrant City Council

A Tarrant City Council member was arrested on Monday night after he punched the city’s Black mayor after a city council meeting on Monday night, according to Al.com. Mayor Wayman Newton was talking to Tarrant Police Chief Wendell Major near a pick-up truck in the parking lot, surveillance footage released by the Tarrant Police Department shows. That’s when 78-year-old Tarrant City Council member Tommy Bryant approached Newton and punched him.

From ABC 33/40:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/white-alabama-councilman-arrested-sucker-153500506.html

 

Insulting lie dismissed.

Did you know both parties in the disturbance were deplorables?
Did you read what the fight was supposed to be about?
Does it matter to you since you are so clearly just spewing what you've been told to?

 

I'm more worried about whoever shot out my truck's window, political affiliations be damned

 

That sucks.
But say, at least you weren't the target.
Were you?

 

I would say and odds are it's someone you know. Or joy riding kids was the case last time I had my vehicle shot while it was parked out on the road during a hockey game.

 

LOL, can't laugh at yourself...

 

Can laugh at the idiots around here.
And does, just about every day.

 

That is neither a lie nor an insult. You said it yourself.

 

Domestic terrorism expert fears new wave of right-wing violence

Lynda Edwards, Investigative Reporter
November 11, 2022



Donald Trump supporters traveled from Newton, Massachusetts, to Washington to protest Joe Biden's election win (AFP)


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ALBANY, NY — Just in time for the midterm postmortem, terrorism expert and professor Victor Asal has completed the scary task of deep diving into menacing rabbit holes. He examined 567 domestic anti-government organizations gathered into a database over two years.

As director of research at the University at Albany's Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, Asal has studied terrorism all over the globe. He's completed huge projects for the Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research.

Asal also works on projects with START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism) at the University of Maryland.

Thanks to a recent grant from the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Asal spent months focused on U.S.-spawned militias, insurrectionists, white supremacist incels, secessionists and others vehemently opposed to the American government.

The mystery Asal was tasked with solving: What factors are the most reliable predictor that a group would use violence against civilians?

Asal examined the 567 groups collected over the years in his database. Interestingly, the commonality most of them shared was that regional law enforcement was monitoring them already when the groups used violence. Asal found that far-right groups were more likely to use violence than others. And they are also more influential and plentiful.

START counted groups with a radical anti-government stance from 1948 to 2018 and found 977 far-right radicals with 511 Islamist groups a distant second followed by a puny 374 far-left groups and 364 that embrace only one issue, like abortion.

Asal says another key predictor of violence was violent rhetoric.

"Violent rhetoric isn't simply talk," Asal said. adding that vows to kill or maim shouldn't be dismissed as bluster. Those with a right-wing ideology are more likely than left-wingers to be violent, his research concluded.

An organization's dream or mission can also be predictive. When that goal is separatism or annexation, as opposed to winning elections, there is a higher likelihood of violence. Asal explained what annexation meant in this context. "Some want to have an enclave in one of (the 50) states...or specific places where they are regarded as a sovereign nation."

It would look strange and the goals would different from our Civil War, as Brookings Institution scholars Darrell West and William Gale observed in "Is the U.S. headed toward another Civil War?"

"There are urban/rural differences within specific states, with progressives dominating the cities while conservatives reside in rural communities," they wrote. "But that is a far different geographic divide than when one region could wage war on another. The lack of a distinctive or uniform geographic division limits the ability to confront other areas, organize supply chains, and mobilize the population. There can be local skirmishes between different forces, but not a situation where one state or region attacks another."

"There is no clear regional split: We do not have a North/South schism similar to what existed in the 19th century," they emphasized.

A war with no clear geographic lines or battlefields raises the specter for many domestic terrorism experts of Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The war between Protestants and Catholics was fought on residential blocks and civilians died when bombs exploded in restaurants, shops, bars, groceries and near schools.

START found that over 90 percent of domestic terrorists prosecuted for violent crimes were male and most, 37 percent, were between ages 20 and 30.

Interestingly, Asal found that in the Middle East, radical anti-government organizations are less likely to turn to violence against civilians if women are members of the organization. But, the feminine presence may not have had such an uplifting impact in America, where women participated in insurrection violence alongside Proud Boys and QAnon cultists.

Brace yourself for 2024.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/right-wing-violence/

 

Men jump onto Chicago school bus and make Nazi threats against Jewish students

Travis Gettys
November 11, 2022



'Photo of a school bus' (Shutterstock.com)


A group of men stormed a school bus and hurled antisemitic threats against a 12-year-old boy at Chicago's West Rogers Park in the 2800 block of Jerome Street.

Police said the bus had been dropping off elementary students from a nearby Orthodox Jewish school Wednesday about 5 p.m. when the men jumped on board and engaged in menacing behavior, although no one was injured, reported the Chicago Tribune.

“At one stop, four men jumped into the bus, hurled antisemitic slurs, and performed the ‘Heil Hitler’ salute at terrorized children,” said Alison Pure Slovin, a spokesperson from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, in a statement.

The men singled out one boy in particular and threatened to hurt him before taking off.

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“This shocking incident took place on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that destroyed almost all synagogues across Germany in 1938," Slovin said. "Many members of the Jewish community have family who lived through those horrors.”

Police are searching for the men, who have not yet been identified or arrested.



https://www.rawstory.com/chicago-school-bus-nazi/

 

Police are searching for the men, who have not yet been identified or arrested.

 

I would think it's pretty damn hard to find something you have no clue what you're looking for.....

 

Who said they have no clue what they're looking for?

 

Your Bestie Stumbles posted the Rawsewage article above and the very last sentence kinda speaks for itself...

 

And you are reading into what that sentence actually says...

 

Wait for it .............

 

No, I just read it, there's a difference...

 

American militia movement, reports that far-right groups have adopted what is called “accelerationism,” The idea that inducing chaos, provoking law enforcement, and promoting political tension will hasten the collapse of Western government … making room for them to establish a whites-only country.

“Most far-right extremists are part of larger extremist communities, communicating by social media and distributing posts and manifestos,”

“Their messages speak of fear that one day, whites may be outnumbered by nonwhites in the U.S., and the idea that there is a Jewish-led plot to destroy the white race. In response, they prepare for a war between whites and nonwhites.”

White nationalists – people who believe whites are under attack in America and therefore seek to establish a whites-only nation where non whites do not have civil rights protections
links between the U.S. military and white nationalists date back to the 1990s, with many believers seeing military service as an opportunity to hone their fighting skills and recruit others.”
White supremacist groups also seek to recruit police officers. As far back as 2006, the FBI warned about this problem.

Since 2009, police officers in Florida, Alabama and Louisiana have been identified as members of white supremacist groups. Meanwhile, more than 100 police departments in 49 different states have had to deal with scandals involving racist emails, texts or online comments sent or made by department staff,” including one this month involving a high-ranking officer in the New York Police Department.