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Violence Against Women Update

Posted on | October 18, 2023 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update

Herman Brightman, a/k/a “Nazir Griffiths”

How many times do I have to repeat myself? Online dating is for losers. Ask yourself, who uses dating apps? People who can’t get a date with anyone who actually knows them in real life, that’s who. Merely by downloading a dating app, you’re making a statement about yourself, and it’s not a good statement, OK? Beyond the fact that the people on dating apps are all losers — if they were winners, they wouldn’t need the app, see? — some of them are actually dangerous. As I’ve said before, “Dating apps are a great way for women to meet violent sexual predators.” But hey, it’s not like there are any dangerous people in New York City:

An accused serial predator who met his victims on the popular dating app Hinge was behind bars Tuesday after threatening to carve up a terrified girlfriend with a knife in her Queens apartment.
Handcuffed defendant Herman Brightman, 30, was held with bail following his arraignment in Queens Criminal Court on a seven-count indictment. He is accused of menacing the 28-year-old woman during the chilling Aug. 7 attack following a quarrel at her home, authorities said as the defendant stood mutely in a beige sweatshirt and a COVID mask.
The 5-foot 9, 220-pound suspect, who also goes by the name Nazir Griffiths, climbed on top of the woman, poked her with the tip of his blade and placed his hands on her mouth before threatening her life, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Brightman and his victim had met on Hinge months earlier, her office said.
“This defendant terrorized his girlfriend in her own home,” the prosecutor said in a statement. “Wielding a knife, he threatened to gut her, he threatened to kill her. She is fortunate to have escaped with her life.”
Brightman faces additional accusations of threatening two women in the Bronx and a third in New Jersey after contacting them through Hinge, with law enforcement sources saying the FBI was considering bringing charges against him.
In the August attack, Brightman allegedly asked his girlfriend which part of her body she wanted him to cut first before directing her to turn up music playing in the background and peering out a window to check for neighbors before stating his intention to kill her. The defendant taped her mouth shut, bound her wrists behind her back and ordered her to sit in a corner of the room, prosecutors said.
The attacker spent the next six days inside the apartment before the victim convinced him to leave, according to authorities. He initially faced only misdemeanor charges until the case was declared domestic violence, leading to new charges and the decision to call for his imprisonment, the DA’s office said.
The defendant asked for a chance to speak as Tuesday’s hearing wound down, but the judge rejected the request.
Though Brightman claims on his LinkedIn page to be a nurse practitioner at the prestigious Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a hospital spokesman said they have never employed anyone by that name. Assistant District Attorney Marina Shew said the defendant had attempted to trespass at the hospital and also falsely claimed a job at Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island. . . .
Before Brightman threatened to slash his girlfriend, he busted her computer monitor during an argument in her Queens Village apartment where he was staying after they began dating, sources said.
The fight escalated, with the defendant destroying her cell phone with a knife before threatening to butcher the woman and tying her up, they added.
The victim was eventually able to calm Brightman down and convince him to untie her, a source said. He broke down in tears at some point, the source added, and the victim was able to go to work.
Six days later, the source said, the victim told Brightman he had to leave the apartment because she had relatives coming to visit. The attacker complied, the source said, and the woman called him a short time later to end the relationship.
Brightman wasn’t done, the source said, and he asked another one of his victims, a 30-year-old Bronx woman, to call the Queens victim, apparently in an attempt to smooth things over.
But when the two women spoke, they bonded over their shared experiences with Brightman and decided to report him, the source said.
On Sept. 8, they each filed a report with the NYPD, with the Queens woman leaving to stay with relatives in Pennsylvania over fears of Brightman’s wrath, according to the source.
The Bronx woman was victimized on Sept. 6, according to court papers, in a confrontation in front of a Mott Haven building on Cypress Ave. in which he allegedly punched the woman in her arm and then grabbed her in a chokehold, one arm around her neck, the other covering her nose and mouth.
Two days later, Brightman attacked the same woman three blocks away, hurling an orange construction cone that struck her in the foot, court papers said. He then allegedly flung a 2-liter bottle of soda at her but she sidestepped it.
Brightman was arrested on Sept. 14 and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, misdemeanor assault, harassment and weapons possession. Police tacked on a charge of obstructing governmental administration because he allegedly spit in an NYPD sergeant’s face as he was being placed in a holding cell.
He was released without bail and immediately rearrested for the Queens case. He was again released without bail because the charges, all misdemeanors, were not bail eligible, though he was ultimately indicted for second-degree kidnapping, a felony.
But while he was free, Brightman on Sept. 28 attacked another Bronx woman in her apartment on Metropolitan Ave. in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, authorities said.
“I’m going to show you who I truly am,” he said to the 29-year-old victim, according to court papers. “You think I am playing with you?”
When the victim tried to leave, he blocked the door and then threw a glass vinegar bottle at her, court papers stated. The woman retreated to her bedroom and locked the door. Brightman allegedly kicked it in, repeatedly punched her in the head and choked her until she lost consciousness, authorities said.
“Look at me,” he allegedly said before the victim blacked out. “I have nothing to lose. My dad is dying. We don’t work together anymore.”
The woman regained consciousness but the beating continued, the papers said, with Brightman yanking her to the ground by her hair.
“Kneel down,” he allegedly commanded. “You ever been beat before? This is a night you will never forget. You are not going to make it out alive tonight.” , , ,

So far as we know, he hasn’t killed anybody yet, but unless they put him behind bars, it’s probably just a matter of time. How did this monster keep getting arrested and released? Is this some kind of “criminal justice reform,” to turn loose violent predators? Meanwhile, feminists — who claim to care about “violence against women” — haven’t said a peep about Herman Brightman, for some reason . . .



 

Category: Violence Against Women

In The Mailbox: 10.17.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 17, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.17.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Still a little tired from Son of Silvercon. It was a great time, though, and we’re already working on next year’s convention.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: UK Cops Decide Silent Prayer Isn’t Illegal After All, Homemade Firearms From The UK, Believe It! Those Are Gunshots
EBL: Suzanne Somers RIP, also, Piper Laurie RIP
Twitchy: Rep. Ilhan Omar Says We Can’t Look Away From This Atrocity In Gaza, “Green Carbon Offsetting” Firm Turns Out To Be Giant Scam, and Jesse Kelly Drags Janet Yellen For Claiming “We Can Afford Two Wars”
Louder With Crowder: CEOs are lining up to deny pro-Hamas Harvard graduates from getting jobs in the future, Two Dudes Win Another Women’s Bike Race, And They’re Quite Proud Of Themselves, and Parents Outraged Over Teacher PURPOSELY Showing Violent ‘Winnie The Pooh’ Horror Film To Nine-Year-Olds
Vox Popoli: Never Ask a Natural, The Midwit Range, Agreement Incapable, Noble Savage Premiers Today, and Import X, Become X
Jon Del Arroz: DC Nixes Mags Visaggio’s Trans Superboy
Stoic Observations: Intifada Or Jihad?
Draw & Talk: The Villain Era In Indie Comics Begins Now
Flappr: White Womxn Confused Over Who To Support In New War

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Lessons From Israel, Fullbore Friday, and No One Asked “Where’s The 82nd Airborne?”
Dana Loesch: Apologists Don’t Care About Lives Unless They Demand That Hamas Release Hostages
Don Surber: Palestine Woke The World Up, The Deprogramming Began Long Ago, and The Difference Between Israel & Ukraine, 
Glenn Reynolds: Rethinking The Civil Service
Protein Wisdom Reborn: How Dare Jew?

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Category: Linkagery

Anything That Makes Adam Kinzinger Happy Is Objectively Bad for America

Posted on | October 17, 2023 | Comments Off on Anything That Makes Adam Kinzinger Happy Is Objectively Bad for America

In 2021, the Democrat-controlled legislature of Illinois did the nation a huge favor. In redrawing their state’s congressional districts, Illinois legislators lumped together parts of the 16th and 18th districts, thereby setting up a possible Republican primary between two incumbents, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (from the old 16th District) and Rep. Darin LaHood (from the old 18th). There was never any doubt who would win that primary in a 66% Republican district, and thus Kinzinger “retired” from Congress — immediately taking a job as a comentator on America’s least-watched news network, CNN. The anchors on CNN are always careful to introduce Kinzinger as a “former Republican congressman,” a description that is true in two senses: Kinzinger is no longer a congressman, and he hasn’t really been a Republican since November 2016, becoming a flaming bonfire of Trump Derangement Syndrome even worse than David French. So the ex-Republican ex-congressman was all over CNN today, gleefully celebrating the wretched mess in the Capitol:

CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger said Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central” that he was “very proud” of the 20 Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for speaker.
Kinzinger said, “I’m impressed that there’s 20. I was worried this morning because a lot of the hard opposition to Jordan had been capitulating in the last 24 hours, like Mike Rogers from Alabama, Ann Wagner from Missouri. They were ‘hell no’ until they were all in. This is embarrassing for Jim Jordan.”
He continued, “I think this is going to be hard for him to fix. I mean the only thing I can imagine is if he starts cutting deals and those deals include things that he’s never supported in the past. For instance, if he says I’m committed to bringing Ukraine funding on the floor he may be able to peel off one or two of those. If he says I’m committed to whatever it is, I don’t know, maybe he can get to his number, but I think this is hard.”
Kinzinger added, “The easiest thing to do if you’re a Republican is to vote for Jim Jordan the first time and go away the second time. I think you could see even more peel away on the second round, or he consolidates. Who really knows? I think it’s going to be very hard for him to become speaker now.
He concluded, “That doesn’t mean they’re not going to use blistering pressure on Fox News, NewsMax, OAN to activate the base to scare the crap out of those people. There’s a lot of brave people in those 20 that I am very proud of them today.”

The fact that Kinzinger considers the anti-Jordan GOP congressmen to be “brave people” means that they are all knaves and fools. And the fact that Kinzinger hates Jim Jordan means that Jordan must be OK.

Make Jim Jordan the next speaker, and make Adam Kinzinger sad.



 

Category: Congress

Rule 5 Monday: Rule 5 Blues

Posted on | October 16, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Monday: Rule 5 Blues

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was a very long weekend at Son of Silvercon, but we all had fun, and everyone wants to come back next year, so I guess we will. This week’s appetizer is courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on the Twitters.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Solar Subsidies Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA – Trump At The Western Wall, Friday The 13th, Hedy Lamarr, The Devil Conspiracy, Paige Spiranac, Totally Killer, In 1492 Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue, and Happy Canada Thanksgiving Day

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Agata Zia, Another Bad Year for Bay Bass, Fish Pic Friday – Megan Rubi, Maryland Looks to Women Boaters, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, A Tuesday Tune or Two, Happy IDP!, The Monday Morning Stimulus, More Random Celebrity News and Palm Sunday.

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For October 23

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Category: Rule 5

Republicans Score ‘Major Victory’ as Trump-Backed Landry Wins in Louisiana

Posted on | October 15, 2023 | Comments Off on Republicans Score ‘Major Victory’ as Trump-Backed Landry Wins in Louisiana

WDSU-TV in New Orleans reports:

Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor’s race, holding off a crowded field of candidates. The win is a major victory for the GOP as they reclaim the governor’s mansion for the first time in eight years.

Louisiana has a so-called “jungle primary,” with all candidates from every party, and this usually results in a run-off to decide the election because no candidate gets a majority, but Landry got 52% to win outright. His nearest Democratic rival got 26%, while four other GOP candidates split 13% of the votes between them. In other words, this was at least a 2-to-1 GOP landslide. What do you think this suggests for 2024? Perhaps it’s merely a local election that signifies nothing as a nationwide trend, but we’ll wait and see what happens in Kentucky next month.



 

Category: Election, Louisiana

Self-Inflicted ‘Oppression’

Posted on | October 14, 2023 | Comments Off on Self-Inflicted ‘Oppression’

When I first joined the staff of The Washington Times in 1998, our chief foreign correspondent was Marty Seiff. A native of Belfast, Marty had traveled the world, filing bylines from nearly 50 different countries, and had been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize. Whenever the subject of the Middle East came up — and it was during the Clinton years that the phrase “peace process” entered our vocabulary — Marty was fond of repeating Israeli diplomat Abba Eban’s quote about the Palestinians: “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” This quote sadly summarizes what the Palestinians have done to themselves in Gaza. Prior to 1967, this territory was claimed by Egypt until Gamel Nasser let himself be persuaded to blockade Israeli shipping through the Straits of Tiran, precipitating the Six-Day War.

The sequel of that war was Israel’s conquest not only of Gaza, but also the West Bank (previously controlled by Jordan) and the Golan Heights (previously part of Syria), and the prior possession of these territories was, in turn, a consequence of the 1948 war that established Israel as a nation. For 28 years before that war, the whole region had been governed by the British under a “mandate,” the result of Britain’s defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. If anyone wants to denounce “colonialism” and “imperialism” vis-a-vis Israel, they’ll have to go all the way back to the Turkish conquest. All of this history I recount not merely to promote my old friend Marty’s book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East (although I’ll collect a small commission if you purchase that book through my Amazon Affiliate link), but because so many liberals (and even a few conservatives) seem to be confused about Gaza and the whole Israel situation in general.

Liberals make the same mistake about this situation that they make on every other issue: Having made an idol of “Equality,” liberals decide that members of a less-than-successful group are victims of “oppression,” and then accuse their more successful neighbors of perpetrating this oppression. Part of this is rooted in the natural tendency to sympathize with the underdog. Watching Star Wars, we naturally cheer when the scrappy Rebel Alliance scores a victory against the seemingly invincible Galactic Empire. In college football, we’re happy when the Top 10 team gets upset by an obscure and unranked opponent. Making such a sentimental attachment to underdogs a fundamental principle of politics (or foreign policy), however, is a formula for folly, and it is just this error that the Left has committed in regard to the Palestinians.

Examining the rhetoric spewed in support of the Palestinian cause, one is reminded of Orwell’s remark: “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”

Is it a coincidence that support for Hamas has flourished on our nation’s university campuses? The same campuses where socialist Bernie Sanders was viewed as an inerrant hero? The same campuses where “diversity” is practically a religion and Black Lives Matter enjoys cult-like reverence?

All of these manifestations of leftist beliefs in academia express the same crytpo-Marxist mentality in which (allegedly) “oppressed” people are endowed with complete moral authority as Heroic Martyrs, their putative victimhood endlessly recounted as an indictment of “the system.”

Victimhood has become a lucrative racket in academia. Consider how Ibram X. Kendi’s “Antiracism Research Center” at Boston University burned through tens of millions of dollars in less than three years and accomplished nothing. Kendi was telling guilt-ridden white liberals what they wanted to hear, that they were complicit in the oppression of black people, and they responded by giving him millions of dollars.

You know what’s really racist? Thinking that black people (or gay people, or any other allegedly “oppressed” people) are too stupid to figure out a good hustle. And certainly the Palestinians are clever that way.

How many billions of dollars in international aid have poured into Gaza since the Israelis pulled out in 2005 and Hamas took over? And what happened to all that “humanitarian assistance”? Do you think the leaders of Hamas are living in frugal poverty, sharing the suffering of their people? No, they’ve been living in comfort in Qatar.

Alas, facts mean nothing to liberals. It is their sentimental attachment to the Palestinians as victims of oppression that dictates their pro-Hamas sympathies. The liberal is always Mrs. Jellyby, devoting herself to the missionary work in Borrioboola-Gha. It is so much easier to sympathize with the downtrodden and disadvantaged when they’re far away, preferably on the other side of the world, because the nearer their proximity, the more difficult it is to view them as helpless victims.

Who is to blame for the atrocities Hamas committed in their recent attacks in Israel? How about the people who elected Hamas? Yes, that’s right — in their first legislative election, the people of Gaza voted for Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, as their government. Everything that has happened since then is a consequence of that choice, for which the Palestinians in Gaza are wholly responsible.

How is it, then, that expressions of “solidarity” with Hamas, celebrating the “Palestinian resistance” (i.e., beheading babies), have suddenly proliferated on American university campuses?

As Israel mourns some 1,200 dead, prays for the release of more than 100 captives, reels from the worst day in its history, and mobilizes some 360,000 reservists, student activists and the international Left have mobilized to defend, apologize for, and appease evil. . . .
The toxic atmosphere of anti-Semitism has several sources. One is the corrupt university system. Fifty-one U.S. student groups have written a letter that concludes, “We support the resistance, we support the liberation movement, and we indisputably support the Uprising.” The president of NYU’s student bar association said that Israel’s “apartheid regime is the only one to blame” for the chaos. Thirty-one “Palestine Solidarity Groups” at Harvard University echoed her despicable sentiment. Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine said it “honors the martyrs” of Hamas. Graffiti writers scrawled “Long live the intifada” and “Israel is dead” on Stanford’s sidewalks. Students at George Washington University, one of the most expensive private institutions of higher learning in the country, held a “Vigil for the Martyrs of Palestine.” This is a small sample of dangerous student idiocy. A full catalogue would be endless.
Campus anti-Zionism and leftwing anti-Semitism are not new. The organizations behind the rallies and letters and social media posts have been around for a while. Democratic Socialists of America, Black Lives Matter, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the United Kingdom have spent years preparing for this moment. What they have set in motion is stunning, nonetheless.

Guess who is not pleased with the pro-Hamas demonstrations?

“I have been asked by a number of CEOs if Harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members,” [Bill] Ackman, the billionaire founder of hedge fund giant Pershing Square Capital Management, wrote on his X social media account on Tuesday.
“If, in fact, their members support the letter they have released, the names of the signatories should be made public so their views are publicly known.”
Ackman, a Harvard grad who has a net worth of $3.5 billion, added: “One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists, who, we now learn, have beheaded babies, among other inconceivably despicable acts.”

Many Harvard students have scrambled to distance themselves from the pro-Hamas statements issued by campus groups. Dana Pico remarks: “One would have thought that the extremely intelligent students who won admission to Hahvahd would have thought, ‘Hey, wait a minute, some of the most important business leaders in the biggest financial center in America, just might be Jewish or have family who are Jewish.’”

You think so? If you believe in a conspiracy theory of Jewish global domination, wouldn’t it behoove you to try to avoid offending those who (according to your own theory) control everything in the world?

But we should never expect sound logic from kooks.



 

Category: Education, History, Intellectuals, Israel

Michelle Goldberg, After Lying Down With Jew-Hating Dogs, Expresses Chagrin About Waking Up With Jew-Hating Fleas

Posted on | October 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Michelle Goldberg, After Lying Down With Jew-Hating Dogs, Expresses Chagrin About Waking Up With Jew-Hating Fleas

Liberalism is many things, including a job qualification for journalists. Is there anyone who thinks Michelle Goldberg would be working for the New York Times if she were anything but a liberal? It’s not just that she writes badly, but rather that she cannot think clearly. If your stock in trade is bad writing in support of bad ideas, the only way you can find work is to be a liberal, Michelle Goldberg got her start at the worthless Salon-dot-com, and if she ever wrote anything worth reading, I missed it. Anyway, here’s her column today:

The Massacre in Israel
and the Need for a Decent Left
On Tuesday evening, I was drinking on the porch of my friend and neighbor Misha Shulman, the Israel-born rabbi of a progressive New York synagogue called the New Shul. All day, he’d been on the phone with congregants deeply distraught over the massacres and mass kidnappings in Israel. Of all the people he spoke to, he said, those most devastated were either people who had lost close friends or family, or young Jews “completely shattered by the response of their lefty friends in New York,” who were either justifying Hamas’s atrocities or celebrating them outright.
This sense of deep betrayal is not limited to New York. Many progressive Jews have been profoundly shaken by the way some on the left are treating the terrorist mass murder of civilians as noble acts of anticolonial resistance. . . .

This could only be surprising to those who have paid no attention to the Jew-hating climate on university campuses fostered by the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement. Was any conservative surprised by the pro-Hamas rally in New York? Or were we surprised when Black Lives Matter celebrated this terrorist attack? I don’t think so. Some of us had noticed how there was a remarkable rise in anti-Semitic hate in the black community after the George Floyd riots of 2020. And so for BLM to celebrate the atrocities committed by the “Palestinian resistance” was entirely predictable.

Anyway, you can read the rest of Goldberg’s latest embarrassing column, if you’re a masochist. Ann Althouse notes that “Goldberg gets in a shot at conservatives,” because, of course, she must. That’s her racket, taking shots at conservatives, even when her own leftist “allies” are celebrating terrorism.



 

Category: Israel, New York Times, Progressivism

Ironic Crime Update: Did a Gay Pedophile Basically Issue His Own Death Warrant?

Posted on | October 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Ironic Crime Update: Did a Gay Pedophile Basically Issue His Own Death Warrant?

Josh Kruger (left); Robert Davis (right)

When I wrote last week about Josh Kruger, the “left-wing Philadelphia journalist who mocked concern over rising crime in Democrat-run cities,” and was shot to death in his home, there was no public information available about who the suspect was or what the motive might have been. It just seemed kind of ironic, and I figured it was probably some kind of robbery.

Kruger, a formerly homeless drug addict, “was proudly queer and openly HIV-positive” and “worked for the City of Philadelphia for about five years, overseeing the mayor’s social media platforms and policy campaigns, and acting as communications director and spokesperson for the city’s Office of Homeless Services.” That Kruger could have been the victim of a random street crime seemed entirely probable, given the prevalence of street crime in “Killadelphia,” a city more violent than Chicago. But that wasn’t what it was.

Several days after Philly police said they had identified a “person of interest” in the case, they finally named the suspect as Robert Edmond Davis, 19, and a police spokesman said, “At this time we believe that Mr. Kruger was trying to help Mr. Davis, and they were acquaintances. . . He was just trying to help him just get through life.” Because that’s what “proudly queer” men do, right?

SHOCKING PLOT TWIST!

The family of Robert Davis, 19, who is accused of killing local journalist Josh Kruger, said that Davis was just 15 when he and Kruger began a years-long relationship involving drugs — and that Davis told them Kruger was threatening to post sexually explicit videos of him online before, police say, Davis shot Kruger.
Those assertions by Davis’ mother and older brother in recent interviews with The Inquirer add troubling new complexities to a killing that has garnered national attention. Their account, they said, is drawn from recent conversations with Davis, and from the years of watching his life unravel as he tried to keep the relationship and his drug addiction hidden. . . .

(“Troubling new complexities” — yeah, this is gonna make it kind of hard for the Philadelphia Inquirer to continue portraying Kruger as some kind of “proudly queer” hero.)

The family’s contentions come as detectives separately discovered and are investigating what multiple law enforcement sources have called explicit photos and messages in Kruger’s phone. The sources, who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, did not say whether the images or messages were connected to Davis, but said they were “disturbing” and have been turned over to the department’s Special Victims Unit for further analysis. . . .

(Oh, “disturbing” images and messages on his phone? Calling in the police Special Victims Unit? Do you need me to spell this out for you?)

Damica Davis and her older son Jaylin Reason said in an interview that Davis faced mental health issues from a young age. He struggled to control his anger in school, his mother said, partially because of the absence of his biological father in his life, and often got into fights. When he was about 15, she said, his troubles intensified after he started sneaking out in the middle of the night and coming home high on drugs.
They said Davis told them he was seeing an “older white woman” he met online who “worked for the government.”
They frequently saw the name “Josh” pop up in messages on his phone, they said, and when they asked who Josh was, Davis told them it was the woman’s brother, who was gay.
It was only later, in their call with him Friday, they said, that Davis told them he had been seeing Kruger all along.

As Dana Pico points out, sex with a 15-year-old would be a felony, and let me be clear that I am not saying Josh Kruger deserved to be shot to death by his alleged victim. I’m just saying it’s ironic.

BTW, police still haven’t caught Robert Davis, who remains at large and is considered “armed and dangerous.” But of course it’s Philadelphia, and basically everybody in Philadelphia is dangerous.



 

Category: Crime
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