Donald Trump continues to be an inspiration to the worst people in the world. In Olympia, Washington last week, he evidently inspired one man to attack an interracial couple with a knife.
Here’s Salon’s account of the attack:
Daniel Rowe stabbed a black man in Olympia, the capital of Washington state, outside of a bar at around 8:30pm [Tuesday night] after seeing the black man kiss a white woman. … Rowe … yelled a racial slur and lunged with his knife, police say. The blade grazed the woman and went into the man’s hip, according to a news release from Olympia police.
After being arrested he admitted to stabbing the couple and told police that he was a white supremacist, according to a police department spokesman.
According to court documents cited by Salon, Rowe “took a blood oath to fight on the street, and [said] if he was let go tonight, he planned on heading down to the next Donald Trump rally and stomping out more of the Black Lives Matter group.”
Meanwhile, as Salon goes on to note, the case of a Florida teenager who was caught literally eating the face off of one of the two people he had just killed for no clear reason has gotten even weirder. Apparently the murderer-turned-cannibal was wearing a Trump “Make America Great Again” hat when he committed his crimes.
Given the bizarre nature of the crime, it seems rather unlikely that the young murderer was inspired by Trump, but it is creepy as hell.
Yeah, the latter case is apparently due to designer drugs if it’s the one same one I heard of recently. I recall that being a thing back in 2012, with all kinds of people eating faces while on some kind of “spice” that summer. Closest thing to a zombie outbreak I’ve seen.
These are the people we’re supposed to be finding common ground with. At least according to the guy in the other thread.
But at least stabbing people isn’t toxic like political correctness is!
Yeaaaah… alright… I would say, dude, you kinda need your blood to, y’know, carry the oxygen to your brain, but obviously that was already a problem before.
@Michael Brew
I could be mistaken, but in regards to the 2012 case, and I believe there were two of those, didn’t a bunch of people actually call the White House to ask if there was a zombie outbreak going on ? That stuff made the news even to France. Not the cannibalism per se, but the people worrying about the zombie apocalypse.
@WWTH
Must be because stabbing people is manly. It’s manly people expressing their manliness, in spite of your not-manly liberal bias.
Somehow.
Clean knifes never poison anyone, so clearly they are safer than PC !
Also, the article illustration is horrifying.
That ‘official Trump flick knife is really a thing?
Which actually exists?
Wow.
When does the Thesesa May official taser come out?
Eating…their faces?
Jesus wept.
@Virgin Mary
You should’ve dropped a Ruth Ginsburg mic after that sentence.
Will this do?
Facial expression : check.
Crown and cape she deserves but probably wouldn’t wear for the life of her : check.
Yeah, definitely.
That knife is scary.
Everything about this is scary.
I’m glad the couple is okay.
It’s startling what Trump supporters are willing to in public, with witnesses. There have always been unpredictable hate crimes in public spaces, but I feel like these people have just been emboldended. They have the approval of someone they see as an authority figure, or at least they think they do.
Uff. Seriously?
I’d rather not have anything in common with racists and murderers.
http://t.qkme.me/35ech5.jpg
Okay, but, for real, someone fucking ate the faces off of two fucking people.
I don’t want to make an armchair diagnosis since we don’t have complete information. But cannibal attacks like that tend to be pretty rare and not based on someone’s ideological worldview, at least if the attacks seem totally random and he didn’t put a lot of time into planning and getting away with the attack.
@Handsome Jack
Not even the first time. As Michael Brew pointed out there was a similar case back in 2012, I seem to remember TWO. And yeah, there almost was a conspiracy theory, that the government was hiding the zombie apocalypse, etc.
Apparently the guys were on designer drugs – stuff that people cook up because regulation is rather specific, thus new stuff evades it for a while.
ETA : Also this time the guy was from Florida. And I seem to recall that the previous two also were. Make of that what you will. Maybe alligator worship gone too far ?
@Sinkable John
I thought that was bathsalts in 2012.
But for fucking real I can’t get over the fact that SOMEONE FUCKING ATE THE FUCKING FACES OFF OF TWO FUCKING PEOPLE.
LIKE A CHEAP FUCKING B MOVIE.
It could be designer drugs like “bath salts” or certain extremely rare mental disorders (much less than 1% of people with a mental illness). More likely some sort of synthetic drug.
Oh, but hate crimes aren’t real. I’ll say this until everyone on Earth gets it:
Hate crimes exist, so that people with a perpetually strong, broad targeted motive for violence stay behind bars longer. I kill a business partner for the insurance money, and I’m only really a threat to future business partners and only if there’s insurance involved. Small set. I kill a Native American just cos, and my potential victim pool is over 5m
8% of all Murican marriages are interracial (including Latinx, cos it’s considered ‘marrying outside’ here). A little under 50% of adults are or have been married. Just counting matrimonious couples, that’s 19m, and the numbers are rising fast. He’s a constant threat to a huge swath of Muricans, and he admits as such. Throw away the fuckin key
I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT THE BATHSALT THING WAS ALSO IN FLORIDA WHY FLORIDA WHY.
To be honest I’m actually even more baffled that another one, one supporting a nominated presidential candidate at that, attacked a couple in the street because their skin colors didn’t match.
ETA : Florida Man is the worst super-hero. Okay, maybe not anymore. Captain America is a nazi now.
ETA again : @Axe : naaaaaah, probably just insane. Like Breivik. And Rodgers.
Fuck deniers.
@History : last example of face eating that I am aware of was caused by someone drugged out of his mind on bath salts.
I also know that a bunch of people import from china a mix of chemical whose recipe vary every few months. Because they are new, the product is authorized by default (not officially for consumption of course), and junkies buy it to smoke it, inject it, or something else. And because it’s a mix of various new chemical without sanitary controls and imported directly from some of the less rigorous plants in the world, the side effect are numerous and frightening. The one I heard of were epileptic crisis and flesh-eating bacteria infection.
Why would a drug specifically make you eat someone’s face?
@Axecalibur Exactly, someone is much more of a threat to public safety if he’s motivated by a hatred for interracial couples than if, for example, he committed a robbery because he wanted money.
@Ohlmann
Please don’t use the word “junkie”. I don’t know how other people who may or may not have been called that feel about it, but personally… meh.
@Podkayne Lives
Drugs never make you specifically do something. Rather, they make enough of a mess of your mind that it takes itself in somewhat random directions sometimes – it can create weird urges, which doesn’t mean they were pre-existing and were just “amplified”. Brains are weird, but mess with them and they get even weirder.
@alchemy look up stochastic terrorism.
@ Virgin Mary
It is a folding knife (activated by the user pulling out the blade) not a flick-knife (activated by pressing a switch or button). Indeed, it would be quite an innocuous thing in itself – the sort of thing a Scout might take on a camping trip – if it didn’t have Trump’s face and slogan on it.
Which elevates (or lowers) it to the level of Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights pulling out a hunting knife during a commercial and saying “I’m Ricky Bobby, and if you like hunting knives as much as I do, you gotta have yourselves the Eviscerator.”