Hate Crime Accuser Charged: A Muslim woman who claimed that three men screaming "Donald Trump" attacked her on a New York subway, has been charged with making a false police report. Anthony M. DeStefano of Newsday reports that a source with the NYPD has confirmed that Yasmin Seweid admitted that she was lying about the December 1 attack and that she has signed a statement admitting that she had fabricated the incident. This comes as Andrea Nobel of the Washington Times reports that outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited a mosque Monday to decry a spike in hate crimes against Muslims. How about mass shootings Attorney General Lynch? According to a study reported on NPR, mass shootings in the U.S. tripled from 2008 to 2014, and a lot of the shooters were radicalized Muslims. When a Jihadist killed 49 people in a gay nightclub last June, was that a hate crime?
Ohio Court Upholds Another Death Sentence: Gary Shaffer of The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that in a 6-1 decision announced today, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the conviction and death sentence of Dawud Spaulding for the double-murder of his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend exactly five years ago. Spaulding, an habitual felon, was also found guilty of shooting the boyfriend's nephew, which left the victim paralyzed from the neck down. The high court rejected 14 error claims raised by Spaulding, including the standard "ineffective assistance of counsel" and that he should have been tried separately for each murder. At trial, the evidence included proof of Spaulding lying about his whereabouts on the night of the murder, and two witnesses who put Spaulding at the crime scene at the time of the shooting, including the paralyzed nephew. The lone dissenter, Justice William O'Neill wrote, "I have grave concerns that the jury reached its verdicts in this case for the wrong reasons."
Ohio Court Upholds Another Death Sentence: Gary Shaffer of The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that in a 6-1 decision announced today, the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the conviction and death sentence of Dawud Spaulding for the double-murder of his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend exactly five years ago. Spaulding, an habitual felon, was also found guilty of shooting the boyfriend's nephew, which left the victim paralyzed from the neck down. The high court rejected 14 error claims raised by Spaulding, including the standard "ineffective assistance of counsel" and that he should have been tried separately for each murder. At trial, the evidence included proof of Spaulding lying about his whereabouts on the night of the murder, and two witnesses who put Spaulding at the crime scene at the time of the shooting, including the paralyzed nephew. The lone dissenter, Justice William O'Neill wrote, "I have grave concerns that the jury reached its verdicts in this case for the wrong reasons."
Ohio Court Upholds Another Death Sentence:
~ Unfortunately, this may not stand Obamaesque executive action,
as no properly adjudicated and thoroughly reviewed case can
withstand the 'Conscience of Croatia & Czechland',
Governor John/Jan/Ivan Kasich.
"However, when it comes to death-row cases, Kasich has granted more clemencies since taking office in 2011 than all other governors of
death-penalty states combined."
[ “I believe in immigration… the simple fact of the matter is
I wouldn’t be standing here, I would maybe be running for
the President of Croatia." ]
~ http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/06/kasich_rarely
_grants_pardons_b.html; www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/
croatia-not-thrilled-about-republican-kasich-success-03-16-2016#sthash.PtARNSj4.dpuf
What's with the editorial commentary?
Despite this particular report of a hate crime being false, the fact is that hate crimes and harassment of Muslims IS on the rise (a mosque in my area was vandalized just last week).
In addition, while some mass shootings certainly are committed by Muslims, the vast majority are NOT.
I am increasingly put off by the tone of this blog as yet another partisan echo chamber. There seem to be fewer and fewer posts with substantive, helpful information for prosecutors, and more and more posts that simply take potshots at "the (evil) left" at every given opportunity.
63 were murdered--San Bernardino/Orlando. That's far far more awful than the vandalization of a mosque. The failure of people like Loretta Lynch to bring some perspective is annoying. This country has largely welcomed immigrants from Muslim countries, many of which are hell-holes, after 9/11. A minor uptick in relatively minor crimes (and I am not condoning them in the slightest)) needs to be balanced against the overwhelming kindness and tolerance this country has shown.
It would be nice indeed if the "left" could see this obvious truth.
Questions looking for answers:
Would it be helpful to compare how many people have been killed in America by radical Muslims with the number of Muslims killed in America by non-Muslim haters?
Were the murderers at Palm Beach, San Bernardino and Fort Hood hate crimes?
Is it partisan to question an Attorney General's priorities?