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live love laugh

(14,535 posts)
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 12:10 PM Dec 2022

How many more blacks must die?





https://news.yahoo.com › know-killing-13-old-sinzae-223347737.html

Sinzae Reed, 13, was shot and killed Oct. 12 ... Krieg Butler, 36, was arrested within 48 hours of Reed's death and charged with murder; however, those charges were dismissed a few days later and have not been refiled. Online postings from local and national activists increased the spotlight on the case ...

Claims self defense after shooting a child in the back and prosecutors release him under the cover of a silent media.
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How many more blacks must die? (Original Post) live love laugh Dec 2022 OP
friends in the police dept? BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2022 #1
My suspicion is that Krieg Butler Sr. will have ties to White Supremacy groups sheilding him. TigressDem Dec 2022 #7
In southern Ohio... SergeStorms Dec 2022 #10
In Pennsylvania we have our own style of schizophrenia FakeNoose Dec 2022 #13
I went to College.. SergeStorms Dec 2022 #14
Oh, no *WONDER* The coroners report hasn't been released. Kid was shot in the back uponit7771 Dec 2022 #17
DAMN! secondwind Dec 2022 #2
our justice system needs some work to say the least republianmushroom Dec 2022 #3
Columbus Ohio sanctions assasination of black children. UNBELIEVABLE. TigressDem Dec 2022 #4
Seems like America sanctions it because it's happening live love laugh Dec 2022 #5
WAIT maybe it was another white a**hole in a RED truck. They all look alike. TigressDem Dec 2022 #6
Who are the local DAs in these cases? Kaleva Dec 2022 #8
+1, looks like the case should be federal ... Butler wasn't supposed to have a gun uponit7771 Dec 2022 #18
It was also illegal for Butler to have a gun caraher Dec 2022 #9
Butler shouldn't have the benefit of the doubt and should be arrested for a death while he was ... uponit7771 Dec 2022 #16
Agreed caraher Dec 2022 #22
It took public outcry to bring charges against Ahmaud Arbery's killers. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2022 #11
The local PA squashed it till the video came out Kaleva Dec 2022 #19
How do we make enough noise? Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2022 #20
I don't know. Seems to be hit or miss Kaleva Dec 2022 #21
Sadly, White America Is Banding Together In Sufficient Numbers DallasNE Dec 2022 #12
Worse ... they haven't released the autopsy report yet so where the bullets entered in the 13 yr uponit7771 Dec 2022 #15

TigressDem

(5,126 posts)
7. My suspicion is that Krieg Butler Sr. will have ties to White Supremacy groups sheilding him.
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 01:18 PM
Dec 2022

Somehow the police, prosecutors office and the judge all turned a blind eye to an obvious murder.

He's being shielded like police officers have been. It seems that town has some sort of insidious system in place that has not been examined an repaired in spite of more DEM judges being elected.

SOME of them changed from reTHUG to DEM.... maybe to make it appear that DEM balance is happening, but they still rule for the rights of whites?

It's horrible because the Judge that accepted the dismissal is a DEM and supposedly politically "non=partisan" guess that means he's a DEM but open to being "bought" by the other side. I don't see anywhere that he was formerly reTHUG, though.

https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_McAllister_(Ohio)


ADD: Ohio has 20 hate groups tracked in the state by SPLC
https://www.splcenter.org/states/ohio

SergeStorms

(19,335 posts)
10. In southern Ohio...
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:17 PM
Dec 2022

you might just as well be in Mississippi or Alabama. I don't know if there's another state in the U.S. as schizophrenic as Ohio.

FakeNoose

(35,981 posts)
13. In Pennsylvania we have our own style of schizophrenia
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 05:07 PM
Dec 2022

We're like kissing cousins to Ohio. They don't call us "Pennsyl-tucky" for nothing.

But yeah, I get your meaning.

SergeStorms

(19,335 posts)
14. I went to College..
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 06:01 PM
Dec 2022

right along the NY-PA border in Alfred, NY. I became well acquainted with "Pennsyltuckey" in my four years there. Of course that area of NY isn't exactly a hotbed of progressives either.

They're certainly a different breed in that area. 😳

TigressDem

(5,126 posts)
4. Columbus Ohio sanctions assasination of black children. UNBELIEVABLE.
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 12:40 PM
Dec 2022

Shooting a 13 year old in the back. Self defense my a**

How is he threatened by a 13 year old when he was already in his truck and had a gun?

He had to get out of his truck, come closer to fire.


Makes me wish the shooter was in Russia and a close friend of Putin where someone might find a window on a tall building to push him through.


live love laugh

(14,535 posts)
5. Seems like America sanctions it because it's happening
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 12:43 PM
Dec 2022

in multiple states without coverage or concern.

caraher

(6,312 posts)
9. It was also illegal for Butler to have a gun
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 02:38 PM
Dec 2022

The dude is clearly a first class scumball.

Butler has a prior conviction from 2019 for misdemeanor domestic violence in Franklin County Municipal Court. Federal law bars people with domestic violence convictions from carrying firearms, putting them under what is commonly called disability. 

Ohio law does not have a prohibition against people with misdemeanor convictions for domestic violence from carrying firearms. Ohio law prohibits convicted felons from having firearms in their possession.

Because Butler's conviction would bar him from having a gun only under federal law, Franklin County prosecutors cannot file that charge against him. 

No charges have been filed in federal court as of Thursday afternoon.


Per the Columbus Dispatch

uponit7771

(91,972 posts)
16. Butler shouldn't have the benefit of the doubt and should be arrested for a death while he was ...
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 07:33 PM
Dec 2022

... committing a crime.

There's something REALLY REALLY wrong with this case.

DallasNE

(7,585 posts)
12. Sadly, White America Is Banding Together In Sufficient Numbers
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 05:02 PM
Dec 2022

To keep this status quo in place in places like Ohio. Nationwide whites now vote roughly 70-30 for the Republican. Until an antidote for racism is found we will continue to see this gut-wrenching miscarriage of justice.

uponit7771

(91,972 posts)
15. Worse ... they haven't released the autopsy report yet so where the bullets entered in the 13 yr
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 07:31 PM
Dec 2022

... olds body hasn't been released.

There's a no doubt aire of disgust around this whole case

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