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JFC gets off of work goes to a gas station store & his throat is slit
https://www.theroot.com/police-white-man-reportedly-killed-teenager-because-te-1836150008
On Thursday, police in Peoria, Ariz. charged 27-year-old Michael Paul Adams with the first-degree, premeditated murder of 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin. According to the Arizona Republics review of court documents, Adams allegedly slit the boys throat and stabbed him with a pocketknife at a Peoria Circle K gas station.
Superior court records say Adams told investigators that he felt threatened by the hip-hop music the teen was playingnot the teenager himselfexplaining that people who play rap music are a threat to him and his community. Adams reportedly said he was being proactive, not reactive because the musical genre makes him feel unsafe after rap music listeners attacked him in the past.
Al-Amin had just finished working his shift at Subway at 11:30 p.m., visiting his girlfriend before heading to the Circle K around 1:42 a.m. Surveillance footage from the convenience store shows Al-Amin walking into the store, followed by Adams a few seconds later, reports the Republic. After Adam allegedly stabbed the teenager, Al-Amin ran out of the store where he collapsed near the gas tanks. He was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead around 2:05 a.m. on Thursday, authorities say. After a brief search, the cops claim they found Adams covered in blood and reportedly admitting he was involved in the heinous slaying.
Adams, whose criminal history includes theft, disorderly conduct, assault with a weapon and assault on a corrections officer, was released from prison on Tuesday. Adams attorney says that he had no access to mental health services after he was released although a statement from an Arizona Department of Corrections spokesperson says that Adams was not designated seriously mentally ill.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)But people like him should have the right to vote in prison, right?
Hope he doesnt get out again.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)Edit:
It all upset me to much I forgot to use some basic reading comprehension .... thank goodness he's in jail, he should have never been let out.
Ironically white boys in his demographic buy 80% of gangster rap.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I like rap and hip-hop, but not the violent stuff.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)When are we going to treat hate like the epidemic it is?
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)This was a hate crime.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Some people just can't live in the free world.