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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:07 PM May 2015

White Lunatic Arrested For Terrorizing Kindly Muslim Couple at Gunpoint

Source: Gawker

Majida and Adly Abumayaleh were just driving across their suburban Minneapolis-area neighborhood on a Friday night to get their teen son from a party. Until a self-appointed watchwoman, Nancy Kay Knoble, decided they might be agents of international jihad and grabbed a rifle.

“She said you are suspicious in this neighborhood. She told me open the window, open the window. We couldn’t do anything. I was frozen,” Majida—who wears a traditional hijab -

Majida and Adly were not armed, they were not even outside of their car but Knoble, charging documents say, was pounding on their windows demanding them to get out of the car. But the yelling wasn’t the scariest thing Knoble was doing according to the charges against her.

“She pulled the rifle and said open the window or I’ll shoot you guys,” Adly explained. Adly said he didn’t want it to get worse so he did whatever she told him.


Read more: http://fortressamerica.gawker.com/white-lady-arrested-for-terrorizing-kindly-muslim-coupl-1707454202



Freedumb!

Check out the posts to their kids' Facebook page at the link.

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White Lunatic Arrested For Terrorizing Kindly Muslim Couple at Gunpoint (Original Post) onehandle May 2015 OP
Fox News must be soooooo proud. nt valerief May 2015 #1
The NRA is right HassleCat May 2015 #2
It was a pellet gun oberliner May 2015 #5
Does that make terrorizing this couple ok in some way? peacebird May 2015 #9
Why would it? oberliner May 2015 #17
It wouldn't to me. I'm sure she scared them horribly with the weapon she had...! What a nutjob. peacebird May 2015 #31
someone sticks that thing in my face, it is a gun to me rurallib May 2015 #34
Wasn't Tamir Rice JustAnotherGen May 2015 #20
ah, but he was black while holding a pellet gun... awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #47
Funny how that works isn't it? JustAnotherGen May 2015 #49
pellet guns are an "actual guns" nt msongs May 2015 #24
Sure, cuz actual guns kill people, right? Major Nikon May 2015 #26
Comment has been edited oberliner May 2015 #38
No they are not less dangerous MosheFeingold May 2015 #40
Interesting oberliner May 2015 #42
Most states treat them as firearms MosheFeingold May 2015 #43
The problem is people don't realize how dangerous they are Major Nikon May 2015 #46
A pellet gun is an actual gun. And you can kill with them. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2015 #27
What is a better phrase to distinguish the two? oberliner May 2015 #32
How about just saying "pellet gun"... DeadLetterOffice May 2015 #35
Fair enough oberliner May 2015 #36
Don't sweat it sarisataka May 2015 #39
No words. All I can do is shake my head. calimary May 2015 #3
Please don't let the stupidity of others make you feel shame FrodosPet May 2015 #54
FOX is a terrible drug Hekate May 2015 #4
I'm thinking meth and not Bill O'Really MosheFeingold May 2015 #44
That mug shot says "meth." Archae May 2015 #6
tweeker was my first thought as well frylock May 2015 #11
Kind of. Laffy Kat May 2015 #19
My first thought... 3catwoman3 May 2015 #33
These are the stereotypical "idiot Americans." Oneironaut May 2015 #7
Great - a new Zimmerman wannabe. bullwinkle428 May 2015 #8
Isn't he single now? Maybe this is an opportunity for some robust gene pool enhancement. NBachers May 2015 #51
No lifeguards at the gene pool? Shame on you! n/t freshwest May 2015 #52
Hate make you ugly. louis-t May 2015 #10
Lock the Doors! dem in texas May 2015 #12
Look for a lot more incidents like this, unfortunately. Paladin May 2015 #13
Too many people have gotten away with it lately JustAnotherGen May 2015 #21
Texas Legislature is passing an "Open Carry Law"; no questions can be ask in Nutbag Texas GOP DhhD May 2015 #30
I guess you didn't read... beevul May 2015 #45
Click through to the link and if JEB May 2015 #14
She is a menace. Also a mess. LeftinOH May 2015 #15
Hennepin Sheriff's jail roster hack89 May 2015 #16
Muslims wearing headcaps, hijabs and burkhas shouldn't be scary at all cosmicone May 2015 #18
A picture is worth a thousand words -- packman May 2015 #22
This is why the east coast members of my family are not going to come to our family reunion this jwirr May 2015 #23
Devolution in action folks. fingrin May 2015 #25
Another disgusting human, far too many of them AuntPatsy May 2015 #28
If I knew THAT was my neighborhood watch Warpy May 2015 #29
What a Hag! Stainless May 2015 #37
Fox News and Methamphetamine.. sendero May 2015 #41
She looks methy. nt Guy Whitey Corngood May 2015 #48
Tweaker madokie May 2015 #50
Behold!: the torch-bearer for Christian Caucasian superiority. Aristus May 2015 #53
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
2. The NRA is right
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:10 PM
May 2015

The answer to a nice Muslim couple driving around the neighborhood is a crazy woman with a gun. What? That wasn't the slogan? Dang! Got it wrong, again. Oh, I saw the photo. Good thing I don't live there anymore, or I would bail her out and take her to dinner and a movie. Wow! My soulmate. Crazy and armed. What more could a guy want?

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
5. It was a pellet gun
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:20 PM
May 2015

Last edited Thu May 28, 2015, 04:14 PM - Edit history (2)

Edited reply since others pointed out that a pellet gun is still an actual gun.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
17. Why would it?
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:52 PM
May 2015

I was just responding to the comment about the NRA and people being armed. Fortunately for all concerned, this hateful nut case was not armed with an actual gun. Lord knows what might have happened if she had been.

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
31. It wouldn't to me. I'm sure she scared them horribly with the weapon she had...! What a nutjob.
Thu May 28, 2015, 03:34 PM
May 2015

Don't know that I could have told if it was a 'real' shotgun vs a bb gun....

JustAnotherGen

(31,882 posts)
20. Wasn't Tamir Rice
Thu May 28, 2015, 02:11 PM
May 2015

Killed for holding one?

I'm not being snarky - he was. They look just like regular guns to the untrained eye.

At the end of the day - these people feared for their lives - and she threatened their lives with a gun.

She should be locked up for a long time - but as we've seen lately . . .

Killing someone with a real gun for holding a bb gun is aok in certain quarters of America. Shamefully so . . .

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
38. Comment has been edited
Thu May 28, 2015, 04:19 PM
May 2015

I realize that a pellet gun can also be dangerous - less so than the other kind, though. Would you not agree?

The whole incident is horrible and I am glad this lunatic was arrested and charged. That should go without saying.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
40. No they are not less dangerous
Thu May 28, 2015, 04:42 PM
May 2015

A larger pellet gun fires a .22 bullet with 23.6 ft-lbs energy.

At close range, that's the effectively the same as a small pistol round.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
42. Interesting
Thu May 28, 2015, 04:58 PM
May 2015

Thanks for the info.

It sounds like there ought to be some much more stringent regulation of pellet guns then.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
43. Most states treat them as firearms
Thu May 28, 2015, 05:03 PM
May 2015

Bit of trivia, Lewis and Clark had at least one repeating air rifle with them on their journey. It was much more expensive and powerful than the gun powder firearms of the day and basically considered magical by the Native Americans who were convinced it had an inexhaustible supply of ammo. Lewis and Clark credited the rifle with cowing the Natives sufficiently that they didn't just kill them and take their stuff. (They would pump up the bladder at night in secret.)

http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/lewisairgun.htm

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
46. The problem is people don't realize how dangerous they are
Thu May 28, 2015, 05:55 PM
May 2015

That's why they are given to children and otherwise handled carelessly like the crazy woman.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
32. What is a better phrase to distinguish the two?
Thu May 28, 2015, 03:45 PM
May 2015

In lieu of "actual gun" , what would have been a better descriptor?

sarisataka

(18,770 posts)
39. Don't sweat it
Thu May 28, 2015, 04:23 PM
May 2015

when John Crawford III was shot by police while holding a pellet gun, many people- possibly some of the same ones- loudly proclaimed it to be a "toy" gun i.e. not an actual gun.

Legally anything that appears to be a gun is a gun:
rob a store with your finger poking the side of your pocket= armed robbery

Corollary- you should not be shot for holding a gun, including things that appear to be guns, until it is determined you have in fact committed a crime and deadly force is needed to prevent further crime

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)
54. Please don't let the stupidity of others make you feel shame
Fri May 29, 2015, 09:47 PM
May 2015

If YOU are not a bad person, then nothing about yourself - especially something you cannot control - should make you feel shame.

Hekate

(90,793 posts)
4. FOX is a terrible drug
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:17 PM
May 2015

That woman has not washed herself in how long? Her hair is not just uncombed but matted. There's a lot wrong with her, and I hope the law can take her off the streets for a stretch and a psych eval.

Laffy Kat

(16,386 posts)
19. Kind of.
Thu May 28, 2015, 02:03 PM
May 2015

Most tweekers look malnourished. OTOH, she definitely had the complexion of a meth head. Paranoid schizophrenic?

Oneironaut

(5,524 posts)
7. These are the stereotypical "idiot Americans."
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:27 PM
May 2015

That is the gun-totin', Jesus-lovin', rebel-yellin', meth-faced creeps that are proud to be stupid.

dem in texas

(2,674 posts)
12. Lock the Doors!
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:38 PM
May 2015

She is one scary looking lady. If she came up to my car, I'd lock the doors and try to find a way to drive off. Wonder if drugs or alcohol were involved. Hope she stays in jail a long time!

Paladin

(28,272 posts)
13. Look for a lot more incidents like this, unfortunately.
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:46 PM
May 2015

This is the sick payoff for the pro-gun militancy movement's longstanding efforts to allow firearms into the hands of the irresponsible, under cover of twisted constitutional law. Rest assured that the NRA and its minions don't give half a fuck about how many innocent U.S. citizens of Muslim faith are terrorized, wounded or killed at the hands of nutcases wielding guns.

JustAnotherGen

(31,882 posts)
21. Too many people have gotten away with it lately
Thu May 28, 2015, 02:11 PM
May 2015

And that's made people like this bolder and more aggressive.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
30. Texas Legislature is passing an "Open Carry Law"; no questions can be ask in Nutbag Texas GOP
Thu May 28, 2015, 03:32 PM
May 2015

controlled state.

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
45. I guess you didn't read...
Thu May 28, 2015, 05:06 PM
May 2015
This is the sick payoff for the pro-gun militancy movement's longstanding efforts to allow firearms into the hands of the irresponsible, under cover of twisted constitutional law.


The incident, in which no firearm was present, is "the sick payoff for the pro-gun militancy movement's longstanding efforts to allow firearms into the hands of the irresponsible, under cover of twisted constitutional law"?

Uh...mkay...


 

JEB

(4,748 posts)
14. Click through to the link and if
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:50 PM
May 2015

you have a strong stomach read those comments. America, we have a problem and it ain't the terrorized couple.

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
18. Muslims wearing headcaps, hijabs and burkhas shouldn't be scary at all
Thu May 28, 2015, 01:53 PM
May 2015

but if I saw a woman looking like Nancy Kay Knoble walking towards me, I'd cross over to the other sidewalk. She is far far scarier than any ethnicity anywhere.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
22. A picture is worth a thousand words --
Thu May 28, 2015, 02:13 PM
May 2015

Dead eyes, acme, red nose , tilted listless head , rag mop hair - that is a plea for help.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
23. This is why the east coast members of my family are not going to come to our family reunion this
Thu May 28, 2015, 02:14 PM
May 2015

fall. Riding around in a car can be hazardous to your health if you are a poc. They know their own areas of the country but driving cross country is a whole different story.

fingrin

(120 posts)
25. Devolution in action folks.
Thu May 28, 2015, 02:43 PM
May 2015

Welcome to the moral breakdown of a once great Nation.
Just imagine the next Generation having Morals and Hate installed in them by their "upstanding Parents"

Warpy

(111,339 posts)
29. If I knew THAT was my neighborhood watch
Thu May 28, 2015, 03:32 PM
May 2015

I'd be planning to move.

My own neighborhood is full of tough women who ran off all the drug dealers back in the 90s, banging pots and pans outside their places of business and copying down the tag numbers of their customers for the cops. I know a few of them and they are formidable.

This gal looks like a female Zimmerman, a swaggering idiot with a gun who thinks gawd made her boss.

Aristus

(66,462 posts)
53. Behold!: the torch-bearer for Christian Caucasian superiority.
Fri May 29, 2015, 11:53 AM
May 2015

Look into her glassy, dead eyes and despair...

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