Army veteran sentenced to 55 years for road rage shooting death of Muslim man

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis Army veteran was sentenced to 55 years in prison Wednesday for the road rage shooting death of a Muslim man after witnesses said he hurled ethnic and religious insults at the victim.

Dustin Passarelli of Plainfield was convicted in May of murder and a felony firearm enhancement in the February 2019 shooting death of 32-year-old Mustafa Ayoubi.

Passarelli followed Ayoubi off Interstate 465, and a verbal altercation took place, prosecutors said. Witnesses said Passarelli made several Islamophobic remarks, including “Go back to your country," and used hate speech before opening fire.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...q2?cvid=3e35ec1b6e1d4f35b9342336e0f0fb5f&ei=9
 
There is SO much hate in the world today.

People wonder why the left "obsesses" over Trump. He feeds hate. He's like oxygen for bigotry and discrimination.

We need transcendent, inspirational leaders in the world today. We need people to bring out the best of who we are. Not appeal to the worst of us.
 
BartenderElite said:
There is SO much hate in the world today.

People wonder why the left "obsesses" over Trump. He feeds hate. He's like oxygen for bigotry and discrimination.

We need transcendent, inspirational leaders in the world today. We need people to bring out the best of who we are. Not appeal to the worst of us.
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He enabled them to come out of the woodwork
 
BartenderElite said:
There is SO much hate in the world today.

People wonder why the left "obsesses" over Trump. He feeds hate. He's like oxygen for bigotry and discrimination.

We need transcendent, inspirational leaders in the world today. We need people to bring out the best of who we are. Not appeal to the worst of us.
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The world has often been filled with hate, blood and violence. What's new is Americans hating each other so much.
 
guno said:
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis Army veteran was sentenced to 55 years in prison Wednesday for the road rage shooting death of a Muslim man after witnesses said he hurled ethnic and religious insults at the victim.

Dustin Passarelli of Plainfield was convicted in May of murder and a felony firearm enhancement in the February 2019 shooting death of 32-year-old Mustafa Ayoubi.

Passarelli followed Ayoubi off Interstate 465, and a verbal altercation took place, prosecutors said. Witnesses said Passarelli made several Islamophobic remarks, including “Go back to your country," and used hate speech before opening fire.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...q2?cvid=3e35ec1b6e1d4f35b9342336e0f0fb5f&ei=9
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Two hotheads but one had a gun. It reminds me of Martin and Zimmeran.

"Passarelli followed Ayoubi off Interstate 465, and a verbal altercation took place, prosecutors said. Witnesses said Passarelli made several Islamophobic remarks, including “Go back to your country," and used hate speech before opening fire.

Passarelli told police that Ayoubi either threw something at his car or collided with it on the highway and that after he followed Ayoubi to an apartment complex, Ayoubi broke one of Passarelli's car windows with a punch.

The defense argued that Passarelli was within his rights to fire at Ayoubi because it was self-defense."
 
Tinkerpeach said:
I don’t hate them but they are just people doing a job

This hero worship for them makes me sick
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You confuse worship with respect, at least in my case. I respect people who defend this nation against enemies both foreign and domestic. There are a few bad apples, but most are just men and women doing a service to their country.

I was not willing to do it.
 
Tinkerpeach said:
I don’t hate them but they are just people doing a job

This hero worship for them makes me sick
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There is no hero worship of the military, just political lip-service. Notice how many members of Congress haven't served. If there was hero worship, then we'd be electing more vets instead of reality TV show hosts, businessmen and lawyers.

Have you ever been close to anyone who served? Most Americans haven't. Where did you get the idea of "hero worship", Tink?
 
BartenderElite said:
There is SO much hate in the world today.

People wonder why the left "obsesses" over Trump. He feeds hate. He's like oxygen for bigotry and discrimination.

We need transcendent, inspirational leaders in the world today. We need people to bring out the best of who we are. Not appeal to the worst of us.
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so what does blaming Trump for a PTSD's road rage, feed?.......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
so what does blaming Trump for a PTSD's road rage, feed?.......
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It wasn't PTSD. The Military Times link doesn't detail his service record. I doubt he did more than a hitch. Probably just watching too much Fox News and associating with racist fuckwits at the bar.

https://www.militarytimes.com/flash...convicted-in-road-rage-killing-of-muslim-man/
Passarelli claimed that post-traumatic stress disorder he developed during his time in the Army contributed to his behavior on the highway and was partially to blame for the shooting. But Passarelli’s mental evaluation and PTSD claims were ruled inadmissible in court.

Then there's this: https://www.rawstory.com/dustin-passarelli/
Prosecutors argued that Ayoubi’s car had no collision marks and his hands and arms did not have injuries to support claims that he had punched out a car window, and they argued that Passarelli had instigated the confrontation.

"He had a choice to leave," said deputy prosecutor Janna Skelton, "and he stayed."
 
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