He will murder no more.
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In what has seemingly become a growing pattern of racially motivated attacks, comes the report of yet another murder of a African-American by apparent white supremacists.
19 year-old Larnell Bruce and a group of friends were gathered outside a 7-11 store in Gresham, a small town located near Portland, when Russell Courtier, 38, and his girlfriend Colleen Hunt, 35, pulled up in their 1991 red Jeep Wrangler shortly before midnight on August 10. Bruce, who was just a few days shy of his 20th birthday, had been charging his phone outside the convenience store when the white couple nearly twice his age exited their vehicle.
For reason still unclear, a fight quickly broke out.
As Courtier smashed Bruce’s head into the store’s front window, cracking a pane of glass, his girlfriend encouraged the beating.
“Get him, baby,” Hunt urged her boyfriend, according to police. “Get him, baby!”
Eventually, Bruce pulled out a machete and the couple retreated back to their Jeep.
What happened next can perhaps best be described as a scene from the violent Jim Crow South.
Investigators said Bruce tried to run away from the couple who began to chase him down in their car. Security camera footage shows the teen doing his best to zigzag away from the SUV. Courtier and Hunt barley missed Bruce as they gunned the car toward him on the sidewalk. As he tried to cross the street, the couple’s Jeep is seen moving into oncoming traffic and hitting the teenager head-on.
Police, who had been called by a 7-11 employee when the fight broke out, arrived on the scene just moments later to find the critically injured teen with blood gushing from his head and his ears lying in the middle of the street.
Bruce died from his injuries days later.
Prison records reveal that Courtier is a longtime criminal with a notorious history as a member of a white supremacist prison gang called European Kindred (EK) who was on parole at the time of killing.
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/01/oregon-white-supremacist-mowed-down-black-teenager-with-his-jeep/
He will murder no more.
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
A billboard rising along Interstate 10 near Baytown solicited thousands of passing motorists for help finding Robert J. Ring, an ex-convict and alleged white supremacist prison gang member who disappeared earlier this year while on parole.
"Wanted," it reads, beside the giant mug shot of Ring, taken by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
A similar billboard was used to solicit tips on the whereabouts of Danny Ray Ferguson Jr., another alleged member of the Aryan Circle prison gang.
Two other Aryan Circle members have been the target of such a publicity push.
The billboards cast a new spotlight on the Texas-born white supremacist prison gang. It has a hefty presence in Houston.
"They are large, they are dangerous, and they are in your neighborhood," said Mark Pitcavage, who monitors white supremacist gangs. The Aryan Circle is among the largest white-supremacist gangs in the United States.
The Aryan Circle also is active on social media, with members posting photos of themselves flashing hand signs as well as sharing messages such as, "Circle Forever, Forever Circle."
A post features a group photo of a meeting held in August. About 60 people - men and women - are shown, throwing up gang signs with a Nazi flag.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/White-supremacist-prison-gang-steps-out-of-shadows-9230793.php
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