Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, faces eight counts of attempted murder for injuring eight people, including four who remain hospitalized. The most seriously injured is a 13-year-old Sunnyvale girl of South Asian descent who is in a coma with severe brain trauma. He deliberately drove into a group of pedestrians because he thought some of the people were Muslim.
“New evidence shows that the defendant intentionally targeted the victims based on their race and his belief that they were of the Muslim faith,” police said. “There is very appalling and disturbing evidence that at least one or two of these victims were targeted based on the defendant’s view of what their race or religion may have been.”
He told investigators he intentionally drove into a group of men, women and children, police said. Peoples showed no remorse after his car plowed at high speed into a group of people in a crosswalk before hitting a tree.
The APnews report does not refer to him as a terrorist. Rather the news report concentrates on exonerating Peoples, an Iraq War veteran, deployed to Iraq in 2005 and 2006.
"The former U.S. Army sharpshooter experienced post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq, his family said.
Peoples’ attorney, Chuck Smith, said Friday that the crash was in no way deliberate...He served our country, honorably and admirably, and he’s led an otherwise blameless life,” Smith said, “So there’s no explanation for this other than his service, the things he saw and what happened to him mentally while serving our country.”
"Family and friends described Peoples as quiet and polite and expressed shock at his involvement. His mother, Leevell Peoples of Sacramento, said her son had “a bad episode” with PTSD in 2015, for which he was hospitalized."
"Peoples was honorably discharged from the Army, and police were investigating the PTSD report, Ngo said. Peoples had no criminal record and owned one weapon, a disassembled and inoperable shotgun that was in the trunk of his vehicle"
Do visitors to this blog believe that such a sympathetic reporting would have taken place if Peoples was a muslim and drove his car into innocent victims? Of all Islamic terrorist cases, I rarely come across any that tries to explain the act by citing the trauma a perpetuator may have suffered.
https://apnews.com/52086898e86e4887a54b4884a0a6e586
“New evidence shows that the defendant intentionally targeted the victims based on their race and his belief that they were of the Muslim faith,” police said. “There is very appalling and disturbing evidence that at least one or two of these victims were targeted based on the defendant’s view of what their race or religion may have been.”
He told investigators he intentionally drove into a group of men, women and children, police said. Peoples showed no remorse after his car plowed at high speed into a group of people in a crosswalk before hitting a tree.
The APnews report does not refer to him as a terrorist. Rather the news report concentrates on exonerating Peoples, an Iraq War veteran, deployed to Iraq in 2005 and 2006.
"The former U.S. Army sharpshooter experienced post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq, his family said.
Peoples’ attorney, Chuck Smith, said Friday that the crash was in no way deliberate...He served our country, honorably and admirably, and he’s led an otherwise blameless life,” Smith said, “So there’s no explanation for this other than his service, the things he saw and what happened to him mentally while serving our country.”
"Family and friends described Peoples as quiet and polite and expressed shock at his involvement. His mother, Leevell Peoples of Sacramento, said her son had “a bad episode” with PTSD in 2015, for which he was hospitalized."
"Peoples was honorably discharged from the Army, and police were investigating the PTSD report, Ngo said. Peoples had no criminal record and owned one weapon, a disassembled and inoperable shotgun that was in the trunk of his vehicle"
Do visitors to this blog believe that such a sympathetic reporting would have taken place if Peoples was a muslim and drove his car into innocent victims? Of all Islamic terrorist cases, I rarely come across any that tries to explain the act by citing the trauma a perpetuator may have suffered.
https://apnews.com/52086898e86e4887a54b4884a0a6e586
It may be a hate crime but to call it terrorism devalues the word and obscures the organisational and political aims of terrorist organisations
ReplyDeletea socialist needs to value language as a tool not use it for cheap jibes
"Anonymous gramsci's cat said,but he isn't 'white'"
ReplyDeleteHow do you know that?
ReplyDeleteBut you are right, Gramsci, I used the wrong terminology...Instead of "white" I should be saying "non-Muslim" and although there are often very obviously racist undertones, we should remain within the parameters of religion.