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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:36 PM Aug 2016

Family: Son killed by neighbor who called him 'dirty Arab'

For years, the Jabara family says, their neighbor terrorized them.

He called them names -- "dirty Arabs," "filthy Lebanese," they said.

He hurled racial epithets at those who came to work on their lawns, they alleged.

He ran Haifa Jabara over with his car and went to court for it.

And it all came to a head last week when the man, Stanley Vernon Majors, walked up to the front steps of the family home and shot and killed Khalid Jabara, police said.

more
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/us/tulsa-arab-american-shooting-trnd/index.html

UnFrickin'believable. Or maybe all too predictable.

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Family: Son killed by neighbor who called him 'dirty Arab' (Original Post) n2doc Aug 2016 OP
Good God. DURHAM D Aug 2016 #1
It's another "We can't do anything about crazy people with guns" story struggle4progress Aug 2016 #10
... On Friday, Khalid learned that his next-door neighbor, the man accused of harassing his family struggle4progress Aug 2016 #2
... Vernon Stanley Majors was found hiding behind a tree after a standoff with police struggle4progress Aug 2016 #3
So remind me again why this disgusting piece of shit shouldn't get the death penalty? snooper2 Aug 2016 #4
What I want to know is why was he released after running over a person? n2doc Aug 2016 #7
His bail was set at 60K, the prosecutor wanted it set at 300K snooper2 Aug 2016 #8
Ok, my misreading. thanks N/t n2doc Aug 2016 #9
been against and still against death penalty but i would be for live video feed from his cell dembotoz Aug 2016 #13
White privilege? malaise Aug 2016 #17
OMFG. Another stellar example of "The Master Race." I'll bet this POS has done nothing catbyte Aug 2016 #12
Because sarisataka Aug 2016 #21
Horrible. And from the article: closeupready Aug 2016 #5
by not holding him or placing a monitoring bracelet or monitoring alcohol and drug use Demonaut Aug 2016 #6
And the family are Lebanese Christians. Not even Muslim. kestrel91316 Aug 2016 #11
they don't care for black and Brown christians either JI7 Aug 2016 #16
I'm going with "all too predictable". HughBeaumont Aug 2016 #14
If the situation was reversed and the young man had been verbally abusive to a white man redstatebluegirl Aug 2016 #15
No words. Horrible tragedy. Kingofalldems Aug 2016 #18
There was a protection order, he was on bail for running the mother over, he got a gun muriel_volestrangler Aug 2016 #19
Sick bastard should be locked up for the rest of his natural life. smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #20
Most likely he was arrested alive and taken to Burger King uponit7771 Aug 2016 #22

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
10. It's another "We can't do anything about crazy people with guns" story
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 02:00 PM
Aug 2016

The victim called 911 shortly before the shooting to report his neighbor -- who was convicted in CA of assault with a deadly weapon and is awaiting trial for a hit-and-run that injured the victim's mother last year -- had a gun and someone had been banging on their window. Police dropped by but said they couldn't do anything

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
2. ... On Friday, Khalid learned that his next-door neighbor, the man accused of harassing his family
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:42 PM
Aug 2016

and attacking his mother, was now armed. “Khalid called the police stating this man had a gun and that he was scared for what might happen,” his sister, Victoria Jabara Williams, wrote on Facebook. “The police came and told him there was nothing to be done.” Minutes later, Khalid was talking on the phone with his family when he stepped outside to get the mail. Majors was waiting for him, police say ...
Man’s ‘unusual fixation’ with Lebanese neighbors led to killing, Tulsa police say
By Michael E. Miller August 16 at 8:24 AM

struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
3. ... Vernon Stanley Majors was found hiding behind a tree after a standoff with police
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:46 PM
Aug 2016

that lasted several hours ... Majors is accused of shooting and killing his neighbor Friday night on the victim’s front porch ... Majors is awaiting trial for an aggravated assault charge involving the Jabara's mother ...

Police identify victim killed in south Tulsa shooting
Updated: Aug 14, 2016 - 5:51 PM

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
4. So remind me again why this disgusting piece of shit shouldn't get the death penalty?
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:51 PM
Aug 2016
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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
7. What I want to know is why was he released after running over a person?
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:53 PM
Aug 2016

And why was the trial for that crime postponed until next march, before this latest crime?

(edit to correct)

dembotoz

(16,808 posts)
13. been against and still against death penalty but i would be for live video feed from his cell
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 02:43 PM
Aug 2016

something like a video zoo.

seeing young gang bangers who become old in the cage.

death can be glamorous
growing old in a cage? not so much

catbyte

(34,403 posts)
12. OMFG. Another stellar example of "The Master Race." I'll bet this POS has done nothing
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 02:42 PM
Aug 2016

of value in his entire life, so he looks to the color of his skin as a point of pride--something he had NOTHING to do with. It's absolutely pathetic. HE'S absolutely pathetic. I hope he never breathes free air again.

 

closeupready

(29,503 posts)
5. Horrible. And from the article:
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:51 PM
Aug 2016
After the shooting, officers found Majors hiding behind a tree at a library.


Really, this "you can't make this shit up" fact qualifies because no author writing a work of fiction would EVER write that the villain committed murder and then ran and hid behind a tree at the library.

If true, it's almost as if he got the idea from some bad Hollywood action film, where the 'bad guys' hide behind the tree, and nobody finds them, and viewers groan at the lameness of the story. Yet, seems like that's just what this guy did.

Demonaut

(8,919 posts)
6. by not holding him or placing a monitoring bracelet or monitoring alcohol and drug use
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:52 PM
Aug 2016

the police and the legal system gave him permission to kill

they only enhanced his power over that family

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
14. I'm going with "all too predictable".
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 02:55 PM
Aug 2016

Justice fails yet another family, just as they do with victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and child abuse.

Coital mistakes like this are allowed to just get away with whatever violent crime they want - repeated abuse, attempted murder, stalking, etc - until they straight up kill someone.

I'm so tired of reading about shit like this. How many dead women, children and other victims of violent crime need to keep filling our morgues before we put a lid on good ol' boy fucks like this?


redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
15. If the situation was reversed and the young man had been verbally abusive to a white man
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 03:16 PM
Aug 2016

the police would have handcuffed him and taken him to the station. At least they should have had a conversation with Majors, but this is Oklahoma and that won't happen here.

I can assure you Trump will win this state by double digits. They hate Obama like crazy here, and it is totally racial.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
19. There was a protection order, he was on bail for running the mother over, he got a gun
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:05 PM
Aug 2016

and the police couldn't stop that?

That's absurd. This is another NRA murder. Gun and public safety laws should have stopped this.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
20. Sick bastard should be locked up for the rest of his natural life.
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:44 PM
Aug 2016

He never should have been walking around free in the first place after the first incident.

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