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 couldnt do anything. I was frozen, Majidawho 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 wasnt the scariest thing Knoble was doing according to the charges against her.
She pulled the rifle and said open the window or Ill shoot you guys, Adly explained. Adly said he didnt 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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valerief
(53,235 posts)HassleCat
(6,409 posts)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)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.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)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)Don't know that I could have told if it was a 'real' shotgun vs a bb gun....
rurallib
(62,448 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)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 . . .
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)not white.
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)msongs
(67,441 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Warwoman man killed by pellet gun
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Michigan-man-enters-plea-in-roommate-s-pellet-rifle-slaying/9707530
Edmonds Man Killed by Pellet Gun Shot Early Sunday Near Lynnwood
http://patch.com/washington/woodinville/edmonds-man-killed-by-pellet-gun-shot-early-sunday-ne331b7d299a
Second child killed in pellet gun accident
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9186324/
Best Friend Kills Boy, 12, With Pellet Gun
http://www.newser.com/story/192742/best-friend-kills-boy-12-with-pellet-gun.html
Michigan man enters plea in roommate's pellet rifle slaying
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Michigan-man-enters-plea-in-roommate-s-pellet-rifle-slaying/9707530
Child killed by Pellet Rifle
http://www.wjtv.com/story/24342940/child-killed-by-pellet-rifle
Four-year-olds death is grim reminder of pellet gun dangers
http://wtvr.com/2014/09/07/four-year-olds-death-is-grim-reminder-of-pellet-gun-dangers/
Erie man accidentally shoots, kills himself with a pellet gun
http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/15082782-113/erie-man-accidentally-shoots-kills-himself-with-a-pellet-gun
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)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)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)Thanks for the info.
It sounds like there ought to be some much more stringent regulation of pellet guns then.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)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)That's why they are given to children and otherwise handled carelessly like the crazy woman.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)In lieu of "actual gun" , what would have been a better descriptor?
DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)... without then declaring said pellet gun to not be "real."
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I'll make the edit.
sarisataka
(18,770 posts)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
calimary
(81,461 posts)People like her make me ashamed of being a white woman.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)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)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.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)But, then again, he is an idiot.
Archae
(46,345 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)Most tweekers look malnourished. OTOH, she definitely had the complexion of a meth head. Paranoid schizophrenic?
3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)...as well.
Oneironaut
(5,524 posts)That is the gun-totin', Jesus-lovin', rebel-yellin', meth-faced creeps that are proud to be stupid.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)NBachers
(17,136 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)Just sayin'.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)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)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
(31,879 posts)And that's made people like this bolder and more aggressive.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)controlled state.
beevul
(12,194 posts)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)you have a strong stomach read those comments. America, we have a problem and it ain't the terrorized couple.
LeftinOH
(5,358 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)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)Dead eyes, acme, red nose , tilted listless head , rag mop hair - that is a plea for help.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)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)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"
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)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.
Stainless
(718 posts)Her mug shot speaks volumes. She's ugly inside and out.
sendero
(28,552 posts).... will make you stupid AND out of control.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)meth is one hell of a drug
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Look into her glassy, dead eyes and despair...