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The Washington Post reports that an internet escort in Charleston, W.Va., may have saved her own life and the lives of many other women, when she shot and killed an alleged attacker who showed up at the woman's home on July 18 after answering an escort ad she had placed on Backpage.com. Neal Falls showed up with multiple pairs of handcuffs and a Subaru full of weapons and tools, including a shovel, knives, a bulletproof vest, a machete, bleach, trash bags, sledgehammers and axes. In Falls's pocket, police said, was a list of names of potential future victims, all of whom are sex workers who advertised on Backpage. Investigators are trying to determine whether Falls is responsible for a string of slayings targeting sex workers in Ohio and Nevada. "We are entering his DNA profile into CODIS, which is a national crime DNA database, to see if it matches any previous submissions from anywhere in the United States," says Steve Cooper, the Charleston Police Department's chief of detectives. "If his DNA has been located in any other crimes and his profile was entered into CODIS, there will be a match."
From the moment Falls showed up at the home of his latest alleged victim, he turned violent. "I knew he was there to kill me," says the victim who asked not to be identified. Falls pulled a gun on her and began strangling her. "When he strangled me he just wouldn't let me get any air. I grabbed my rake and when he laid the gun down to get the rake out of my hands, I shot him. I just grabbed the gun and shot behind me." Local authorities are treating the shooting as an act of self-defense. According to Cooper, "when we find multiple sets of handcuffs, a machete, an axe, a bulletproof vest and container of bleach, the first thing that comes to an investigator's mind is, 'This is a serial killer kit.'"
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Monday July 27 2015, @07:39AM
Uhhh you DO know those gun laws was SPECIFICALLY written to keep blacks down, yes? That making felons unable to vote or own weapons helped in this goal, yes? Might want to look up the documentary "fear of an armed negro" and see for yourself, in fact this is why gun laws exploded right after the civil rights movement as you couldn't use Jim Crow to "keep them in their place". For just one example why do you think they made such a big deal over "Saturday Night Specials" by giving them such a name and rep? Because they were favored by poor blacks for home defense because they were both cheap and reliable.
But please don't take my word for it, watch "fear of an armed negro" where they have the words and in some cases even interviews with the ones who pushed those laws and they were quite brazen and made no bones about it, they wanted to make sure negros couldn't defend themselves from state brutality.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @05:37PM
Once again, lets see some proof. This is literally a repeat of a few posts above [soylentnews.org], even with you saying "look it up yourself"!
(Score: 2) by twistedcubic on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:15AM
Why don't you just look them up? Racism against black people was very overt and unabashed up until recently in this country. Apparently younger people have a really difficult time believing this. I'll make it even worse from you by giving you an anecdote: I'm black and from Alabama. My mother once told me about her father refusing to turn in his guns voluntarily when the government (local, I think) required all black people to give them up. I can't prove this to you, but doesn't it sound believable? Why in the world would anyone make this up, when racism was so prevalent? Please go to a library, sit down and read some primary sources. It will blow your mind, though it shouldn't, because you should know better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:51AM
Because I'm not the one making the extraordinary claim. The burden of proof lies with someone who is making a claim, and is not upon anyone else to disprove. This is the basics of the basics.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:48AM
Because ACs are apparently too dense to use teh Google? Since I don't want to be seen picking on dumbasses too ignorant to Google enjoy No Guns For Negroes [liveleak.com], which was called "fear of an armed negro" when it was on YouTube, who took it down, shock shock.
Sorry I can't find the complete documentary ATM, have a skull splitter. Perhaps you could find a link to elucidate the uninformed?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.