We often discuss how defendants undermine their cases with statements to the press or on social media. The latest example is John McGraw, 78, who assaulted a protester, 26-year-old Rakeem Jones, at a Donald Trump rally in North Carolina. Despite already being in hot water over the disgraceful attack, McGraw told Inside Edition “Next time we see him, we might have to kill him!” That should make for an interesting sentencing hearing.
McGraw appears quite proud of being a thug. He added “We don’t know who he is. He might be with a terrorist organization.” Well, that assumption is more likely to be made to the guy who violently attacked someone who was protesting a presidential candidate.
The attack was not only criminal but cowardly. Jones was being escorted out and McGraw sucker punched him. He then bragged on television: “You bet I liked it . . . Knocking the hell out of the big mouth.”
McGraw, a retired horse handler and artist, is now charged him with assault and battery and disorderly conduct. Given his lack of remorse and subsequent implied threat, the court should impose the maximum penalty. I cannot imagine a fair sentencing that would not include jail time given McGraw’s behavior and post-arrest statements.
@Fiver
What you call “bigoted invective”, I call common sense and reality. If you think it is “bigoted invective”, because I call some blacks, feral drooling savage blacks, you need to read the sources I provide, which are usually intelligent blacks themselves, saying the same things.
If you are a liberal, who has deluded themselves in thinking that there are no things as welfare ho’s, or savage feral drooling blacks, then you are really in need of help. Because you have helped create this group, and you ought to take responsibility to change things. But in any case, if you don’t like it when Taleeb Starkes says the things I say, take it up with him. Oh but wait, smart liberals like you don’t have to listen to black people unless they agree with YOUR positions. How very white privilege-y of you!
Hey, here is you another savage, feral, drooling black video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypqyNoF9vLo&feature=youtu.be&a
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeaky Fromm:
Stop pretending you are here today, or any other day, for an intelligent discussion on the issues of race and prejudice. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of the comments section of this site is well aware of the bigoted invective you spew here on a consistent basis.
But your thinking that you can somehow goad me into a “prove Trump is a bigot” argument is quite priceless. Now why would I feel any need to do that? Because you doubt Trump is a bigot? Why? Is he not familiar enough to you? Is is not kinda like you’re looking in a mirror?
Sorry, I’m not biting. I’m not even close.
Have a nice day.
fiver – your posts are always so telling. When you say you won’t do something, it is because you cannot. And yet you make an ad homimen attack on Squeeky. If you do not like what Squeeky says, prove her wrong.
Most of these comments in support of an illegal and unprovoked assault are indicative of the latent fascism of the Trump supporters. They are neo Nazis and they would have loved Adolph Hitler and his sorm troopers
jomo995 – we do not know how provoked the crowd was. We do know that the young man was flipping the bird to the crowd as he was leaving. That falls under “fighting words” for provocation. It may be that the young man was an agent provocateur and as such deserves the death penalty.
@fiver
I am glad you like my poetry! But, no that glass slipper isn’t even a glass slipper. it is just some stupid trope kicked out by anti-Trump people. Sheeesh, I think Hillary is a crook, and I don’t support her. But I wouldn’t just throw out a KKK canard against her. And I think she is worse than the KKK when it comes to her polices vis a vis blacks. Her policies are going to kill more black people in a few months than the KKK over its lifetime. But I would never accuse her of KKK ties, because that would be false, wrong, and a “big lie.”
Sooo, why wouldn’t you show the same respect for somebody that you disagree with? If you don’t like Trump, give your reasons, and give him hell! But to use that KKK smear is beneath you. Sooo, I hope you think about this.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
So sorry, Cinderella. Is that glass slipper fitting just a bit too perfectly?
Been reading your “poetry” for a while.
@Fiver
Don’t just name call. Back up your remark that Trump brought his KKK show to Chicago. Anybody can repeat the latest “big lie”, but you do yourself and us a disservice when you just sling the invective without any backup or explanation.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Trump is the one who decided to bring his KKK show to the Land of Lincoln.
Oops.
Good thing Jake and Elwood weren’t there.
@LisaN
I just came across this story in a comment on another website. This is from wiki:
Arrested for Silent Protest at Clinton Speech[edit]
During a speech on February 16, 2011, at George Washington University by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton he [Raymond McGovern] stood silently with his back turned during her remarks, leading to his arrest for disorderly conduct[13][14] and inclusion on the State Department’s Diplomatic Security “Be On the Lookout” (BOLO) list of potential threats to Clinton due to his “considerable amount of political activism, primarily anti-war,” with instructions to Law Enforcement to detain and question him.[15][16] The charges were subsequently dropped,[15] and in 2014 he won an injunction against the BOLO on First and Fourth Amendment grounds.[17][16] The complaint leading to this injunction[16] also listed George Washington University and its Police Department as defendants for their arrest of him, and that part of the case against them was still in process as of September 2014.[17]
Raymond McGovern (born August 25, 1939) is a retired CIA officer turned political activist. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President’s Daily Brief.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Oh Squeeky, I’m so devastated! No…wait..I’m over it. Whew! Your Sarah Palin 8th-grade mean girl routine is nowhere near as good as hers, and hers is pathetic.
The old man broke the law. Break the law, pay the consequences. Personal Responsibility. Right, regressives? If you don’t want to get arrested, don’t break the rules.
Donnie Drumpf has failed so many times he’s a joke, and if his racist daddy hadn’t given him all that money, he’d just be another schlumpf with a bad spray tan. He will never be president. Ever.
Bless your heart, have a lovely day.
phillyT – Squeeky is right about you. You went one sentence without an ad hominem attack. That could be a new first.
Trump has not been in office, so he has not been able to sell his influence the way the Clintons have. BTW, I hear their IT guy is making a devastating witness.
@LisaN
You’re right. PhiilyT is just another one of those liberals who come here and pose as superior in morals and intellect, yet can’t seem to ever directly address questions put to him, or address any points made. His comments basically run the gamut of name calling. He could do a cut and paste comment and save himself a lot of typing time. Like this.
“I’m better and smarter than conservatives and you conservatives are meaner and dumber than me!”
IsaccB, randyjet, and a few others at least deign to make arguments. They’re usually a bubble or two off plumb, but at least they try. PhillyT can’t get over himself enough to do that.
IMHO.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Jail time for the 78 year old guy is outright wrong! A little mental exam perhaps. Then a mental exam of all who wish to see him in jail.
Here is a song appropriate to those who want to jail him:
Jail! Jail! The gangs alll here!
Put the bugger in jail..
Don’t let him have no bail!
Gramps, pamps, we don’t care!
Put the old fart in Jail!
LisaN,
Right back at ya!
@phillyT
Blah blah blah blah blah!
Oh No Mitch!
Poor sad bigotzes! Can’t see their white privilege the way a fish can’t see water. So Sad!
We want our country back! We want to be able to call people N*ggers and F*ggots and not get in trouble for it! We want to slap women on the ass at work! We want to burn crosses on people’s lawns and shut up already! Gays back in the closet! Women back in the bedroom or kitchen! Blacks to the back of the bus ! What more do you want from us! Go make me a sammich!
If poor Donald, the short-fingered vulgarian can’t handle it, maybe he should just take his ball and go home crying.
People exercising their right to assemble and protest like this are criminals! Hang ’em! But the Bundy’s are patriots who just want the guvmint off their backs so they can overgraze the land owned by the people! Praise “Murica!
@SFGR
Proud of that 78 yr old grandpa. He’d had enough and so have all of us.
I’m waiting for Trump to have a rally in Dallas. I want to see if these mouthy self righteous thugs dare to disrupt it. I have almost 8 yrs of pent up anger in me too. Lol
@Lisa N
Amen! These “protests” are nothing but raw fascist behavior. They are trying to win through intimidation. But hey, its worked so far! Scream and holler and put on the “outrage” act, and you can chase people who you disagree with off the stage! Clobber one of the f*ckers for me there, Gramps!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
“Pieceable Assembly” is kind of like the “right to arm bears”. The Framers had a drunk secretary who wrote things down wrong and it went downhill from there. We have a right to bring our pieces– that means knifes, swords, rifles, to a place where we assemble. We have a right to arm our bears. If you live in Chicago, you will know what I mean jelly bean.
I think people are just sick and tired of these fake protesters lies about how awful their lives are or how racist someone is to them, like that fake mantra hands up, don’t shoot lie.
They try to disrupt a political rally in which is peaceful and fun with their violent rhetoric or jumping up on a stage to take the mic and podium from a presidential candidate. They try to shut down free speech but they want us to listen to their side but shut down the other sides speech. Screw them.
I’m of the mind to fight them back too. Tired of their lying liberal crap!!
Moral relativism, situational ethics. Of course the connection between the moral decline of society and the secularism of our culture will be ignored. I guess people are struggling to find that “kingdom of heaven” within.
Nicely done!
If it was a blind side no face awareness, then home can anyone not condemn that?
Have not seen it, but if as described this guy is pure Chickens**t. The words after are typical CS bravado.