WEEKEND A 17-YEAR-OLD WAS ABDUCTED AND MURDERED AFTER
LEAVING A MOSQUE EARLY IN THE MORNING.
NOW TO ADD INSULT TO
INJURY, SEVERAL DAYS LATER, A
MEMORIAL WAS ESTABLISHED FOR THE GIRL.
SOMEONE WENT THIS MORNING
AND SET
IT ON FIRE.
I REACHED OUT TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO
FIND OUT ñ IT HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED.
BUT I WOULD ARGUE
THAT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE LIVED IN THAT AREA OR HE
TRAVELED EXPRESSLY TO SET FIRE
TO IT THERE IS SOME BIAS INVOLVED.
HE WASN'T JUST LOOKING TO START A FIRE AND THE MEMORIAL WAS
THERE.
>> IN THE CASE OF THE ORIGINAL DEATH, THERE IS SOME DISPUTE AS
TO WHY IT HAPPENED.
UNSURPRISING PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS A HATE
CRIME.
GIVEN THE CLIMATE IN AMERICA ñ AUTHORITIES SAY IT
MIGHT NOT BE THE CASE THAT IT
MIGHT'VE BEEN ROAD RAGE.
HE CHASED THEM WITH A BASEBALL BAT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY ñ
>>THEY HAD BEEN WALKING TO THE MOSQUE FROM AN IHOP.
IT IS NOT
CLEAR IF HE WAS PARKED AND THEY WERE NEARBY.
THEY SAID HE PULLED
OVER ONTO THE SIDEWALK.
SO HE HAD EITHER BEEN DRIVING OR THEY
PASSED HIM.
THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT, AND HE CAME OUT WITH A METAL BASEBALL
BAT.
>>AND ABDUCTED HER AND THEN GOD KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS.
AND HER BODY WAS FOUND LATER IN THE DAY IN A NEARBY POND.
EITHER
WAY SECOND-DEGREE MURDER IS THE CHARGE AND THEY ARE
INVESTIGATING HIM AND HOPEFULLY
HE WILL BE PUNISHED.
GREAT JOB BY THE AUTHORITIES IN FINDING
HIM.
NOW TURNING TO BURNING DOWN A MEMORIAL.
WHO ACCIDENTALLY
BURNS DOWN A MEMORIAL?
SOMEBODY DROVE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO DO
A RANDOM ACT OF PYRO?
THAT SEEMS SUPER WEIRD TO ME.
HE MAKES ME
QUESTION WHETHER THE INITIAL CROWN WAS ACTUALLY A COINCIDENCE
OR ROAD RAGE.
>> THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH OF COINCIDENCES.
>> AS THIS STUFF IS FRESH THERE WILL BE A LOT OF
MISCOMMUNICATION.
THINGS WILL SETTLE DOWN AND HOPEFULLY WE
WILL GET SOME ANSWERS.
IT WOULD BE VERY SURPRISING IF A MEMORIAL
TO THIS GIRL WAS BURNED DOWN FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN IT WAS A
MEMORIAL TO A MUSLIM WOMAN.
WHO ALSO BURNS ON A MEMORIAL TO ANYONE ELSE?
>> THIS GUY SEEMS TO HAVE HAD SOME SORT OF BIAS.
JUST BECAUSE
OF WHAT IS BEEN HAPPENING
INTERNATIONALLY, IT BOTHERS ME AND IT SHOULD BOTHER EVERYONE.
THIS IDEA THAT A TERRIBLE ACT HAPPENS, AND SOME GROUP TAKES
JOY IN THAT ñ HE WAS SPREADING THAT IDEA.
AND HERE YOU HAVE
THIS GIRL KILLED, SOME PEOPLE ARE FANS OF THAT.
THEY LIKE IT.
THERE WERE MUSLIM WORSHIPERS LEAVING IN LONDON THAT WERE
DRIVEN DOWN BY THE GUY IN THE
VAN. AND THE SON OF THE OWNER OF THE VAN COMPANY SAYS HE WISHES
THAT THEY HAD RENTED HIM A TANK OR A STEAMROLLER INSTEAD.
GLORIFYING THE FACT THAT THE
KILLING HAPPENED.
FOR SOME REASON THAT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO
BE A PROBLEM.
WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DISTURBED BY THE
FACT THAT WHEN YOU KILL MUSLIMS
PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO CHEER?
>> JOHN, THOSE ARE JUST LONE WOLVES.
>> COLLECTING TOGETHER AND TALKING ABOUT HOW AWESOME IT
IS TO KILL MUSLIMS.
>>REMEMBER ISLAM IS DANGEROUS AND VIOLENT.
THAT IS WHY YOU
SHOULD SET THEIR MEMORIALS ON
FIRE.
IF YOU ARE IN LONDON YOU SHOULD RUN THEM OVER WITH A
TRUCK BECAUSE THEY ARE DANGEROUS
AND VIOLENT.
OR PERHAPS IT COULD BE THAT EXTREMISTS ON BOTH SIDES
ARE DANGEROUS BECAUSE THEY ARE
EXTREMISTS AND FUNDAMENTALISTS.
AND WHAT IS DRIVING THE VIOLENCE
IS EXTREMISM AND NOT WHETHER THE
FACT THAT THEY ARE CHRISTIAN OR MUSLIM OR ANYTHING ELSE.
THEY
PICK A MINORITY AND BLAME THEM
FOR ALL THE PROBLEMS.
>> THERE WAS AN ANALYSIS THAT SAID THE CHANCE THAT YOU WILL BE
KILLED IN A TERROR ATTACK
COMMITTED BY A REFUGEE IS ONE IN 3.4 BILLION A YEAR.
BUT A RANDOM
17-YEAR-OLD GIRL DESERVES TO DIE?
THE LEAP IT TAKES A
MENTALLY TO GET TO THAT POINT, AND THIS IS NOT A RARE LEAP.
MAYBE NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL SET A MEMORIAL ON FIRE, BUT FOR
EVERYONE THAT DOES THOSE THINGS THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT
ARE HAPPY AND THAT IS
DISTURBING.
THANKFULLY A LAUNCH GOOD PAGE WAS SET UP FOR THE
GIRL.
IT HAS RAISED MORE THAN $314,000 FOR THEM AS OF EARLY
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
>> IT'S NEVER GOING TO BRING THEIR DAUGHTER BACK, IT
IS
TRAGIC ANYWAY YOU SLICE IT.