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Crime Man Claiming to Be White Supremacist Charged For Threats at Health Center
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM
King County prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a 24-year-old Auburn man after he allegedly pulled a large knife on a Muslim woman in a health center in the International District.
According to a Seattle Police Department probable cause document, Eric Lee Garner approached a woman inside of the Seattle Indian Health Board office on 12th Avenue S and S Weller Street and and began yelling at her. "You Muslim people scare people when you wear things like that," Garner allegedly told the woman, who was wearing a head scarf and carrying her six-month-old child. Garner continued to rant at the woman, documents say, repeatedly calling her a "Muslim bitch" and telling her "When I see a black woman, it makes me want to throw up." Garner then pulled out an 8-10 inch knife, held it in front of the woman, told her "when I see a Muslim woman, I want to put the knife in her vagina" and threatened to cut the woman and her baby.
Records say Garner slammed the knife down on the counter and attempted to unsheath it, but an employee grabbed the knife off the counter. Garner then leapt over the counter, grabbed his knife and fled the building.
The police were called and officers were able to identify Garner from information he'd provided to staff at the health board office earlier in the day
The next day, officers spotted Garner on Capitol Hill and arrested him. Police found a knife in Garner's waistband and, records say, Garner told officers "he was a white supremacist and was just doing his part" and that he had purchased an AK-47 assault rifle after 9/11. Garner was booked into the King County Jail and, earlier today, was charged with Malicious Harassment, the state's hate crime statute.
Court documents say Garner has prior convictions for harassment, drugs, theft, indecent exposure, assault, possession of a dangerous weapon, graffiti, malicious mischief and possession of stolen property.
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I'm sure Hitler would suggest concentration camps or euthanasia for all those "useless eaters".
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You have to wonder what the hell happened to this guy that he turned out so hateful and violent and angry and horrible. Was he just continuously raped and beaten growing up or what?
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No one is dispuing his "claim."
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Well, I thought Garner would approve a "final solution" since he's a white supremacist/neo-nazi wannabe.
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Sir, may I help you?
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If he was a minority of some kind, maybe we'd luck out and the cops would shoot him 2 dozen times during a routine traffic stop. Best solution available to us: Keep giving him the negative attention he desires by locking him up under whatever laws we can. He keeps getting out, until someday he finally does something horrible enough to send him up for life, and... That's as good as it gets.
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If the problems taken' care of then whats the problem now?
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