BadMoonRisin said:
Is this one of the hobo machete attacks that are quite popular now in Austin and trying to spin as some skinhead v. Palestine thing?
Is there evidence that it was a hate crime or is it just because CAIR lobbied for it?
Doesn't say much about the incident, just about how a bunch of activists used this as an opportunity to whine about the Israel/Gaza conflict.
It seems like a less than honest narrative they are trying to weave involving what sounds like a black-out drunk hobo randomly picking a fight, dropping n-bombs, and stabbing someone.
Another article has more details, and it seems the white trash dude has multiple priors for assault and domestic violence. Play stupid games, win a stupid hate crime.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/stabbing-west-campus-hate-crime/269-2210c106-224a-4393-bd2a-85c90ea8e359Quote:
The victim, 23-year-old Zacharia Doar, and three others were in a pickup truck when one of the passengers felt the tailgate open. The witness said he then saw Baker on a bicycle, pulling open the rear right passenger door and the front right passenger door.
The witness told police Baker put his bicycle down in front of the truck and began yelling at people inside, calling them racial slurs. He said Baker seemed to be trying to get them to fight him because he had his hands up in a fighting stance.
"Baker repeatedly screamed the N-word and other obscenities, opened a passenger door, pulled one of the victims out of the car and physically attacked him," said Mustafaa Carroll, the interim executive director for the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The four truck passengers, including the victim and the witness, got out of the truck and walked to the front of it. The witness said Baker approached the victim and punched him in the shoulder. A fight ensued, and Baker fell to the ground.
According to the affidavit, the three friends then backed away from Baker, but he got back up to continue the fight. Multiple punches were thrown, and Baker ended up back on the ground as the friends again backed up.
The witness told police Baker reached into his sweatshirt pocket and pulled out a long knife, unsheathed it and began running toward them.
When the witness turned around, he saw his friend, the victim, bleeding from his right ribs, according to the affidavit.
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The affidavit also states that throughout most of his interview with police, Baker claimed he didn't know why he was speaking to detectives. He then admitted to being an alcoholic and to having drank "more than the normal amount of alcohol for him" that night. The affidavit also states that Baker had what appeared to be drying blood on his face, but he couldn't tell detectives who the blood belonged to or how it got there.
At one point during the interview, the affidavit states that Baker began patting down his body and asking police where his "Ka-Bar" was located. When police asked him if he was looking for his knife, Baker said "yes."
