Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime
Texas woman arrested for allegedly attempting to drown 3-year-old Palestinian Muslim child in possible hate crime
Elizabeth Wolf, 42, was charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child, according to police.
Wow. Made it 42 years and thought "I need to murder a child"
To be fair, it was a toddler.
/s in case that wasn't obvious.
Also, "possible hate crime"? It clearly was. Getting really tired of these bullshit headlines that don't actually say what happened. The "alleged" for the crime since they haven't been convicted is already in the headline, that's fine, I get he legal distinction there, but then say what's actually alleged and don't try to hide the reality of what's alleged. This is clearly a hate crime, there's no question of that. It's not an alleged possible hate crime, it's just an alleged hate crime.
According to a press release from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the mother appeared to be visibly Muslim, as she was wearing a hijab and modest swimwear to the pool at the time of the incident.
Police said Wolf also asked the mother if two of the children in the pool were hers before allegedly attempting to grab one of them, a 6-year-old boy, who was able to get away.
Wolf also allegedly snatched the mother’s headscarf off while she tried to save her daughter and beat her with it, according to CAIR.
She was charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child. ... The Euless Police Department has recommended that the incident be considered a hate crime and the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office is currently investigating it
"Alleged" is what the DA has charged.
"Possible" is what the DA might add to the charges.
The opinions of the reporter, who is not a lawyer much less a prosecutor, are not helpful.
It's a CYA thing.
Publishers have to use the walking on eggshells language even when it’s obvious what happened because of libel laws. You’re not guilty until convicted in a court of law. Until that point, everything is allegedly, possibly, appears to be.
Wow, nothing deniable about that at all
In that kind of mindset, it's not "child", it's "human animal".
This happened in Texas?
I’m amazed she was even arrested. I’m assuming a full pardon with an apology will be forthcoming.
She wasn't successful in killing the child, so no, no pardon from Abbott. He only pardons actual convicted killers of hate crimes.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/daniel-perry-greg-abbott-pardon/
Nah. In Texas all she has to do is say that God told her to do it, and she'll get a couple years of taking drugs in a hospital.
The exception is Taylor Parker because she killed an unborn child, and that's a damn step too far.
Same people are demanding to bring the Bible in school
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So we have multiple murders or attempted murders of Palestinian children in the US since October 7.
But pro-zionist students on college campuses claimed they feel somehow threatened there. Clearly that should be more important than actual attacks.
What this woman did was a heinous hate crime. But this isn't the oppression Olympics. There has been a rise in antisemitism too. No need to diminish that in order to assert that hate crimes against Palestinian people is bad.
There is a very systematic and deliberate propaganda effort by many US media, infamously the New York times at the forefront to downplay antimuslim and general racist attacks and overexaggerate feelings of insecurity that do not represent actual danger. As a result of this peaceful campus protests including anti-zionist Jews have been brutally beaten down by the police and fascist mobs. So under the pretense of fighting antisemitism Jews are getting beaten up on campus. But according to the Zionists those are the "wrong kind of Jews" or "self hating Jews" so attacking them is justified in their eyes.
I'm sorry, but I can't care about antisemitism while the jews control the media and have heavy involvement in the banking problems in our country. The wealth available to the jewish people is beyond insane. They can choose to do whatever they want. The billions of US dollars flowing into Israel every year thanks to pro zionist lobbying gives Israel the option to do whatever it wants, and it chooses violence. A zionist will say "Not all jews" in exactly the same tone as a men's rights activist will say "not all men". It's the same argument.
Honestly if telling someone they can't murder buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo children makes them feel unsafe then I'm proud to make that person feel unsafe.
Wanting to murder a child I can understand but you're not supposed to actually do it. Wtf is wrong with people these days.
Y'allqueda in full swing in the US.
Ain't no hate like Christian love.
Ain't no hate like Christian love.
This has to be one of the best things I've ever read on lemmy.
If you don't consider them human, you don't consider it murdering a human child.
That's the problem with bigotry. It makes people view others as less-than-human.
It's a joke, I like children no matter how annoying.
Edit: never mind I misinterpreted your comment.
Just toss this one off a cliff save the money
Reading the article made the word possible a lot less necessary than expected.
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Police responded to the apartment complex pool in Euless around 5:44 p.m. May 19 regarding “a disturbance between two women,” Euless police said in a news release.
“Upon arrival, officers were told by witnesses that a woman who was very intoxicated had tried to drown a child and argued with the child’s mother,” police said.
The child’s mother, 32, told police that the suspect, identified as Elizabeth Wolf, 42, questioned where she was from and made statements about her not being American, as well as “other racial statements.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said in a news release that the mother visibly appeared to be Muslim, as she was wearing a hijab and modest swimwear. Wolf also asked the woman whether two of the children in the pool were hers before she tried to grab one of them, a 6-year-old boy, who was able to get away, police alleged.
“The mother began helping her son when Wolf grabbed her 3-year-old daughter and forced her underwater,” police said. “The mother was able to pull her daughter from the water. Her daughter had been yelling for help and was coughing up water.”
"
Fucking hell. That woman needs to be sectioned.
Holy moly,
What the Jesus Fucking Christ
My money is on "alt-right" brain rot. Some people actually believe they are in a holy/race war for survival.
Poor, poor bastards.
Seriously.
"possible hate crime".....
It’s not the journalist’s job to determine that, it’s a court’s job to do so. Until then, everything is alleged or possible.
You can use less washy words. For example you can say "a woman has been accused of a hate crime, if these alligatons are true then..."
The way these stories are written now not only use the "allegedly" they also tend to use language that down plays the event.
When you have so much hate in you that you're willing to murder a child, yet you'll guaranteed think that you're a really good person who just tries to make the world a little better.
Don't think of them as children. Think of them as Future Hamas Military Age Males.
Pretty sure the child in question was a girl, but I guess the woman didn't want to let facts stand in the way of her feeling
Fuck you. Simply that.
I think of you as a right wing extremist who happily kills innocent children because in your rotten mind they're already militant. Forget about the fact that your killing is what causes them to become militant in the first place, murdering children is much easier, and in your case I imagine much more fun, rite?
She actually needs the DA to add those hate crimes to the charges so that Abbott can pardon her later, just attempted capital murder and injury to a child aren't going to cut it with him.
"possible"
Hate is an irrational emotion.
Aren't emotions by definition irrational?
There's a lot of complexities with different groups downplaying and exadurtating. I won't deny mass disinformation in today's politics and current events. But I'm not going to diminish how a group feels about prejduece against them when they have experienced over 13 targeted deaths across at least two instances in 2023. The ADL, a pretty credible group, reported a significant increase in antisemitic incidents in 2022, before the conflict in Palestine gained attention and the Israeli government started ramping up their propaganda machine. Bottom line, I don't want to make this some kind of competition, especially on a post where we should be focusing on the abhorrent treatment of this Palestinian boy, but antisemitism is a problem too and I don't think its OK to rug sweep the issues either are facing right now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/17/1157788933/la-jewish-shootings-arrest-hate-crimes
https://www.adl.org/resources/report/audit-antisemitic-incidents-2022
yall can have that one, we dont claim her