Man attacks disabled, homeless man on bus: ‘You owe me for making my grandmother a slave’ - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]SILVER SPRING, Md. (ABC7) — A black man on a Metrobus attacked a 52-year-old disabled, homeless passenger, spitting in his face, and blaming the victim, who is white, for decades of slavery in the United States, police say. The incident occurred on a Q1 bus, which had departed the Silver Spring Transit Center and was headed for the Shady Grove Metro Station. It was around 5 p.m. on Sunday, September 24. According to court documents, Marquis Evans-Royster, 27, approached the disabled, homeless man, looked directly into his eyes and stated, "You owe me for making my grandmother a slave." The victim remained calm and did his best to ignore the racially motivated comments. However, the confrontation became tenser when Evans-Royster allegedly began to rummage through the victim's pockets. A number of bystanders attempted to intervene, prompting Evans-Royster to charge at various passengers, spit in the victim's face and threaten to douse the victim with a cup full of urine. "Who carries around a bottle a urine," Metrobus rider Desi Cureton stated with a confused look upon his face. "If I was the judge, I would send him for mental health evaluation." The bus driver threatened to call the police, prompting Evans-Royster to exit the bus near the intersection of Veirs Mill Road and Connecticut Avenue. Yet, before fleeing, the 27-year-old allegedly snapped off one of the bus’ side view mirrors, valued at around $250. The bus driver told investigators that Evans-Royster boarded the bus without paying a fare and "almost immediately" started to harass the two white passengers. In addition to the slavery remarks, the bus driver recalled Evans-Royster stating all white people are evil and suggesting that the bus’ two white passengers should die. Metro Transit Police caught Evans-Royster four days later at the Wheaton Metro Station. [/quote] [url]http://wjla.com/news/local/man-attacks-disabled-homeless-man-on-bus-you-owe-me-for-making-my-grandmother-a-slave[/url]

[quote]"If I was the judge, I would send him for mental health evaluation."[/quote] The guy who harasses random people on a bus, harasses a disabled homeless guy and carries a jar full of piss might not be mentally sound? What a ridiculous idea.

[QUOTE=LuaChobo;52791853]Are people really carrying around piss just incase they find someone to be outraged at[/QUOTE] It was the victims piss "when Evans-Royster allegedly began to rummage through the victim's pockets" I am presuming, since he was 50 and disabled.

The sins of your, or anybody else's, fathers and mothers are not yours. You can learn from studying them, but they were not committed by you personally. Doesn't this attacker's argument have a particular logical flaw? Guilt by association? That is, assuming that a person who has vaguely defined traits of some group, must mean they are part of the group. "Slavers were white, therefore all whites from there on must be slavers." Also, is it me or do a worrying amount of people these days go around blaming everybody and everything but themselves when things don't go their way?

Dick was carrying a bottle of urine because his sole intention was to get on the bus and start a fight. T It's why he didn't pay fare and it's why he picked the homeless disabled guy to attack. He was the easiest target who probably wouldn't fight back. He's a racist coward, plain and simple.

Can't this be considered a hate crime since it was motivated by racial differences? I mean, it should be treated as such, imo.

So should we Europeans start attacking random Germans for the things they did in WW2? :zoid:

To be honest the attacker sounds mentally ill, which while I don't excuse his actions he should get some help. No sane person just carries around a bottle/cup of piss like that unless they are homeless or a trucker. Couple mental illness with racism and you got a pissstorm just waiting to happen.

[QUOTE=Flazer210;52792025]Can't this be considered a hate crime since it was motivated by racial differences? I mean, it should be treated as such, imo.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]They have since charged him with a slew of crimes, including, [B]race/religious harassment[/B], robbery, theft, second-degree assault, destruction of property and possession of a false I.D. All told, the charges carry a combined maximum penalty of more than 30 years in prison.[/QUOTE] Looks like that's the case as well.

[QUOTE=Megadave;52792055]To be honest the attacker sounds mentally ill, which while I don't excuse his actions he should get some help. No sane person just carries around a bottle/cup of piss like that unless they are homeless or a trucker. Couple mental illness with racism and you got a pissstorm just waiting to happen.[/QUOTE] Not discounting the idea this guy is mentally ill (I think it is highly likely), but there has been a recent trend for some protestors of white nationalists to start throwing piss. [url]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/12/protesters-draw-blood-toss-urine-virginia-white-supremacist-rally/561939001/[/url] [url]http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2017/06/23/portland-police-chief-says-antifa-protesters-used-slingshot-to-launch-urine-and-feces-filled-balloons-at-riot-cops/[/url] [media]https://youtu.be/JTdAhUYmWxU[/media]

Why yall disagreeing with me? Dude was 50 and disabled, and you think the other guy brought the piss bottle? Someone in my family is 50 and has done a lot of pisstests her life because of medications she needs to take. We are talking about those little piss bottle things. Pretty sure it was the disabled mans piss bottle, and he was on public transport, probably going somewhere with that piss bottle.

[QUOTE=Lazore;52792076]Why yall disagreeing with me? Dude was 50 and disabled, and you think the other guy brought the piss bottle? Someone in my family is 50 and has done a lot of pisstests her life because of medications she needs to take. [B]We are talking about those little piss bottle things.[/B] Pretty sure it was the disabled mans piss bottle, and he was on public transport, probably going somewhere with that piss bottle.[/QUOTE] because there is no indication that the guy got anything from the dude's pockets. You're making a blatant assumption based only in the ambiguity of the article itself. Its implied far more that he brought the piss himself considering witnesses ask "who carries a bottle a urine around yadda yadda send him to the hospital for mental issues" THe bolded section is also an assumption. There is zero indication of what kind of bottle, only that the piss was contained in something bottle-like.

He choose to harass someone who's disabled, how convenient! Even though he's mentally ill, he still had the lucidity to pick someone who can't defend himself. :thinking:

[QUOTE=Lazore;52792076]Why yall disagreeing with me? Dude was 50 and disabled, and you think the other guy brought the piss bottle? Someone in my family is 50 and has done a lot of pisstests her life because of medications she needs to take. We are talking about those little piss bottle things. Pretty sure it was the disabled mans piss bottle, and he was on public transport, probably going somewhere with that piss bottle.[/QUOTE] [quote]"Who carries around a bottle a urine," Metrobus rider Desi Cureton stated with a confused look upon his face. "If I was the judge, I would send him for mental health evaluation."[/quote] Not sure where your fantasy that homeless guys carry piss around with them comes from.

[QUOTE=Grandzeit;52792073]Looks like that's the case as well.[/QUOTE] Oops. Must've missed that. Thank you.

I wonder if this counts as a hate crime? He basically attacked him because of the group's he belongs to

Whenever I hear someone tout that "my ancestors were slaves to your people so therefore you bad" ideal it fucking infuriates me. There was a damn civil war in america over slavery, people died to free your ancestors from enslavement but you just seem to forget that part.

[QUOTE=Nitro836;52791923]The sins of your, or anybody else's, fathers and mothers are not yours. You can learn from studying them, but they were not committed by you personally. Doesn't this attacker's argument have a particular logical flaw? Guilt by association? That is, assuming that a person who has vaguely defined traits of some group, must mean they are part of the group. "Slavers were white, therefore all whites from there on must be slavers." Also, is it me or do a worrying amount of people these days go around blaming everybody and everything but themselves when things don't go their way?[/QUOTE] This guy doesn't know anyone who was a slave, and he doesn't know anyone who knows anyone who was a slave. Dude is just nuts, Racist, Angry, or all 3

[QUOTE=Tudd;52792074]Not discounting the idea this guy is mentally ill (I think it is highly likely), but there has been a recent trend for some protestors of white nationalists to start throwing piss. [url]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/12/protesters-draw-blood-toss-urine-virginia-white-supremacist-rally/561939001/[/url] [url]http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2017/06/23/portland-police-chief-says-antifa-protesters-used-slingshot-to-launch-urine-and-feces-filled-balloons-at-riot-cops/[/url] [media]https://youtu.be/JTdAhUYmWxU[/media][/QUOTE] Well. Spew shit, eat piss. Unlike the homeless guy, these people are practically begging for it.

No one threw urine at anyone, it was just a threat. It's a good thing ABC reported this or you wouldn't have been able to bring this news to us, Tudd. The only other popular media outlet reporting on this is Breitbart.

Seems like a weird isolated incident.

Glad he got caught. This happened in my area where I use public transportation like the train that runs by these stations. I would have been scared shitless and would never go there again. [QUOTE=Tetracycline;52793851]I wonder if this counts as a hate crime? He basically attacked him because of the group's he belongs to[/QUOTE] Why wouldn't it be? He attacked the homeless man based on his skin tone, yelled to him "You should pay for my grandmother being a slave!" and in the article he threatened two people with death because "Every white person in here should die!" Even then it's pretty small compared to his other offenses which totals to 30 years in prison.

[QUOTE=pedrus24;52792146]He choose to harass someone who's disabled, how convenient! Even though he's mentally ill, he still had the lucidity to pick someone who can't defend himself. :thinking:[/QUOTE] I'm not sure if you understand mental illnesses.

[QUOTE=Flazer210;52792025]Can't this be considered a hate crime since it was motivated by racial differences? I mean, it should be treated as such, imo.[/QUOTE] This is a racially fueled hate crime in the clearest sense of the word though. It shouldn't merely "be treated as such", it [I]is[/I] such. But as we have all been taught by the increasingly unhinged elements of the left, there is no such thing as racism against whites, because "power and privilege", sins of the fathers and a (un)healthy dose of white guilt. America is looking mighty crazy to a lot of people nowadays, even to my American friends who have been left-voting democrats for the entire time I've known them.

Guy's 27. A generation is roughly 30 years. That means his grandmother would be born in the ballpark of 100 to 80 years ago, 120 at most. Prettty sure slavery was abolished by the 1930's. The U.S. education system really needs to up it's game if people think otherwise.

[QUOTE=just-a-boy;52801092]This is a racially fueled hate crime in the clearest sense of the word though. It shouldn't merely "be treated as such", it [I]is[/I] such. But as we have all been taught by the increasingly unhinged elements of the left, there is no such thing as racism against whites, because "power and privilege", sins of the fathers and a (un)healthy dose of white guilt. America is looking mighty crazy to a lot of people nowadays, even to my American friends who have been left-voting democrats for the entire time I've known them.[/QUOTE] "Unhinged left" lmao give me a break I've no idea how people can repeatedly parade around isolated, clearly random incidents of violence by deranged individuals just to be contrarian and critical of an entire political viewpoint. One that, I might add, is still entirely valid. The guy is insane. Maybe he latched on to extremist views, maybe he was using that rhetoric as an excuse to fight a random, easily bested vulnerable person. But you can't use this shit to discredit the entire notion of institutionalized racism.

[QUOTE=Tetracycline;52793851]I wonder if this counts as a hate crime? He basically attacked him because of the group's he belongs to[/QUOTE] According to the FBI's [URL="https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2015/home/topic-pages/victims_final"]UCR[/URL], out of all hate crimes that resulted in charges in 2015 (most recent year), 59.2% targeted the victim for race/ethnicity, and out of that, 18.7% were targeted towards white/caucasian victims. So, yeah, almost 20% of victims of racial hate crimes are white. There's this really prevalent myth that black people get away with hate crimes against whites, which this headline propagates, but in reality it's not true. People can be and are charged with hate crimes for these sorts of assaults.