Victim is of Arabic descent, but prosecutor's spokesperson says there's no evidence of hate crime.

A 73-year-old Detroit man is behind bars for allegedly attacking a 7-year-old girl with a knife in a city park full of children, slashing her throat in an incident that ended with the child racing home to her mother for help, and the suspect in handcuffs.

“He just like came out of nowhere and just like (pulled) the knife on me,” the girl told Fox 2 News as she sat on a porch step this week with gauze around her neck, explaining how a day at the park with her grandmother turned into a day of horror.

  • gi1242@lemmy.world
    75·
    2 months ago

    normally when they say slashing throat, I assume death. looks like the girl was ok though cause she ran home to get help

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      38·
      2 months ago

      Was probably a shallow wound, either that or the kid is made of the same spite and wroth that an old Vietnam vet I met was made of, he sowed his throat back up after it was slashed by a mentally unstable squad mate who lost it.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      There’s lots of parts and depths of your neck you can cut and not die. It’s just that there are also lots of parts that you can’t.

      Always make me think of that hockey goalie that got his jugular cut. (He didn’t die either.)

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    73·
    2 months ago

    According to the article the man has been having mental health problems. That’s ok though because it seems the wife has been addressing it with the power of Facebook prayer requests. Clearly it’s been working well.

    Sarcasm aside, what are people with mental illness but no access to adequate healthcare expected to do? I’m assuming they couldn’t afford medical care but, given that they are in their seventies, living in America, and asking for prayers on Facebook, I think my assumption is correct.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 months ago

      They’re expected to do nothing that bothers or burdens anyone else and then die, as far as I can tell. They can just skip to the last part if they want, as long as it still fulfills the requirements of the first part.

  • SassyRamen@lemmy.world
    38·
    2 months ago

    They are saying they can’t prove it’s a hate crime. Just ask him where he keeps his red hat and to really get him, ask foe his opinions on migrants.

      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
        36·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, a crazy, religious, republican white dude that slashed the throat of a brown-skinned girl with a head covering on.

        I hate to tell you this, but you can be crazy and politically motivated. The distinction is becoming increasingly difficult to make.

        There were dozens of republican “totally not crazy people” calling for a meteorologist to be murdered because she simply reported on the last hurricane, because she was part of the vast, laser-wielding, weather-controlling leftist cabal. A theory propagated by right-wing talking heads and mainstream, right-wing politicians.

        Being mentally unstable does not mean racist political motivations somehow “don’t count.” It’s not even always clear what the order of influence is.

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 months ago

        Dude was just crazy

        If not for conservatives, the U.S. would have mental healthcare support systems the way every other developed nation on earth does.

        Conservatives don’t believe the study of psychology is valuable. They do not support mental healthcare. They do not believe the science of mental healthcare. Conservatives did this and they continue to insist on these conditions on a national scale. Fuck conservatives. They are 100% responsible for attacks by mentally ill people.

        This isn’t politics. This is good vs evil, plain and simple. Conservatism is a scourge of oppression and death. It always has been.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Wouldn’t necessarily put this to a political side. Dude was just crazy

        Both things can be true at the same time.