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brooklynite

(94,679 posts)
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 09:41 AM Mar 2017

JFK Airport: Man attacks Muslim woman yelling, "Trump will get rid of all of you"

Source: Business Standard

A traveler has been indicted on charges of unlawful imprisonment and aggravated harassment, after he went on a racist tirade, yelled threatening slurs and even kicking a Muslim Delta employee in the leg at the at John F. Kennedy Airport.

Robin Rhodes, 57, who was returning in January from a trip to Aruba, also faces hate crime charges, reports CNN. He was released on $50,000 bond and ordered to return to court in June. He faces up to four years in prison.

Rhodes was waiting for a connecting flight to Worcester, Massachusetts, when he entered the Delta Sky Lounge at JFK. He came up to the office of the employee, who has not been identified, and said, "Are you (expletive deleted) sleeping? Are you praying? What are you doing?", said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

The criminal complaint states that Rhodes punched the door, which hit the back of the employee's chair. The employee then asked Rhodes as to what she had done to him and he replied, "You did nothing but I am going to kick your (expletive deleted) a**," the complaint said.


Read more: http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/jfk-airport-man-attacks-muslim-woman-yelling-trump-will-get-rid-of-all-of-you-117031700087_1.html



I was at a forum with candidates for Brooklyn DA last night, and recommended a "no mercy" strategy for hate crimes prosecutions; no reduced charges, no plea-bargaining, no lenient sentencing. Send a message that this won't be tolerated.
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JFK Airport: Man attacks Muslim woman yelling, "Trump will get rid of all of you" (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2017 OP
Deplorable JHan Mar 2017 #1
Neither Stable Nor Sober ProfessorGAC Mar 2017 #2
"recommended a "no mercy" strategy" BumRushDaShow Mar 2017 #3
i cant get enough of their crying faces. OH BOOHOO! samnsara Mar 2017 #6
Me either. Aristus Mar 2017 #7
I see that type of truck almost every day down here in the South. DK504 Mar 2017 #13
The sentiment sortof reminded me of this BumRushDaShow Mar 2017 #14
Please be careful going one-on-one with them. Neve know when one of them KingCharlemagne Mar 2017 #24
Thanks for posting a pic again of that PUSSY crying.... Bengus81 Mar 2017 #18
Your forum has the right attitude. Seems like there is a lot sliding by with no prosecution lunasun Mar 2017 #4
It sounds more like trump Turbineguy Mar 2017 #5
Man Kicks Muslim Woman at JFK, Shouts Trump Is Here Now, He Will Get Rid of All of You: DA Judi Lynn Mar 2017 #8
Calling them "deplorable" is being too kind. Initech Mar 2017 #12
You can't make this shit up...lol CincyDem Mar 2017 #28
Wonder If He Salutes a Cardboard Cutout of Trump? TomCADem Mar 2017 #9
And Republicans want to CUT funds that pay for LOCAL police in Airports, the only 'security' in airp Sunlei Mar 2017 #10
The Trump effect at work! Initech Mar 2017 #11
From MassLive.com Grins Mar 2017 #15
If he hadn't been in the airport he probably would have shot her.... Bengus81 Mar 2017 #16
Here's a link to that asshats Company that he owns............. Bengus81 Mar 2017 #17
cryogenics? are all these rwingers some kind of con job? Abu Pepe Mar 2017 #23
Hope he likes his prison cell. dalton99a Mar 2017 #19
Making Amurca great again. spiderpig Mar 2017 #20
you mean airline employees are actually people???? dembotoz Mar 2017 #21
Alcohol and hate and an airport equal Abu Pepe Mar 2017 #22
"face hate crime charges" This should be an instant Hate crime. sarcasmo Mar 2017 #25
Bookmark yourself here, you seem to be connected, in the know, you can Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #26
Who let the ID out? C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #27
Well done! Docreed2003 Mar 2017 #29

BumRushDaShow

(129,302 posts)
3. "recommended a "no mercy" strategy"
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 09:55 AM
Mar 2017

That's apparently what was done to those folks who thought it was cute to disrupt a child's birthday party by rampaging through the event hurling racist epithets, threatening the attendees with guns, and proudly displaying their confederate flag-festooned pickups.



https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/georgia-racist-couple-sentenced.html

DK504

(3,847 posts)
13. I see that type of truck almost every day down here in the South.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:03 PM
Mar 2017

I don't have enough middle fingers for these pigs. No offense to pigs, god knows they are cleaner than these scum suckers.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
24. Please be careful going one-on-one with them. Neve know when one of them
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 10:57 AM
Mar 2017

will pull a gun on you and maybe even discharge it.

After I was physically assaulted by a pro-Bush yahoo in 2006, my wife refused to let me protest by myself ever again.

Bengus81

(6,932 posts)
18. Thanks for posting a pic again of that PUSSY crying....
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:42 PM
Mar 2017

Hey bud,your ASS belongs to Bubba and a few black gangs in prison.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
4. Your forum has the right attitude. Seems like there is a lot sliding by with no prosecution
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 09:59 AM
Mar 2017

Oh they are just silly
Hmm no they are harassing and often violent.

Judi Lynn

(160,591 posts)
8. Man Kicks Muslim Woman at JFK, Shouts Trump Is Here Now, He Will Get Rid of All of You: DA
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 11:02 AM
Mar 2017

A Massachusetts businessman is facing hate crime charges for violence against an airport worker, says district attorney's office.




. . .

Rhodes then kicked her in the right leg. In an effort to get away, Khan moved to a corner of the office, according to prosecutors.

But Rhodes kicked the door, stepped into the office and blocked her from leaving. At this point, another individual is said to have come over to the office to try and calm Rhodes down. He moved away from the door and Khan ran out of the office to the front desk of the lounge.

Prosecutors said that Rhodes then followed Khan, got down on his knees and began to bow down in imitation of a Muslim praying.

. . .




http://www.diversityinc.com/news/man-kicks-muslim-woman-jfk-shouts-trump-now-will-get-rid-da/

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There is no behavior too low for these Trump-loving racist scums. In a civilized society, men do not "kick" people, any people, any where. Nor do women, if they are decent.

Initech

(100,096 posts)
12. Calling them "deplorable" is being too kind.
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 11:50 AM
Mar 2017

I have much uglier words for them but the decorum prohibits me from listing them here. I went to Best Buy last week to get a movie on Blu-Ray, and saw a woman wearing a hijab. You know what I did? I bought the movie I came in there for, left, and went about the rest of my day. For someone to be as rotten as that guy is despicable.

CincyDem

(6,378 posts)
28. You can't make this shit up...lol
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 11:29 AM
Mar 2017


"Serving, enabling and empowering others is our greatest opportunity to make a difference"


The home page big letter statement on NitroFreeze Cryo Services web page.

I don't know if it's up as a defense to his asshat actions or if it was a bullshit line up before "the event". Either way, I hope his customers take a look at this behavior and ask if that's what's that want to support.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
10. And Republicans want to CUT funds that pay for LOCAL police in Airports, the only 'security' in airp
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 11:35 AM
Mar 2017

local police are the ONLY security in passenger airport areas including parking lots!!

IMO, Republicans WANT MORE ATTACKS like this so they can push their progrom against "crime" and "immigrants", push out local police 'jobs' and bring in new "for profit" private security airport police.

Costing Americans MORE in Federal & State taxpayer money paying another "FOR PROFIT" business.

old definition of progrom, they need to update with Republicans progroms against Americans and immigrants.

po·grom


/ˈpōɡrəm,pəˈɡräm/


noun

noun: pogrom; plural noun: pogroms




an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.

synonyms: massacre, slaughter, mass murder, annihilation, extermination, decimation, carnage, bloodbath, bloodletting, butchery, genocide, holocaust, purge, ethnic cleansing

Grins

(7,224 posts)
15. From MassLive.com
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:25 PM
Mar 2017
"Rhodes was the president of NitroFreeze and the Cryogenics Institute of New England, a research center within NitroFreeze. A web page describing the history and mission of the Cryogenics Institute of New England appears to have been updated to remove mention of Rhodes."

Gee. I wonder why?

http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2017/03/robin_rhodes_could_face_up_to.html

Bengus81

(6,932 posts)
16. If he hadn't been in the airport he probably would have shot her....
Fri Mar 17, 2017, 12:33 PM
Mar 2017

Gawd these Trump loonies are the most HATE FILLED asshats in the World. ALL egged on by Trump for a year to do this kind of SHIT.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
26. Bookmark yourself here, you seem to be connected, in the know, you can
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 11:23 AM
Mar 2017

do the research in that I bet Fuckface pardons every single person jailed for hate crimes after he became president.

You could do a project tracking that for us? I bet he has someone keeping track of them so he can reward them.

C_U_L8R

(45,014 posts)
27. Who let the ID out?
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 11:24 AM
Mar 2017

And how did Republicans fester all this racial hatred?
I thought until not so long ago that America was a
fairly enlightened place... only to discover the worst
of society have been spreading like a raging fungus.

Docreed2003

(16,869 posts)
29. Well done!
Sat Mar 18, 2017, 12:10 PM
Mar 2017

I say this a lot but thank you brooklynite, for what you do for your community and the party!

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