Man thrusts American flag through another man’s head at Sonic, Oklahoma cops say : offbeat

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

What's more American than high rates of gun violence? I think we may have an answer…

[+] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

@kool_newt

@TheWaterGod

"Maiming is a felony crime in Oklahoma that carries a punishment of up to life in prison."

Source: https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/man-stabbed-near-gas-station-at-tulsa-hills

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Probably the initial charge to get him in custody with more coming

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[–] BassTurd 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He stabbed a flag pole through a guy's head, on purpose, and then said, "he deserved it". That sounds an awful lot like attempted murder.

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[–] BassTurd 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Manslaughter would imply that there was an instigation that lead to unreasonable act that's could result in loss of life. The article says the attacker charged him with the flag pole and attacked. Clearly we don't have all of the information, but unless the victim was doing something that could potentially justify an emotionally charged face stabbing, this reads to me more like attempted murder, 2nd degree since it wasn't premeditated. That and the lack of remorse isn't helping this dude's case. Either way, I think it's more than the maiming of the initial charges.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@Cap mentioned that Maiming is a felony charge in Oklahoma, with a potential for a life sentence.

@kool_newt

@TheWaterGod

"Maiming is a felony crime in Oklahoma that carries a punishment of up to life in prison."

Source: >https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/man-stabbed-near-gas-station-at-tulsa-hills

Edited because linking to the comment didn't seem to work on my end

[–] BassTurd 2 points 2 years ago

That's interesting. I assume they'll tack on more charges later.

[–] Etterra 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They quoted the prep as saying "he deserved it." Like WTF did the victim do to deserve being impaled like it's fucking 1663 and you're the bannerman for a regiment of Swedish pikemen?

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints 1 points 2 years ago

Deep cut?

[–] billwashere 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sometimes I miss r/nottheonion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's actually several nottheonion communities on Lemmy! I'm on mobile so I can't easily link them, but you should be able the find them on https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[email protected]

'scuze me while I adjust my cape.

[–] betweenthesixes 3 points 2 years ago

But not all heros wear capes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It suffered from a lack of moderation. Half the posts were not oniony.

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