The 17-year-old suspect from Garwood — a son of a retired police officer and the nephew of the Westfield police chief — was charged Wednesday with the first-degree murders of Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas.

Relatives of Niiotis said the teen had been stalking her for months — something the teen suspect acknowledged on livestreams of his MLB co-op games, which attracted thousands of followers on TikTok.

https://nj1015.com/cranford-murder-case-update-2/

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    What’s extra fucked up is before the murder happened the family tried to get help from the police but they didn’t do anything because the MAGA psycho is from a cop family.

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      Further proof that many cops aren’t accidentally useless, they’ll jerk themselves off about protecting their community, but readily deny assistance to someone that they can justify not giving a fuck about. Fucking pieces of shit, they hung those two girls out to dry while they were being actively stalked.

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      They did something: they immediately distanced themselves from him once the news picked up this story. The reporting is terrible bc a lot is via NJ.com which is a garbage site but he is the nephew of the chief of police (his dad, the chiefs brother, is also a cop), and the chief was very quick to make a statement that was basically like “hey fuck this kid, not my family (except he literally is)”.

      He also initially got away with it. Despite the fact that she had a restraining order and a history of issues with this boy he runs her and her friend down in cold fucking blood going 3x the speed limit. So what do the cops do? Give him 15 tickets and let him go home of course. And what does he do? Immediately livestreams and talks about the crime like he didn’t just straight up murder them.

      I mean maybe I’m crazy but this reeks of Elliot Rodger misogynist incel shit. People just want literally everything to be politics now. Tbf that is more right wing but it’s not necessarily political as much as it’s nihilism. I’m sure the Charlie Kirk thing was true but it’s probably the spark that set off the misogynistic bomb. Like he wasn’t going out to murder libs, if that makes sense? He was looking for an excuse to murder this girl that he felt owed him sex or whatever. Real bad shit

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        3x the speed limit is also 8x the kinetic energy, which for a 2,000 kg vehicle is about 1 Mega-joules

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        The Charlie Kirk thing is reference to comments he made while streaming after. It could just be the thing that broke him out doesn’t necessarily have to be the root cause.

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        And what does he do? Immediately livestreams and talks about the crime like he didn’t just straight up murder them.

        Isn’t that a trait of serial killers? Bringing up the murder they committed to give it fame while preemptively denying any blame and attributing it to bullying.

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          Eh. A lot of “traits of serial killers” have extremely weak or no evidence base. AFAIK the constellation of bedwetting, setting fires, and animal abuse is the only real evidence based set of personality traits (which was still extremely weak). And even then it’s widely anecdotally repeated that any of these behaviors counts the way you describe (“he abused animals? That’s a sign of being a serial killer!!”) when the Macdonald triangle was considered a predictor with all three behaviors in conjunction.

          But generally even that is considered kind of crap nowadays. predictors in the modern sense are more predictable and less salacious: significant neglect and abuse history, empathy issues, antisocial behavior, impulsivity, and narcissism. But this list is so vague (intentionally so) because it’s less about predicting “serial killers” (which is a foolish game) and more about predicting who is at risk of committing violent crime.

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      Qualified immunity is some high level bullshit.

      Negligence should not ever be off the table to sue for.

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    stalking her for months

    Checks out, none of this has anything to do with charlie kirking. What a sick fuck

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      Charlie Kirking? is that a phenomenon where you make your face smaller in a picture?

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          I propose we use “kirking” to mean the act of becoming a viable candidate for the Darwin awards.

          Although unfortunately Charlie himself isn’t, despite the manner of his death being worthy, as he had already procreated. Perhaps if someone proves the kids aren’t his…?

          Arguing against gun control in a tent that reads “prove me wrong”?

          Almost as smart as dressing yourself in bacon and running into a pack of hyenas.

          “Bro is straight up kirking

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      Just because he was stalking them for months, doesn’t mean that the actual act of murder wasn’t related to Kirk.

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    Relatives of Niiotis said the teen had been stalking her for months — something the teen suspect acknowledged on livestreams of his MLB co-op games, which attracted thousands of followers on TikTok.

    Once again, we do absolutely nothing until it’s too late.

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    This guy is being charged as a minor? Come the fuck on. He is 17! Charge this guy as an adult and put him away for life. No room for people like this in soceity.

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    Yeah, when it’s a hater like kirk being killed, suddenly he gets a day of rememberance, but when two innocent women get killed by a MAGAt, suddenly there’s NO media coverage at all

    Anyone wanna bet that he gets a slap on the wrist and a “don’t do it again” because he’s a MAGAt?

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      The extent of how they reacted to Kirk’s death was fucking insane. It happened right on the eve of the 24th anniversary of 9/11 and… no one on the right gave a fuck! They just forgot about it and all acts of remembrance were entirely for that fucker and not the thousands of people who died that day.

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      Anyone wanna bet that he gets a slap on the wrist and a “don’t do it again” because he’s a MAGAt?

      Best I can do is a medal and “do it again, but apologize next time”.

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      Sure. But why are you, a Ferengi, posting on Lemmy? Don’t you have some profit you should be out earning? How do you plan to gain entrance to the Divine Treasury at this rate?

      Also, you owe me $225 in consulting fees for posting this comment.

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    i am unsure how is that guy not an enemy combatant while some dude in a fishing boat off of the coast of Venezuela is an enemy combatant.

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      Well he was on the right, you see. They can’t be enemies of the state even when Trump is goading them into violence because they are on the right team.

      I fucken hate it here.

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    Thank GOD he wasn’t Trans! OTHERWISE Murdering Two Children in Revenge for your Favorite Political Figure would be BAD NEWS and TERRORISM! THIS American was just a Misguided Good Christian (UNLESS we Find out he knew a Trans Person once!)!

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      Are we positive he wasn’t wearing drag at the time of the murder or muttering children’s stories to himself?

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    Another case of femicide, men killing women because they think they owe them and should be punished when they don’t follow. Absolutely disgusting mindset, no wonder lots of women avoid dark alleys or travelling alone. And even that doesn’t help them enough, obviously…

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      no wonder they dont like to hang around men in bars,. all those pickup videos i have been unfortunately been exposed to, when we had out older bro live with us, he was binging on that junk for hours on end. one trend i notice amongs the different artists, is that the women are always very uncomfortable around the men, also being filmed makes it worst(eventhough they blurred the womens identities. plus the commentary after, or before implies calling them sluts if they dont agree to “date” them.

      also getting roofied, some women have brought thier friends just in case the guy trys to date rape them, or watch the guy put drugs in her drinks.

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        plus the commentary after, or before implies calling them sluts if they dont agree to “date” them.

        Date men? Slut. Refuse to date men? Believe it or not: also slut!

        The logic of those dweebs is irrefutable.

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        Yup. Date rape drugs are nothing new… Old shit.

        This is why - for years - I only drank beer in bottles that I could carry with me into the bathroom. Just folded a napkin over the top (it’s not like girls spray like loose firehoses when we pee) and all was fine.

        40 years into a relationship - now I don’t drink… God’s honest, don’t miss it either.

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      Because Trump is president and mainstream news has been essentially directly threatened by him.

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      Idk if you noticed the extra-legal nazi takeover of USA? Are you not aware we live in a post-truth, post-law, post-rights world?

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      Not to naysay, the dude is a “nice guy” PoS. But the link is tenuous at best at the moment. its a clip of him saying one of the girls is a dumb ass for a tiktok video she shared that was negative towards charlie kirk.

      Basically, it seems he was a stalker and killed her (and her friend) for some reason, but I doubt the kirk thing was the main reason. Motive is not clear yet, other than the obvious parts (stalking, probably liked her, but got rejected, she may have gotten a recent BF, jeolous, various anti-female other sentiments).

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      Because it goes against the narrative attempting to be pushed by the mainstream media i.e. Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, etc. They’re not directly responsible for everything that makes it to the news, no, but they are quick to fine/fire any execs who go against their mission, so eventually only sycophants and cowards remain

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      Two words: Brendan Carr.

      It took Trump little time to install a department head that would use the FCC to interfere in corporate mergers and acquisitions - like the Soviet Union of old would (but the GOP’s not communist - oh, no… not at al!) - and as the corporations that own the broadcast are held hostage to the FCC… Welp… there it is.

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    I’ll never understand what do Trump cultists/Kirk stans get out of being empathy deprived peons. They present the other side as weak but they are either in collectives with rapists, abusers or murders. That loser cut those two girls lives short for nothing.

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      A lot of unravel here.

      1. They assume the position of the victim. The victim is not responsible for their action, they’re just defending.

      2. They love the position of power. They fetishize the power. They see that the power rules the world (which is hard to deny) and they treat it as a sacred entity, even if the power doesn’t lead to the ruling. It’s like the famous weird scene from Starship Troopers where kids were contributing in war by smashing small earthly roaches.

      3. They just want to conform, to be recognized as the part of the society. They’re afraid to be abandoned.

      Overall, it could be 1, 2, 3, 1+2, 1+3.

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      The existence of such people is inevitable in a system that is basically free for all battle royale.

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    Is trans or LGBTQ?

    Yes-> You see, these people are mentally ill, he has been stalking these poor girls for months too.

    No->

    Is he or family democrat?

    Yes-> Figures since democrats are known to endorse violence

    No-> Those girls got what they deserved for talking shit about Charlie Kirk who would have forgiven that poor boy.

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      No-> he was a poor lost soul struggling with mental health issues. This act of random unmotivated lone-wolf violence was brought on because he couldn’t get a job because an immigrant took it.

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        Problem is there is someone that believes this blatant propaganda. The common folk ARE the problem. The average human is terminaly corrupt.

        We need mass gene-treatment.

        I don’t care if someone considers it eUgeNIcS, we need to upgrade people!

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          lets start with something simpler, mandatory critical thinking courses, repeated every year, twice.

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            I don’t care, starting with myself. I was trying to find what genes cause ADHD, but you can’t just…do that. There’s too many risks atm, unless done by professionals with expensive equipment. If you try to use a retrovirus, your immune system could react badly and kill you.

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              I know you don’t care. But I imagine tons of minority groups would. And for good reason. And I care for those same reasons because I’m not a complete piece of shit.

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                That’s only a problem when you chop people’s bits off when you stop them from reproducing. But if no one has a genetic disadvantage…then everything would be fair. No more getting screwed over by genetic disease!

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    Guy shared a much closer cultural tie to Tyler Robinson than he did with the people he killed. From a family involved in law enforcement, from a culture of guns and hate. Unlike Tyler Robinson, the guy will probably get the George Zimmerman treatment because it’s not where it’s coming from but whom it affects. US in a nutshell.