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Breaking:Tulsa Shooting Rampage Appears To Be Case of Racial Revenge

Posted: 04/ 8/2012 10:08 am


One of the two white men arrested shortly before 2A.M. Sunday morning for shooting three African-American North Tulsa residents to death and injuring two others had a racist posting on his Facebook pages. The apparently random racially motivated shootings terrorized Tulsa's African-American community. The city in 1921 was the location of one of the nation's worst race massacres. Jake England , 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, were taken into custody Sunday morning by a task force of local and federal law enforcement including the Tusla Police Department and Sherriff's office as well as the FBI and U.S. Marshall's service. The spree attacks apparently took place almost two years to the day after England's father was killed by an African-American man who tried to break into the apartment of suspect Jake England's sister. The father went to the North Tulsa apartment complex after the man who had attempted the break-in threatened the daughter upon his return.

On Thursday afternoon, Jake England appears to have posted the following message on his facebook page:

Jake England

Today is two years that my dad has been gone shot by a fucking nigger it's hard not to go off between that and sheran I'm gone in the head. 
RIP 
. Dad and sheran I 
. Love and miss u 
I think about both of u every second of the day
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On Friday, England appeared to make the following post:

Jake England
Chilling at that house people talking shit on me for some shit I didn't do lil man and cady Ian's here I do believer it just mite be the time to call it quits I I hate to say it like that but I'm done if something does happen tonite be ready for another funeral later
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Jake England I'm cool I'm not guard do anything my son is the only thing I have to live for

In January, Alvin Watts, the other arrestee allegedly wrote the following on his facebook page:

Alvin Watts O.b.a.m.a. Let me define. One big ass mistake america! Lol! Share · January 17 at 12:13pm via mobile ·

Carl England, Jake's father,according to local news stories from April 2010 went to the Comanche Park Apartments at 3608 North Quaker Avenue to assist his daughter after she was involved in a confrontation that day. The elder England was allegedly shot to death at the apartments by Pernell Demond Jefferson, a convicted felon. Jefferson was allegedly struck by the younger England's boyfriend with a baseball bat during an attempt to break into her apartment. Carl England appeared to go to the apartment after Jefferson threatened to get even with his daughter for being hit earlier in the day.

Authorities have not yet released detailed information, although the arrests appear to be based on a hotline tip.

 

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Natives Mom
helping to keep you honest
09:57 AM on 04/11/2012
Time for the United Nations to step in and investigate Amerikka for failing to protect its black citizens!
03:50 PM on 04/11/2012
really? from who each other - because they kill off more of their own kind than any other race does
05:03 PM on 04/12/2012
You yourself are an unbelievably racist and ignorant person. Most of your comments belie the true nature of your masked racism. You run your mouth about white injustice but refuse to acknowledge facts. It is a bonafide FACT that blacks kill FAR MORE of their own people than any other race, and despite comprising a mere 13% of the U.S. population blacks commit better than 7 times more homicides than whites. Explain that away with your steadfast yet masked racism...
05:43 PM on 04/19/2012
Before you make comments why don't you check your facts. According to the FBI crime statistics for 2011, whites commited 1/3 more crimes then blacks. Sorry to have to break it to you like that, but it is true. Google it.
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Sistagirl Young
05:50 PM on 04/10/2012
LORD HELP US. I can see folk ain't tired of HATE and they sure ain't tired of killin'. And as long as there's HATE there's gonna be killin'. While I feel sorrow for Jake England's loss, killing those innocent people won't bring his people back. But then maybe he thinks in inflicting pain on others will reduce his. GOD knows I haven't a clue. Now suppose there's someAfrican American's who lost a loved one at the hands of a police officer ( and you know there are). What's to keep them from thinking the same way Jake England thought? An eye for an eye. Doesn't matter if it isn't the same person who caused your pain. All you know is they're the same color. LORD HAVE MERCY. People are running amok. The saddest part? It ain't gonna get any better. Life.
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edgySF
I am as God created me
08:05 AM on 04/10/2012
only one side is filled with hate.

if we have a race war, it will be started by whites. they are obviously feeling threatened and desperate, and blaming all their personal woes on the black race.

the truth is that white people are becoming just another minority class in America. and some of them just can't handle that.

it's no coincidence that MLK arose from the African American community. he was an extremist for love.

Christians don't want a race war. Jesus was our last human sacrifice...ENOUGH with the killing and violence. It serves no purpose.

We must find another way.
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WARHUKKER
“My country, right or wrong
09:53 AM on 04/10/2012
I suggest you watch this video,and this is not an isolated incident.Things like this have happened in Philadelphia,Chicago,Mall of America,Kansas City and more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3s-zuBBzUg
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Tresco
Sistagirl Laughin' Thingy Award Winner!
10:26 AM on 04/10/2012
The ladies call me "the extremist of love".
11:13 PM on 04/09/2012
Or you sure this guy is not an African American himself? I mean he looks black could it be possible that he is mixed and not know it?
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BlairCase
12:55 PM on 04/10/2012
Jake England is mixed-race. His father is white and his mother is Cherokee. He also may have African American ancestry as well as Native American, since many fee blacks integrated into Cherokeen society. If Jake England had been a victim, the media would refer to him as Native American.
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inkongirl
12:30 PM on 04/09/2012
He took the time to post to Facebook before he went out shooting.
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hootie1fan
A liberal, educated, Catholic Yankee living in AL
08:47 AM on 04/09/2012
Interesting isn't it that he identifies the murderer of his father as being black and not being a male. Maybe it's men that are the problem (note only a slight amount of sarcasm here)
madkoz
Dog is my co-pilot
06:39 AM on 04/09/2012
Take the color out of this and your still left with a heinous crime that makes no sense. The kind of crime all Americans should stand up and denounce. The kind of crime that puts each and every one of us at risk for nothing more than an angry citizen with a gun. As soon as you add the color aspect you quickly see citizens lining up on opposite sides of the fence hurling accusations and this is what is slowly destroying our nation. Look around racists and realize that the country you live in could not of been built without the blood, sweat and tears of those you despise.
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Tresco
Sistagirl Laughin' Thingy Award Winner!
10:29 AM on 04/10/2012
Blacks slaves weren't the only ones working hard. And don't expect any extras just because some of your ancestors had it rough. If you want to inherit wealth and status move somewhere else.
01:07 PM on 04/10/2012
Yes, they worked hard. Did you see our pay check stubs. I want to move next door to you. I promise I'll be a really good neighbor. Oh, Tresco what an absolute racist bigot you are. You reek of hatried. Move to an island and be rid of us all. If you lucky maybe black cannibals will have the worst feast of their lives.
04:13 AM on 04/09/2012
You know listening to some of you far right wingers from you American you are putting your own people in danger right here in South Africa.
12:38 AM on 04/09/2012
As long as there are black, white, asian and hispanic leaders who cry racism, there will allways be an excuse to kill one another. We are americans, and untill we see that as the only race, hate crimes will continue, and that is unamerican
kellygreen
"Ideology is the Science of Idiots" John Adams
09:22 AM on 04/09/2012
No.

As long as we cannot evolve past the CAVE MAN tendency to fear, hate and distrust anyone who doesn't look like we do or think like we do....

...we will always have crimes like this out on the lunatic fringe....

...and denial of the reality and significance of crimes like this.

For every person who commits acts like this....there are dozens of others who THINK like this. But simply have better impulse control.
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SameBoat
Retired cop, educator
10:28 AM on 04/09/2012
With all due respect, I do not believe it to be unamerican, unfortunately. But it is at odds with the lofty ideals we have always espoused and never quite reached in our history and in the present
06:11 PM on 04/08/2012
These were HATE CRIMES, and from what the police is saying, there are more arrests to come.
07:39 PM on 04/08/2012
HP, stop calling this heinous crime "racial revenge." From what I understand, the victims never met, never hurt, and did not even know the family of one of the killers. If what one of the killers is saying is true, then a BAD person affected his life. Now, that he equates all Blacks as bad people to be killed, he is not going to ever be let out of jail because he is a nut. A lot of African-Americans died at the hands of White people, but it would not in any way be okay for an African-American go out and start randomly shooting innocent white people.

I hear that there may be more arrests coming, so this was some horrible group with one agenda. Now, they are going to be around the people they hate 24/7.
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Micheal Anderson
When the Rebels become the Tyrants
12:57 AM on 04/09/2012
They call it racial revenge because he was taking his revenge out against the race of the person who he thought wronged him. It's a clumsy phrase but it's accurate.
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SameBoat
Retired cop, educator
10:31 AM on 04/09/2012
It sounds as if race was the sole motive for these two. We will see.
kellygreen
"Ideology is the Science of Idiots" John Adams
09:23 AM on 04/09/2012
Hopefully civil suits as well, if there proves to have been a more extensive conspiracy.
05:55 PM on 04/08/2012
My understanding is that the 3 people that were killed and the 2 badly wounded by those two men did not know the killers, have never met the killers, and have never done anything against the killers or their families at all. How can it be a revenge killing when you kill innocents?
06:19 PM on 04/08/2012
Because if the killers are short fused enough to connect all black people to the death of his father then maybe, just maybe he used this random act of violence as a way settling the score.
07:41 PM on 04/08/2012
So, in his mind to kill as many Black people as he can will settle some score. Black people have suffered horrible race crimes through history, but I am sure White people would not call it "racial revenge" if an African-American kill innocent White people.
kellygreen
"Ideology is the Science of Idiots" John Adams
09:28 AM on 04/09/2012
People who do things like this, are not pyschologically or emotionally evolved enough to see people as individuals.

Someone who does things like this, sees people as simply being "examples" of whatever "group" they happen to belong to. Their outlook on the world is very "tribal".

So (in this case) it was not a felon (who just happened to be black) who killed his father. It was a BLACK PERSON who killed his father, so therefore all black people shared in the responsibility for the death....and in the revenge he was going to exact for it.

Behavior like this never makes any sense, rationally. It is driven by emotion (fear, hatred, rage) and group identity (us vs "them").
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SameBoat
Retired cop, educator
10:34 AM on 04/09/2012
Lol. I have never heard "racist" described as "tribal" before. Nice try, but it doesn't float.
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Stevmlller
In any war between the civilized man and the savag
11:16 AM on 04/09/2012
You should check out the youtube vid" Congo soldiers explain why they rape" to see what the tribal nature of detroit. The books IQ and the Wealth of Nations and The Global Bell Curve do show a link between lower IQ and crime.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121724
05:06 PM on 04/08/2012
Greetings Brian and Citizens,

What Is Your Point?

It is perplexing to me to find a point for this article, unless it is to further stir the anger among the African Americans. It was an unfortunate incident but does warrant a spot at the national level, unless you are going to discuss a broader point for all of us.

It seems to me that time would be better spent talking about the rising violence that is motivated by race. Yet it seems to me that much of the drive by media and progressive so called journalists like yourself has a guilt or persecution complex in discussing flash mobs or the reprisal killings for Trevon's death.

Where are those who are courageous enough to discuss the entire issue, because all I see right now are those riding the wave of race hustlers.

Warm regards,

Michael Winters
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Roscheblue
Lonestar ATLien
09:19 PM on 04/08/2012
reprisal killings for Trevon's death? What reprisal killings? Link, please.
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Micheal Anderson
When the Rebels become the Tyrants
01:01 AM on 04/09/2012
Yeah, clearly an apologist.

Shooting a bunch of black people simply because they are black is apparently not national news to this person. Probably shouldn't even be local news in his opinion. After all, you know how excitable black people can be.
09:30 PM on 04/08/2012
Excellent observation; I would add "The stiring of the Pot" by Obama's, Sharptens, Jackson and many other Blacks comments that did not help this situation. The rush to judgement against George Zimmerman I am sure pushed the Tulsa shooters over the edge.
madkoz
Dog is my co-pilot
06:31 AM on 04/09/2012
Zimmerman is still free so exactly what rush to judgement are you babbling about?
kellygreen
"Ideology is the Science of Idiots" John Adams
09:40 AM on 04/09/2012
You are either being sarcastic....(I hope)

Or you are delusional.
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Stevmlller
In any war between the civilized man and the savag
04:09 PM on 04/08/2012
I thought it might have been a revenge thing for the elderly couple in Tulsa where the wife was raped and killed and the husband still in the hospital. Funny how that crime didnt make anthing but the local news. It was Nancy and Bob Strait
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Tyler Austin
Women = people. Corperations ≠ people.
05:48 PM on 04/08/2012
"Funny how that crime didnt make anthing but the local news."

No, it's not funny actually. It's sad that you live in a country where such attacks are so common that they only make the local news.

Not to be cold blooded, but a criminal act however horrible is not in the same league as race based terrorism.
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Stevmlller
In any war between the civilized man and the savag
10:14 PM on 04/08/2012
How about this hate crime. Had to hear about a TX crime on UK news.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365112/Horrific-gang-rape-18-men-girl-11-Texas-sparks-racial-tension.html

The alleged gang rape of an 11-year-old girl by at least 18 boys and young men has sparked shame and outrage in a tiny Texas town, but it has also stirred racial tensions that threaten to split the East Texas hamlet.
All of the defendants arrested are African-American and the girl is Hispanic.
11:31 PM on 04/08/2012
It's not, in this case it is much worse than race based shootings
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soisay
Angry? Scared? Thank a Republican.
08:31 PM on 04/08/2012
Are you really going for a contest of tit-for-rat on crime statistics. Please include economic, opportunity, harassment, and access along with misdemeanors and felonies. B/B & W/W crime numbers support the notion of high crime, low opprotunity, strict enforcement, long sentences, few or no paths to inter generational change.
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soisay
Angry? Scared? Thank a Republican.
01:05 AM on 04/09/2012
From StevMiller (deleted) Commiting crime has a greater correlation with poverty than poverty does with crime. ...If Chicago was removed from IL you would have a state with the same murder rate as finland. If you want to go tit for tat for crimes the 15 shot in chicago last weekend and the 49 shot in chicago on St Pattys day weekend make up more shootings than several states with open carry gun laws. For economic opertunity I point out that living on welfare is better than being in the top 1% of natives of any black nation.

Soisay: I agree. Chicago's bad economy increase dangerous areas. Until local tax cuts diminish police soon (from job outsourcing, 2-wars/tax-cuts, deficit hawking), the USA has better enforcement against marauding criminals than most African, mid-Asian, and central America nations. But just as we don't compare religious freedom to oppressive Wahhabists in SArabia, Iraq, Iran, etc, we shouldnt compare street crime, kidnapping, gang shootings to Cali, Veracruz, Mogadishu, or Kandahar.

Crimes like Zimmerman, caused by mass hysterical suspicion exacerbated by armed participants are the wrong strategy. Had he waited for a squad car, this wouldn't have happened. And you wouldn't be bringing up Sr Citizens in Tulsa.
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demisfine
Often correct, NEVER right.
04:08 PM on 04/08/2012
"Walking while black" once again, can get you killed.
05:51 PM on 04/19/2012
Living while black more like it
03:51 PM on 04/08/2012
Look at some of Watts' more recent FB entries for another possible motive. The day of the shootings, his baby momma changed her relationship status to announce that she was now hooked up with some dark, swarthy guy. It might be, since they were allegedly asking directions, they were looking for this guy's house and decided to shoot anyone who gave them the wrong answer.

http://shar.es/rglIy

What the hell. It's a theory.