Atlanta police on Friday were trying to determine what motivated an Alabama woman accused of a failed attempt to set fire to the home where the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born.
Bystanders, including two off-duty police officers from New York, stopped the woman as she splashed gasoline on the historic home in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward shortly before 6 p.m. on Thursday and helped detain her until police arrived, local media reported.
The bystanders were “tourists from Utah”. UPDATE: video here.
“Laneisha Shantrice Henderson” No mug shot, none needed
Laqueesha Toneesha Henderson None needed. Rats. All.
Jumping to conclusions Greg.
I know plenty of white Hendersons. Or could that just be her married name?
I didn’t realize that demographic ever got married.
Her great, great grannie married her “massa” if you get my drift.
Are any of them named Laneisha?
Oooops! Your lucky stab turned out to be correct.
There is video of her doing the deed.
Lucky stab? I think not . It would be fair to say the headlines would have been much different.
Google “image search” will confirm your suspicions of “Laneisha Shantrice Henderson”. She (yes, I’m assuming her gender) appears to NOT be related to me.
It did come as a surprise to see the image of one of the Utahans, he looks like Alex Jones did 20 years ago.
the entire world is so strange these days …
“Laneisha Shantrice”.
Just curious, but what is the origin of names like these that seem prevalent amongst African-Americans? They are clearly not common, or even uncommon, English or European names. They don’t seem reflective of some kind of Sub-Saharan names. Where do these names come from? Why are they so unique to African Americans? Why are so many with names like this one seem so messed up?
Drugs?
Just a guess…
there is some sort of semi rhyming in them . like hip hop music
their names dont stray far from a formula. latisha , tamika , jamal , lots of A’s
Ever since “Roots”. That’s just one theory posited by more than a few anyways. Sounds about right.
There was a thing called ‘ebonics’ that swept through the 90’s where you can make up any word to mean anything you want as long as you’re black. They did it with names too because giving proper English names to your children would be succumbing to white colonialism. This isn’t a pithy response, it’s the correct answer – look where we are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_names
Henderson, as of Harry and the Hendersons fame?
>King, who was assassinated in 1968, remains an American hero
Isn’t King sort of inconvenient and effectively far-right at this point?
Yep, the left did an absolute hatchet job on MLK before Covid and I couldn’t figure out why… then it occurred to me that his calls for non violent protests, a la Ghandi, weren’t radical enough for the Democrats and their shock troops in the BLM. The had to destroy Martin’s memory before they put America to the torch.
Which begs the question… who is 26-year-old Laneisha Shantrice Henderson? Did she tell responding officers why she did what she did, and what she hoped to accomplish? She appears to be a nut, so how and why did she purchase a five gallon jerry can, fill it to the brim and get her wacked out self to MLK’s house? She certainly didn’t take the bus, and she didn’t drag that five gallon can across town, so if she didn’t drive herself without hitting a lamp post, how did she get there? Who does she work for, or was it the ‘voices in her head’ that sponsored this bit of lunacy?
And while I’m at it, is Jussie Smollett in Atlanta?
What better example of being judged … “by the content of your character”? Sorry Leticia … you FAIL!!
Character matters…not at all.
Oddly the only known case of “black on black” crime not committed on a street named Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Thankfully she was foiled by the child lock on her bic lighter.
Held at a hospital for a psych evaluation? In other words, an exploration of why she is a devout Leftist.
Mugshot: https://www.foxnews.com/us/martin-luther-king-jr-home-arson-suspect-named-caught-camera
If a caring forward-thinking thoughtful black mother wanted her daughter’s resume to stay on the desk rather than ending in the paper basket she’d make a different choice.
We’d see a lot more black Jennifers!
White Supremacists (right Joe?) from Utah stop a young black woman from burning down MLK’s house? You couldn’t make this stuff up.
The perp is a black woman. Naturally Reuters does not mention her race, even though it is of intense interest to almost any reader. But the fact that they didn’t mention it gives it away.
As opposed to your boots, fists, brass knuckles, hammers, billy clubs, shovels, baseball bats….
The legacy of the left: total incoherence.
Unfortunately, this is not surprising. Martin Luther King jr.’s many speeches are directly contradictory to Critical Race Theory (CRT). He didn’t just say that black people should be judged by the content of their character. He thought all people should be evaluated in that way.
I don’t think this woman was on drugs or crazy. I think she was in the early stages of a race discrimination hoax and got caught. Martin Luther King jr.’s historical home carries little weight and is a small sacrifice to those who believe that skin shade defines everyone.
Martin Luther King was a card carrying Republican .. never mentioned . just like the KKK being the armed wing of the democrat party .
What difference does her motivation make? She needs a swift trial with proper evidence, and a long prison term breaking rocks.
Was her motive financial? 26 yo millennial with a high probability of having no Christian beliefs so why wouldn’t she take 30 pieces of silver for a quick splash, flash and dash? Also, being black, female and woke is the perfect cover for a virtuous tribal match tosser that could care less about the content of one’s character. Soros sure can pick’em.
Not to split hairs but 26 years old makes her a Gen Z. If she was born in 1996 or earlier she would be a Millennial.
So.. Black people are stopping black people from commiting fake hate crimes.. I’m more alarmed than grateful..
Media immediately signalled this was not a person absent of color, because the headlines were not blaring “Hate Crime.”
“Narrative Down” was the title of the autobiography of Eddie Bauer’s marketing director.