The Worst Week Yet:
December 31, 2023-January 6, 2024

Lee Arthur Carter, aka Viper

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Black Americans Ring in the New Year (They Also Shoot in, Stab in, Punch in, Kick in, Leap in, and Kidnap in the New Year)

I’ve never consulted a black American to see if they make New Year’s resolutions. Come to think  of it, I’ve never asked a black American to pronounce the word “resolutions.” But if at least some of them make yearly promises to lose weight, attend church, and be nice to mama, it doesn’t seem as if “giving up crime” is high on their list.

We’re only one week into 2024, and black Americans have already managed to commit underage shooting murders in the wake of lost bicycle races, stab people for wishing them a “Happy New Year,” leap over a judge’s desk to attack her, cause a man to get crushed under an oncoming subway train, and be charged with keeping a sex slave in a garage for several years.

Join me, will you?

New Year’s Eve: After Losing Bicycle Race, Ten-Year-Old Black Child Shoots and Kills Another Ten-Year-Old Black Child

In the late afternoon hours on Saturday, December 31 in the small town of Foothill Farms, California, which is about 15 miles northeast of Sacramento, the local Negro children had assembled to hold a communal bicycle race. Tragically, it was to be the last bicycle race that young Keith “KJ” Frierson would ever win.

The ten-year-old boy’s mother, Brittani Frierson, says she “screamed for hours” after receiving a panicked knock on the door and rushing outside to see her little ten-year-old “KJ” lying dead on the ground, unable to bask in the glow of his victory, which he’d achieved while riding a spanking-new bicycle that she’d given him for Christmas. Choking back tears as she spoke to the press, Frierson said:

There’s nobody that met that boy that did not come back and tell me, to the side, like: “Your son — you raised that boy good. He’s such a good kid.”

The Sacramento sheriff’s office says that another ten-year-old black child, apparently furious that he’d lost the bicycle race, grabbed a gun from his father’s car after his dad instructed him to fetch him some cigarettes, “took a gun from inside the vehicle and bragged that his father had a gun,” then “proceeded to shoot the victim once and ran into a nearby apartment.”

Officials, who booked the unnamed child on suspicion of murder, say that the gun had been stolen and improperly stored. They allege that the child’s father, 53-year-old Arkete Davis, attempted to dispose of the gun in a nearby trash can after the shooting. On Wednesday, officials announced that the only person who would be criminally charged in the incident was the shooter’s 53-year-old father, who was booked on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a felon, criminal storage of a firearm, carrying a stolen loaded firearm in a vehicle, child endangerment, and acting as an accessory to a crime after the fact.

Also on New Year’s Eve:

• A 52-year-old black woman named Lisa Murdock was arrested in Utica, New York and booked on domestic-violence charges after allegedly stabbing a male paramour.
• In Clarksdale, Mississippi, a 44-year-old black man named James Bryant allegedly shot and killed an undoubtedly black male named Demetrius Curtis.
• Nineteen-year-old Daevion Crawford allegedly shot five people at Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• A rough-lookin’ black fella named DeMarkis Perdue allegedly shot and killed an unnamed four-year-old girl at a housing project in East Point, Georgia.

New Year’s Day: Man Wishes Four Other Men a “Happy New Year,” Gets Stabbed on Bronx Subway Platform

Although I’m sure that crime statistics fluctuate, the Bronx, especially the South Bronx, has always stuck out to me as the most imposing and terrifying of all five of New York City’s boroughs — and not only because it’s largely black and Puerto Rican, but because large swaths of it resembled Dresden immediately after the Second World War.

Police say that around 8:45 PM on New Year’s Day on the southbound D train platform in the Fordham Heights section of the South Bronx, 29-year-old Carlos Pilliza greeted a quartet of black manlets with a friendly “Happy New Year,” only for them to start getting verbally uppity with their naïve well-wisher and for one of them to whip out “an unknown sharp object” and begin stabbing Pilliza “multiple times all over his body.” His assailants, who were captured on surveillance photos, all appear to be black and are described as averaging about five feet and eight inches in height. Pilliza was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was originally listed in critical condition but later upgraded to “serious but stable.”

Pilliza’s father told the New York Post:

He just said “Happy New Year,” and then four people were fighting him. It’s a terrible thing.

Note to self: Never wish a quartet of black strangers “Happy New Year.”

Also on New Year’s Day:

• Eighteen-year-old Jelani Cousin allegedly shot and killed an 18-year-old black woman named Ashlei Hinds at 1:20 AM during a party at the Friendship Heights Embassy Suites hotel in Washington, DC.
• In Orange, Texas, police suspect that 33-year-old Lester Lewis — who had been incarcerated three times previously for attacking family members — shot and killed three family members before killing himself.
• Two men in Utica, New York were arrested in connection with a non-fatal shooting.
• Christopher Boyd, Jr. was arrested in Evansville, New York on suspicion of committing a “deadly New Year’s day shooting.”
• Police in Clarksdale, Mississippi say that Marquel Myles shot and killed his live-in girlfriend.

Wednesday, January 3, 2024: While Being Sentenced for a Crime, Black Man Makes Impressive Leap Over Female Judge’s Bench to Attack Her

In a leap that rivals the athleticism of retired Pittsburgh Steelers safety and National Football League Hall of Famer Troy Polamalu, a Las Vegas man named Deobra Redden — yes, it’s a man named “Deobra,” and I shouldn’t need to remind you that I don’t name them, I only report their names — jumped over Judge Mary Kay Holthus’ bench right after she was ready to finally sentence the serial offender to some serious time.

Redden was in court to be sentenced on a charge of attempted battery with substantial bodily harm. That is one of the vaguest criminal charges I’ve ever heard of, and I’m not sure if it means that although the battery was only attempted, it still caused bodily harm, or if he intended to cause bodily harm but somehow botched the battery, in which case it wouldn’t be unreasonable to punish him for being a fuckup in addition to being malicious. Redden had previously been charged with home invasion, domestic violence, and battery upon a protected person, but was apparently able to avoid prison time by completing a series of probation programs.

Speaking on his own behalf, Redden alleged that he was “in a better place in my mind” and told the judge that “I feel like I shouldn’t be sent to prison, but if it’s appropriate for you, then you gotta do what you gotta do.”

Redden’s public defender argued that his client should once again receive a suspended sentence, seeing as how, you know, he completed the previous programs and also has some sort of “mental health” history.

But Judge Holthus and her frizzy hair weren’t having it. She told Redden’s attorney, “I appreciate that, but I think it’s time he get a taste of something else, because I just can’t with that history.”

Perhaps she shouldn’t have been so cunty in her delivery, and using the Valley Girl phrase “I just can’t” scores no points with me, because I’m tempted to assault anyone who ever uses it.

But within moments of Holthus making it clear that she was going to sentence Redden to time behind bars, the feisty defendant leapt over the judge’s bench and seized Holthus, dragging her and the American flag down to the ground in the process, and began pummeling her for what seems like a short eternity.

Video of the leap — presented here in its entirety­ — shows that a chubby and soft-looking male court clerk began tossing limp-wristed girl-punches at Redden in a manner reminiscent of a diminutive, rubber-booted Christian nationalist podcaster who reacted with estrogenic hysteria after an onlooker accused him of being a “cum hunter.”

🇺🇸 Clark County judge Mary Kay Holthus was attacked by a three-time felon inside a Nevada court. The 30-year-old, Deobra Redden, attacked the Las Vegas judge, forcing her to take cover and injuring a marshal in the process. Redden was denied his probation.pic.twitter.com/2XtTqJYbHA

— Total Randomness (@totalrondom) January 4, 2024

Judge Holthus suffered minor injuries and was able to walk away of her own accord only minutes after the attack. Redden, whose bold leap quickly became an internet meme, was charged with six additional felonies for the incident.

Thursday, January 4, 2024: During Subway-Platform Scuffle Over a Cigarette Lighter, White Man Gets Crushed Under an Arriving Train after Black Man Sends Him Falling Onto the Tracks

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If the New Year is teaching us anything, it’s that you should never wish black people “Happy New Year” on a subway platform. Neither should you lend them your cigarette lighter on a subway platform.

SEPTA is the unfortunately apt acronym used for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority — apt not only because Philadelphia is rapidly becoming an open-air septic tank, but because according to a retired Philadelphia police officer, homeless people use the city’s transit system as both “toilets and beds.”

Around 4:30 PM last Thursday at the 34th Street Station on the Market-Frankfort subway line, two men who were “known to SEPTA police” as “destination-less riders” who “live in the subways” became involved in an altercation when the white homeless man — who was much larger than the black homeless man — demanded that the tiny homeless Negro “give me back my lighter.” While it’s clearly an asshole move to borrow someone’s lighter without giving it back, video of the event tends to show that the white man was more verbally and physically belligerent than the black one until the black man finally punched back, causing the white man to lose his balance and fall onto the train tracks only moments before a subway car pulled into the station and crushed him to death.

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Philadelphia

Video surfaces of a fight on SEPTA’s subway platform at 34th and Market

A man is thrown onto the tracks in front of a moving train. The train could not be stopped in time and officials say the man… pic.twitter.com/pgROCDRYvX

— PhillyCrimeUpdate (@PhillyCrimeUpd) January 5, 2024

The video also shows that the black woman who filmed the event seemed far more upset that she’d suffer a slight delay reaching her destination than she was about the fact that she’d just filmed a man dying. Then again, it was a white man who died.

Police arrested 40-year-old Chaz Wearing, who apparently thought nothing of hopping on the train after what had happened, at the next subway stop and charged him with involuntary manslaughter. Wearing already had an outstanding warrant for strangulation in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, the cradle of my birth.

Philadelphia’s new mayor is a black woman named Cherelle Walker, who resembles a Tyler Perry drag character. But she’s promised to get tough on crime along with Philly’s new black police commissioner, Kevin Bethel. (To clarify, Bethel has been black all his life, but only recently became the city’s chief cop.)

Once again, Frank Rizzo wept.

Thursday, January 4, 2024: Houston Rapper Who’s Released More Than 1,500 Albums Gets Arrested and Charged with Keeping a Woman as a Sex Slave in His Garage for Several Years

Lee Arthur Carter was born in Arkansas but has spent most of his life in Houston, Texas, where he gained notoriety — if not money and fame — as a rapper who calls himself Viper. Although it is estimated that he has released only 15 albums’ worth of new material, the entrepreneurial-minded hip-hop impresario has repackaged his songs by slowing them down, speeding them up, and simply retitling them so that as of 2020, it was estimated that he’d released over 1,500 albums.

• Titles in Viper’s oeuvre include You’ll [sic] Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack, 1, 2, Imma Fuck U, Only U Can Cum In Her, Cops Can’t Read, These Rappers Claim They Hard When Them Fags Never Even Seen the Pen, Kill Urself My Man, and U Don’t Know Me Little Nigger.

Carter also claims to be associated with Houston’s “Screwed Up Click,” a loose amalgamation of rappers and DJs for which George Floyd — yes, that George Floyd — once rapped.

Last Thursday, Carter was charged with aggravated kidnapping and placed in Harris County Jail with a bond of only $100,000 — which seems like peanuts when you consider the charges.

Back in April, police raided Carter’s southeast Houston home after a woman used his laptop to alert them that she’d been held captive in his garage and used as a sex slave for four to five years.

Among the allegations:

• The woman said that she was homeless, pregnant, and had been panhandling on a Houston street some years back when Carter pulled up, gave her a dollar, and then took her back to his house — where he allegedly kept her against her will for years. It is unclear whether she ever gave birth and, if so, what became of the baby.
• She says that Carter never gave her a full meal and only fed her snacks, chips, and hard drugs. She says he forced her to have sex with him and only allowed her to use the shower every month or two.
• She alleges that she attempted to escape many times, only for Carter to chase her, re-kidnap her, and lock her in the garage again. She says that he often fed her drugs that rendered her physically incapable of escaping.
• The victim claims that at one point, she escaped and wound up in the hospital, but after being treated, hospital workers allowed Carter to come and pick her up — which is the sketchiest of all her claims.
• Court documents say that when they raided Carter’s home in April of 2023, there was a non-flushing toilet in the garage, a vomit-covered mattress, and that the victim was “extremely malnourished” and weighed “approximately 70 pounds with a pungent stench.”

If the allegations are true, it’s unclear why it took years for neighbors to notice that any of this was happening and to notify authorities. Police were unable to apprehend Carter until last week, when they found him at a Houston motel. On Friday, they again made a “welfare check” at his house suspecting that they might find his victim there, only to find a dog — and I mean a literal canine, not a 70-pound human crackhead with a pungent stench — who was taken to an animal shelter.

Should Carter bail out — and to my knowledge, it only costs $10,000 to bail out when your bail is $100,000 — he will suffer the draconian punishment of being forced to wear an ankle monitor.