Man Blames Obama After Fatally Mowing Down Black Man In His Truck
A California man is blaming his black victim after running over him and killing him. In addition, Joseph Paul Leonard Jr. blames Obama.
“Just because we got Obama for a president, these people think they are real special,” Leonard said as he sat in the back of a sheriff’s patrol car after his arrest for his vehicular assault on Toussaint Harrison, 34, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Leonard burned 23 feet of rubber before smashing his truck into Harrison.
As Harrison lay on the pavement bleeding, Leonard got out of his truck and kicked him several times in the head with his steel-toed work boots, according to witnesses.
Harrison succumbed to his injuries two days later.
Leonard also tried to run over Toussaint’s friend Justin Oliphant. For that, he’s facing attempted murder charges as well.
The second count also contains the same allegation that Leonard launched the attack “because of the victim’s status and perceived ethnicity.”
According to evidence in the trial, the events leading up to the killing began a little after 6:00 a.m. when he and a friend, Samantha Silva, rolled into a McDonald’s.
Harrison and Oliphant showed up in the parking lot of the fast-food eatery shortly afterward, “offering food to homeless people that they had obtained from a nearby hotel,” prosecutors say.
Defense attorneys said the two had stolen the food.
Silva said upon exiting the McDonald’s, the two men approached her asking if she was hungry.
Leonard emerged from the McDonald’s, “and she described that he went crazy and lost his temper,” sheriff’s Detective Pamela Linke testified at the hearing.
Silva reportedly told investigators that Leonard got a chain from the back of his truck and “he was swinging it, trying to hit the boys.”
Surveillance footage from McDonald’s shows Harrison and Oliphant backing off while Leonard appears to be using his chain like a lasso, swinging it over his head.
Leonard got back into his truck, then drove out of view before he re-emerged. The chain was still visible in his hand.
He went on to stomp on a bicycle that Harrison had ridden.
Leonard used a racial sult during his confrontation with the two black men.
The Sacramento Bee reports:
During the fight, one of the two men threw a knife at Leonard and another threw another sharp object at him, possibly a broken bottle, the evidence showed. Pictures of Leonard taken after he was booked showed he suffered an abrasion to his midsection and a lacerated cheek that sent blood trickling down his face and onto his shirt.
A toxicology test on Harrison showed he had methamphetamine in his system. Investigators found a crank pipe in his backpack as well as shards of broken glass.
Harrison and Oliphant fled on on foot after the fight.
Authorities say that Leonard pursued them in his truck before trying to run over Oliphant.
He ended up ramming into Harrison.
“This could have happened to your son if you had one out there,” Leonard told the deputy in the car. “This got too outta hand for me, man.”
Leonard said “I was in fear for my life. You see what they did to me? You make sure you include that in the report. … I beat them off me. … They cut me.”
At one point Leonard said, “Maybe I’m wrong.”
“I mean it was pretty bad,” he said. “If those punks wanted bad, they got bad.” He said “I became the aggressor.”
Leonard went on to say, “You know, I think people are getting tired of being abused by the situation, the way people are being. I myself am tired of it. I am victimized every time I turn around.”
Leonard will testify in his own behalf when the trial resumes Nov. 17, according to the defense attorney.
His attorney told the jury that Leonard claims he was trying to apprehend Harrison and Oliphant before he wound up killing the one man.
According to prosecutors, Leonard has a history of aggressive behavior.
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R.J. Carter November 10th, 2014 at 22:09
So now “Not Wanting To Be Run Over By A Truck” is a special right?
I never knew I was black…
granpa.usthai November 11th, 2014 at 09:34
you might as well be if you vote Democrat.
R.J. Carter November 11th, 2014 at 09:56
Oh. Well, that throws me out.
Debora Elizabeth Hill November 11th, 2014 at 19:17
Excuse me??? You might as well be color-blind if you’re a Democrat, as I am, because I voted for the President I thought would do the best job…and he has. By the way, he’s probably a lot more intelligent, handsome and erudite than you are.
R.J. Carter November 10th, 2014 at 23:09
So now “Not Wanting To Be Run Over By A Truck” is a special right?
I never knew I was black…
granpa.usthai November 11th, 2014 at 10:34
you might as well be if you vote Democrat.
R.J. Carter November 11th, 2014 at 10:56
Oh. Well, that throws me out.
Debora Elizabeth Hill November 11th, 2014 at 20:17
Excuse me??? You might as well be color-blind if you’re a Democrat, as I am, because I voted for the President I thought would do the best job…and he has. By the way, he’s probably a lot more intelligent, handsome and erudite than you are.
jcspires51 November 10th, 2014 at 23:04
“Obama Made Me Do It”. There’s gotta be a stupid redneck honky tonk song in there somewhere for the jukeboxes …
jcspires51 November 11th, 2014 at 00:04
“Obama Made Me Do It”. There’s gotta be a stupid redneck honky tonk song in there somewhere for the jukeboxes …
rejectrepublicanlies November 10th, 2014 at 23:30
Fed on a steady diet of hate courtesy of “Fox News,” Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party. These failures and human garbage blame everyone for their failed marriages, lack of education, ignorance, etc. They are all over the Conservative Facebook pages at this very moment. Charge him with murder in the first degree.
rejectrepublicanlies November 11th, 2014 at 00:30
Fed on a steady diet of hate courtesy of “Fox News,” Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party. These failures and human garbage blame everyone for their failed marriages, lack of education, ignorance, etc. They are all over the Conservative Facebook pages at this very moment. Charge him with murder in the first degree.
Nabil Al-Murabit November 11th, 2014 at 01:34
I hope that he’ll be properly taken care of once he’s in prison. I hope that he gets gang raped by the very Black guys that he hates so fucking much
granpa.usthai November 11th, 2014 at 08:31
there are no black men in prison. A Latino in Florida with a WHITE MALE DL says these “f’ing coons (translated in his family language meaning golly gee, it sure is nippy outside, but not nippy enough for this young fellow American to be running away from my SUV with high beams on following him through the backyards of OUR gated community, perhaps I should get out armed with my ‘STATE LEGAL’ firearm and see if I might be of possible assistance to him ’cause maybe he is lost or confused) always get away. If they always get away then they could not possibly be in prison -that’s where they place people who get caught not being nice – sometimes. So, Mr. Leonard [the mad Kalifornia Kicker?] need have no worries or fear of serving any time required for striking a pedestrian on a public road in California, where the law use to be pedestrians had the right of way.
Nabil Al-Murabit November 11th, 2014 at 02:34
I hope that he’ll be properly taken care of once he’s in prison. I hope that he gets gang raped by the very Black guys that he hates so fucking much
granpa.usthai November 11th, 2014 at 09:31
there are no black men in prison. A Latino in Florida with a WHITE MALE DL says these “f’ing coons (translated in his family language meaning golly gee, it sure is nippy outside, but not nippy enough for this young fellow American to be running away from my SUV with high beams on following him through the backyards of OUR gated community, perhaps I should get out armed with my ‘STATE LEGAL’ firearm and see if I might be of possible assistance to him ’cause maybe he is lost or confused) always get away. If they always get away then they could not possibly be in prison -that’s where they place people who get caught not being nice – sometimes. So, Mr. Leonard [the mad Kalifornia Kicker?] need have no worries or fear of serving any time required for striking a pedestrian on a public road in California, where the law use to be pedestrians had the right of way.
rg9rts November 11th, 2014 at 03:18
He better join the skinheads when he gets to prison
whatthe46 November 11th, 2014 at 03:31
he’ll still need that red lipstick if he wants protection. lol
rg9rts November 11th, 2014 at 04:18
He better join the skinheads when he gets to prison
whatthe46 November 11th, 2014 at 04:31
he’ll still need that red lipstick if he wants protection. lol
William November 11th, 2014 at 06:59
“Just because we got Obama for a president, these people think they are real special,”
Just because we got Bush for a president these people think they are real special
William November 11th, 2014 at 07:59
“Just because we got Obama for a president, these people think they are real special,”
Just because we got Bush for a president these people think they are real special
Julian Hardaway November 11th, 2014 at 11:59
I’m sick of this racist shit against my people. I’m going to get a few guns and knives to keep with me at all times, everywhere I go. This same shit almost happened to ME twice in my life by racist white men who were crazy with homicidal rage against black people. I’m sick of this shit. I DARE someone to fuck with me like that again. I’ll give them what they’re looking for.
Debora Elizabeth Hill November 11th, 2014 at 20:15
I’m sick of it too, and I’m as white as a ghost. I think it’s disgusting, and I really don’t understand it.
tracey marie November 11th, 2014 at 23:25
you seem to have a big problem with white people. That makes you a racist
Ann McGregor November 14th, 2014 at 15:19
No, he seems to have a problem with racist violent white people. That does not make him a racist.
tracey marie November 14th, 2014 at 17:15
rotflmao, nice spin
Ann McGregor November 14th, 2014 at 17:56
There’s no spin there.
tracey marie November 14th, 2014 at 20:51
lol,okay
Debora Elizabeth Hill November 11th, 2014 at 19:15
I’m sick of it too, and I’m as white as a ghost. I think it’s disgusting, and I really don’t understand it.
Frank Harrison November 11th, 2014 at 20:22
Speaking as a white middle-class taxpayer, I hope this guy Leonard gets the rope. In fact I’ll be the first white guy on this forum (since no liberal has the balls to do this) to say this guy is not representative of all white people, and as a white person, I hope he gets his justice before he ever has to look at a noose to hang him by. I’m with Julian, I am so sick to death of this racist shit. I remember a time when neighborhoods were wonderful places to be, everybody welcomed everybody and everybody watched out for everybody. Nowadays, thanks to fear and distrust of anyone person because of progressive greed and guilt, everybody has to live in a dog eat dog world. And I am sick to damn death of it.
tracey marie November 11th, 2014 at 23:23
lol, blame, point fingers, whine…a teabagger that is all you are
Jeremiah Newman November 12th, 2014 at 02:35
It’s all because of those conservative MORONS… especially the OLD WHITE PEOPLE who are so threatened by anyone who is not their color. Not to worry, one day soon, they will be the minority and guess what… Payback’s a Bitch!
alaska99801 November 11th, 2014 at 20:43
Well, boys, frank and julian. I hope the dirt bag fries but frank, as much as you want to excuse yourself for being white, how about black racism.
I am hispanic and i see it all the time. So dont he blind and do nothing.
The US is too full of shit to ever understand that all of you, whites and blacks, are the most racists people on earth. And you cant be helped.
mea_mark November 11th, 2014 at 20:49
What are you doing, trying to see how many people you can troll at once? You won’t last long around here with that kind of attitude.
alaska99801 November 11th, 2014 at 21:43
Well, boys, frank and julian. I hope the dirt bag fries but frank, as much as you want to excuse yourself for being white, how about black racism.
I am hispanic and i see it all the time. So dont he blind and do nothing.
The US is too full of shit to ever understand that all of you, whites and blacks, are the most racists people on earth. And you cant be helped.
mea_mark November 11th, 2014 at 21:49
What are you doing, trying to see how many people you can troll at once? You won’t last long around here with that kind of attitude.
Jerry Ericsson November 11th, 2014 at 21:57
Hmm sounds like ptsd to me.
Ann McGregor November 14th, 2014 at 14:18
Sounds like a thug to me.
Jerry Ericsson November 11th, 2014 at 22:57
Hmm sounds like ptsd to me.
Ann McGregor November 14th, 2014 at 15:18
Sounds like a thug to me.
tracey marie November 11th, 2014 at 22:23
lol, blame, point fingers, whine…a teabagger that is all you are