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Curt Anderson

THAT tenet of his religion he wouldn't violate.
March 23, 2015 01:46AM

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Richard White, the machete attacker who created havoc at a security checkpoint at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Friday night died on Saturday at 4:02 p.m. White was a Jehovah's Witness and in accordance with his belief, shunned Western medicine and blood transfusions. During Friday night’s rampage in New Orleans, the 63-year-old man was shot three times.

As reported by USA Today on March 21, White approached a security checkpoint on Friday night, sprayed insecticide, and began chasing a TSA agent while swinging his machete. When White and TSA agent Carroll Richel were near the Concourse B checkpoint, they were close enough so that Lt. Heather Slyve of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office was able to draw her weapon and fire at the apparently irrational man.
[www.examiner.com]

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Dick

Re: THAT tenet of his religion he wouldn't violate.
March 24, 2015 11:29AM

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Forget about his swinging a machete while chasing someone through an airport, the man was a Jehovah's Witness, for Christ's sake (pun intended), and the article's author says he was only apparently irrational???

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Curt Anderson

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March 24, 2015 11:22PM

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...the article's author says he was only apparently irrational???

They were overly worried about jumping to conclusions and besmirching somebody's reputation. In that same vein, I have noticed with sardonic amusement the occasional misuse of the word "alleged" in news stories. Such as "the shopkeeper was allegedly shot and killed during the robbery".