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San Jose teen arrested after crowbar assault on child, 4, at Walmart
Mercury News ^ | 05/15/2014 05:57:31 AM PDT | Katie Nelson

Posted on 05/15/2014 8:05:57 AM PDT by null and void


SAN JOSE -- An 18-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly hit a 4-year-old girl and her father with a crowbar inside a Walmart late Tuesday morning, police said.

Maria Garate, a San Jose resident, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after she walked into the Walmart, located at 777 Story Road, around 10:59 a.m. and struck the girl and her father, police said.

Garate approached the pair and without warning hit the 4-year-old girl over the head with a crowbar, according to a police statement. Garate attempted to hit the girl again, police said, but the father, who has not been identified, stepped in to protect his daughter and was struck instead.

The incident took place just over a half mile from a well-known homeless encampment known as "the Jungle." Police said they had contacted Garate there before, but they could not confirm Garate was a resident of the encampment and did not say why they had come into contact before.

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KEYWORDS: california; crime
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To: mylife

Yes, Satan is real and he has run of the earth for now. That’s going to change too.


21 posted on 05/15/2014 8:28:08 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: null and void

My God...is the little girl alright?


22 posted on 05/15/2014 8:31:17 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: Bulwyf

"Who, in their right mind, Kevin, could possibly deny the 20th century was entirely mine? All of it, Kevin, all of it! Mine! I'm peaking here! It's my time now. It's our time."

"In the Bible, you lose. We're destined to lose, Dad."

"Well, consider the source, son."

23 posted on 05/15/2014 8:31:38 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 4yearlurker

“non-life-threatening injuries”


24 posted on 05/15/2014 8:35:52 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: null and void

I’m surprised that the child wasn’t killed.


25 posted on 05/15/2014 8:36:11 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: null and void

She may be insane:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629287/She-deserved-Homeless-teen-beat-four-year-old-girl-father-crowbar-inside-Walmart-blames-young-victim-attack.html


26 posted on 05/15/2014 8:39:43 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: dfwgator
Crow bar? Meet my little friend. Crow Robot photo: Crow T Robot! crowtrobot.jpg
27 posted on 05/15/2014 8:41:40 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Bulwyf

I trust it will change.


28 posted on 05/15/2014 8:49:00 AM PDT by mylife
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To: tractorman
You said Brother. Mr. Kimber and I always go to Wally Hell together.
29 posted on 05/15/2014 8:57:43 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: null and void

The one in Milpitas did,, but I havent been in a while..
Big 5 is my source lately


30 posted on 05/15/2014 8:59:41 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: trisham

No kidding? A homeless person who is crazy? In California????

The liberal policy of releasing all the insane inmates from the eeeeeeevil asylums pays yet another dividend.


31 posted on 05/15/2014 9:02:41 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: null and void
Marie Garate approached the pair and without warning hit the 4-year-old girl over the head with a crowbar
Another stunning example of those multi-cultural values the Libs are so proud of.
Yes, release them from jail, open the borders, welcome them with EBT and SSI.
Man, this country is just feckin' doomed.
32 posted on 05/15/2014 9:04:00 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: null and void
Do I detect a note of sarcasm?


33 posted on 05/15/2014 9:04:29 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Or perhaps an entire symphony...


34 posted on 05/15/2014 9:07:31 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: Bulwyf

Even if it were my cat.


35 posted on 05/15/2014 9:14:41 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Mathews

“Wally Hell”

I was in our Wally World the other day.
You know the aisle after you’ve checked-out, on your way to the door? The restrooms, service counter, etc.—some fat **** in an electric wheelchair was screaming at an old woman in front of him, who was being assisted by a guy in a blue smock, because she was moving too slowly for him.
I told him to settle down and then he started yelling obscenities at me and the rest of the store. No store employee got involved.
So yeah, shopping at Wal-hel for the savings is something like marrying for money (or spending some quality time in Bedlam).
You pay for the savings in other ways: `unconscious’ fellow shoppers blocking aisles/barging in front of you, you can’t leave your cart alone for too long, etc. I half expect soon to see vendors in the food section frying goat on a garbage can lids.
So yeah, I find myself recently opting more-and-more to pay at a real grocery store—and I find recently they beat Wal-hel on some prices!—just to avoid that wonderful Third world Wal-experience.


36 posted on 05/15/2014 9:20:30 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: null and void

Noticed right off on the header provided by the Mercury, it said “teen”, instead of “woman” or “adult” (although the writer/editor uses “woman” in the article. IMHO, the use of “teen” was meant to invoke an image of a youngster, not an adult. IMHO the MSM is using these words for whatever agenda the writer is pushing. (or the “journalists” for the MSM today are poorly trained in “college” or are just stupid, IMHO)

Example, a teen, 17 year-old perished in a drowning accident. Horrible, but the writer/editor used as a header, “young boy” drowns in pool. Young boy invokes an image of a toddler, not a 17 teen year-old.


37 posted on 05/15/2014 9:37:35 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

There is no bias in the press, Citizen.


38 posted on 05/15/2014 9:43:52 AM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: null and void

I understand Comrade. lol (or my re-education camp awaits)


39 posted on 05/15/2014 9:50:07 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: dfwgator
“It’s an act of love.” - Jeb Bush

Good one dfwgator...

40 posted on 05/15/2014 9:52:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama - when will you tell radical muslims to stop clinging to their guns & religion?)
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