By Guy Page
Jason Eaton, the Burlington man arrested for shooting and wounding three Palestinian men on North Prospect Street on November 25, posted several pro-Hamas statements in social media, according to reports in Seven Days and, more recently, the conservative news and commentary website/magazine, National Review.
A post by Ari Blaff in today’s (Jan. 15) National Review says:
“Ten days after the Hamas invasion of southern Israel, which left over a thousand dead and hundreds taken hostage, Eaton wrote on X that ‘the notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd. They are owed a state. Pay up.’”
Eaton reportedly also wrote in mid-November, in an online response to an article by Rep. Becca Balint advocating for a cease-fire:
“What if someone occupied your country? Wouldn’t you fight them?…Britain wouldn’t let ships with food sent by other countries into Ireland during the famine. My people starved.”
Eaton, whose online statements often appear rambling and chaotic, and who has been described as mentally unbalanced by a former landlord and others, remains in custody pending a trial for second-degree attempted murder. Prosecutor Sarah George said there is no evidence (yet) to charge Eaton with a hate crime, but did say it was a “hateful act.”
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This is why we haven’t heard anymore about this incident, it doesn’t fit the narrative that they wanted that he was a anti Palestinian supporter.
Sarah George must be really bummed out. ☹️
Interesting. After all the outrage, frantic op-eds, protests, vigils, and national media coverage…who would’ve thunk[sic] it, as the saying goes.
a good criminal investigator could solve this in a month/// the whole story stinks that we have been fed/// tel//// lie//// vision/// do you have any good reporters///
So who did he think those students were? As I said before, is he an antisemite who mistook them for Jews? There is a synagogue a couple blocks away on the same street, it was a Saturday, maybe he mistook their Arabic for Hebrew and their kaffiyeh for a Jewish prayer garment. But as someone else said, if he is crazy, who knows.