“There are no words to describe the profound grief that envelops an entire community when a child is murdered."
Just over one month ago, we learned the nightmarish story of Matthew Taylor Coleman. The owner of a popular Santa Barbara surf school, it was alleged, loaded his two children in a van, drove to Mexico and killed them with a spear gun. When authorities arrested him, as he returned across the border, the interviewing agent revealed that Coleman had confessed to the killing and said he believed his children were going to grow up to be monsters because they possessed “serpent DNA.”
Late last week, Coleman was officially indicted in San Diego, where he will stand trial, of two counts of foreign first-degree murder of U.S. nationals. The charges carry the death penalty though the Attorney General has yet to decide if he will seek it.
“There are no words to describe the profound grief that envelops an entire community when a child is murdered,” Acting U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said in court. “The Department of Justice is determined to achieve justice for these victims and their loved ones.”
“The murder of a child is difficult to understand under any circumstances,” Kristi K. Johnson, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, added, “I’m proud of the quick investigative efforts by FBI Agents, the Santa Barbara Police Department, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and our Mexican counterparts which led to the arrest of Mr. Coleman as he entered the United States, and I look forward to delivering justice for the young victims and their family.”
Coleman has yet to speak publicly and the date for trial is yet to be determined.
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Two separate problems that need to be solved independently from each other.
Q’Anon freaks are a threat for sure.
Yeah I thought black lives mattered.
Guess it’s just a rumor.
This is a dark story in the surf world, and I don’t think it registers. The conspiracy-friendly, populist-styled right wing is in fact super pervasive in our niche sport/lifestyle.
No one will admit that Coleman is their ideological peer, but from my perspective his derangement is pretty damn near that of some of our sport’s pros and, no bullshit, some our very own Beachgrit readers/commenters.
Don’t let fear hold you back.
Sad but true.
Is there any way to deliver justice to the mother and family of these murdered children? The death penalty at least may allow them to know there is no chance of an off their rocker judge letting him out in the future. I would like to say that he should be made an example of but crazy doesn’t learn from example. Prayers for the family. I can’t imagine going through this.
Mentally ill people used to be identified and taken care of in one way or another (eg institutionalized, etc.). Unfortunately Q’Anon gave them a safe place to hang out, where they were told that they are good and others are bad, and provided oxygen and fuel to commit their crimes. I hope that with Trump out this doesn’t happen again.
Under Biden, people may start taking naps
The death penalty is too easy for this special type of crazy.
Just dump him in a middle ages style wet cold dungeon and give him a bowl of sloppy gruel once a week, just enough to keep him alive, and torture him on a regular basis.
P.S.
What annoys me is all these pricks who kill innocents when there’s so many well deserving politicians, business oligarchs and the scientists in their back pocket to knock off…
Nice “badge” your name is now sporting. A pair of rose tinted glasses in the round John Lennon style. Bygone days.
Do ya wanna buy them ?
I’ll take a box of beers and a few billies…
The guy is obviously mentally ill, the death sentence is not appropriate. Poor cunt will suffer enough when he realizes what he has done!
He will wish he is dead when the other inmates find out he is a child killer. That booty gonna get torn up.
Nice fantasy, but he’ll never be housed in general population while in prison. He’s in PC, and that’s how he’ll do his time. Far more just (and less expensive to taxpayers) to simply execute him promptly.
poor cunt???
I don’t support the death penalty in any circumstances, but fuck this guy.
CA has the death penalty but it’s meaningless. We haven’t put someone to death since 2006.
The case is in Federal Court, not State. While Trump/Barr made changes to Federal Death Penalty Regs to expedite capital punishment matters, Biden’s DOJ has paused Federal Death Penalty because it’s only about reversing Trump policy, good sense be damned.
So, the death penalty here is even less likely than in unlikely California.
I was thinking to myself, “Is that a Confederate flag next to Otto’s name? I don’t remember that before.” Then I remembered these “badges” that are being offered to commenters. Had to go back and look at the offerings to see that it was manually awarded to you, not earned, for being “Far right all night.” Hahahaa.
Are you still a moderator, and if so can you start attaching provocative badges to other commenters names?
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
No, I’m not a Mod. When i was , i didn’t once use the powers Negatron bequeathed me. The way I looked at it, any use of Mod powers by me was an abuse of Mod powers by me. I think he figured DHMF and I would engage in Mod hand to hand combat. DHMF actually deleted a couple of my comments, which was an abuse of power. I figured the most powerful move was to not use my power. Didn’t feel like playing whatever role Negatron envisioned I’d play in his experiment. He soon after revoked both our Mod powers. I took it as a victory for me.
Seeings how Negatron controls who gets what Badge, he decided he’d tar and feather me with the Confederate flag. It’s a weak move, but he’s attempting to make some sort of statement. More power to him.
It won’t have the dissuading effect I think he’s hoping it will.
Thanks, thought it was pretty humorous to have you and DHMF both as mods. But then forgot about it. Didn’t realize you never used or abused your power against your detractors. Or had the mod thing revoked. But it was a funny concoction by a mad scientist.
What will he think of next??
It was a funny idea. I knew DHMF just wouldn’t be able to stop himself. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I’m not sure he’ll have to think of anything else for awhile. He can milk this Badge thing till the teet is raw. We’re heading into an extended lull in competition again. That never bodes well for the prospect of civil discourse in the comments. Bodes well for the new Badge market though.
No statement, just general bear poking/schoolboy trolling for the shits and giggles. DHMF was quite amusing with the MOD duties wasn’t he.
A certain somebody else is a little upset with his confederate flag badge.
CHAS/DEREK Plz remove this flag from my screen name. I dont appreciate that one bit. Im going to communicate with my VPN later and see about how u did that and if I can return the favor.
As usual it’s always the ones that give the most shit, that cant take it themselves. Oh well.
Just do him a solid and remove it.
To be honest, it’s super insulting. But I’ve been called worse. Keep mine up so the jackals can have their laugh, and take his down.
The Universe will repay you.
They wont last, You get it because everything about this site is satire.
We all throw barbs at each other and those outside in the greater “surf world” get some serious shit slung at them both in the comments and the articles above them.
My role is to hold a mirror up at times and if someone starts crying about it they might want to look at little harder at that mirror.
Scorn wont though… but I know how this is going to play out. 2 steps have already happened and theres 2-3 more to go. At the end of this social experiment i’ll have some egg on my face, Scorn may or may not be here, emails will be received from head office, bandwagon jumping will happen, race cards will be played, offence will be taken and that’s all part of this ever evolving comment board.
There are many wagons in life, and it’s likely you’ll fall off every one of them.
– Otto ’21 –
Death penalty doesn’t seem harsh enough.
Feed some polar bears.