I have been watching this case lately. As murder cases go (trust me, we have plenty here in Killadelph) this one has been pretty interesting. I have no connection to it whatsoever, and it has been in the local newspapers, so I can talk about it.
Now when I wrote about the Philadelphia Hunting Club awhile back it was meant to be satirical. Just my way of trying to make some sense of all the killings that we have been having in our city. Little did I know that some folks were taking that shit literally. Yes, they were really using the mean streets of Killadelphia as a hunting club.
"White supremacist Thomas Gibison took a few friends on several 'hunting' trips to Philadelphia 'to target not only blacks, but any other minority, homeless person or homosexual'. This is what Mr. Gibison's ex-girlfriend told the Philadelphia Daily News: "he often bragged about how he earned his [spider]web[tattoo] and tried to convince all of us in his tight circle of so called friends to do the same...I am certain that Tom is a cold blooded killer."
Thomas Gibison was on trial these past few days for the murder of a 39 year old North Philadelphia handyman, way back in 1989. The prosecution alleges that Gibison shot Aaron Wood with a 38 caliber weapon in the left temple, totally at random, and because the poor man was black; as he walked between two cars on a North Philadelphia street. During the trial, a childhood friend of Gibison also testified that he drove Gibison from Newark, Delaware to hunt for a black person to kill so that both of them could "earn" their spider web tattoos. (I will remember to look for that spider web tattoo from here on out. You just never know when a mofo might want to add a big ass bald headed buck to his collection).
But seriously, Mr. Gibison's trial ended with him not being convicted of first-degree murder. It seems juror No.12 was the lone holdout. He actually believed that Mr. Gibison had killed someone, but it just wasn't poor Mr. Wood. So they came back with a split verdict and found my skinhead friend guilty of conspiracy and weapons violations (doesn't he know that he has to get a permit when he wants to use the Philadelphia Hunting Club?), but they acquitted him of murder and ethnic intimidation. If there really is a god he will have a black cellmate while he does his stretch. So what are you in for? Ahhh, well, you see Leon it's like this....
Those of you who are outraged because you think the skinhead got away with murdering a black man, don't be. At least not if you aren't as outraged at the numerous black men who were murdered by other black men in our city this year alone. Not to mention the 37 unsolved murders during the time period that my skinhead friend supposedly was earning his spider web tats. Those murders weren't all committed by some loony as skinheads, they were committed by one of us, the hunted.
**Read the story here. And please folks, check out the comments. You can learn alot from the comments.
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