"There are only two fundamental methods
by which men can deal with one another:
by reason or by force,
by intellectual persuasion or by physical coercion,
by directing to an opponent's brain an argument - or a bullet!"
- Leonard Peikoff
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""The eight-foot projection screen dropped from a courtroom ceiling. The surveillance video began to play. And from her seat in the second row, Cassandra Atkens — in court Thursday to watch her daughter’s killer be sentenced — knew what she was about to see.The video showed how light it still was at 7:17 p.m. June 1, 2015, in a Target store parking lot in Germantown where Atkens’s daughter, Mariam “Shadé” Adebayo, had agreed to meet ex-boyfriend Donald Bricker one more time.
She was there to tell him it really was over.
Adebayo, 24, was a vivacious recent college graduate with a wide circle of friends. She met Bricker online. He was a high school graduate and a felon — which prevented his buying a conventional weapon — but could be charming and seemed devoted to her. That devotion turned to obsession, with Bricker texting her relentlessly and showing up unannounced to her work. When she broke things off, he couldn’t handle it.
“You were in a jealous rage,” Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Dugan told Bricker. “You didn’t want anybody else to have her because you couldn’t have her. You snatched from this world a wonderful person. You ruined the lives of her friends and her family. And you ruined the lives of your own family.”"
Read entire article and see photos @: Washington Post
