The Latest: Friend says suspect not a racist

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Friend says suspect not a racist
Updated 10:08 pm CDT, Thursday, April 11, 2019

OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — The Latest on fires at black churches in Louisiana. (all times local):

6:30 p.m.

A friend of the suspect in a recent string of church burnings in Louisiana says the 21-year-old was an introverted, aspiring musician who never showed any sign of destructive anger or racism.

Nygyl Bryyn is a self-described music entrepreneur and a native of the Opelousas area where three African American churches were burned in 10 days. Bryyn says suspect Holden Matthews contacted him years ago, hoping to sign with his Power Back Productions label.

Bryyn says Matthews had long been upset with his parents for not supporting his musical efforts. He also says Matthews had been discouraged in recent months as Bryyn said he needed to improve the quality of his recordings. But Bryyn says he doesn't believe Matthews was a racist or an arsonist.

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12:55 p.m.

Court documents say investigators used video footage, cellphone tracking and a Walmart receipt to help identify the man they believed set fire to three black churches in Louisiana.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Suspect-in-church-fires-identified-as-13759419.php#photo-17210895

[ProudLib72]

1. Sure. Whatever

It was just an accident all three churches happened to be black churches

[SunSeeker]

2. Nygyl Bryyn cyn gy fyck hymsylf. nt

[Lulu KC]

6. Laughing n/t

[tulipsandroses]

3. I get so sick of this shit!

I get so sick of the White people can't be terrorist act, he's not a racist, he was a lone wolf bullshit. If we can acknowledge that young middle eastern men/women can be radicalized - Why are we not accepting that this is becoming a problem? How can we deal with a problem if we do not want to acknowledge we have a damn problem?

At this point. For all the talk of Al Quaida, ISIS - I have a bigger chance of being killed by a white nationalist terrorist and it seems that not a lot is being done about it because my fellow Americans do not want to acknowledge that we have a problem with home grown terrorism.

[mopinko]

9. white isis.

we need to call it that.

[CharleyDog]

4. sorry friend, you idiot. Burning Black Churches is not only being an arsonist, but also a racist.

Excusing these horrific crimes is bad too. Mommy and Daddy didn't like his music? Totally irrevelent. He's a racist monster.
Churches are a place of safety and sanctuary. A place of peace and worship to higher enlightenment. Does that need to be explained to you, idiot friend. There are no excuses, so your friend is a monster. The worst of the worst human beings.

[Sgent]

5. The DA didn't

hasn't even charged him with a racial hate crime yet.... The penalty enhancement for burning a church is the same as burning as being a hate crime, so charged him with burning churches.

[Solly Mack]

7. fffffffff

raspberry

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Not a racist though he does a major criminal racist act that risks putting him away for life.

Arson kills and is extremely destructive and can destroy way beyond what was intended (see what happened in California).

So he does these highly illegal acts, very risky acts, acts that will be immediately identified for what they are, racist acts. But he's not a racist?

Burning three black churches does not come out of nowhere. Nobody gets up and says "Oh think I'll burn three churches today, all black, got nothing against blacks, but I'm not going to burn white churches".

Caveat: Technically he is innocent until proven guilty.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

10. Here's a link to Power Back Productions

Their logo looks pretty racist to me.

https://www.powerbackproductions.com

[Cal Carpenter]

14. Aw, it's all about heritage and tradition

Don'tcha know?

lol

[Judi Lynn]

15. Hideous! That link should remove any trace of doubt. The friend's name features prominently on it.

His friend wants to vouch for his lack of racist leanings.

Everything on the disc, including the names of the band, all the graphic work, everything is nothing but racist hatred.

Looks as if they've formed their lives around racist hatred.

That image of a fist with the map of the world on it pounds the message home too, for anyone who doesn't get it.

Thank you for taking the time to find this. Don't know how you did it, but it answers any questions. Thanks, again.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

17. You're welcome

Power Back Productions sounded fishy. I just put that name in the google machine. And voila! That crap site was right at the top. Very disgusting.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Puts A Different Spin On "Powerback" Doesn't It?

An indie metal act company wanting power back?
Hmmmmmm

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. It used to be that the bar for being a racist, according to the Breitbart types, was

doing something super obvious like burning a cross or some shit like that. What is it now? Executing a black family on tape while singing "I hate al N****s"? And even then these fucking chodes will find a way to claim it's taken out of context.

[Jedi Guy]

12. He may not have shown YOU his racism, Nygyl...

But he was certainly ready to demonstrate it by striking those matches. Just because he never used racial slurs in conversation with you proves nothing. Perhaps you didn't know him as well as you thought you did.

Or perhaps you're full of shit. That's also a possibility.

[marble falls]

13. Yeah, all that fire in only black attended churches was only a coinkydink ...

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. If it was his parents he was so mad at, why not burn THEIR house down?

[dalton99a]

19. Exactly.