The Trump admin touted him as a victim of #MeToo. Now he's accused of dismembering a girlfriend

[Nevilledog]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/alameda-murder-joseph-roberts-18380333.php

No paywall
https://archive.ph/BLvac

The gruesome discovery spoke to a ghastly crime.

On the afternoon of July 20, someone using a waterfront trail in Alameda spotted a large garbage bag wrapped in duct tape that smelled as if it was full of dead fish from the bay. When responding officers looked inside, they found the dismembered remains of a young woman whose head, hands and feet had been removed.

Investigators would extract a pair of DNA profiles from the duct tape on the bag. One belonged to Rachel Imani Buckner, a young mother and spoken-word poet who had just graduated from a San Francisco law school. The other, police now say, belonged to her killer — her boyfriend and onetime law school classmate Joseph Carl Roberts, suspected of using an electric saw to try to obscure his victim’s identity.

But as shocking as the crime was, the back-story was even stranger.

Roberts, it turns out, was once touted by the Trump administration as a poster child for the purported excesses of the “#MeToo” movement and the reckoning over sexual assault at American colleges. Kicked off the campus of Savannah State University in Georgia, the U.S. Navy veteran not only survived but turned the episode into a dramatic story about a different kind of victim: himself.

*snip*

[louis-t]

1. Wow.

Biden campaign needs to know about this.

[magicarpet]

2. Toxic males with bent minds. Somehow thinking they possess God given superiority over females.

Do precisely as I say or meet a horrific demise.

I will not be questioned or denied. My requests are not open to debate. Do things my way,.. or your next journey will be to your grave.

[Sky Jewels]

6. "God given"

That's a major reason I dislike most of the major religions so much. The all-powerful sky wizard is portrayed as a male (and in Christianity, he has a male magical child). Females are always the lessers. And the kicker is, a supernatural deity doesn't even exist. Yet males use this figment of human imagination to justify all sorts of horrors against women and to keep women out of power. The Catholic Church has perfected the art of denying women autonomy over many centuries. And that's just one example.

[canuckledragger]

3. And of course the murderous coward pretended to be a victim

...as he stuffed HIS victim into a garbage bag.

[chowder66]

4. Rachel Imani Buckner.

[70sEraVet]

5. Ditto:

[live love laugh]

18. ✔️

[okaawhatever]

21. + 1,000

[Sky Jewels]

7. Absolutely sickening.

We have a major crisis of toxicity in male culture in this country.

Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah, "not all men..."

[DemocraticPatriot]

12. MAGA men..... MAGAt men....

SO GLAD I am not one of THOSE.... although I shamefully share their demographic. I do not understand them...


This IS "Absolutely sickening".... but sadly not surprising...

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[orleans]

9. abc -- nightline

Days later, wearing a “Make America Great Again” ballcap, Roberts was featured in a sympathetic story on ABC News’ “Nightline” that said Savannah State had “derailed his dream of graduating.”

(from your link)

[AZ8theist]

11. Now the state of California...

will derail his dream of freedom. Or even living.

Here's hoping the fucking incel gets the needle.

[DemocraticPatriot]

13. California does not execute anyone anymore--- for the time being....

but they can still put criminals on 'death row', where they will spend years worrying about if their death sentence will eventually be carried out....

(seems to me, that may be a worse sentence than a prompt execution...)

[AZ8theist]

22. Yeah, I wasn't sure about the DP.

[live love laugh]

20. Betsy DeVos ... Politico ... Nightline ... Republican office! WOW!!

He was a narcissist who scared women to death literally while he gained increasing prominence for it.

Speaking to a crowd at George Mason University in Virginia on Sept. 7, 2017, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke of a young Navy veteran who’d nearly lost everything after being accused of sexual harassment.

Two months before the George Mason speech, DeVos had met with Roberts and other men accused of campus assault and harassment. She singled out Roberts in her speech as particularly aggrieved.

Roberts was featured in a sympathetic story on ABC News’ “Nightline” that said Savannah State had “derailed his dream of graduating.”

… May 1, 2018, he said, Golden Gate University School of Law in downtown San Francisco offered him a Presidential Scholarship covering all of his tuition.

He said he was endorsed by the San Francisco GOP, Republican Women of San Francisco and the San Francisco Log Cabin Republicans. He won the seat in the March 3, 2020 election, garnering nearly 2,000 votes and finishing fifth in voting for 11 seats. As a delegate, he continued pushing his Title IX grievances, sitting for two interviews on The Exceptional Conservative Show, a YouTube program hosted by Kenneth McClenton. In his first interview on April 17, 2020, Roberts called his Savannah State accusers “total liars.” He compared his activism to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His opportunity to sit across from DeVos was akin to King meeting with President Lyndon Johnson to discuss the Civil Rights Movement, he said.

[swong19104]

10. Such a gruesome story

there are many men that fit Roberts's description. I don't claim that they have done what Roberts did, as if that were the case, we'd all hear more such gruesome murders. But, they do first entrance women, then torment them after securing the women's trust.

[struggle4progress]

14. "Once elected by San Francisco Republicans to represent their party,

an East Bay man is now accused of murdering a young woman whose dismembered body was found on an Alameda shoreline"

https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/29/san-francisco-elected-republican-official-arrested-dismembered-body/

[orleans]

15. omg -- what a story. that guy is a fucking monster

and what happened to rachel imani buckner is heartbreaking

[Habitation]

19. Once you cross that line of becoming maga,

The rest is just a slippery slope downhill

[NBachers]

16. The entire article is well worth reading.

[SouthernDem4ever]

17. These MAGAT weirdos are F'ing bizarre

[dalton99a]

23. POS should have controlled his penchant for dismemberment and run for public office as a MAGA loon

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. Sounds like he fit right in with the rest of the Republicans.

Some really awful behavior is becoming normalized.