{"id":86404,"date":"2019-04-19T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86404"},"modified":"2019-04-22T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T18:07:25","slug":"joey-christian-arabs-cell-phone-service-the-last-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86404","title":{"rendered":"Joey Christian &#8211; Arabs &#038; Cell Phone Service &#8211; The Last Straw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86405 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-500x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-500x296.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are tracking the story of Joey Derek Christian of Pasadena, TX who went into a cell phone store and went on a rant. Christian came into the store because his nephew was required to provide identification to sign up for a plan.<\/p>\n<p>There was disagreement with Christian and &#8220;Mo&#8221; the cell phone service employee and it came out that his name &#8220;Mo&#8221; was actually &#8220;Mohammed.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0This seemed to anger Christian who launched into a rant saying he has been killing this kind in foreign countries for two years &#8211; implying military service. He soon expanded his claim to twenty years of killing Arabs.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, after Christian&#8217;s Arab killing spree, coming back to the good ol&#8217; US of A and having to deal with a customer representative that had the name Mohammed was more than he could take.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 720px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-86404-1\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Joey-Derek-Christian-5-Fast-Facts-You-Need-to-Know-Heavy.com_.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Joey-Derek-Christian-5-Fast-Facts-You-Need-to-Know-Heavy.com_.mp4\">https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Joey-Derek-Christian-5-Fast-Facts-You-Need-to-Know-Heavy.com_.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Read more about it at: <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2019\/04\/joey-derek-christian\/?fbclid=IwAR2G81KYfiOyrDtdc9eDaxzzJB6KLP_j2zqw97lezoaeCu9t1jIt2K7tDiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heavy.com<\/a>\u00a0 <em>(There are additional videos of the before and after)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are waiting for his official military records and will post when we get them, but a preliminary search does not show any active duty for Christian on DoD Manpower \/ SCRA.\u00a0 Christian&#8217;s prior address history also does not support time in the military, especially in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>As the article states, Christian has a string of criminal charges and prison time.\u00a0 Joey had charges that would have been a problem for him to serve in the military.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll keep an open mind, but at this early juncture, his reference to killing Arabs in foreign countries does not seem to be a result of military service.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps he meant something else?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6934563\/Houston-man-fined-680-shocking-racist-rant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DailyMail.co.uk<\/a> reports that due to this incident, Joey Christian was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct and was fined $682.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>UPDATE: 22 APR 2019<\/p>\n<p>We received the FOIA results back for Joey Christian.\u00a0 They could not find any military records for him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-foia-redacted-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-foia-redacted-1-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-foia-redacted-1-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-foia-redacted-1-768x990.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/christian-foia-redacted-1-258x333.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We really wish Joey Christian would clarify what he meant &#8211; the implication that he was in the military when he was killing Arabs is not a fair or accurate characterization of the military nor its missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are tracking the story of Joey Derek Christian of Pasadena, TX who went into a &hellip; <a title=\"Joey Christian &#8211; Arabs &#038; Cell Phone Service &#8211; The Last Straw\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86404\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joey Christian &#8211; Arabs &#038; Cell Phone Service &#8211; The Last Straw<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":86407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,408,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armyposer","category-stolen-valor","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86408,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86404\/revisions\/86408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}