{"id":9139,"date":"2010-11-23T16:55:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T16:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/23\/actor-michael-brea-murders-mon\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T16:55:44","slug":"actor-michael-brea-murders-mon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/actor-michael-brea-murders-mon\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Michael Brea Murders Mom in Religious Conniption, Police May Have Contributed to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting at so many levels, but I thought you might find it pertinent to the ongoing discussion of whether or not we should assume that a person is good because they are very very religious, or check our wallets frequently and wear body armor when near them because they are very very religious.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brea is a bit actor who has had roles in TV shows you may have heard of (&#8220;Ugly Betty&#8221; being one of them).  He was heard by a neighbor chanting religious phrases at his mother and demanding to know if she believed in god while he hacked at her with a ceremonial Freemason&#8217;s sword.<\/p>\n<p>The police arrived and found Yannick Brea alive and bleeding, severely injured with multiple stab wounds to the head.  She did not live.<\/p>\n<p>When police first arrived they waited 45 minutes to attempt an entry to the apartment.  Later, when asked why they took so long to attempt a rescue, they mumbled something about it being a &#8220;barricaded situation&#8221; and then whined for a while about how dangerous police work is.<\/p>\n<p>One of the neighbors reported it this way:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I heard a shriek and a woman yelling &#8216;help me&#8217; &#8230; We called 911 and we kept hearing screams and then we didn&#8217;t hear them any more. Michael was chanting Biblical phrases and kept calling for Moses, Jerusalem and the &#8216;architect of the universe&#8217;. &#8230; I think he just snapped&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/brooklyn\/actor_fatally_stabs_mother_with_9vIHMHNhfIILwCHltCFXIL\"><br \/>\nDetails here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting at so many levels, but I thought you might find it pertinent to the ongoing discussion of whether or not we should assume that a person is good because they are very very religious, or check our wallets frequently and wear body armor when near them because they are very very religious. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/actor-michael-brea-murders-mon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Actor Michael Brea Murders Mom in Religious Conniption, Police May Have Contributed to Death<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2np","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}