Somali refugee chokes woman ‘nearly unconscious’ while high on khat.

 SNIP: What is Khat? Hell if I know. So I went looking around.

Medicine.net says:

Street terms for Khat: (pronounced Cot) Abyssinian tea, African salad, oat, kat, chat, and catha. Also referred to as qat in Yemen, tschat in Ethiopia, and miraa in Kenya.

What does Khat look like?

• Khat is a flowering evergreen shrub native to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
• Khat that is sold and abused is usually just the leaves, twigs, and shoots of the Khat shrub.

How is Khat used?

• Khat is typically chewed like tobacco.
• The fresh leaves, twigs, and shoots of the Khat shrub are chewed, and then retained in the cheek and chewed intermittently to release the active drug.
• Dried plant material can be made into tea or a chewable paste.
• Khat can also be smoked and even sprinkled on food.

What are the health side effects of Khat use?

• Common side effects include anorexia, tahycardia, hypertension, insomnia, and gastric disorders.
• Chronic Khat abuse can result in symptoms such as physical exhaustion, violence, and suicidal depression.
• Widespread frequent use of Khat impacts productivity because it tends to reduce worker motivation.
• Khat can induce manic behaviors, hyperactivity, and hallucinations.
• There are reports of Khat-induced psychosis.

MORE INFO HERE

Can you imagine running into a refugee with some of  those symptoms?
A lazy, skinny, fart-ridden male with high blood pressure who is prone to violence and hallucinations?
Now imagine you are in Europe with hundreds of thousands of them around you.

On to our story:

LeoHohmann.com -A 30-year-old East African migrant is accused of strangling a woman to the point of “nearly unconscious” at a motel in Stearns County, Minnesota, while high on the Somali drug of choice — khat.

Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed, described by the local newspaper as “a St. Cloud man,” was charged Tuesday with felony domestic assault, fifth-degree felony possession of a controlled substance and interfering with a 911 call.

According to the criminal complaint filed in Stearns County District Court, officers were dispatched to Asteria Inn & Suites in Waite Park on Saturday for a domestic assault in progress. Officers said they were allowed inside the room and noticed a woman “was crying and motioned to her neck.”

She told police Ahmed had “strangled her which interfered with her breathing and that (he) punched her three times in the breast,” the complaint states. The victim had bruises and a scratch on her chest.

[This happened one day after another Somali refugee, Asad Abu Mohamed, 32, was caught trying to rape a female student in the women’s restroom at Minneapolis Community and Technical College in Minneapolis.]

Officers saw Ahmed attempting to put a plastic bag in his pocket that officers believe to be khat, which is a green, leafy plant grown in Somalia that contains the narcotic cathinone, also known as Catha edulis. It is illegal in the U.S. but that doesn’t stop Somalis from smuggling it into the country, often through a European city. MORE HERE