This is Joshua Z. Graves from Dorchester, whose inspirational Facebook post was shared over a thousand times.
So he just got out of jail after 5 and a half years and immediately got a job working for the MBTA? What was in jail for anyway? Oh, ya know, stabbing a child.
Joshua Z. Graves, was convicted of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury. The fifteen year old victim and his twelve year old brother (younger brother) had moved to Dorchester within the past year. The brothers played basketball most days at a park in Dorchester. On the date at issue, they arrived at the park to play basketball, and saw the defendant, among several other teenagers. The victim observed the defendant waving a knife and showing it to his friends. The defendant had a tattoo on the side of his neck that said “Pe$o” or “PEI$CE”. The younger brother recognized the defendant because he had played basketball with him before and because the defendant was at the basketball courts “daily.
During an ensuing basketball game, the younger brother, while attempting to gain his balance, pushed the defendant. The defendant shoved the younger brother to the ground and then punched him in the head and back. After hearing his younger brother say “help me,” the victim intervened and punched the defendant in the face. The victim was then “jumped” by approximately fifteen people, who punched and kicked him. The defendant was among those involved in the attack.
While the victim was on the ground, he saw the defendant “run over to the bench where the knife was.” At some point the victim heard someone yell, “that’s enough, that’s enough,” and “then everyone ran away.” As the younger brother walked toward the victim, he passed the defendant who was leaving the court. The younger brother saw that the defendant was “holding a knife and it had blood on it.” The younger brother testified that the knife was the same knife he had seen the defendant handling earlier in the day. The victim sustained stab wounds to his liver and his arm. The injury to his arm required stitches, and the injury to his liver required surgery and four days of hospitalization.
This guy stabbed someone?
#BackFromDaTrap pic.twitter.com/0vprQA2Hrx
— Young Cartel (@1YoungCartel) May 13, 2016
Never saw that one coming. I’m sure M.C. McQueefalot is all reformed now though, since he spent his prison years making cringe rap music glamorizing gangsta lifestyle.
EVERYBODY GO WATCH MY NEW VIDEO DROPPED LAST NIGHT ! pic.twitter.com/vLJA7Mhlw2
— Young Cartel (@1YoungCartel) August 3, 2016
FREE YOUNG CARTEL !!!!!! pic.twitter.com/jEMTjoJ45v
— Young Cartel (@1YoungCartel) June 11, 2016
He’s totally gonna stay on the straight and narrow though, unless you do something to upset him.
Or if you don’t show him respect!
https://twitter.com/1YoungCartel/status/1320689415895875584
Of course he has other Google trophies too for breaking and entering and assaulting an elderly disabled person.
Definitely the kind of guy who should be rewarded with a job working in public transportation. Obviously this is a changed man.
#ImBackBitch pic.twitter.com/YKMsDvOc4c
— Young Cartel (@1YoungCartel) September 9, 2020
Five years ain’t shit dawg!
He still goes by his rap name, “Cartel,” and is still making gangsta rap music. And he wanted to clarify that he ain’t no snitch.
He did three years back when he was 15 because snitches get stitches, and he would never snitch on his boys. Except he did exactly that when he was 15 when him and his boys robbed and stabbed a dude at a pizza shop, and he couldn’t wait to give up his boy’s name.
He got called out for it by some blue checkmark rap producer on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/sizzle808MAFIA/status/503595355020460032
@1YoungCartel so wats dis about u snitching real nigga pic.twitter.com/OXTsyignOl
— Southside (@sizzle808MAFIA) August 24, 2014
Oops!
Anyway, I realize that felons and ex-cons have to make a living when they get out of jail. But that doesn’t mean they should be rewarded with hookup jobs in public transportation while other people can’t find work, just so they can rub it in and virtue signal about how “changed” they are for some cheap shares and retweets.
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80 Comment(s)
damn no wonder I cant get a job at the MBTA. I keep applying to all of the entry level jobs but get no response. I guess I’m not qualified because I don’t have 5 years of experience in prison.
They all have the best clothes, cars, and sneakers, don’t they? Maybe fatso should use some of that money he is flashing for breast reduction.
He’ll be back with us in no time, freeing up that plum job with the T.
We’re like Motel 6. We’ll leave a light on for ya.
that first pic is kinda dope tho. its like rrinng rrinng its the money calling/ yeah who dis/ issa whole stack ya feel me
No one should totally report this scumbucket to the ATF as I’m sure the statute of limitations has run out on him brandishing illegal Firearms and a 65 round magazine clip. It looks like a single stack though. I mean of you’re gonna do it up might as well find one that’s a double.
Haha, you wouldn’t know a single stack from a drum from a quad.
You saying “magazine clip” tells me all I need to know about what you don’t.
Stick to what you know and keep working on that gag reflex, champ.
Haha I immediately picked up on that too! But more importantly…. Is there really an Electric Avenue??
IDGAF. One ride on public transit was one ride too many for a pinky like me.
this shit stinking cross-eyed baboon probably chimps out every time he gets his $600 bi-weekly paycheck from the MBTA. And I will bet my god dammed life on it that his first check went straight to a new pair of Jordans.
My dad molested me when I was a young boy. He pulled my pants down tore up my hole and when he finished he sniffed my pubic hair. No wonder I am so messed up. My mom intentionally killed herself in a car accident when she reslized what pop did.
I’d rather eat dirt than take public transportation. I don’t care if a parking garage space was $3,000 a month, it’d be worth every cent if it meant I didn’t have to rub elbows with schnooks twice a day 250 days a year
I was just at Spic Tormentors house and was treated to a
not so Happy Halloween.
I stole Bens heart and then gave him a sexually transmitted disease and then he went with his tail between his legs and married a plain vanilla.
He still has jungle fever to this day
Still obsessing over me 5 months later. Yawn.
I’m surprised he just didn’t steal a bus like Ben Affleck did in “The Town”.
Covid-19 is not the only reason people aren’t riding the T. And I hear the used car market is red hot. Go figure.
I did time with this fucking ape
He was a bitch on the cell block
Had to suck cock and take it up the ass to survive
A total pussy
Where? Including which unit.
The liberal turds want to confiscate the law abiding white mans guns
Are they going to go into the city and take all the illegal firearms the negroe scum bags have
I think not
Does anyone really think this stupid fucking chimp should be driving a bus
He should be cleaning toilets or shining shoes
Or perhaps tap dancing
Let’s hope he doesn’t mess up. This sure gives him a. Leg up. Fingers crossed he is reformed.
Your mother had a leg up
A leg up on the night stand when I was fucking her up the ass last night
Quick, somebody call Lisa and Baba Shetty, have we a guy for daddy’s little girl. He’s black and he has a job. What a perfect match, not only will Hinghams diversity percentage increase by 0.004, all the lower class oafs that called her a hypocrite can go fuck themselves. Oh and lets not forget Baba will be riding for free, so will Josh, but that’s beside the point.
How dare you? I am busy having Halloween ended and you come with this? I am calling my town supervisor to have all the police i haven’t defunded to come find you….baba, come here boy, get my sandals….
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Thats a halloween costume. We all know
1. Black people don’t work
2. Whenever a handout being paid for by people with jobs is available, they’re first second and third in line
Experienced it today in front of the grocery store.
Panhandler standing around hitting up older people.
Maybe 25, with shades and a hoodie…
“Can you spare a dollar?”
Nope.
Here is what needs to happen
This man is armed, he brags about this in his FB posts.
He is a felon, who is prohibited from voting and owning fire arms of any capacity. This man is in possession of high capacity magazines and hand guns.
Folks this is why people get LTC’s in mass for ”
All lawful purposes”
People like this man who are armed and dangerous, who stabbed a 15 year old, need to be locked up indefinitely.
I am sick and tired of this shit. when the fuck is society going to get its shit together??????
He’s one ‘Slim Thug’ song away from reminding him of his ‘roots’ and getting back in the ‘game’. I hope he stays on the straight and narrow but I’m not buying it.
The Trump campaign is already using this pic in ads in NH. Don’t forget, he was let out as part of Trump’s First Step Act, which releases black rapists and murderers from prison. And it was incredibly easy for him to get a job thanks to Trump’s policies that have led to the lowest black unemployment rate in American history. No wonder he’s using this guy in an ad: the is exactly what he wants America to look like. Black criminals, employed and out of prison with enough money in their pockets to avoid the necessary supplies to riot and destroy our streets. It’s no coincidence that the low black unemployment rate has gone down as the riots have gone up. It’s exactly how Trump wants it. And he has done nothing – not one law, not one policy, not one order – to stop the riots. He wants them. He wants our streets destroyed. It’s good for him politically. And it allows him to trash Biden for putting blacks in prison. They’re out under Trump, and they’re burning down America. This is by design. This is what Donald Trump’s America looks like. Please write in Martin Kerr to stop the madness.
If you give black people jobs they just fuck it up and the whole place suffers.
Example: Cam Newton
You wonder why the T us fucked up
It’s run by these fucking primates
either hes lying or someone fucked up at the T. Took me 3 years to get into amtrak with a college degree and extensive experience on railroads and they have a zero tolerance for felonies/ drug use
I find these stories unnerving.
I know good people who been on the the MBTA lottery for years waiting for jobs! How did this n1gg3r get on so quickly? Sucking Marty’s dick?
This is what low black unemployment looks like. Biden would have kept this guy in jail. My plan is to hand out jobs to blacks no questions asked.
The demokkkrats say im a racist. And you know what they are right. Im racist against white people and love the j..ewwws
Henny, check
Blunt, check
Flat brimmed Bulls hat? Sorry, flat brimmed Hornets hat, thanks for playing!
Usually I agree with uncle turtle but why you blowin this guys spot up. hes not fucking up at his job yet.
You threw in the yet, you just know there’s a chance!
A leopard never changes his spots.
Yet
Your mother fucked up her job last night when she left teeth marks on my balls
Oh I’m loving this; while I slept soundly a harmless and honest comment I made yesterday evening upset your sensitive and insomnia addled self!
Another savage primate taking kneegrows one step closer to chopping cotton under the watchful gaze of a white man with a rifle. As it should be.
Give him a few days. MBTA people are treated poorly, and if this guy is as tough as he claims, he’s going to bust a cap in someone or stab some fool the steps to him while he’s on the clock.
Feel bad for his kids. Imagine being born with at least 50% retard genes from this guy (not to mention I take shits that look better than this fucking clown). The likelihood of mom being retarded is very high as well. They have no chance in life.
MBTA HR employees are all 300 lb. Silverbacks, and their qualifications for new hires start here…
Militant lesbians of color
Lesbians
Black women
Brown women
Retarded black & brown women
Black Homo’s
Brown Homo’s
Black & brown felons
Handicapped black & brown felons
Retarded handicapped black & brown felons
Everyone else.
“Retarded black & brown women”
That’s redundant.
Black & Brown IS redundant!
Don’t worry. He’ll be back in “the trap” soon enough if the past is any indication.
It makes you wonder what exactly his job is for the T? What experience does he have? What is the vetting process for these hires? Sure, he only went to jail for 5 years so let’s give him a job that involves the safety of thousands of commuters daily because that makes sense. Then they wonder why the trains are always late, breaking down daily and falling off the fucking tracks all the time.
Too many MCs, not enough mics.
30 days out of jail is a very short time to get a job like that. Christ I’m sure the MBTA can’t process anyone’s paperwork in 30 days because they can’t do anything else right. He was probably wearing someone else’s jacket. Turtleboy does less investigation than that Globe reporter the other day.
…you might be on to something. I agree, 30 days is a quick pick up from application to on-boarding in almost any organization.
Given his proclivity to being a poser in his old photos, him wearing somebody else’s a jacket is not a stretch.
He might have a very low level maintenance job, but not much more. From this poorly reported TB post it seems the guy was a teenager when he fucked up. Maybe he is a new man. Maybe not. We should at least wait and see. Blog posts like this one will just help ensure he can never get on the straight and narrow. Does that do anyone any good?
It is a travesty that Young Cartel was incarcerated for 5 years! The child he stabbed in the liver was only in the hospital for 4 days! This is the new reality under Trump!
Especially since: (hold on for maths)
(Checks notes)
(Confers with calendar)
He did 5 years.
Trump was elected 4 years ago.
I expect nothing less from a caricature of our senior Senator.
Pshaw!
So loser wannabe rapper/felons go to the top of the mbta list now? How does that work?
It is based on the tincture of one’s epidermis.
Yo, son… it’s called an affirmative action diversity hire. If you kept your cis hetero white privileged ass woke and educated your self. you would know that (bipoc ) or bi people of color to your honkey ass. can stab 12 year olds do 5 years like its “nuttin”. Then come home and get a decent little job. Its systemic racism you dumb honkey and dont you forgot it.
Did Genduso do this guys background check?
“I’ll lead an effective strategy to mobilize [unintelligible]!”
Join us.
How many Felons are working for the MBTA? Can you have felony arrests and be hired for their police department?
These days there could be many felons working at the MBTA. Thanks to the ACLU, who has a huge hard-on for Transit agencies. And thanks to sealed CORI records. A convicted felon can seal their record after 7 years from their conviction date (3 years for misdemeanor) in MA. I’m not sure the date this guy was convicted, he just did 5 years, so presumably his last felony can’t be sealed yet. But it doesn’t really matter as far as getting hired these days. A potential employer isn’t allowed to ask about your criminal history on the initial job application anymore. They can ask you at the interview though. If your records have been sealed then you can just say “no, I have no record”. Unless you’re trying to become a police officer or if you’re a sex offender trying to work with kids and a handful of other exceptions. If your records are not sealed, the potential employer isn’t allowed to deny you the job unless your convictions pertain to the job you applied for. If an agency like the MBTA just says, “we’re not hiring you because of your record”, then they’re gonna be in a world of shit with the ACLU. And they actually have been before. And lost many times. Like I said, with the exception of hiring Transit Police. It’s pretty fucking sad how many more rights and opportunities a freshly convicted felon has than the rest of us. But this is the world we live in now. And it’s gonna get a whole lot worse if Trump doesn’t pull through on Tuesday. Fingers crossed. Sorry for the novel.
Just getting some reparations from you crackers. Gotta love an agency that hires by lottery. . The T riders and tax payers hit theJackpot with this beauty. How many non criminals and deserving people did they pass over for this future perfect attendance award winner. No wonder the fucked up MBTA is in the red every year
Mbta = more blacks than Africa
Hilarious that he brags about all his jail and prison time and never being a snitch. Stupid Chimp never imagined someone had the real paperwork of him being a Rat. This is why they are hated, we have to pretend they are not violent animals. They are Violent Animals and the data proves it, Liberals try to explain away the data. He will be back in prison or dead within a year. Either way we will still be paying for his kids, just like today. They almost never pay , just more facts for Liberals to explain away.
I can’t get hired at the T because I’m white. Racism
With a pile of bills?
I’m sure that job won’t last too long after he realizes he has to use some of it to pay child support and he realizes he can just go back to robbing crackers for Jordans
Yup. Sounds about right. Took a job that should have been my husband’s He applied. Hard working until he lost his job to COVID. No jail time. Not even a speeding ticket. Hmmmmmmmm.
At least he got a job.
Tsk, dis muthafucka ain’t even gone had dat jizz-ob long nuff ta stank up dat fancy-ass T unicorn….no…wait.
Too late.
MBTA: more blacks than Africa
I wish I had a haircut that made it look like I have rolled-up dog turds on my head. So cool! Why is that the way black (and to some extent white) style is going? Every motherfucker and their pet rock wants braids and/or beads now. So effeminate and ugly looking (for hair, don’t make it racist dawg), but evidently women go crazy for shit like that…
Why is it that guns a pile of cash makes them think they’re not a complete loser? They look so stupid when they do that
Nice Jordan’s and that Benz SUV. I am sure you can afford all of that baller gear on an MBTA salary.
Oh yah that extended 30 round mag for your illegal hand gun might get you into some trouble, cuz you know, it is mass and you are a dipshit posting a picture of it online.
Hate to tell ya but if he lives in the projects hes probably not far off from having a mercedes like 94% of the other project dwellers. Have you actually ever driven through any projects? They are always exclusively filled with old mini Van’s. hondas with acura symbols on them or mercedes. Its oppression when you live in da ejects and drive a mercedes while only having to pay 25.00 in rent a month and sometimes now even.
how much glue have you been huffing?
You sure that’s the guy?