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Man Beaten By Mob, In Critical Condition
Matthew Owens lying in the ICU at USA Medical Center.
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Published: April 23, 2012
Published: April 23, 2012
MOBILE, Alabama --
Mobile police need your help to catch a mob that beat Matthew Owens so badly that he's in critical condition.
According to police, Owens fussed at some kids playing basketball in
the middle of Delmar Drive about 8:30 Saturday night. They say the kids
left and a group of adults returned, armed with everything but the
kitchen sink.
Police tell News 5 the suspects used chairs, pipes and paint cans to beat Owens.
Owens' sister, Ashley Parker, saw the attack. "It was the scariest
thing I have ever witnessed." Parker says 20 people, all African
American, attacked her brother on the front porch of his home, using
"brass buckles, paint cans and anything they could get their hands on."
Police will only say "multiple people" are involved.
What Parker says happened next could make the fallout from the brutal
beating even worse. As the attackers walked away, leaving Owen bleeding
on the ground, Parker says one of them said "Now thats justice for
Trayvon." Trayvon Martin is the unarmed teenager police say was shot and
killed February 26 by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in
Samford, Florida.
Police canvassed the area, but did not find any suspects. They're
asking anyone with information to call them at 251-208-7211, Crime
Stoppers at 251-208-7000, or text a tip to 274637 and include the
keyword CRIME 411.
Trayvon Martin cited in case of black on white beating
According to reports, two Chicago teens robbed a man at "branch-point" Tuesday, then punched him a number of times. When questioned by the police later, the two said the attack was motivated by their feelings over the Trayvon Martin case.
Alton L. Hayes, III was one of the
perpetrators. The 18-year-old and a friend, 15, are both
African-American. According to reports, they walked up behind their
alleged victim. The younger one held the man's arms at his side while
Hayes threatened him with a large branch saying, "Empty your pockets,
white boy."
They searched the 19-year-old man's pockets before throwing him to
the ground and hitting him in the head and the back. Hayes and his
underage partner ran from the scene but were soon found by the police,
arrested at gunpoint and charged with attempted robbery, aggravated
battery and a perpetuating a hate crime. Cook County State's Attorney's
office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said that, when questioned by the
police, Hayes said the attack was racially motivated.
Conservative blogger Robert Averach wrote
of the event, "The mainstream media are not terribly interested in this
story. That's because their outrage is only a tactic in the liberal war
against Conservatives. Liberals are not really upset about Trayvon
Martin's death. They only view Martin as a prop in their kabuki
theater."
‘Trayvon' shouted as group attacks Good Samaritan
The name of Trayvon Martin was invoked again Wednesday night in Gainesville during an attack by a group that police say stomped on a white man who was scuffling with a black robbery suspect on the Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
The robbery suspect, Carl
Milton Babb, 50, had been released from prison earlier in the day after
serving more than two years in prison for the same crime he is accused
of committing Wednesday — snatching a purse from a woman near the
downtown plaza.
According
to a Gainesville Police Department arrest report, Babb approached a
woman eating dinner at the Lunchbox on the plaza at about 8:50 p.m. and
asked her for a light.
When she said she didn't have one, Babb took off with her purse, which contained her $500 cellphone, according to the report.
The woman's dinner companion and another person took off after Babb.
When
her friend caught up with Babb, according to the police report, Babb
punched him in the face and grabbed his hair, but he was able to keep
Babb pinned down, according to the report.
The
scene attracted a crowd, and a number of people on the plaza approached
Babb and the Good Samaritan, who tried to explain that Babb had just
stolen his friend's purse.
GPD
spokeswoman Cpl. Angelina Valuri said some members of the crowd shouted
"Trayvon!" and that at least three of members of the crowd began
stomping on the hands of the woman's friend to force him to let go of
Babb.
Babb, who was listed as homeless, was arrested by police a few blocks away.
Valuri
said some witnesses to the robbery tried to calm down the crowd,
affirming the victim's story that he was trying to stop a man accused of
a crime and retrieve his friend's purse.
"The crowd was acting off of
emotion without knowing all of the facts of this case," Valuri said,
adding that investigators didn't immediately know the names or races of
the men or women who stomped on the victim.
It
was the second attack in the past week in Gainesville in which
assailants yelled the first name of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black
17-year-old who was shot and killed by crime-watch volunteer George
Zimmerman as the teen walked back to his father's girlfriend's apartment
in Sanford on Feb. 26.
State
Attorney Angela Corey had announced at 6 p.m. Wednesday in
Jacksonville, less than three hours before the incident on Gainesville's
downtown plaza, that Zimmerman had been charged with second-degree
murder in Martin's death.
In
Gainesville early Saturday, a 27-year-old white man was beaten by a
group of between five and eight black men as he walked home on Southwest
23rd Terrace, police said.
The
victim told police the attackers shouted "Trayvon!" before beating him,
though he was intoxicated and could not give a description of the
attackers or their vehicle.
Valuri
said Thursday that investigators had no leads in the case and still
were depending on members of the public to come forward with
information.
"Emotions
with (the Trayvon Martin) case, even though it didn't occur in our
community, emotions are running high across the nation, including the
city of Gainesville," Valuri said, referring to how the Martin case
reared its head in Gainesville on Wednesday. "It's very unfortunate
that, with this particular case, a person who was just trying to do the
right thing ended up getting hurt."
According to the GPD report, Babb told Officer Jon Rappa he was "high on crack and doesn't remember what happened."
He also said he had been released from prison earlier in the day.
The officer checked with the Florida Department of Corrections, and it was true.
Babb
was released Wednesday from Holmes Correctional Institution in Bonifay
after serving two years and two months after he was convicted of felony
battery and petit theft for a purse snatching.
The site of those crimes? The Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
On
Wednesday night, Babb was charged with robbery, a third-degree felony,
and battery, a first-degree misdemeanor, in connection with the latest
purse snatching.
According
to the DOC's offender database, Babb spent much of the 1980s and early
1990s in prison for burglary and theft and was imprisoned from May 2,
2005, to March 31, 2009, for burglaries and thefts that occurred in late
2004.
Less than a year later, on Feb. 1, 2010, his latest sentence began.
Man, 78, recounts assault by 6 youths in E. Toledo
Dallas Watts, 78, indicates where he was kicked during an assault that
took place in East Toledo on Saturday. He said there were six boys, the
youngest one 11 years old.
It was six against one.
Six juveniles -- the youngest 11, and the oldest 17 -- nearly boxed in Dallas Watts, a 78-year-old man from East Toledo.
Mr. Watts was on his way home from the nearby Gas Express Mart at
Starr Avenue and White Street about 4:45 p.m. Saturday when the boys
approached him.
One pointed at Mr. Watts and said, "take him down," the victim recounted in an interview Monday.
Mr. Watts, carrying home two small bags of pork rinds to dole out as
treats to his three dachshunds, looked at the youth and said, "Why you
picking on me?" Mr. Watts recalled.
"Remember Trayvon. Why you picking
on me?"
The boy, again, allegedly told his friends to "take him down."
Toledo police charged two children -- the 11-year-old and a 17-year-old -- with robbery, Sgt. Roy Kennedy said.
The boys on Monday were ordered held in detention at the Lucas County Juvenile Justice Center, prosecutor Lori Olender said.
The 17-year-old also faces a felonious assault charge from an
unrelated shooting, Ms. Olender said. The teen allegedly shot Mark
Bolling, 24, in the 600 block of Leonard Street in East Toledo on March
18.
Mr. Watts said one of the boys delivered a single blow to the back of
his head during the incident Saturday, knocking the victim to the
ground.
At one point, the victim recalled being lifted from the ground so one of the boys could "drop-kick" him in the chest.
One boy, he said, put his foot on the back of the victim's neck, with another shouting, "Kill him."
While Mr. Watts was down the boys kicked him, over and over,
shouting, "[Get] that white [man]. This is for Trayvon ... Trayvon
lives, white [man]. Kill that white [man]," according to a police
report.
The boys fled when a man shouted at them, according to the report.
Mr. Watts said it's possible the assault was retribution for the
death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was fatally shot by George
Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch captain in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26.
Mr. Zimmerman has said he fired in self-defense and has not been charged
with any crime.
For investigators, it's unclear whether the assault was motivated by
an attempt to avenge the Martin youth's death or whether Mr. Watts'
"Remember Trayvon" message was misinterpreted as threatening or racist.
"It's still up in the air who started the verbal confrontation,"
Sergeant Kennedy said, adding that stories given by the suspect and the
victim conflict and the investigation is ongoing.
When asked about the Trayvon remarks, Mr. Watts said, "All I meant by
saying 'remember Trayvon' is to remember what happened to him, don't
duplicate it here," suggesting that he was minding his own business as
he walked home.
"The only reason I mentioned Trayvon, that was my defense," Mr. Watts said. "Don't pick on me. I am not your enemy."
The assault occurred only a few hours after a peaceful rally, near
the Thurgood Marshall Building, 420 E. Manhattan Blvd., to show support
for the Martin family.
At his home Monday, Mr. Watts said he has never allowed weapons
inside and that when his four children were growing up, they were not
allowed to play "cops and robbers, to kill the Indians."
During the Vietnam War, Mr. Watts, who served in the military from 1950 to 1961, refused to let his boys play GI Joes.
There would be no more killing, he said.
But now, Mr. Watts says he plans to buy a gun and obtain a permit to carry it.
"What happened to me … down here on the corner, that changed my perspective on humanity," Mr. Watts said.
"This is for Trayvon!"
ELMOST - Detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred in Elmont on Sunday.
According to detectives, a female victim, 20, while in her
residence with her boyfriend, 19, observed 10-12 male black subjects
wearing hoodies (no further description available) yelling on the front
lawn of her residence, "This is for Trayvon!" The subjects were looking for the owner of the
vehicle parked in her driveway, which belonged to her boyfriend. The
victim heard metal being smashed and screamed out the window to stop
hitting the car. The subjects then fired five gunshots into the
residence, striking the female victim once in the stomach. The
subjects fled northbound on Sussex Rd., into three autos and then
eastbound on Hempstead Tpke. The three autos were described as a white
car with a black hood, a silver car, and a blue and green car. No
further description is available.
The female victim was transported to a local hospital, where
she is listed in stable condition. No other injuries were reported.
Detectives ask anyone with information about this crime to
contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244-TIPS. All callers will remain
anonymous.
27 Year-Old Gainesville Man Jumped By 5-8 African-Americans And Beaten While They Screamed, "Trayvon! Trayvon!"
Gainesville, Florida, police are investigating what they
believe may have been a “racially motivated” attack early Tuesday
morning stemming from the nationally covered Trayvon Martin case
involving the tragic death of an unarmed 17-year-old.
According to local news affiliates, a 27-year-old Gainesville man was walking home from the bars early Tuesday morning when he said he was jumped by five to eight men who yelled “Trayvon” before the attack. The call before the attack appears to be in reference to the Sandford case that has rocked national headlines, and led to broader societal discussions on crime and race. News4Jax reports:
Gainesville investigators told The Gainesville Sun that they believe Tuesday morning’s attack stemmed from the Martin case.
According to local news affiliates, a 27-year-old Gainesville man was walking home from the bars early Tuesday morning when he said he was jumped by five to eight men who yelled “Trayvon” before the attack. The call before the attack appears to be in reference to the Sandford case that has rocked national headlines, and led to broader societal discussions on crime and race. News4Jax reports:
Gainesville investigators told The Gainesville Sun that they believe Tuesday morning’s attack stemmed from the Martin case.
“We do believe that the crime was racially motivated,” Gainesville Police Department spokeswoman Cpl. Angelina Valuri said.
Valuri said the victim was white and the attackers were black.
Police said the victim had been drinking, so the only description he had of the attackers or their vehicle was that is was a mid-size vehicle. But Valuri did say that the victim’s injuries were consistent with being jumped by a group.
The victim told police that he was beaten for five minutes. He had injuries to his left eye, abrasions to his palms and a cut on his right knee cap. Valuri said he would likely have permanent damage to the left side of his face. He was taken to Shands Gainesville for treatment.
The Gainesville Sun reports that the attack occurred at about 2:45a.m. The victim told police that the group of men got out of a car and told him he was walking too slowly, before yelling ‘Trayvon” and attacking.
The Sandford case has attracted national outcry for the case involved the shooting death of an unarmed black teen walking back from a 7-11 with Skittles and an ice tea. The teen’s shooter, a half-white, half-Hispanic man, has not yet been arrested and seeking possibly defense under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law.
In addition to the Gainesville attack Tuesday, the Sandford case has led to several instances of what some have called “race-bating,” threats of violence, and racially-charged rhetoric by media commentators, groups or individuals in the name of Trayvon Martin.
“Empty
your pockets, white boy.”
As if looting Walgreens, kidnapping and assaulting a woman, beating up a 78-year-old man, and beating up a 27-year-old man weren’t enough, the “I am Trayvon” crowd continues to pay homage to their hero with another assault:
Alton L. Hayes III, a west suburban man charged with a
hate crime, told police he was so upset about the Trayvon Martin case in
Florida that he beat up a white man early Tuesday.
Hayes and a 15-year-old Chicago boy walked up behind the 19-year-old
man victim and pinned his arms to his side, police said. Hayes, 18, then
picked up a large tree branch, pointed it at the man and said, “Empty
your pockets, white boy.”
The two allegedly rifled through the victim’s pockets, then threw him
to the ground and punched him “numerous times” in the head and back
before running away, police said. Hayes and the boy are black; the
victim is white.
After being arrested, Hayes told police he was upset by the Trayvon
Martin case and beat the man up because he was white, Cook County
State’s Attorney’s office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said, citing court
records.
Revenge For Trayvon?+”Kill Whitey?”
Franklin tagged with Trayvon Martin-related vandalism
Residents in Franklin got some unexpected mail recently – along with some current events and social commentary.
According to the Franklin police reports:
On April 3, residents in the 10200 block of Scepter Circle reported
that someone had taped a black and white photo of Trayvon Martin, with
the word “Revenge” in red, to several mailboxes.
In a separate incident, a resident in the 10200 block of West St.
Martins Road reported two stickers were placed on his mailbox, one with a
picture of Trayvon Martin with “Revenge” written in red, the other was a
fist that said “Kill Whitey.”
Special watches were requested in both cases.
I fully expect race riots folks. I strongly recommend you have a bug
out bag ready and a plan to get out of your area as quickly as
possible. Also, learn your local firearm laws and be as well armed as
the law allows as quickly as possible.
In Baltimore: Beating, Stripping & Robbing White Man In Monkey Style Attack not Hate Crime?
Welcome to post America folks, please keep your hands inside the ride at all times and keep your ammo dry…
The beating of a man that was videotaped by onlookers
who did nothing to stop it in downtown Baltimore will not be
investigated as a hate crime, according to police.
Baltimore police say they’re looking for suspects in the beating,
but no arrests have been made. The victim has not been identified, but
police say he’s from Arlington, Va.
A video of the beating shows a white man getting punched in the
face, with his head slamming against the pavement. He’s then robbed and
stripped of his clothes. The suspects who attacked him are African
American. The surrounding crowd yells, "Trayvon! Trayvon!"
Baltimore County Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld,
speaking on WBAL Radio Tuesday, said he doesn’t think the video depicts a
hate crime, but that it is stoking “fear-mongering” and “race-baiting.”
He said the case indicates “drunken opportunistic criminality.”
The victim in the video appears to be disoriented, when he gets punched.
Undoubtedly, this will be continued since there are no calls to kill both George Zimmerman and the presiding judge.
TO BE CONTINUED....
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A National Travesty
Picture of the Day: If Obama Had A Son, He Would Not Look Like Trayvon
What Would Atticus Do?
Playing With Racial Fire
Sympathy For The Devils, Race-Pimps, Grievance-Mongers, & Great, White Guilt-Trippers?
From Tragedy to National Travesty
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Janie's got a gun
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Dum, dum, dum it's the sound of my gun.
Dum, dum, dum, honey what have you done?
Dum, dum, dum it's the sound
Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Her whole world's come undone
From lookin' straight at the sun
What did her daddy do?
What did he put you through?
They said when Janie was arrested
they found him underneath a train
But man, he had it comin' Now that Janie's got a gun
she ain't never gonna be the same.
Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Her dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Tell me now it's untrue.
What did her daddy do?
He jacked a little bitty baby
The man has got to be insane
They say the spell that he was under the lightning and the
thunder knew that someone had to stop the rain
Run away, run away from the pain yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Run away run away from the pain yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away
Janie's got a gun
Janie's got a gun
Her dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
What did her daddy do?
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She had to take him down easy and put a bullet in his brain
She said 'cause nobody believes me. The man was such a sleeze.
He ain't never gonna be the same.
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yeah yeah yeah
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yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Her dog day's just begun
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Her dog day's just begun
Now everybody is on the run
Janie's got a gun
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