Posted on 02/02/2007 7:24:48 AM PST by Eurotwit
Schoolgirl Jasmine Kranat was attacked after catching a bus back home from her local Asda on a summer Saturday afternoon. The 12-year-old from North London was travelling with a friend. The two girls had bought ingredients to make smoothies for a sleepover. They were talking when a group of nine black and Asian teenagers pushed next to them on the back seat and forced them into a corner. The girls were aggressively asked: "Are you Jewish?" Jasmine's friend was wearing a crucifix - and was untouched during what followed. Jasmine is thought to have been picked on because, although she answered "I'm English", she blushed when being interrogated. CCTV records from the bus show that Jasmine was punched several times in the face until receiving a blow that knocked her unconscious.
Her attackers then stamped on her head and chest as she lay on the floor. Despite the screams of her friend, none of the other passengers came to help. The bus driver turned in his seat to aks if everything was OK.
One of the attackers answered yes, while another ripped a bracelet worth £1 from Jasmine's arm and another went through her pockets. Jasmine was still being stamped on as her friend dragged her to the door and off the bus. Miss Kranat suffered a fractured eye socket, a bruised chest and a swollen face in the attack on 11 August. Two 14-year-old girls have been found guilty of robbery and attempted robbery and are to be sentenced at Harrow Crown Court later this month. A third teenager was found not guilty of robbery.
In a second case, a 20-year-old racist who attacked the graves of Holocaust survivors in a Jewish cemetery was jailed for six years. Simon Johnston caused an estimated £100,000 worth of damage when he desecrated part of Witton cemetery in Birmingham. A court heard that 62 headstones were smashed and others had racist stickers posted on them over a period of four days in August. The prosecution counsel said: "Some of these graves were the resting place of Holocaust survivors who found themselves in Birmingham in their twilight years and were buried there." Northern Ireland-born Johnston's flat was found to contain racist posters and publications. A welcome message on his mobile phone read "Made in Ulster - Combat 18" in an apparent reference to a far-right group. After breaking up the cemetery, Johnston racially abused three black men and a child in the street.
"Her attackers then stamped on her head and chest as she lay on the floor. Despite the screams of her friend, none of the other passengers came to help."
What's the matter with people?
Well, the beatings have started. The Nazis are back. I know where the anti-Semites of both political extremes stand on it. And they all suck.
Yeah, the fact that no one came to help is the absolute worst part of the story. We know there are bad people in the world. It's when "good" people do nothing that these bad people can do what they do.
They're afraid. Afraid of being murdered by the "black and Asian" (probably Moslem) "youths." And afraid of being prosecuted if they defend themselves or others against attack.
Just one more indication of how selfish liberals really are.
Given your moniker, I hoped you would be able to shed some light for us on the Western side of the pond.
Interrogated? I didnt realize she was a criminal.
In the UK you will end up in prison if you use force against a criminal.
There are people in the UK serving 10 year tariffs for forcibly defending themselves, let alone strangers, from muggers and burglars.
A bus passenger in the UK, sadly, has to think: "Will I spend 10 years locked up away from my family if I help this girl?"
It's a sickening choice to have to make.
Bingo. They have no recourse, thanks to the PC nanny-state they live in.
This is just as bad as what happened in Long Beach, California...
Inhuman animals should be treated as such.
"Asian" here refers to members of a certain religion that thinks blwoing themselves up guarantees 72 virgins, a couple goats, and paradise?
Code for islamites. Bleeding hearts like Prince Charles would have us all do a group hug in order to solve "racial tensions". What is needed is actually a reinstated death penalty, and fast.
Because the British Government has done everything possible to make standing up to thugs and bullies who prey on innnocent people a crime.
If a bystander had attempted to intervene and used, or even threatened to use, physical force it's highly likely that the Samaritan would have been arrested and prosecuted.
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"I hate to say it but since it's Europe if the passengers thought she was a Jew too I don't think they really cared what happened to her."
Europeans aren't always the best with Jews, but they aren't anywhere near this.
I can't see anyone of European origin being anything but horrified by this.... :(
I see the limeys are following the lead of the religion of peace and tolerance.
no assault or attempted murder charges?
I've never been to Texas, but do you think these "youths" would get away with this in Houston or Dallas?
Or Vermont, for that matter?
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
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