Posted on 05/16/2008 11:14:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Crown Heights erupted in anger today as hundreds marched in protest after a 16-year-old Jewish teen was beaten and robbed in the early morning hours.
Police have made no arrests and have named no suspects, but the incident raised tensions that have simmered since the racial uproar of the early 1990s.
"Jewish blood is not cheap and we are making that statement," said Getzy Markowitz, 23, one of up to 300 people who marched in protest yesterday afternoon. "We are standing up for life an standing up for justice."
Cops said that Alon Sherman was riding his bicycle north on Albany Avenue at 12:10 a.m. this morning, when he was smashed in the head by an unknown object.
He couldn't tell cops exactly what happened next, but two 911 calls were made - one of which reported a young man lying in the street and another that reported two suspects fleeing the scene.
Sherman was robbed of his wallet, his cell phone his watch and his bicycle. He was knocked unconscious and left with cuts, bruises and head injuries. He was then taken to Kings County Hospital.
Cops have not ruled the attack a hate crime - angering members of the Jewish community who believe the beating and robbery was directly connected to tensions between Crown Heights' Jewish and African-American communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Happens all the time in the “urban” areas, if you know what I mean. They are crazed, liberal, and the police have no power over them.
A man from the small town of Saint Helens, Oregon, was driving through northwest Portland around 11:30 pm one night, and on the approach to the Fremont Bridge he was shot to death in a drive-by shooting. A car full of black teenagers were reported to have done the shooting, then driven over the bridge and into Albina, a section of Portland, Oregon, that has a predominately black population.
Portland’s Chief of Police, Charles Moose, refused to call it a hate crime. Instead, he said it was most likely just a gang initiation, as though that made any difference.
All murders are hate crimes.
Now, if it were a car full of White teenagers - it would obviously be a ‘hate crime’. After all, only white people are capable of ‘hate crimes’, right?
I find this whole ‘hate crime’ to be juvenile in the extreme. I don’t care what the perps reasons are for attacking, robbing, raping or killing someone else. Those are just rationalizations for committing a crime. Laws should punish the crime, not buy into the rationale behind the crime.
If I kill someone because he’s green, I am guilty of murder. The fact that he was green and I was not, is of no consequence. Murder = Death penalty. Very easy stuff here.
If a green person abused me - that’s a rationalization. He’s just as dead because of my rationalization, as he would be without any rationalization. All we have done is set an uneven set of rules that some people can use, and others cannot, for the same criminal activity.
But, like the GOP’s lack of a backbone has demonstrated - facts don’t matter. What matters most is how someone ‘feels’ about it.
Jewish blood?
Look, I’m the first to support Israel in the Middle East, but thise seems racist to me. Is “Jewish blood” more valuable than mine? If they had said, “Israeli blood” then I could see it as patriotism. What if they said, “arian blood?”
Am I alone on this?
Ah ol’ Moosie on the job! Worry not, he has put out an APB for a blonde man driving a “white van”
I hope that you are. Lets over react, shall we?
Ha! :) Point taken.
Just seems like an unnecessary and strange statement to me.
At 3 billion taken from the American tax-payer and nothing given in return, it is darn expensive.
Jewish blood?Nope. The whole "our blood is not cheap" thing gets used the most by the Palis. I would think a Jewish community would have the sense not to use that kind of rhetoric.Look, I’m the first to support Israel in the Middle East, but thise seems racist to me. Is “Jewish blood” more valuable than mine? If they had said, “Israeli blood” then I could see it as patriotism. What if they said, “arian blood?”
Am I alone on this?
Israel does the jobs Americans won’t do and takes out the trash.
Syria and Iraq would have gone nuclear if it wasn’t for the Israelis. Saddam with nukes would not have been a pretty picture.
The second American civil war is coming
The “Jewish blood” statement was made by just one 23 year old guy in the crowd, so it’s curious the Post chose to make that the headline.
If you write ad copy you'd know that rates pretty high for emotional value.
No, you are not alone. I find such tribalism un-American.
To be fair, most people fall back to tribalism when they feel they have been singled out because of it, which probably was the case here.
Well, sure, and if we're talking about something said in the heat of the moment then one can expect people who are angry or afraid to lash out. But when you are participating in a demonstration, or reporting on one, then this is a poltical act and should be subject to more sober reflection.
If the injured young man was targeted because of racism then that is an important fact and it is a moral wrong that should be condemned by all Americans regardless of their ancestry or faith. But to respond to racism with appeals to racial solidarity undermines the American creed of e pluribus unum.
Whenever I participate in a demonstration on any issue I take the least bit personally, I always make it a point to direct all media inquiries to someone else (and preferably someone I know to be both more articulate and less excitable than myself). I highly recommend that others do the same.
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