Posted on 09/18/2009 1:31:19 PM PDT by devane617
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. -- No more Cracker Barrel restaurants ever for one Georgia man. The company has banned the man accused of beating a mother at one of its restaurants from all of its locations for life. Investigators in Clayton County said Troy West beat Tasha Hill at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Morrow while yelling racial slurs after he nearly hit her 7-year-old daughter while opening the restaurant's door. Cracker Barrel Bans Suspect From Restaurant For Life The beating is leading some state lawmakers to consider pushing for a Georgia Hate Crime Law. "It's past time, but there again, Georgia seems to be kind of at the end of coming on board with things that are of a progressive mode," said State Sen. Gail Buckner. The FBI is investigating if it will file federal hate crime charges in the case. West was charged with battery, disorderly conduct, and cruelty to children in the first degree. He is currently out on $5,000 bond. A hearing has been set for Sept. 24 in Clayton County.
Yeah adding a hate/thought crime charge to that would've made him think twice! God you statists are so f'ing STUPID!
Seriously, this guy sounds like one racist ahole.
“...state lawmakers to consider pushing for a Georgia Hate Crime Law...”
This guy gets banned for life and Georgia considers hate crimes laws. Yet, a pack of wild animals in Knoxville carjacks two UT students, rapes, mutilates, and kills them and THAT’S NOT a hate crime??????? I fail to see the equity here.
Unreal. What equality anymore.
...let’s not forget the school bus beating from a few days ago, with video included. someone got to the police officer after he made a comment and made him recant...
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Be interesting to learn what set him off.
>>Troy West beat Tasha Hill at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Morrow while yelling racial slurs after he nearly hit her 7-year-old daughter while opening the restaurant’s door
So he beat the woman after nearly hitting her daughter with the door?
I think part of this story is missing and its the part that’s usually missing from these “white racist attacks innocent person of color” stories.
Good for them!
I’m not so sure it was all about race and not partly because the lady is an Army Reservist. The way libs have treated our armed service men and women makes me wonder if she was in uniform or not when he attacked her.
Anyone know?
the protected species cannot be racist...only the predatory white race can be racists....
very neat and tied up with a bow....these leftist newspeak idiots.
Its racist to even think such a thing is possible.
And who needs official Hate Crime laws, federal or otherwise, when Sears' HC Laws seem to do just fine in GA. /sarc
Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and Katie Couric say I’m a racist, so I guess I am.
This story has me torn right down the middle. Being banned from Cracker Barrel, one of the most disgusting restaurants in the country, should be a good thing. But beating a woman for ? what? can not be tolerated. Why not jail time (the food might be better) and a fine (less money to spend at Cracker Barrel).
This guy should be hanged.
The witnesses should be charged with aiding and abetting a criminal...at least any men between the ages of 21 and 40.
Michael Vick goes to jail for torturing and beating animals. Another NFL star kills a pedestrian while drving drunk and gets off with probation. This guy deserves to be stoned for 5 minutes.
A Crime is a Crime is Crime...and yes it’s hateful.
Quite with more laws...it’s already a law to hurt someone.
Way to go Cracker Barrel..i love that restaurant.
LOL! When assholes like that say you’re wrong it is a solid indicator that you are 100% correct.
Isn’t “Cracker Barrel” a racist name for a restaurant?
I agree, something is missing. But I would like you to share with the rest of us what the woman could have possibly done (what's missing) to justifiably provoke a man to savagely beat a woman and continue to do so while she was bleeding on the floor.
Georgia should put him on a chain gang separating salt from water in the Gulf of Mexico aboard an inflatable toy raft for a month about 200 miles off the coast.
Disgusting....Ok, so what is your favorite restaurant? I am always curious when someone makes a strong statement as to what their ideal replace would be...I like CB, but not too often. It’s a great place when you are on the road.
“Man, it does not get worse than getting banned from Cracker Barrel. Maybe getting banned from WalMart...”
Not affected, mever heard of Cracker Barrel and I hate Walmart and never go in the illegal congrating warehouse.
This sequence has apparently been verified by the surveillance video.
Yes there are overblown and questionable incidences that the media drones on and on about... there are also a few angry racists who don't need a lot of motive to beat a black woman because she dared speak to him.
Oooh! I got this one. White Castle. My kids hate the fries, my wife hates the gas and we always end up at whatever I suggest next.
Yep, it is really disgusting to pull into their parking lot and not be able to find a parking place...
We are frequently on prolonged trips and nave found that Cracker Barrel is one of the few places you can get a decent dose of vegetables.
A private business can set their own rules for within their establishments.
Maybe not a “hate” crime, but a closely related category called “stupid abusive violent jerk” crime.
This sounds “unprovoked” to me. While I am not a big fan of “hate crime” laws, everyone should be punished based on their actions and not their thoughts. Thoughts seem to get a lot of guilty people off the hook by our “blind” justice system. Tax evation anyone?
More info here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/16/troy-dale-west-man-beats_n_289136.html
He’s a POS. She told him she was an army reservist before he beat her up. Worthless punk needs some backwoods justice applied to his skull...
I can’t name any restaurant chain right off that I like but let me tell you about a meal that we were served at Cracker Barrel. My husband ordered roast beef. It was blue, thats right the meat was blue and he was not able to chew it. I forgot what I ordered but it was bad too. When we asked about the blue meat they didn’t know what it was. We were told that it comes already prepared and all they do is warm it and serve. After looking at all the junk for sale from China we decided the food came from China too.
There was a black comedian back in the early 90s (I don’t think it was Chris Rock, but it might have been) who was talking about “Hate Crimes”.
He said “If a man is beating me, I’m pretty sure he hates me. But does it make it any worse that he is beating me because I’m black? Shouldn’t I be more scared of the guy who just beats me for no reason? The guy who beats me because I’m black at least has a reason to hate me. The guy who hates me for no reason... he’s the guy I want locked up longer. Who knows what he will do for no reason!”
See my post #33.
Oops, sorry, didn’t realize I’d linked to Huffo. Oh well, can’t be undone, and story there is decent.
I just wanted to hear the whole story before I joined the lynch mob. According to some other posts, the woman politely asked him to watch out for her daughter and he attacked her.
So, he’s an a**hole and deserves whatever he gets. If I had been there, I would have pulled him off her myself and called the cops.
I was just concerned that she might have possibly “got up in his face” and started the racist name-calling, but only his crimes were being reported. I have a healthy distrust of any claims of “racism” these days.
We don’t need no stinkin hate crime law to handle this redneck. Just give him 5 years in a cell with a big black man who knows what he did. For that matter it could be a big white man, he would get the job done.
Delmar: "We thought you was a toad, and a biblesaleman beat us up, and we was banished from Woolworth's. I don't know Everett, was it jest that one or the whole chain?"
Fair assessment. I was a little ahead of you on knowning some of the circumstances. I knew there was a tape. But short of self defense, I find no excuse for this animals actions and would have liked to instead hear about how long he would be eating through a straw when other Georgians jumped to this lady’s defense.
I hope the other patrons who witnessed this are ashamed. I’d like to see a list of those that stood by and did nothing along with a picture of them on the news just to shame them. (I know that is wrong but it makes me sick)
I sure do too. At least they didnt jump up and down, rooting the perpetrator on like the kids on the bus....where the white kid got his brains knocked out.
unless it’s about smoking,using transfatty acids in cooking, or....
We also tried Cracker Barrel. The chicken patty was raw in the middle and the mayo was yellow. We stopped eating as soon as it was discovered but got food poisoning anyways. Never stepped foot in the place again.
The guy is fortunate for the ban. They are doing him a favor.
I’ve read several different accounts of this incident in different forms. Every one agreed that she said ‘Excuse me sir, you need to watch where you’re going. You almost hit my daughter in the face.”
Every witness agreed with her, there were others coming in and out the doors at the same time. They all told the police she was very polite and non-confrontational. As he hit her, she said she was a soldier and didn’t want any trouble and he continued to beat on her.
It might make my sons angry but even if a woman gets up in their face and yells, all they have to do is walk away.
Hell, I got banned from Cracker Barrel when I asked that the gravy be omitted from my Skillet Breakfast because I’m allergic to gluten. The manager, even, insisted that they had a “no changes” rule. Guess their idea of good food and good customer service is to poison their patrons.
I was so irritated I wrote corporate a lengthy description of what happened and they sent me a coupon for ONE for a free breakfast that expired six months later.
Wife beaters and Celiacs, beware!!!
What an outfit.
See my post #33.
“I’ve been throw out of better places than this!!!”
http://www3.whdh.com/features/articles/specialreport/A316/
Typically, what happens is that if someone recognizes him, he can be arrested for trespass. If the facts as represented are accurate, they had a perfect right, nay, an obligation to ban this buffoon. He struck a woman, sir. After nearly hitting her child with a door.
I agree, if the races of the individuals involved had been swapped, the consequences would have been entirely different.
Yea OK, and?
Here's what I commented on: "The company has banned the man accused of beating a mother at one of its restaurants from all of its locations for life.
This CCB outfit, has an awful lot of stores y'know.
We're not talking about casinos in LV, now.
Follow?
"If the facts as represented are accurate, they had a perfect right, nay, an obligation to ban this buffoon."
I'd agree, being one who respects private property & all that. {BTW OT, just wondering. Do people living in MA naturally start talking like Patrick Henry? LOL} /jk'g
"He struck a woman, sir. After nearly hitting her child with a door."
He's fortunate all he faces is getting tossed from a two-bit restaurant chain & a small fine of some kind. Could've been much worse for the old goat physically & financially.
"I agree, if the races of the individuals involved had been swapped, the consequences would have been entirely different."
Goes without saying.
Be that as it may, my comment was inspired by this pull-quote: "The beating is leading some state lawmakers to consider pushing for a Georgia Hate Crime Law."
Guess you're not a fan of Frank Zappa. You'd have caught the reference to "Sears'". Mocks the whole "hate crime" baloney, ala Frank Zappa.
Laws are laws & should be enforced as such.
He would be probably known to someone in the Cracker Barrel near where he lives or moves to. Just the threat has deterent value.
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