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Motorist who struck boy [and stopped to help] critical after mob attack
Washington Post ^ | 03 April 2014

Posted on 04/04/2014 11:03:14 AM PDT by Lorianne

DETROIT — A suburban Detroit man was in critical condition Thursday with severe head injuries after a neighborhood mob beat and kicked him when he stopped to check on a 10-year-old boy who stepped from a curb into the path of his pickup.

The 54-year-old man, whose name was not released, was being treated at a Detroit hospital as police scoured the east side neighborhood where he was attacked Wednesday afternoon. The boy, David Harris, was expected to recover from his injuries, according to Desmond Key, who said he was the 10-year-old’s uncle.

The driver — who lives just north of Detroit in Macomb County’s Roseville — wasn’t at fault in the accident, said Detroit police Sgt. Michael Woody.

“A preliminary investigation shows the kid stepped off the curb in front of him,” Woody said. “No way he could have stopped in time.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: africanamerican; detroit; knockoutgame; mob; obama; pickuptruck
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To: Lorianne

This situation encourages hit and run drivers. You accidently hit a kid and you see many angry black people watching. What will you do after reading stuff like this? My advice, drive to the nearest police station and report it and accept the legal consequences, it’s better than being dead or having to shoot a lot of people.

I hit a toddler once or more accurately, he hit me. Reading, Pa 1967, I was driving down a residential one way street, cars parked on both sides and a kid comes barreling down an inclined drive way on a tricycle and smacked into the front of my car, he hit it really hard. I stopped got out and picked up him and his tricycle, went and knocked on the door. I told the woman what just happened and she grabbed the kid roughly and started scolding him.

She wasn’t angry with me, neither did she thank me for stopping to make sure the kid was ok. I immediately drove to the police station and reported all the details, never heard another word about it.

The accident itself rattled me to the core, on initial impact, I thought for sure, the kid would be dead.


21 posted on 04/04/2014 12:18:55 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (God is not the author of confusion. 1 Cor 13: 33)
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To: Veto!
Nope, never watched it. Does it take place in Mogadishu, MO?

I believe it takes place in East Mogadishu, Illinois.

22 posted on 04/04/2014 12:22:30 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (God is not the author of confusion. 1 Cor 13: 33)
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To: Veto!
The protagonist takes a wrong turn in the wrong St. Louis neighborhood at midnight and asks some local residents who are standing around for directions.

Hilarity ensues.

Often cut from the TV version because of profanity and probably "sending an insensitive message."

Much like the "What are you studying?" scene in National Lampoon's Animal House.

23 posted on 04/04/2014 12:22:43 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: Westbrook

Detroit.

Civilization in reverse gear.


24 posted on 04/04/2014 12:24:10 PM PDT by Jacquerie ( Article V.)
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To: Lorianne

Another thread on this story was from a CBS affiliate, and they identified the driver as white, and the mob as black.


25 posted on 04/04/2014 12:26:02 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Veto!
A detour thru St. Louis sent me thru what seemed to be Mogadishu. Scary, especially for a woman alone.

We have to drive through east Austin to get to the airport, unless we want to use toll road SH 130. I make sure the doors are locked when we hit IH 35.

26 posted on 04/04/2014 12:28:03 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: Lorianne

Beating of white driver by angry mob after he accidentally ran over young boy ruled NOT a hate crime by Detroit police.

Steve Utash, 54, accidentally hit David Harris, a 10-year-old black boy, with his truck when he darted out into the busy street, surveillance footage showed

Utash stopped to make sure the boy was okay and was instead savagely beaten by as many as 12 people, said police

Police have ruled out the beating being a hate crime, but are still searching for the attackers, who also stole his wallet

The family of the young boy have condemned the attack

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597024/Beating-driver-angry-mob-accidentally-ran-young-boy-ruled-NOT-hate-crime-Detroit-police.html#ixzz2xwo9Z7ty
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27 posted on 04/04/2014 12:28:07 PM PDT by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

‘Firmtive. Negro on Blanc.


28 posted on 04/04/2014 12:28:36 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Lorianne

It has gotten to the point when if a white person hits a black in a black area cops don’t charge hit and run if the guy pulls over someplace safe to call a few miles away.


29 posted on 04/04/2014 12:37:03 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: roses of sharon

“Police have ruled out the beating being a hate crime...”

And this behavior will continue.


30 posted on 04/04/2014 12:42:31 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: DonaldC

“Police have ruled out the beating being a hate crime...”

It was a happy crime. /s


31 posted on 04/04/2014 12:51:15 PM PDT by This Just In
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To: Lorianne
stopped to check

Will he stop next time?
Would you stop?

Remember, it's a crime if you don't stop.

32 posted on 04/04/2014 12:52:21 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: Lorianne

coconut head holder set the pace “AH WILL NOT PROSECUTE MAH PEOPLE’S”..... there is no justice with him as AG... and racism in amerika is lodged in the black psyche... jerks like Al “tawana brawley” Sharpton are race pimps and the libtard media promotes the issue as “news”... blacks have a racist chip and entitlements ingrained by libtards... too bad the old guy didn’t have a gun and use it ..


33 posted on 04/04/2014 12:57:35 PM PDT by zzwhale
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To: Lorianne

It’s safe to conclude what we are already thinking.
It obviously wasn’t a White mob (is there any such thing?) attacking a specially-privileged-protected-group-member, or the headlines would say so.
It obviously wasn’t a minority group attacking a minority group, or the story would not be in the press.


34 posted on 04/04/2014 1:00:12 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: wideawake

For a while I had to travel thru the not so great area of a African American city. A family friend and retired state cop said the same thin in anything happened.

Immediately call 911, advise the dispatcher of your location, what happened and that you fear for you safety and keep driving. If, er, when a mob starts to form, don’t stop.


35 posted on 04/04/2014 1:05:54 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Ted Grant

We moved from California to Wyoming four years ago and I really don’t miss the angry black people we used to see all the time. Up here the black folks we see are tourists going to Yellowstone and they’re always good people.


36 posted on 04/04/2014 1:22:25 PM PDT by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: Lorianne

HOLDERS PEOPLE SOUND MORE AND MORE LIKE RADICAL ISLAMICISTS EVERY DAY...REACT VIOLENTLY TO ANYTHING THAT SEEMINGLY OFFENDS YOU !! (whoops, I hunt and peck and tried to capitilize just Holder!!)


37 posted on 04/04/2014 1:32:58 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: Ted Grant

U r correct. We r going to Michigan this summer and my husband refused to fly into Detroit, even tho it was cheaper and we could get a direct flight. He is from Michigan and all of his relatives said it was not safe. See tag line...


38 posted on 04/04/2014 2:02:01 PM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Welcome to Obamastan! (Mrs. Yellowdoghunter))
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To: Lorianne
The boy’s uncle, Desmond Key, said Thursday that the family does not know any of the attackers.

Riiiight!!! Why don't you find out who they were, Uncle Desmond --

39 posted on 04/04/2014 2:16:08 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Lorianne

If Obama had sons...


40 posted on 04/04/2014 2:47:31 PM PDT by polymuser
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