Posted on 08/31/2023 10:55:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
A U.S. Navy veteran says he was brutally beaten and robbed Saturday night while walking his dog in a Philadelphia neighborhood.
Scott Harris, 62, was left with a brain injury and required at least 100 stitches after he was beaten by a crowd of people around 11:50 p.m. in the city’s Brewerytown neighborhood, according to NBC10. “That night on Saturday, there was a huge party going on over here,” he told the outlet. “A little bit out of control but nothing terribly concerning to me. Next thing you know, I’m in the emergency room getting stitches.”
At least one individual knocked Harris unconscious and stole his wallet, the outlet reported, citing police. There was no money inside, just his mother’s driver’s license, which he’s held onto since her death. “Sadly, only thing I really cared about in that wallet was my mother’s driver’s license,” Harris continued. “She passed about 10 years ago. That’s kind of how I kept her close and now I don’t even have that.”
After serving in Iraq and Ukraine for years, Harris said he was stunned that the most brutal experience of his life would happen right here at home.
Three women helped Harris back to his home, where his partner, Joseph Hurchick, called 911, FOX29 reported. “They brought him back, otherwise I don’t know what would have happened,” Hurchick told the outlet. “We were on the stoop and he was just bleeding, I was on the phone with 911, I didn’t know where the blood was coming from, I didn’t know if he was stabbed.”
Hurchick told FOX29 that although he and Harris have complained to the police multiple times about parties and large crowds in the neighborhood, nothing has been done. “It’s going to take a murder for this to stop,” Hurchick said.
Ignorant and biased FReepers just assume that the victim in a democrat controlled state was a Democrat voter and a Navy Veteran and deserving of the attack simply because he was too stupid to move out of the area?
That's the ignorant logic that has taken over this website.......
Gay guys like those edgy, artistic city neighborhoods where they can renovate big old Victorian houses on leafy streets. They feel noble living near the “Amish” people in other old houses nearby that have NOT been renovated. They share their sense of marginalization, and they know that as a gay couple they may not be warmly accepted in many of the safe suburbs, either. And plus, they'd have to drive to the gay clubs instead of walk, like they can in a city.
Beautiful town; but he and "his husband" are not likely to appreciate the Trump flags.
It was in the public park, lavishly illustrated upthread.
Pardon me; the public sports field where it happened was pictured in the NYPost article linked at post 24.
Pretty much. His gayness doesn't really enter in, since he dresses norm core and had a good-sized black dog with him. It only enters in because he was too liberal-minded to pack before leaving the house—solidarity with oppressed peoples, you know. He and his partner have known about those parties and who was having them for months.
As the Bible says about the end times, the Lord sends unrepentant sinners a “strong delusion” when they have turned away from God's laws. “Oh, they're annoyingly loud, but they're just having a good time. I'll be okay...”
I hear you; but several of the posters on this thread live or have lived in Philly and know that neighborhood, how Philly neighborhoods tend to vote, and the types of trouble liberal white gentrifiers get into when they move into a mostly urban black neighorhood, where all the houses are jammed closely together. They think people will be grateful that they’re fixing things up.
Gentrification improves the area for the gentrifiers but raises the taxes for the urban poor in the dilapidated-but-quaint old houses that are desirable for renovation. And the scale of population density is deceiving. Walk around a single square of a city block— walk down one block and turn right, do that three more times and you are back where you started in maybe 10 minutes — and you have just passed the residences of at least 1,000 people. If 80% of them are “other”, you’ve got yourself a situation.
See post 62.
Oops missed that
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