Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid

Breitbart.com ^ | June 20, 2007 | AP

[Bubba_Leroy]

A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday.

Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said.

The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Police spokeswoman Toni Chovonetz said she had no further information, including how many people were involved.

The driver was able to get away is cooperating with investigators, police said.

Juneteenth marks the day Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in 1865 to share news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863.

[cpdiii]

This is like third world stuff. When I lived third, one did not stop the car for any accident. It could be a one way ticket just because of stuff like this.

Were you Oilfield and worked Africa or the Middle East? You could get dead real quick in Nigeria.

PS Great looking pic of you and your family on your home page.

[cpdiii]

No, just beaten to death- beaten to a bloody pulp by an angry out of control mob

COLT the innovator of the original point and click interface.

[mc5cents]

Isn’t Austin where the U of Texas is? A very liberal town as far as I rememember in discussions on this board. Hmmmmm. Don’t know if that means anything or not. Just stream of conscionusness.

[DuncanWaring]

June 19th.

[Tolkien]

The Juneteenth celebration is supposedly the date that Union General Granger crossed the border of Texas to give the news.

The Emancipation Proclamation was made 2 1/2 years before so of course Texans new about it. Texas was part of the Confederacy so they ignored it. Lincoln's laws meant nothing.

[DuncanWaring]

“Juneteenth” is also observed to some extent in Arizona.

[Chasaway]

"...That is very hard core for Austin."

Well, it's like the feller said,

"The nicest thing about Austin is its proximity to Texas."

[rogue yam]

Some of my (white) friends go to Juneteenth in Milwaukee. They tell me they get stared at a lot, but it’s worth it for the ribs and corn.

Then again, maybe not:

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/13536976/detail.html

[LibWhacker]

Another reason machine guns should be legal.

[sgtbono2002]

That is good unless you are one of the 11.

[Tex Pete]

Yep.

The black vs. APD doesn’t have anything to do with UT, though. The NAACP seems to really be active in Austin.

[bad company]

It is, therefore, safe to assume that the crowd was mostly black and the victim was white.

Ummmm.......

The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales,

Mexicans just being the white people americans won't.

[Deguello]

It was not 'to give the news' it was the begining of Reconstruction for Texas.

*Granger was given command of the Department of Texas on June 10, 1865, by Gen. Philip H. Sheridan,qv commander of the Military Division of the Southwest. Upon his arrival in Galveston on June 19, he officially declared that the institution of slaveryqv was dead.* Granger also declared that laws passed by the Confederate government were void, that Confederate soldiers were paroled, that all persons having public property, including cotton, should turn it in to the United States Army, and that all privately owned cotton was to be turned in to the army for compensation.*

[SuziQ]

A perfect example of “The Madness of Crowds”.

[Ohioan]

This is more of what America is going to become down the road almost inevitably.

Unless between now and November, 2008, we can wake up those who have been brainwashed or intimidated into not noticing what has been happening. The immigration debate, now going on, may be the last opportunity to get intelligent Americans to actually look at the demographics, both of the Kennedy/Bush/Lindsey, et al., immigration proposal, and what has been happening since Teddy Kennedy's complete reversal of traditional American immigration patterns in 1965.

We truly are on the cusp of losing what was won in 1776 to 1781, not to those who have any reasoned argument for what they are doing; but to a collection of demagogues, bullies, and compulsion driven neurotics, who would simply like to destroy the whole concept of the Nation, as it has been understood for centuries.

Incidentally, Senator Graham has yet to respond to the open letter, faxed last week: Open Letter To Lindsey Graham. (I do not like being insulted by political hacks who betray their own heritage to curry favor with those who are destroying our way of life.)

Glad to see you back in the fray.

Bill Flax

[Eighth Square]

I agree and I hate to be pessimistic once again, but as more and more of the third world pour into this country and it breaks up into a multi ethnic hell hole, you can expect this kind of activity to increase dramatically.

Thank all of you naive, inept, corrupt, cowardly, P/C loving citizens and politicians who won’t even support commonsense protection of our sovereignty.

[Osage Orange]

Maybe people dislike Mexicans a little too much sometimes.

And maybe it didn't matter one iota what nationality he was....

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Juneteenth is a “African-American” holiday

And here I am, today celebrating Junetwentieth! Apparently this is a white holiday because I'm celebrating.

[stuartcr]

Maybe so...

[soccermom]

I suppose. But can you imagine his defense? "Well, they looked like they might hurt me, so I didn't stop." They'd be calling him racist all day long, (which is probably a bigger crime in society than a hit and run). The problem with hindsight is that it is hindsight. If the guy didn't stop, he'd be more vilified than the Duke lacrosse players. He does stop and his friend is dead. I'm not much of a gun person, but that would have been a good time to have a gun, too. But, again, if they had one, they would be the bad guys. This is a no-win situation.