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Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid
Breitbart.com ^ | June 20, 2007 | AP

Posted on 06/20/2007 9:21:08 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: austin; blackpride; juneteenth; lynching; racism; riot; vigilantism
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To: SIDENET
I am not so sure that it is a mistrust of Latinos. I think it is more like Latinos are also considered a minority and African-Americans do not like the competition.
61 posted on 06/20/2007 9:52:06 AM PDT by Rogle
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To: dragnet2

Austin is a Very Liberal City but the juries will not hesitate to find someone guilty and give them the harshest sentence possible when the crime is violent.


62 posted on 06/20/2007 9:53:05 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: wardaddy
I wonder if we'll hear some enlightened discourse on the social significance of the murder in Austin, from the assholes on the payroll as Duke University Professors - now known as the Duke 88?

Aren't they the designated specialists in racially motivated crime?

63 posted on 06/20/2007 9:53:16 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Police say auto accident leads to Austin’s 11th homicide

" Wednesday, June 20, 2007, 09:32 AM

From the Austin Police Department:

At approximately 9:31 p.m. Central East patrol officers responded to a person down call at 900 Thompson Street. When officers arrived they discovered a male with trauma to the body, who was transported to the hospital with life threatening injuries. David Rivas Morales, 40 (DOB: 04-09-67) was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Preliminary investigation indicates there was an auto pedestrian involving a small child in the parking lot of 900 Thompson Street. Immediately following the auto pedestrian, an assault occurred involving the driver of the vehicle that struck the child and Morales, who was a passenger in the vehicle. The child was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

According to witnesses several black males assaulted Morales when he stepped out of the vehicle to try and stop the crowd from assaulting the driver. It is believed there were 2,000 to 3,000 people who were in the area when the driver and Morales were attacked.

The driver was able to leave the area in his vehicle. The vehicle was recovered by police and the driver is cooperating with Homicide detectives.

Detectives are asking anyone who may have witnessed this incident or who may have information to call the Homicide tip line at 477-3588 or Crime Stoppers at 472-8477. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $1000 for information. This case remains under investigation by Homicide detectives. This is the 11th murder in 2007."

64 posted on 06/20/2007 9:53:21 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Too bad this wasn't white on black because then the "unbiased" and "fair" MSM could use their college education for a real good headline.

Instead of:

Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid

We would have:

Vigilante justice extracted by angry white mob!

65 posted on 06/20/2007 9:53:42 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: redstates4ever

Or YouTube...


66 posted on 06/20/2007 9:54:38 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: trumandogz
" In fact all of Austin is quite safe with this only being the 11th homicide this year in Austin a city of 700,000 people."

That's not bad. In "gun control Canada" the city of Winnipeg (just across the border from me) with a pop. of about 500,000 is already at 26 murders, mostly black immigrants and Asians drug gang related

67 posted on 06/20/2007 9:55:38 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Rogle

You’re probably right. I was just translating it into PC newsspeak.


68 posted on 06/20/2007 9:56:02 AM PDT by SIDENET (Inventor of the 12-hour "power nap".)
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To: wardaddy

Milwaukee celebrated Juneteenth day with some random car swarms as well. Vandalized the cars, dragged the drivers out and beat them. The drivers in Milwaukee didn’t even hit anyone — it was just “funnin’,” I guess


69 posted on 06/20/2007 9:57:28 AM PDT by MediaMole
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To: wardaddy
I can see that but down here a BBQ joint carries less risk with it.

Best BBQ I've ever had, including places in Texas, is a place in Milwaukee called Speed Queen. Trouble is, the neighborhood isn't the best. The drive-through has bulletproof glass, and if you don't know the neighborhood, it's best to use the drive-through and not get out of the car.
70 posted on 06/20/2007 9:57:50 AM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: trumandogz
This is the kind of savagery we use to read about in 3rd world countries, not Texas. And the child victim of the accident didn't even have life threatening injuries?

And the mob murders this guy?

Wow...

Austin is a Very Liberal City

Liberal?

If anything, the mob at this scene was downright savage. This sounds like Somalia, when things go bad.

71 posted on 06/20/2007 9:59:54 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Bubba_Leroy
A scene which would not be out of place in Mogadishu, Somalia.

These blacks better be careful. Hispanics are not consumed with angst and guilt over slavery like "whitey", the male of the species carries a Latino machismo which hates humiliation, and their numbers are increasing rapidly due to birth rates and the proximity of the US-Mexican border.

The Latino-ization of Texas is growing apace and messing with Hispanics would not be a smart course of action.

72 posted on 06/20/2007 10:00:00 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Our posts were a few seconds apart. We’re on the same wavelength.


73 posted on 06/20/2007 10:01:07 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: SIDENET

I caught your joke the way you intended it. Good one, and yes - you’re ready for an MSNBC anchor position. ;-)


74 posted on 06/20/2007 10:01:15 AM PDT by Spyder
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To: Bubba_Leroy
It is, therefore, safe to assume that the crowd was mostly black and the victim was white.

And I'd think it would be safe to assume you are wrong. The victim clearly has a 'brown' name, so it would be black on brown, not black on white.

75 posted on 06/20/2007 10:01:49 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: marshmallow

This wouldn’t happen if we’d just let the Austin police kill these thugs.


76 posted on 06/20/2007 10:02:04 AM PDT by Cat loving Texan
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To: Anti-Bubba182

So Morales tries to defend the driver as the driver leaves in his car? There are NO good guys in this sad story.


77 posted on 06/20/2007 10:02:20 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: Muzzle_em
I think blacks “dislike” Mexicans even more than they “dislike” whites.

I think you're right. They're in acccord with Mexicans when it comes to portraying whites as racists, but the bottom line is that they see immigrants as competition for the largesse to be gained from the public treasury.

Strange bedfellows.

78 posted on 06/20/2007 10:03:02 AM PDT by LantzALot (Yes, it’s my opinion. No, it’s not humble.)
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To: river rat

Don’t expect any enlightened action in Durham.

The prostitute who started it all is still walking the streets. She has filed false gang rape charges twice in her short life but has never been charged.

I wonder why.


79 posted on 06/20/2007 10:03:25 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: dawn53

In Texas Juneteenth is sometimes just referred to as “the teenth”. Everyone, black and white knows what that means.


80 posted on 06/20/2007 10:04:45 AM PDT by Ditter
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