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.
I saw (chicago) a group of about 20 blacks giving a beating to someone (probably someone getting jumped into the gang)the ones closest in beat and kick the crap out of the guy while the rest jump up and down like baboons. Quite a sight.
Scary.
Austin afterall is such a nice, leftist town....how could this happen there....../sarcasm/
This is more than a sad story, this is a reflection of where our society is going.
No good guys in the story if the driver was drunk, we don't know yet. Fact is, faced by a murderous mob, I'd want to get the hell out of there to.
Yeah, as soon as I hit post, I read yours. And this is exactly what occurs in places like Somalia etc.
>So why hasn’t LE released the name of the driver?<
Perhaps because they’d like him to live long enough to testify? Just a Hunch.
And the mob murders this guy?
Wow...
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Yup, thanks to anonymity. You can get away with murder -- literally -- in a sea of faces.
“There is no mention in the article of the races of the attacking crowd or the passenger that was killed. It is, therefore, safe to assume that the crowd was mostly black and the victim was white.”
“Juneteenth” is a pretty good indicator.
He hits and kills the kid, gets immunity from any charges if he'll finger whomever killed his passenger? If so, nice deal.
I wouldn't be suprized if we are reading about some Latino revenge over this in a day or two.
Correction, just hits the kid. No fatality, no foul.
The kid’s not dead.
Until/unless he is charged with a crime, they won’t release his name, most likely.
The kids injuries were non-life threatening, according to the police report.
He never killed the kid, not even seriously injured him.
The kid victim, didn't even have life threatening injuries.
I corrected it. So, the driver gets off cuz he only dinged him?
Sigh. Keep reading.
The lynch mob mentality is what Jackson and Sharpton love; they live off it.
“Oh, wrong guy!” Sorry!
Are the attackers confirmed as Blacks?
Does anyone know the race of the person inside the car, who hit the kid?
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