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Angry crowd kills man riding in car that struck child (Austin, Texas)
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 20, 2007 | Liz Austin Peterson

Posted on 06/20/2007 10:54:14 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin

June 20, 2007, 12:30PM Angry crowd kills man riding in car that struck child

By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON Associated Press

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

The man who was killed Tuesday night 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, of Austin. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The beating began after the car struck the child as it entered an apartment complex's parking lot, said Commander Harold Piatt, who leads the department's homicide division.

The driver got out of the car to check on the 3- or 4-year-old girl and was confronted by several people, Piatt said. When they began to assault him, Morales got out of the car to help and was attacked as well.

The driver got away and is cooperating with investigators, police said. Piatt did not know how many witnesses had been identified but said anywhere from two to 20 people may have participated in the attack.

When police arrived, Morales was lying in the parking lot. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A preliminary autopsy listed blunt force trauma as the cause of death, and Piatt said no guns or knives were used.

Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a city-sponsored Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred, though Piatt said he did not know whether anyone involved had attended. The daylong party featured a parade, a motorcycle show, music, food and events for children.

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; barbarians; child; dupe; juneteenth; mob; murder; riot; vigilantism
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To: Obadiah

He was talking about Austin. That’s where the incident took place.


41 posted on 06/20/2007 12:06:25 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Arec Barrwin

Lord of the Flies comes to mind.


42 posted on 06/20/2007 12:08:12 PM PDT by Wicket (God bless and protect our troops and God bless America)
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To: caddie

Not every thread is about immigration reform and/or amnesty.


43 posted on 06/20/2007 12:08:54 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Arec Barrwin

Mob mentality. Tragic.


44 posted on 06/20/2007 12:10:42 PM PDT by Toadman ((molon labe))
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To: Arec Barrwin

Mob violence is INCREASINGLY the norm during/after Juneteenth “Celebrations”. Read today’s Drudge Report - those are all Juneteenth mobs. Good events to stay away from!


45 posted on 06/20/2007 12:12:49 PM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: Arec Barrwin
A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child ... Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a city-sponsored Juneteenth celebration.....
Ah-ha, 'Juneteenth', that answers the question.

The same crap happens on the South Side of Chicago (Englewood Neighborhood) when a pedestrian gets hit by a car, especially a kid. The 'residents' go native and kill anyone in the car. And there's never any witnesses either.

46 posted on 06/20/2007 12:13:40 PM PDT by Condor51 (Rudy makes John Kerry look like a Right Wing 'Gun Nut' Extremist)
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To: VRWCmember; Taggart_D

My bad.


47 posted on 06/20/2007 12:16:16 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: caddie

“All the mob did here was import their culture and values into the US.”

You’re a real thinker type, aren’t you?

What if the people in the mob weren’t of hispanic descent?

Better go back and READ!!


48 posted on 06/20/2007 12:48:39 PM PDT by JerriBlank
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To: Arec Barrwin; jellybean; Politicalmom

As Fred Thompson said in The Hunt For Red October, “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”


49 posted on 06/20/2007 12:53:22 PM PDT by upchuck (IMPORTANT! -> Immigration: What the Deal-Makers don't want you to know -> http://tinyurl.com/2pwp6o)
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To: Vigilanteman

“””Any bets this was Section 8 (Public) Housing?””””

I would bet everything I own tenfold.


50 posted on 06/20/2007 12:56:33 PM PDT by HOTTIEBOY (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: caddie

THREAD JACKER!

***I want to thank President Bush and other Amnesty supporters for allowing this sort of cultural importation into my country.***

You might want to thank all the presidents we’ve had for the past thirty years who did NOTHINg ABOUT THE INVASION. But, NO, it’s all Bush’s fault. And it wasn’t a Mexican who killed, it was a Mexican who got killed.


51 posted on 06/20/2007 1:00:41 PM PDT by kitkat
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To: caddie

You are wrong about that. the illegals usually mind their business with stuff like this,

My theory is that these are fourth and fith generation welfare citizens that just joined in the melle and had no idea why they were beating the man.

But don’t DARE say that they act differently from a suburban white neighborhood.


52 posted on 06/20/2007 1:01:28 PM PDT by HOTTIEBOY (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: nctexan

Victim/perps for “hate crimes”? Oops, forgot completely as BOTH ARE MINORITIES, NO HATE HERE!!!!!


53 posted on 06/20/2007 1:03:23 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Dead Corpse

I feel a bit nostalgic about Juneteenth. It was my father-in-law’s birthday and, as he always had a number of people of color working for him, he would have a big party.

Lots of people (not in Texas) don’t know what Juneteenth is or why it’s celebrated.

I’m actually surprised they were celebrating it in that lovely apartment complex.


54 posted on 06/20/2007 1:04:36 PM PDT by altura
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To: VRWCmember
Not every thread is about immigration reform and/or amnesty.

But if we all try a little harder, every thread will be. Get to work!

55 posted on 06/20/2007 1:05:17 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: HOTTIEBOY

There is absolutely no reason for illegals to know about or celebrate Juneteenth. It had to have been a Black complex.


56 posted on 06/20/2007 1:06:04 PM PDT by altura
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To: altura

No.

It gave no indication of the social or economic status of the neighborhood.

So we can can assume that it was a white suburban gated community, right?

/dripping sarcasm


57 posted on 06/20/2007 1:14:32 PM PDT by HOTTIEBOY (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Marysecretary
"Blacks and Hispanics are not too friendly toward eachother—apparently! How tragic. It’s not safe in American anymore"

Bingo. This is I'm sure what happened. Blacks are upset that Hispanics are the new "protected minority" in America and they don't like it. They probably directed their rage at this guy especially because he was Hispanic. For all of the complaining we hear from black leaders, the average black person really does think of themselves as true blue Americans and the hispanics are "interlopers". I never really grasped this until I went to the Santa Monica Pier. I heard a cop talking about how there is always trouble between blacks and Hispanics. I got to see this first hand. It's only a matter of time until there is a full out war between the two groups.

58 posted on 06/20/2007 1:24:56 PM PDT by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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To: Millee

Well, look carefully at the pic of the crowd offing the motorist passenger. Tell me what they have in common.


59 posted on 06/20/2007 1:29:47 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (Bush's Legacy: 100 million new Dem voters in next 20 yrs via the 2007 Amnesty Act.)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

“So we can can assume that it was a white suburban gated community, right”

Does that really matter when a mob takes the law into their own hands and kills someone?


60 posted on 06/20/2007 1:31:42 PM PDT by WaterWheeler
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