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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: boop

“This is I’m sure what happened”

This is dangerous thinking, IMO. How can you be sure of what happened unless you were there?


61 posted on 06/20/2007 1:33:47 PM PDT by WaterWheeler
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To: Vigilanteman
Any bets this was Section 8 (Public) Housing?

...and/or Katrina refugees

62 posted on 06/20/2007 1:36:15 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: nctexan

Ebonic?


63 posted on 06/20/2007 1:37:06 PM PDT by thelastvirgil (Lest ye put all your faith in the government to provide for you, check their track record.)
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To: NoBullZone

The two posts on top of each other like that made me giggle.


64 posted on 06/20/2007 1:38:26 PM PDT by elizabetty (Perpetual Candidate using campaign donations for your salary - Its a good gig if you can get it.)
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To: TexasCajun

“Any bets this was Section 8 (Public) Housing?
...and/or Katrina refugees”

Many hard-working, *legal* citizens live in public housing, as are many Katrina refugees. We have always had poor people in our country, my grandparents included, and that has no bearing on what happened here.


65 posted on 06/20/2007 1:40:54 PM PDT by WaterWheeler
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To: Arec Barrwin
Blacks can't even get along on Martin Luther King day here in the Houston area.

There has to be 2 complete and separate MLK parades on the same day because 2 different Black groups can't come together to recognize the "great" civil rights leader.

66 posted on 06/20/2007 1:41:14 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

“Blacks can’t even get along on Martin Luther King day here in the Houston area.”

Do all the whites in Houston get along on any given day? Do I hear a little bigotry going on?


67 posted on 06/20/2007 1:44:30 PM PDT by WaterWheeler
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To: WaterWheeler
Houston's murder rate has been higher the last 2 years due to Katrina, err New Orleans ganstas fighting with Houston's own ganstas.

It's not about poverty, it's about the gansta lifestyle.

68 posted on 06/20/2007 1:45:39 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: caddie

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

Actually, we imported their ancestors about 300 years ago. We needed the cheap labor, doing backbreaking agricultural jobs that British colonists refused to do, dont’cha know....


69 posted on 06/20/2007 2:08:22 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: rhombus

>>Never trust people who attend “festivals”.<<

Yikes! My girls dance at them all the time. Both Slovak dance and Polish dance. We even danced at the Arab International Festival in Dearborn (talk about being out of place!)

Gee, we’re not so bad....


70 posted on 06/20/2007 2:15:39 PM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: netmilsmom

Sorry, forgot to add the following... :-)


71 posted on 06/20/2007 2:17:10 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus

Phew! Thanks, I was being to wonder about myself!


72 posted on 06/20/2007 2:20:40 PM PDT by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: rhombus; nctexan; All

VIDEO

73 posted on 06/20/2007 2:23:23 PM PDT by restornu (Romney keeps his eyes on the mission, and not on those who attacks his campaigned!)
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To: Frank_2001

What’s the origin of the word, “Slave”, anyway? Does anybody know?


74 posted on 06/20/2007 2:40:14 PM PDT by Main Street (Stuck in traffic)
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To: Arec Barrwin
anywhere from two to 20 people

Sounds like they have a good handle on what happened

75 posted on 06/20/2007 2:48:14 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Spktyr
I think a machete would be a good idea.
76 posted on 06/20/2007 3:10:17 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Arec Barrwin

I lived in Austin and it’s segregated. East of I-35, also known as East Austin has many Blacks and Hispanics. Sometimes racial tensions break out between those two groups. Austin is liberal, the most in Texas.


77 posted on 06/20/2007 3:22:25 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Bunnies=Sodomites)
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To: MaxMax

this also happen in Milwaukee
Innocent Motorists Attacked After Juneteenth (Video link)
TMJ4 ^ | 20 June 07 | TMJ4 Staff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853628/posts


78 posted on 06/20/2007 3:24:03 PM PDT by restornu (Romney keeps his eyes on the mission, and not on those who attacks his campaigned!)
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To: restornu
I caught that. The news is trying to say that it was AFTER the festival, but now it proves that it's because of the festival.

I remember the Juneteenth in Cincinnati one year that
wouldn't allow unescorted juveniles. They cried a racist river.

79 posted on 06/20/2007 3:49:02 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Main Street
What’s the origin of the word, “Slave”, anyway? Does anybody know?

From Dictionary.com:

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME sclave < ML sclavus (masc.), sclava (fem.) slave, special use of Sclavus Slav, so called because Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages; see Slav]

80 posted on 06/20/2007 4:10:27 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ( “A nation without borders is not a nation.” —Ronald Reagan)
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