Posted on 06/20/2007 1:54:44 PM PDT by traumer
Vehicle's passenger was beaten to death by several men, police say. AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
A group of men fatally beat a passenger in a car that police said accidentally struck a child outside an East Austin apartment complex, police said today.
As many as 3,000 people were in the area following a Juneteenth celebration at the time, officials said. Austin police Cmdr. Harold Piatt estimated that dozens were in the parking lot of the Booker T. Washington apartment complex at the time and that preliminary information shows no witnesses apparently tried to prevent or stop the attack.
"At this point, we aren't aware that any person did anything to stop the assault or prevent the injuries," he said.
Piatt said investigators are still trying to question people who might have seen the attack.
Police said officers responded to a "person down" call at 9:30 p.m. and that when they arrived, they found David Rivas Morales, 40, with trauma to his body. He was taken to Brackenridge Hospital and pronounced dead.
Investigators said the assault apparently occurred after the driver of the car struck a child in a parking lot at 900 Thompson St. The child, a 3-year-old boy, was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.
Witnesses told investigators that a group of men assaulted Morales when he stepped out of the car to try to stop the crowd from assaulting the driver, who had gotten out of the car. Piatt said it was unclear if the driver was aware he'd struck the child.
The driver, whose name has not been released, was able to leave the area in the car. Police later found him and the car.
"This is an anomaly for Austin, Piatt said. "When you have someone just beaten to death in a parking lot."
Morales' sister, Margaret Morales, who lives in an apartment complex where the incident happened, said her brother was riding home with a man she knew only as "Victor" from a painting job. She said a child came to her door shortly after the incident and told her what happened.
Morales said that when she showed up at the scene, she found her brother bleeding from the head.
"He was a loving, caring man," Margaret Morales said as she fought back tears while standing on her porch. "I don't know why anyone would want to do this; I can't imagine him gone out of our lives forever."
Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 477-3588.
"We know we had a number of folks who saw something," Piatt said. "Hopefully there are some good Samaritans who are as upset about we are about what happened."
tplohetski@statesman.com; 445-3605
Oh, so that's what sort of mob it was! Guess we wouldn't want to be more informative/specific about the residents of the good ol' Booker T. apartment complex community. Meanwhile, are there any stats published anywhere of interracial crime: #'s of perpetrators by ethnic group, #'s of victims, #'s as a percentage of total population, etc?
Depends on the location of the accident ... if it were to happen in the parking lot of a housing project ... I would head to the nearest police station and report in!
I have been watching the series Lockdown. Docu about diff inmate life/pecking order of around the US.
Blacks vs. Hispanics.
Very interesting insight to how these cultures clash.
Lots of interviews but the Hispanics never talk unless it is one that is in protective due to a contract out on him from his own.
I suppose life in the hood is not much different.
Leni
Not some Redneck gang! Bet ya.
juneteenth has always been trouble, mostly against participants from other participants.
juneteenth was a good time to be somewhere else.
* no cap J for emphasis.
From what I saw, no, it is not.
Feral.
Aside from everything else, I think it’s pretty terrible that they beat the passenger in the car to death, not the driver who hit the child. Mob madness.
Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther? It doesn’t take a genius
to figure out the ethnic background of the mob.
In the 1980’s there was a downtown , “ Lightup Atlanta’ festival that drew many people not only from the city but outlying areas.
After only 3 years the whole thing was called off. Fighting, shootings, robbing of visitors that even the politically correct couldn’t find words to excuse.
Then there was “ Freaknik’.... celebrating end of school year. It lasted longer but it too, was called off for the same reasons as Lightup Atlanta.
Problem with these stories is there is a reluctance to tell the complete story by reporters.
A lot of concealed guns in TX.... I’m surprised nobody had one
Can’t we all just GET ALONG...
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/8083422.html
In the above video, notice how the ENTIRE crowd(a couple hundred) runs when the police come to rescue the motorist. One or two troublemakers running makes sense to me, but the ENTIRE crowd? That says something to me.
Will blacks EVER assimilate into American society?
That could account for the rage this group obviously was feeling towards him. They let the driver go to beat this guy to death. You have to wonder what the rest of the story is.
There has been increased resentment from blacks toward the illegals who are taking the jobs they used to do. This could be the beginning of some ugly race wars in Texas.
Foxnews.com article reports the races of the people involved.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284993,00.html
Some percentage have. I don't know what percent that is, 20% maybe. People like Condi and Colin Powell, and several skilled professionals I work with occassionally and millions of other Blacks took the "Cosby" route in the 1960s. I went to an Ivy League school, it was full of the black kids of successful upper middle class professionals, just like the majority of white kids and asian kids there. They didn't speak ebonics, they might play at ghetto stylings at parties, but they were all working hard to get good jobs. The several I've kept touch with are successful in a variety of challenging professions including medicine (a surgeon), real estate, and software. Normal professions. All are married with children, etc.
The difference is that there IS an unassimilate black underclass, that does stuff like this -- and gives all blacks a bad name. What percent are thugs? They sure get more press then the successful middle class blacks practicing medicine and paying taxes.
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