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Posted on 06/11/2004 7:04:11 AM PDT by esryle
ATLANTA (AP) -- A man wearing a white turban and a flowing white robe punched and beat a uniformed U.S. Army major on a subway train outside the Atlanta airport Thursday, authorities said.
The unidentified serviceman, whose unit has done missions in Kuwait and Iraq, was treated by medical personnel and released.
The suspect, Saffo Davis, 42, a Michigan native with a District of Columbia identification card, was arrested at the station outside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and charged with four counts of battery and four counts of obstruction.
A clear motive for the 11:17 a.m. attack, including whether it was related to the victim's military service, was not known. The suspect mumbled something to the Army major just before the attack, but the exact words were unclear, said Gene Wilson, police chief for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, which runs the subway.
"Right now, he's not at a point where we can get anything out of him that makes sense," Wilson said of the suspect. Wilson added, "This guy has fought the police on several occasions while in custody.
He had to be taken to jail with a towel on his head because he was spitting at everybody." The beating victim is a member of the 3rd U.S. Army, based at Fort McPherson, said spokesman Gary Jones.
He was on his way to see family at the time of the attack, Jones said. As the serviceman was being assaulted, a woman on the southbound train tried to intervene by hitting the suspect over the head with her pocketbook.
The suspect then knocked the woman unconscious, Wilson said. The woman did not suffer serious injuries.
The suspect then fled onto the northbound subway train and got into an altercation with a third person, Wilson said.
Davis was being held at the Clayton County Sheriff's Department pending a court hearing.
Damn towel heads.
"He had to be taken to jail with a towel on his head because he was spitting at everybody."
The should have wrapped that towel around his mouth to stop him from spitting.
"[A] woman on the southbound train tried to intervene by hitting the suspect over the head with her pocketbook."
That's a classic!
God bless her! Ten to one she's a conservative.
Sounds like Saffo forget his meds. Oh, I forgot it's just the ROP thingy.
That towel should have been wrapped around his neck very tightly.
Deport the jackass.
If the Second Amendment were respected, we would not need to waste money trying and jailing this perp... he'd be dead, like he deserves to be. What kind of person attacks strangers on the train? I can only imagine what kind of justification might be dreamed up for this.
-- Boston Globe article
How about around his neck ?
"A clear motive for the 11:17 a.m. attack, including whether it was related to the victim's military service, was not known."
Do you think the rag-head was profiling? But nooooo, how could that be?
Lynch his ass, now!!! WWIII is here. Wake up folks.
"ALLAHU AKBAR!" (The muslim call to murder.)
Sounds like a terrorist attack to me...next stop..GITMO.....
BTTT
Wow, I live in Atlanta and I didn't read about this in the AJC!
...wonder why.
Gotta love the Al-Jazeera Constitution.
Is the Towel head a Citizen.
If not ship him out.
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