Posted on 06/30/2005 4:56:10 AM PDT by Abathar
NEW YORK (AP) - Three black men who ventured into a historically white neighborhood early Wednesday to steal a car were chased by a man with a baseball bat, police said. One man was beaten and suffered a fractured skull.
The attack happened several hours before dawn in the same section of the borough of Queens as an infamous 1986 beating of three black men whose car had broken down.
In Wednesday's attack, Nicholas Minucci, 21, was being charged with first-degree assault as a hate crime, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at a news conference.
The three blacks told investigators they had been looking for a car to steal when they entered the Howard Beach neighborhood. They told police a white man in an SUV passed them in the street, exchanged stares with them and then returned with two friends and a baseball bat before chasing them on foot.
Glen Moore, 20, stumbled to the ground and was beaten, suffering a fractured skull. He was in serious condition. The other two men escaped and summoned police, who scouted the neighborhood with them and spotted the SUV again.
Police stopped the vehicle and found the bat inside. The driver was arrested, and officers were seeking two other suspects.
The hate crime charge is punishable by a minimum of eight years in prison. The district attorney said that he didn't know if Minucci had a lawyer and that he would be arraigned Thursday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he and the police commissioner would not allow such "an ugly incident" to divide the city.
"We've accomplished too much to let that happen," he said, noting that the area had been free of such crimes for at least two years.
On Dec. 20, 1986, a group of white teenagers attacked three black men who were stranded in the neighborhood when their car stalled.
One of the men was fatally struck by a car as he fled. Another was beaten with a baseball bat and tree branches. The third escaped.
The attack ignited racial tension in New York and was compared to a lynching by then-Mayor Ed Koch. Eight of the teenagers were convicted or pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter, assault, conspiracy and rioting.
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It's not sarcastic in academia, I'll tell you that right now.
ONLY white people can be racists, because Whitey has all the power. Or something.
This was a stupid turf war. If it were Poles vs. Lithuanians, it would be reported as a gang incident. Change the gamma on the skin colors, and you change everything.
You're right, your only hearing half the story.
"Black Men Attacked in Queens Neighborhood"
No bias in that headline at all.
Thaye take a police blotter story and give it an explosive headline.
My writing of the headline.
"Three car theives stopped by alert citizens."
They need to start registering baseball bats, obviously.
Hoard Beach is an all white enclave in Brooklyn. It an Italian-American ethnic enclave. If somebody who doesn't look like they "fit in" from a physical perspective" and are behaving suspiciously, the local sort of take things into their own hands.
The prior incidnet recorded was an unabashed hate crime. This appears justified since the two perps were admittedly there to steal a car.
But don't expect that wussie major Michael Bloomberg - the Republican Democrap, to say or do anything whatsoever in case except exhonorate the two car thieves as they minorities and the attacker was white. Ditto for the New York prosecutorial staff.
Liberals are to logic, what Pamela Anderson is to Shakespeare.
Then it shouldn't be POSSESSING it that's criminal, it should be USING it that's criminal. I guess by that logic, you can have criminal possession of a frying pan.
I remember watching the LA Riots on TV when a truck driver trying to get though an intersection was dragged out of a truck and repeatedly beaten in the head with a brick.
Very luckly to have survivied the attack
The truck driver was not in the neighborhood trying to committ a crime he was there trying to earn a days pay for a days work
Was that a hate crime and was the brick a weapon
Black Men Attacked Queens Neighborhood.
Cops and the goverment don't like vigilantes. "Death Wish" got a lot of praise, but remember, in the end, he had to leave town.
I won't mind if more car thieves "get the message," personally.
If you use it to bash someone when they haven't committed a crime... yet. Key word here is "yet".
And after the cops took their usual 15 minutes to arrive the car would have been long gone.
People trying to steal cars arent hard to spot they are looking in the windows trying the doors, looking around to see who is watching.
Yes this guy could have just driven away, but I have a feeling he has had his car stolen previously.
Many white men would have cowered in a doorway and watched as the thieves drove the car away. This fellow is fed up with piss poor police protectioon from thieves who wander in and out of a neighborhood stealing as they go. When the police cant or wont do their job who is left?
The black thieves will walk and this fellow will get a year or two in jail. Todays Justice.
Looks like you don't like Italian-Americans, a common affliction among super-Micks. But then super-Micks don't much like anybody else except other super-Micks - when they're not fighting with each other.
Don't like the term Mick? Then don't use "Guido," jerk.
If they had a suspicion about the guys, they could have tailed them and called the police. If they started breaking into a car, then have at 'em.
Since hate is a thought, is going into a neighborhood of another race to commit a crime, a hate crime?
Here are 4 obvious "black on white" hate crimes that the liberal media could just not bring themselves to report:
http://www.eaif.org/crimewatch/index.htm
When one defends his life and the lives of his family and friends it is now called discrimination. The word discrimination is just a coined word to intimidate you out of your right of self defence. Hate crime laws are just laws against self defence.
[[The prototypical guido-hitter mentality is still there (obviously) but this blatant action surprises me.]]
You sound to me like a guilty white liberal that doesn't much care for other whites since you think it is OK to slur them and call them "guidos".
Unless property was damaged or stolen, the men who were attacked had not committed a crime. Their intent notwithstanding, these guys were attacked without justification.
Having said that, I wonder if a similar black on white attack would have been reported the same way.
"The SUV guy probably had a cell phone and could have called the cops."
You've probably never been victimized by a crime like this. How do you think the police would have responded if he called? If they had actually stolen the car, what do you think the owner would have had to go through? What do you think the chances are that he'd recover his property, and if so, that it would be salvageable? What do you think their punishment would have been had they actually been caught by the police and brought to trial?
Since the justice system does not deter crime - minimally punishing crimes such as car theft, people will take things into their own hands - for better or for worse. I guarantee you that THIS will be a deterrent to car theives in this neighborhood.
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