Black Teen Killed in Ax Attack in U.K.

Yahoo! News ^ | July 31, 2005 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Black Teen Killed in Ax Attack in U.K.

LIVERPOOL, England - A black teenager who was followed through a park by a group of men shouting racist taunts died Saturday after an attacker embedded an ax in his skull.

Anthony Walker, 18, was waiting for a bus with his girlfriend and a cousin when a man started shouting racist taunts at them late Friday near Walker's home in Liverpool, police said.

The three left to find another bus stop to avoid any trouble, police said. But a group of three or four men followed them through a park, and Walker's companions saw someone bludgeon him with an ax.

They ran to get help and returned a few minutes later to find him with the ax embedded in his skull, news reports said. Walker died early Saturday.

No arrests had been made in the attack.

"What we are dealing with here is a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young black man which we believe to be racially motivated," said Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Currie, who was leading the investigation.

Police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently.

[yankeedame]

What this article doesn't say speaks loud and clear.

[mhking]

What this article doesn't say speaks loud and clear.

Humor me.

[thoughtomator]

Lemme guess. Mormons again?

[Mr. Mojo]

What this article doesn't say speaks loud and clear.

Are you suggesting that because the race of the perps isn't mentioned that "TROP" is somehow involved? ;)

[al baby]

What does it not say ? I don't quite understand .

[Dog Gone]

Apparently it's not loud and clear because most of us have trouble discerning it.

[exnavychick]

What this article doesn't say speaks loud and clear

What does that mean?

That poor kid...what a disgusting thing to do! *shudder*

[conservative cat]

Well, it's a good thing they have gun control in England. It stops senseless, violent deaths.

[cyborg]

Unfortunate. May the Lord return quickly.

[johnny7]

What's that?

[so_real]

"What we are dealing with here is a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young black man which we believe to be racially motivated," said Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Currie, who was leading the investigation.

This should read : "What we are dealing with here is a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young black man which we believe to be racially motivated". Murder is murder, period. Punish the crime (Capital Punish the crime) and do away with "thought-policing". My two cents.

[Mr. Mojo]

Expect an ax-ban movement to commence.

...if it hasn't already.

[MikefromOhio]

What this article doesn't say speaks loud and clear.

And that would be......?

Throw me a frikin bone here....

[cyborg]

I was reading an article in British Glamour about honor killings of girls romantically involved/married to white and black British men. It's really sad.

[liberallarry]

Would that be that his girl friend was white?

[Now_is_The_Time]

I think she means the omission of the race of the victim's girlfriend. You know the story: "Although I thoroughly condemn this savage and barbaric atrocity, the victim did X and Y to provoke the perpetrators..."

[socialismisinsidious]

it sounds terribly sad, horrible and tragic to me--prayers for this young man

have no idea what it "doesn't say"

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Abe Lincoln was an ax-wielding, log-splitting backwoods hick.

These fellows apparently are London high society.

[cyborg]

Then again, my cousin nearly escaped Northern Ireland with his life after a most unfortunate football game loss.