Police Need Your Help In Capturing Beating Suspects (Soldiers beaten in Seattle)

KOMO news ^ | August 24, 2005 | By John Sharify

[HiTech RedNeck]

Wished those soldiers had kicked violent criminal lefty rear. It is a scandal when Washington is worse than Iraq.

[MarMema]

yes, and infiltrated by black gangs...

[HiTech RedNeck]

These very dangerous suspects are wandering the streets, possibly looking for other innocent victims.

Sounds like looned out agenda driven anti war protestors. Who else would try to attack a SOLDIER?

[Black Tooth]

Locals however don't go vicious wild like this on their own turf.

Not true. But even if it was, even more important to go public if they had the video evidence.

They're from somewhere else. I'd guess they got the tape close to ~1 week ago with much leg work.

You and I don't know this. That is why the questions are begging for answers.

[eddiemunster]

We used to live in Redmond in the 80's/90's and left in 95. The traffic was insane then. My buddy in Bellevue told me recently people in his neighborhood are buying old homes for $500k and leveling them to build mansions on. What happened to Seattle the working class town?

[spunkets]

"Who else would try to attack a SOLDIER?"

This is a bar fight. The thugs laid their hands on the girls and one of them tossed a hot dog at them. They then proceded to attack.

[HiTech RedNeck]

IN that case, "what's in the hooch?"

[wardaddy]

too bad you missed the pulled thread.

folks here using the same logic PC Seattle media and city officials use.

the Sgt Schultze defense.

[AliVeritas]

I'm with you. Please, oh please let me catch someone trying this with me around...

[taxesareforever]

Don't expect answers to your questions. This is typical of the Seattle police department. Not one word about the culprits being black but anyone can see that they are by the photo. Seattle shys around any incident that is perpetrated by blacks, especially if they involve whites as victims. When was the last time anyone heard the term "hate crime" in Seattle involving a black attacking a white? I never have.

[DakotaRed]

Once caught, the ACLU will be running each other over to come to their defense. So much for Liberals and "We Support The Troops."

[spunkets]

"IN that case, "what's in the hooch?""

I don't follow that.

[Minuteman23]

Hope the Seattle police catch these animals.

Even if they do, don't forget the D.A., the judge, and probably a jury all have to do what's right. These days, you can hardly count on that. Just ask O.J. and Michael Jackson.

[wardaddy]

It's not just Seattle.

[M1911A1]

The local KOMO newscast showed the story at the front end of the 11 pm news. They did mention that the police got the video tape from one of the witnesses, so it is quite possible that they did not have the tape from the get-go, but that wasn't spelled out.

The newscast did have some additional footage from the tape, including a nice touch where one of the perps lifts up one of the unconscious GIs so he can have his picture taken with him. Newsreader said there were a score of people watching, and nobody tried to intervene.

It did appear to be a barfight, and the two GIs were leaving with women who had been groped by the suspects, and one of the women decided to throw some food at the suspects on the way out. There had been words exchanged inside the bar, and the fight or attack occurred outside as the GIs were leaving.

One of the two soldiers was recently returned from Iraq, according to the newscast.

I wouldn't go down to that part of town to drink, and certainly not late at night.

[RebelTex]

"I'll ante up for bounty. Anyone got contact with a hunter?"

Paging Paul Kersey! Paging Paul Kersey! Mr. Kersey, you're needed in Seattle immediately.

[elmer fudd]

"The site of the crime is Precinct SEA 37-1823. It had 763 registered voters in 2004. Of this number, 290 (just under 40%) voted, with 203 (about 70%) voting Democrat and only 87 (30%) voting Republican."

"As I said in the pulled thread, the site of the crime is heavily Democrat."

Actually, that's probably a conservative area of Seattle. I'm pretty sure the city as a whole leaned even more to the left. I seem to recall that Kerry got something like 82% of the vote there.

[Black Tooth]

They did mention that the police got the video tape from one of the witnesses, so it is quite possible that they did not have the tape from the get-go, but that wasn't spelled out.

And it's also quite possible they obtained the tape almost immediately, considering the brutality of this crime. In bar full of people, at least several would more than likely tell them there were people with video tapes rolling, or the camera operator could have come forward almost immediately. Then again, the cameraman could have feared for his life, and sent the video anonymously to a news agency, or the police, which would have taken time to mail or send.

All speculation.

The newscast did have some additional footage from the tape, including a nice touch where one of the perps lifts up one of the unconscious GIs so he can have his picture taken with him. Newsreader said there were a score of people watching, and nobody tried to intervene.

It's a clear case of brutal attempted murder. We are hearing the news is only showing sanitized or less brutal parts of the video tape.

[M1911A1]

I do believe that the current Governor got 104% of the votes in Seattle.

[AnimalLover]

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