Posted on 08/25/2005 12:07:33 PM PDT by misterrob
SEATTLE - Two soldiers who just returned from a year in Iraq were badly beaten in an attack outside Pioneer Square. But believe it or not, someone caught the beating on videotape. Now, police are asking for your help identifying the suspects.
The brutality of it all was captured on tape outside of Larry's Nightclub on First and Yesler on July 31.
Police say the victims were with two women who'd been groped by the suspects. One of the women threw a hot dog at the suspects and walked away.
They didn't get very far. The three suspects ran after them and began attacking the two men -- two soldiers who'd come home from the war.
The graphic videotape shows both victims getting beaten over and over again, and then after one of the victims loses consciousness, a suspect starts stomping on his head.
Now police want your help in catching these guys.
"We consider them very dangerous," said Seattle Police Officer Sean Whitcomb.
After not getting any leads, Seattle police have just released this tape to the media even though it happened over three weeks ago.
If you know who these suspects are, or have any information in the case, you're asked to call Seattle Police.
Both victims suffered broken jaws, while one suffered a broken arm and both had other broken bones and several bruises.
Well unfortunately they didn't show the "stills" of the perps so it was a total waste of time.
ya sometimes wonder the IQ of the producers of these programs...
True enough... but the people likely to know these guys are in Seattle, and the stills have been on the local news and newspapers here today.
I talked to the Seattle PD today and they told me they wanted to try and catch these guys without releasing the video. They didn't want to let the perps know that they had them on video. Unfortunately as of earlier today, they had not arrested anyone.
I just can't imagine that no one stopped to help these soldiers.
Sad commentary for Seattle.
I didn't know that. The old 78s were called "race records"?
Yes, back in the 1920s, the blues, jugband, and early jazz records were marketed as "race". The term was used in ads and on the records themselves. It wasn't used in an derogatory way. It was used so customers could find where they were looking for.
And, by the by, early country music (by guys like Fiddlin' John Carson, the Skillet Lickers and the Carter Family) was labeled "hillbilly".
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