That's interesting that she is his widow. And it's still ironic to me that the noise issue has been a big one for her as it was for her husband, in opposite ways.
With respect to the beatings, it makes me very nervous when councilpersons or other elected officials try to keep something quiet. I understand she didn't wish to have the crime spread all over the media and sensationalized, but given the racial implications, people deserved a complete set of facts. And she needn't have worried, this incident has generated nowhere near the publicity that the opposite type of racially-motivated crime would have engendered. At least Jesse and Al haven't showed up as far as I know, though they'll be supporting the perpetrators, I'm sure.
The councilwoman should be run out of office for her handling of this. She should be demanding justice for her constituents and decrying the protection of these vicious animals by the media blackout going on everywhere except LB. This kind of elected official is part of the problem.
You never hear about "healing" and so on when the situation is reversed, which usually involves law enforcement wasting some black scumbag who needs wasting. Then there's an uproar and the race-baiting shake-down artists start lining up to do the same old schtick, and the dumbass white-guilt media fall for it every time, which accomplishes nothing but to help line the pockets of the shakedown artists.