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Tape Shows at Least 10 Witnesses Ignoring Minnesota Woman's Cries for Help During Sexual Assault
www.foxnews.com ^ | 8/24/2007 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/24/2007 5:46:29 AM PDT by IronKros

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To: IronKros

I would call 911 to report myself for having just shot a man...


41 posted on 08/24/2007 6:48:08 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: IronKros

A quote from a favorite movie of mine, The Boonedock Saints:
“..we should all fear evil men, but there is another evil we should fear more, and that is the indifference of good men.”


42 posted on 08/24/2007 6:52:08 AM PDT by PLM
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
“The confusions stems from people thinking American Negroes are “Africans”.”

Blame that on the “American Negro”. They are the ones who
insist on being called that stupid term “African American”
Why can’t they just be Black ?
I refuse to ever use the term African American, unless they, or their parents were born in Africa.

43 posted on 08/24/2007 6:54:38 AM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: alicewonders
These other tenents must have condoned what this man, Ibrahim, was doing to this woman.

Well, if you read further in the article, it turns out he had a perfectly good reason to sexually assault her for an hour and a half:

Jamal said Ibrahim went into the hallway after the woman because he thought she was too drunk to drive.
/s

His defense is going to be "Friends don't let friends drive drunk."

44 posted on 08/24/2007 6:58:24 AM PDT by freespirited
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To: robertpaulsen
That is not thinking. That is just superficial racism on your part. All of my life I have visited and enjoyed Minnesota culture which has a very strong Scandanavian influence. It is not like other places in America, in that regard. Somalians are very different culturally in thousands of ways. They also settled a big group of boys from Liberia, I think, who had been child soldiers. They were acting out in school in ways their teachers couldn't understand. This was because they had been at war, not because they were black. I also always hear mention of Hmong.

So, you take a culture that is cohesive and make it multicultural. Who has the right to do that? Certainly not someone who can't see anything but skin color. That is so shallow, it should be embarassed to speak.

45 posted on 08/24/2007 6:59:19 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: IronKros

Video reports at these links.......

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=263021

http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_235160844.html


46 posted on 08/24/2007 6:59:31 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: ClaireSolt

I have read on FR that it is the black caucus that wanted to bring in groups from Somali. They settled some in Maine and apparently some in Minnesota.

That doesn’t make sense. It’s very cold in those places. These people have had a hard time adjusting and learning how to deal with such things as indoor plumbing, washing machines and electric stoves.


47 posted on 08/24/2007 7:00:23 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: alicewonders
It would not have put any of those by-standers in harm’s way to make a phone call!

I'm not sure I would have shot him, maybe just bash his head with my softball bat first then call 9/11......

48 posted on 08/24/2007 7:03:19 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Farewell Turd Blossom, ya done good!)
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To: petercooper
Somali immigrant Rage Ibrahim...

Celebrate Diversity!

49 posted on 08/24/2007 7:04:52 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: ladyjane

“and apparently some in Minnesota.”

SOME????


50 posted on 08/24/2007 7:05:18 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: IronKros
Someone did call police -

Pioneer Press Link

A man inside told police he didn't open the door or look out, though he said he called police

However...

Police found no record of the call, according to an affidavit for a search warrant filed in Ramsey County District Court.

Classy.

51 posted on 08/24/2007 7:09:26 AM PDT by akorahil (Thank You and God bless all Veterans. Truly, the real heroes.)
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To: alicewonders; vladimir998; squarebarb; robertpaulsen; Rb ver. 2.0; stevio; ClaireSolt; r9etb
Oh, I’m not sure that ClaireSolt meant anything derogatory. (And yes, I am aware that the article doesn't mention the race of the victim.) Perhaps though, it was a reference to this:

Yet, in “The Color of Crime: Race, Crime and Justice in America, produced by the “right-leaningÔ New Century Foundation in 2005, using the same FBI and Justice surveys, startling facts emerge:

* “Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against other blacks." Forty-five percent of the victims of violent crime by blacks are white folks, 43 percent are black, 10 percent are Hispanic.

* Blacks are seven times as likely as people of other races to commit murder, eight times more likely to commit robbery and three times more likely to use a gun in a crime.

* “Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit violent crime against a white person than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.” (If decent black folks have trouble hailing a cab, and they do, these numbers may help explain it.)

* Black-on-white rape is 115 times more common than the reverse.

Even the two most famous sexual assaults by white men on black women in the last two decades – the Tawana Brawley and Duke rape cases – turned out to be hoaxes.

What do these statistics tell us? A message the Post will not report. The real repository of racism in America manifest in violent interracial assault, rape and murder is to be found not in the white community, but the African-American community. In almost all interracial attacks, whites are the victims, not the victimizers.

Patrick J. Buchanan: The Color of Crime

52 posted on 08/24/2007 7:10:34 AM PDT by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Some??


53 posted on 08/24/2007 7:11:03 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: stm

I didn’t know that. My daughter studied in Italy two years ago and witnessed a fight outside a bar one night. One man beat up another pretty badly and the police watched. Finally, my daughter’s friend stepped up and performed first aid and asked people to help her. When they saw an American student helping, the police finally assisted her.


54 posted on 08/24/2007 7:12:42 AM PDT by twigs
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To: ladyjane

I believe that MN has the largest Somali population in the US.


55 posted on 08/24/2007 7:12:43 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tracking The Flyin' Imams Since 11/20/06)
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To: IronKros

It is the Kitty Genovese story all over again. Not being funny but the first thing that came to mind when I saw the story on the news was the old Phil Och’s song “Outside of a small circle of friends”

Look outside the window, there’s a woman being grabbed
They’ve dragged her to the bushes and now she’s being stabbed
Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain
But Monopoly is so much fun I’d hate to ruin the game
And I’m sure it wouldn’t interest, anybody
Outside of a small circle of friends

I gotta wonder at the slowness of the cops response. And any of the neighbors who ignored the incident will answer for it one day, if not in this life then in the next.


56 posted on 08/24/2007 7:13:22 AM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: ClaireSolt
"Certainly not someone who can't see anything but skin color."

I see. I say "Negro" and that's superficial racism. You say "African" and that's ... uh .... well that's cultural.

Uh-huh.

57 posted on 08/24/2007 7:14:41 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

duh. I didn’t know that.

Why on God’s green earth did they send them to Minnesota. It’s freezing there in the winter.

They sent some to Maine because their Senator Snowe invited them. It’s freezing there too.

Why on God’s green earth are we importing Somalis yet leaving the Iraqi Christians to be murdered?


58 posted on 08/24/2007 7:17:51 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Bogtrotter52

When the call was made, it was called in as “two drunks fighting” which lowered the priority of the call. Check the link in my above post.


59 posted on 08/24/2007 7:19:32 AM PDT by akorahil (Thank You and God bless all Veterans. Truly, the real heroes.)
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To: IronKros

My first question: was their door closed? I’d be happy to grab my carry-Kimber and stop a crime in progress... if I could see what was truly going on. But I’m not going to try to break someone’s front door just because I hear yelling inside. That merits a 911 call for me. Let the police deal with the surprises inside. For all I know, it could be a TV, some kids making a home movie, etc... and I’d merely open myself to liability for attempting to be a good neighbor.


60 posted on 08/24/2007 7:19:34 AM PDT by Teacher317
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