Posted on 07/10/2009 2:23:04 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
On the night of June 27, Marty Marshall and his family were standing outside a friend’s home in Akron, OH. The group had gathered to watch a fireworks display at nearby Firestone Park, the festive night ended suddenly, when the family as well as their friends were brutally attacked by a group of nearly 50 black teenagers.
Marty Marshall, a 39-year-old construction worker came to the aid of his friend who was sucker punched by one of the teenagers, and was soon overwhelmed by the growing mob. His 13-year-old daughter Rachel was shoved to the ground, while mom Yvonne tried to shield their 14-year-old son Donald from the attackers by pushing him into the bushes.
There was no incident which led to the attack, but as the black teenagers approached the Marshall family, they shouted: ''This is our world'' and ''This is a black world.''
The only motivation behind this crime seems to be the fact that the Marshalls are white.
The savage beating went on for several minutes, but seemed like an eternity to the family.
Marty suffered a concussion and several deep bruises to his eye. He spent five nights in the critical care unit at Akron General Medical Center.
Marty told reporters: “My thing is, I didn't want this, but I was in fear for my wife, my kids and my friends. I felt I had to stay out there to protect them, because those guys were just jumping, swinging fists and everything.”
He went on: ''I knew I was going to get beat, but not as bad as I did. But I did it to protect my family. I didn't have a choice. There was no need for this. We should be all getting along. But to me, it seems to be racist.''
Despite the obvious nature of the attack, Akron police have not classified the beating as a hate crime.
Lt. Rick Edwards of the Akron Police Dept. said: ''We don't know if it's a known gang, or just a group of kids.''
The Marshalls say they now live in fear, and are reluctant to go outside their home.
Marty may have best summed up the situation by adding: 'This makes you think about your freedom. In all reality, where is your freedom when you have this going on?''
Of course, many believe that this case is only the latest example of a possible bias by law enforcement in crimes which could seemingly qualify as so-called ‘hate crimes.’
In 2007, a mob beating of a white teenager in Norfolk, VA by black teenagers stirred-up racial tensions and had many of Norfolk’s white residents asking why the boy’s attackers had not been charged with a hate crime.
The case gained national attention, after a video of the attack was given to the news media and was posted on Youtube.
The video showed Damin O’Rourke, 13 standing in the street in his West Ocean View neighborhood when five black teens rushed towards him and began shoving him. O’Rourke was punched repeatedly, and kicked in the face after being knocked to the ground.
Again, despite the overwhelming evidence, police did not charge the black teens with a hate crime and downplayed the obvious racial overtones to the case.
Norfolk Police spokesman Chris Amos told reporters: “Investigators have determined that a non-race related altercation took place prior to the assault. Investigators believe that this earlier altercation escalated to the assault caught on videotape. Investigators have further determined that this incident was not gang-related in nature.”
O’Rourke later said that he and a friend had been threatened and chased by seven black teens.
The young man who captured the beating on video received threats of bodily harm from friends of the suspects.
Ultimately, six black teenagers were found responsible for the attack, and were only charged with, and later convicted of misdemeanor assault.
In 2007, there were 3,802 white Americans charged with hate crimes, while only 1,045 black Americans were charged with the same offense.
Yes.
I think he’s a bit of an idiot for saying he considering getting a weapon. Ya think??
Holder even tried to justify it as correct policy when he testified to the Senate.
This is an outright obamanation that this is allowed to continue. It may have to be rectified through the court system with suits being filed against authorities who are complicit in a crime after the fact.
In the meantime, ‘can’t we just get along’?
Is there a double standard when it comes to hate crimes?
There IS a double standard when it comes to hate crimes.
There, I fixed it. The headline guy had it wrong.
When Eric Holder and his henchmen dropped the investigation of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia the double standard was cast in stone. Next up in the engraving this double standard above the entrance to the Department of Justice.
Holder is yet another Obamanaut who has yet to rely on the Constitution.
Enacted in 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides that “no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”.
The Equal Protection Clause can be seen as an attempt to secure the promise of the United States’ professed commitment to the proposition that “all men are created equal” by empowering the judiciary to enforce that principle against the states.
More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment, marked a great shift in American constitutionalism. Before the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Bill of Rights protected individual rights only from invasion by the federal government.
After the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted, the Constitution also protected rights from abridgment by state leaders and governments, even including some rights that arguably were not protected from abridgment by the federal government. In the wake of the Fourteenth Amendment, the states could not, among other things, deprive people of the equal protection of the laws. What exactly such a requirement means, of course, has been the subject of great debate, and the story of the Equal Protection Clause is the gradual explication of its meaning.
from Wikipedia
Obama and Holder believe the Constitution was written by a bunch of old whiteys and is useful only for hurling charges at the whiteys. Don’t believe a single word Obama utters and draw your conclusions from his actions. For example, Obama vehementally denies he is a socialist, but his actions so can only only be characterized as radical socialism.
Had the author done some homework, he might have come up with this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289040/posts
.....also from this past weekend.
No one will be charged for this act of beating a white family by the 20 blacks.
If the white man had produced a weapon and shot one of the 20 negroid boys he would have been charged with a hate crime.
“We won” and it appears that as in the past blacks will walk for hate crimes, while whites will be prosecuted.Part of the reparations we owe these poor, put upon ,people.
this is pretty much an annual event in richmond va at Dogwood Dell fireworks but the media looks the other way
The answer to that is Yes.
The reason is that there are many people of color who do not think that people of color can be racist, which they see as a necessary component of a “Hate Crime”. They think racism can only be expressed by people who have power, influence and/or money, and since they perceive themselves to be powerless, they cannot be racist.
It doesn’t matter if you DO have power, influence or money, there is apparently (to them) no contradiction in believing this.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder both feel that way.
Over here, I think we all know that even the concept of hate crimes is bogus. But the application is so obviously slanted, it makes the laws that much more farcical. It’s getting so blatant that even many on the leftist message boards are beginning to notice and object and that might be a silver lining to all this.
LOL - Even posing the question is a joke.
Of course there is - And why not? We need to rectify generations of abuse by going the other way to even it out. It makes perfect sense and is completely ‘Fair’. /sarc
Does a bear poop in the woods?
The black racist thugs want a race war. It will give opportunity to implement all sorts of totalitarian measures. It’s communism 101. Start forming neighborhood watch groups, and get out to the range and practice, practice, pratice.
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