Posted on 12/08/2009 8:43:16 PM PST by B-Chan
Black Gangs Vented Hatred For Whites In Downtown Attacks
'I Hate You F---ing White People,' Woman Shouts At Victim
Black gangs roaming downtown Denver often vented their hatred for white victims before assaulting and robbing them during a four-month crime wave, according to interviews and court records obtained by 7NEWS.
"I hate you f---ing white people," said a black woman in a large group of black men, according to the victim who was beaten up as he and three buddies left a LoDo bar after midnight on Aug. 30.
"F---- you, white boys," the woman added, according to the 25-year-old Westminster victim, who spoke to 7NEWS Friday.
"Why do you hate white people?" the man recalled asking. "That's when I got hit. They beat the crap out of me," he added, saying that 15 to 20 men beat him to the ground.
"They just swarmed you," said the man who curled up on the ground to shield his face. "You basically just had to protect yourself and hope they didn't kill you."
The victim, who suffered bruised ribs and a cut head, said he was protected by a padded motorcycle jacket. He asked that his name be withheld for his safety.
A couple dozen arrest warrant affidavits unsealed Friday offer chilling insights into the 26 racially-motivated "blitz attacks," which stretched from July 17 to Nov. 17.
One unidentified suspect told police "that the members of his gang earn status in the gang by beating up 'white dudes,'" according to court records. He added that the gangs targeted "drunk white guys," exiting bars and nightclubs in the entertainment district.
The suspects allegedly bragged about knocking out white victims with one punch to the head. Victims lying on the ground were "stomped" and even tossed through glass windows.
In the more than two dozen attacks, victims' injuries included a skull fracture as well as broken noses and eye sockets when they were blindsided by punches that often knocked them unconscious. One man was so savagely attacked that he was hospitalized in a coma for a while, police said.
Several of the 35 young male and female suspects arrested by police recently said the gangs often targeted lone white and Hispanic men because they didn't "fight back" and they had money, iPods and other valuable gadgets that attackers coveted.
Another goal: to drive whites away from their downtown turf, including a hip-hop nightclub, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The gangs "own that area," one suspect told police.
7NEWS exposed the crime spree in early September when a law enforcement source said the police department was keeping the public in the dark about a series of downtown attacks. The source added that a special FBI task force had been called in to help identify the assailants.
When 7NEWS made a public records request Sept. 3 for crime reports in the area, a police spokesman confirmed the department was investigating a "pattern of assaults and robberies in central Denver" that began in July.
Police spokesman Sonny Jackson denied that police delayed warning the public for seven weeks to avoid frightening visitors to the popular and lucrative downtown entertainment district.
He said police had to confirm "a pattern of behavior" before going public.
But police reports say the gang attack pattern was identified during the summer as the department deployed uncover teams and used surveillance cameras to identify the assailants.
"During the summer months of 2009, a pattern of criminal conduct was identified which included multiple suspects identifying a solo Caucasian or Hispanic male and completing a blitz attack against this party," an officer wrote in an arrest affidavit for a Sept. 4 robbery on the 16th Street Mall.
"Part of the MO involved the group of suspects, usually African American males, sending a party, possibly an African American female, to identify the victim," the officer wrote. "This is done by (the woman) talking with or standing with the victim. A suspect, generally male, from the group will step forward and hit the victim hard, knocking him down. Other members of the group will then emerge and begin participating in beating the victim."
The Westminster beating victim said if police had warned the public earlier, he and others could have better protected themselves
"I'm kind of upset that (police) didn't make it public," said the Westminster beating victim. "I would have been more vigilant. It would have made people a lot more on guard."
But, he added that, "I'm very pleased that they responded the way they did." Within minutes of his 911 cell phone call, uncover officers flooded the scene. He recalled listening to police radios crackling with reports of two suspects being arrested that night.
"I was like, 'Wow, finally they did something,'" the man recalled.
Prosecutors have charged two men and a woman in his attack.
As police pursued the massive investigation involving 35 suspects and dozens of victims, investigators asked the young blacks why they targeted whites.
"Because they got a lot of money," suspect Allen Ford, 18, allegedly told police. Other suspects echoed that simple rationale.
Ford, who was the last suspect arrested in a major police sweep in the past two weeks, allegedly told investigators earlier that he was upset how the robbery spoils were divvied up among members of the Rolling 60s Crips gang and the Black Gangster Disciples gang, according to the arrest affidavits.
Ford, who was arrested Thursday, allegedly griped about "other people getting bigger stuff than me that I would really like to have in my life," according to the records.
At times, older men would chastise young gang members, saying, "Y'all make it seem like a big deal for y'all to be knocking out white people," suspect Denita Mayfield told police. "They all brag about beating up white people."
But the attackers used more than their fists. "The series of crimes has also involved the use of a gun and knife," a police report said.
One male victim recalled a black woman approaching him on the street and saying something he couldn't hear.
"As he was attempting to clarify what had been said to him, a black male came up and stated, 'What the f--- did you say to my girl?'" a detective wrote in an arrest affidavit.
Instantly, the victim was punched.
As he was pounded with blows, the victim said he heard a woman voice shouting, "Get that white boy!" according to an arrest affidavit.
Kendall Austin, 18, allegedly told police that the street gangs "own that area," referring to the 1400 block of 19th Street.
He said they were especially possessive of the Bash nightclub at 19th and Blake streets, saying their purpose was to "keep white people from going to 'The Bash' and to 'let people know not to come downtown without their friends for protection.'"
During an Aug. 2 attack, suspect Allen Ford told police his alleged accomplice, Xavier Francis, tossed a white man through a glass window behind the Bash nightclub.
"I seen him pick the little white boy up and throw him through the glass," Ford told police, according to court records. Police obtained security camera video showing the victim fly through the window.
The Westminster man said after he was attacked, he avoided downtown for a while.
Now he's returned to his favorite LoDo tavern, but he added: "I'm a lot, lot more cautious. It makes me look over my shoulder a lot more."
“OK, in that case: The blacks need to be liberated from the horribility of economic freedom and evil white people”
Well, let the transports to Africa begin.
No hate crimes here. Move along.
Seriously, some people are animals.And like predators, they need to be dealt with in the same manner that predators are dealt with.
Midnight basketball is not going to do the trick.
nothing much happened with it , if your in a 75% black school , with a black principle , well it must of been accident and left with that ,
its not all black people i dislike , I have a friend that was good , but he also said he had to get out of the hood , he was good worker , he was respectful to me ,
but when he talked to his boys on the phone i could hear the instant change in the way he talked ,
did i trust him to work YES did i give him the keys to my car NO
YES, THEY CAN!
...and get away with it.
We can thank all WHITE liberals for this sad state of affairs.
Nope. Don't buy it. Not for a second.
I'll bet they're not black lefties. Blacks of every political persuasion know better. They've lived it.
That still doesn't help most blacks to see that the root cause of the degraded state of the black community is liberalism/socialism. Most continue to believe that the community needs more help from Uncle Sugar to heal itself.
You can even point out to them that Billions have been spent on the so-called "War on Poverty" with no corresponding rise in the quality of life for blacks, and they'll just look at you like you're speaking Martian.
I've given up trying to talk sense into my family members. They're grown people. If they can't think their way out of a paper bag, then I'm sorry for them. I've just used up too much gas going down that road to try anymore.
True, and you don't see that on TV either.
And Jackson - Sharpton Inc. only make it worse by blaming the victims of this heinous behavior. Notice that they (of all people) never go to bat for the majority of blacks when these incidents happen. Never do they point out that these awful incidents are being perpetrated by a small segment of the black community.
I'm telling you, I really hate those men. They've done nothing but pimp black folks since the end of the Civil Rights era.
Interesting question. My family (on both sides) has had to fight the charge of "acting white" for as long as I can remember. Even when the charge wasn't overtly leveled at us, we got the message through ridicule, cold shoulders, and other subtle ostracizing.
My siblings and I were Army brats from birth, so didn't start out life inside of a monolithic black community. The only community we knew was one where people of every background and state of origin were represented. In short, the culture we came from was the military sub-culture, which in my time, was uniquely all its own.
I guess you could say that we were foreigners in the black community, even though our extended family were all from there. Both of my parents graduated high school in Watts, California (in '48 and '50).
However, their parents were strict disciplinarians and very much of the very old school. They moved out of the Deep South, partially to give their kids a better shot at life. Because of that, they set really high standards of conduct for my mom, my dad, and all my aunts and uncles. They were all made to speak standard American English, too, despite the fact that they spent half of their childhood in the Deep South. My parents tell some hair-raising stories of hell they went through because of that.
Anyhow, short answer is that I couldn't fake who I was, and that brought me grief for a long time from my peers.
You think I'm trying to pull a race card, or defend these animals? NOT.
All I was trying to point out, is that these hoodlums don't just stop at attacking people of other races. No, they're much worse than that. They also attack their own.
Are they also racist? You bet your ass they are. I read the article too.
Sure they will, but most of the good people of this country now realize that the MSM is a mouthpiece for the race hustling industry, and will read it for what it is.
You've got the right attitude.
Spending my teen years in the ghetto caused me to grow eyeballs in the back of my head, and to develop a level of heightened awareness that was almost animal-like. I also started making sure that I had a firearm within easy reach nearly all the time. Don't know how many times I almost used it.
In time, I just got the hell out, and life became a lot safer for me. One thing that hasn't changed is having some firepower within easy reach.
The First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakland, California (3726 Telegraph Avenue) has a banner outside stating, in large, bold letters, "STOP Black on Black Violence."
Sure, the vast majority of whites will be able to employ discernment, but the knuckle-draggers and even not-so-knuckle-draggers will condemn blacks in a more universal manner.
Everybody loses.
Good insight there, Triple A. It's spot on.
It used to bug me that white people seemed to ridge up when I'd approach them. Even in my professional adult life, I've had to deal with that reaction, which always melts as soon as I begin talking. I've had to be discerning, myself.
Thanks for posting that. Unless people spend time, or live in these communities, they may have no idea what a crisis is going on there, and that most in the community want it to stop.
~ Thug Report ~
Ok, so I looked at your link. There's a collection of horror stories about violent thugs there, many of them black.
I said that "most black people don't commit these sorts of heinous crimes" and you responded with that link and a well-placed snark.
Are you suggesting that most black people are violent thugs?
You've not only just offended me, but you've also offended Justice Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, Lt. Col. Allen West, Star Parker, Bob Parks, Lloyd Marcus, Alphonzo Rachel, JC Watts, Michael Steele, Lynn Swann, Thomas Sowell, and every uniformed black person who ever fired a shot in the defense of America, including my father and my brother.
"whatisthetruth", indeed.
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