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."
Reading some of the posts on this thread, I don’t believe in the coming race war b.s. My next door neighbor is a black Marine vet. (I’m a lowly squid :) ). The neighbor who am closest with in my complex is also black and he busts his ass running his own business and giving to charity on the side.
I’m white, I used to live in the “hood” in Jersey City. It wasn’t the REALLY bad part by any stretch, but when I moved there, I could count the white folks on my block on one hand and all of the buildings were large 6 - 50 unit apartment houses.
I agree there is the gang culture and all of the liberal “don’t be like whitey” crap. I agree that “Hate Crimes” are a one way street. But when I was in JC, there were a lot of honest people trying to make ends meet. You could see it in their eyes, the way they walked and the clothes they wore.
Tarring a whole race of people with a big broad brush is just stupid and beneath the dignity of anyone who purports to be a Christian.
2. The ghetto mentality is enabled and even cool because its seen as tough.
Too true. If God blesses me w/ kids, no way are they going to be raised as little yuppie morons that can't take care of themselves.
Which is why I don't do it.
... sigh ... I am equally pessimistic about the the future prospects of children reared around gang culture. They're at the effect of a self-perpetuating cycle of death, and the only way to help them, is to remove them completely from that environment. How can you do that for millions of kids?
I decided to permanently disconnect from that community when I was about 28, and have never gone back. Basically, I returned to the culture that I was brought up in, which is mainstream America. My kids know next to nothing about life in "the hood", and I honestly don't think that I've diminished the quality of their life experience one iota by raising them outside of it.
It will be difficult to change the belief systems of an entire generation as long as leftists are able to indoctrinate them via the public school system, and peer pressure makes it that much harder to go against the grain.
Absolutely correct. It's a vicious cycle that will only be undone by a massive, wholesale shift of the entire culture, which is what all of us here are working towards. Only when we've beaten leftism to a bloody pulp, will conditions truly change in the barrios and ghettos of America.
Thanks for the reply. Here’s a part of my post that wasnt discussed, although the more I think about it, the more significant I think it is:
“a potus who is a role model for many who continuously badmouths this society and country.”
Not only are his policies bad for the country, but he is setting a poor example in so many ways. More impressionable minds will identify with and emulate his flawed thinking. And he really isnt very careful or considerate about many things he says and does, including his obvious disrespect for so many different people and places.
What’s your take on that?
I appreciate your clearing that up. Looks like we're on the same page about all of this.
Your reply deserves a better response than what I can give at the moment. I'll come back this evening when I've got more time to give you a thoughtful response.
Thanks
Your substantive string of posts on this thread and the responses to them reminds me of what I like best about this site - the sometimes awkward honesty that informs all true pursuit of truth and justice.
I hope you have a great day.
He looks like he’s ten years old!!
I gotta strap on mine too. :-)
No kidding...he was a very quiet guy, kept to himself.
Very, very true. You wouldn't believe how much "awkward" I went through when I first made my escape from the left.
This'll tickle you... When I first heard conservative talk radio, it was by complete fluke. I was working on a customer's home, and he had Rush on his garage radio. I didn't even know what it was until I started listening more closely. When I realized what he was listening to, I experienced something like a shock. "Why, that's that right-wing hate radio I've heard about!"
Well, I had a family to feed, and wasn't about to ask him to turn it off, so I kept on working. I kept listening though, more out of a sort of morbid curiosity than anything else. This stuff was verboten, as far as I was concerned.
Well, bit by bit, I began to notice that the host was destroying the arguments of every liberal who called in. Every time he did this, I thought to myself, "Hmmm, that's not bad. He won that round, but surely the next caller will put a hole in his argument."
Well, it never happened. One by one, the host (I think it was Rush) obliterated every liberal argument presented, and laid out more airtight logic and reasoning than I'd ever heard in such a short amount of time.
Later that night, I tuned my office radio to the same talk station to hear what other hosts were saying. Mind you, I did this in a skulking manner so that my wife wouldn't hear it. I even turned it way down, and sat on the other side of the room, in a sort of defensive posture. LOL
Needless to say, before the week was out, I was gorging myself on this new-found, steady stream of truth, logic, and well-reasoned thinking. I couldn't get enough of it. I know that I resonated to what I was hearing because it was the truth that had always lived inside me. It was like coming home to me.
FR is very much the same for me. I resonate with this place.
Dumbass honkey!
What’s your take on that?
As you said, the President should set a good example for the citizens of the nation, and represent them well, as their ambassador to the world.
It's unconscionable that a US President should say the sorts of invalidative things that this Precedent has said to the citizens of America, and to the world about this country.
He emboldens everyone who considers America to be their enemy. This includes those Americans who have little allegiance to our country, and who actively work toward the undermining of its founding principles and traditions.
The inescapable logic is that this behavior makes Obama an enemy of his own country, and a friend to those who wish us ill.
In a just and sane world, he would be removed from office for gross acts of treason.
Feral Orgasmic Pack Rage......
And progressive politics and the deconstruction of the what we used to call western civilization the past 40 years has enabled it.
Your thoughts are in alignment with my own on this. I firmly believe that its no accident that an entire race of people, who have been gifted (or cursed) with the same levels of intelligence and aptitude as any other humans, are nonetheless existing in a disheveled and dilapidated state. I'm sorry, but there is a cause for that effect, and I'm sure that it began a long, long time ago.
That being said, African blacks may have borne some responsibility for their fall to whatever malevolent forces first began the long process of enslavement and degradation against them. I do know, for instance, that African tribes collaborated with the slave traders, and sold their fellow blacks into bondage in the 1600's.
Moving closer to present time, and to home, we see that Native American culture is nearly as bad off as that of blacks, or at least it has been, until very recently.
I believe the theory holds for those people, as well. They didn't become degraded by accident. It took a great deal of force to beat them down to where they were (until recently).
In the case of Native Americans, it's a fact that a great many of them left the reservations to join mainstream society. A lot of them hid their origins and passed as descendants of European immigrants to achieve acceptance and escape the poverty and hopelessness of where they came from.
Blacks have done this too, but (with few exceptions) without the benefit of being able to pass for anything but black. My own grandparents had the opportunity to pass for white in their youth, but chose not to attempt it. Dear old Grandad simply did what he had to do to raise himself and his family above the default circumstances of the day.
In my dad's time, he had to overcome a great deal of prejudice to excel in his career. His life story is one of success, because he overcame those things that barred his way.
Today, there's little excuse for any American to remain shackled to a dead end existence. The way out was paved long ago, and has even been streamlined with special considerations for blacks, in particular.
Yes, there has been a stress within the black community about that for generations. I don't think it's any different for any subset of America.
But, when a black person makes a conscious choice to purposely disconnect from their isolationist racial culture, and realign their lives within mainstream America, they normally don't make any more contact with the black community than anyone else in the mainstream.
Take my parents, for instance. They fit that description. The only time they've ventured into the black community in the last few decades has been to visit with relatives. And at their age, those occasions are few and far between for them.
As a matter of fact, I'd say that less than a quarter of my family members live in what you could call a traditional black community. Now, not all of them have made a conscious choice to disconnect from the black community, but some have, albeit very quietly.
Yes, unfortunately, there are some who are just going to feel that way, no matter how much reason or logic is shown to them.
Fortunately, wardaddy isn't one of them. We've exchanged thoughts upthread, and are on the same page.
Thanks for your excellent observation. Much appreciated.
Yep. Those "street smarts" and "radar" have saved my bacon many a time in my adulthood.
I paid a high price to grow that awareness, though. I just can't bring myself to subject my own kids to that sort of environment "for their own good".
In their case, there's going to be a lot of weapons training in their upcoming home school years.
What can I say? No one is going to force another to escape their imprisonment. You won't decide to escape until you look around and make your own assessment of your circumstances and apply some simple logic to why those circumstances are what they are.
If my relatives are unwilling to look with their own two eyes, and stop substituting propaganda for critical thinking, then there's nothing I can do to help them escape.
I'll give you props for not saying that "all" blacks are animals. As I said before, hard-core racists and thugs are in the minority in the black community. Most blacks are just trying to get through life, and live the American dream.
But, I will grant that some blacks are strongly racist. Naturally, I've seen this up close and personal.
I'll tell you something about those folks. Being black, I've been able to get to know some black racists, and I can tell you that their souls are worthless little crumbs, no different than anyone who hates others on the basis of race, religion, or national origin. These people are no different than the Taliban, or Al Qaeda at heart. And no better.
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