Black Gangs Vented Hatred For Whites In Downtown Attacks

TheDenverChannel.com ^ | 2009.12.5 | Alan Gathright

[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."

[Windflier]

Blacks have been perpetrating this kind of planned savagery against whites since the 1960s. I've seen it.

Hmm... Blacks do this to other blacks, you know. It's not just confined to white victims. I was jumped by gangs of black hoods twice in my teen years, and I'm black.

Personally, I think that some of the worst lowlife black hoodlums have been emboldened by Obama being elected. He's a living affirmation of their belief that they're owed something by the majority culture.

At some point, one of these gangs is going to jump the wrong white man, and the death toll will make headlines across the country.

[Tolsti2]

Glock 32 here, 14 ready to go + 13 in the backup mag..

And it’ll roar and scare the hell out of anyone even close. 357 Sig is intense.

[1066AD]

AA12.

[AFreeBird]

I saw it on Lock and Load with the “Gunny” this afternoon. And you’re right the Thing don’t hardly kick at all. And with all the stainless, it can go 10,000 rnds without cleaning.

[heartwood]

What is that thing, an automatic shotgun?

[Candor7]

Souns like hate crime to me. And it looks like in that part of Denver one needs to conceal carry. Shite, it sounds like parts of Haiti to me.

Is this the USA, where we romantically voted in America’s first Black President?

So is the the hope and change part ?

I say lay the lead to them.

[Bernard Marx]

I wonder how many other cities have been dealing with this garbage?

Were your around San Francisco during the 1970s Zebra Murders? The Black Panthers killed their share of Whites during the same period. That was a truly scary time.

ZEBRA KILLINGS

[blackbart.223]

"And it’ll roar and scare the hell out of anyone even close."

Just remember only hits count. My model 19 won't jam and a hit in the bread basket with the .357 magnum 158 gr. jacketed hollow point will settle any threat.

[UCANSEE2]

This behavior, acting like a pack of animals(Which is the proper description), stems from many factors.

It is a ‘reversion’ to the laws of the jungle.

Monkeys do this. After the lead male gives some young whippersnapper a rebuking, the other monkeys charge in and kick at the ‘loser’.

However, it has nothing to do with color of Skin.

It has more to do with the justice system being too tolerant to a specific color of skin.

Rather than add more and more laws, we would do better to enforce what we have on the books. Equally.

[narses]

The K frame I think. Nice service pistol.

[pandoraou812]

I agree with that but they will just move on to another bar or park. I see it happen here all the time. One thing I have learned is not to act afraid. I look at it this way if I don’t put myself in places where I don’t belong maybe I have a better chance of not getting hurt or killed. I am sick of this crap. Hate crimes should go both ways.

[UCANSEE2]

Sounds like West Side Story. On speed.

[AFreeBird]

Yea, rock and roll 12 guage. 300 rnds/min. Rate of fire. Check the link at -#63.

[UCANSEE2]

AA-12 Fully automatic (300rpm), gas-operated,low-recoil, 12-gauge shotgun, with a whole multiple ammo configurations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ebtj1jR7c

[rlmorel]

When I was in the Navy back in the Seventies, I got jumped by six black guys one night simply walking in between two barracks down at Cecil Field in Florida. I was just walking along, and all of a sudden, someone kicked me in the ass really hard. When I turned around, it was one guy and he said "I don't like VA-46..." (my squadron)

I said "That's too f*cking bad, because you and I are going to have at it." At that point, the other five guys walked out from behind the barracks and surrounded me.

I had no idea what to do (I have only had a few real fistfights in my entire life) so I took up kind of a karate stance and began circling slowly. (I don't know any karate, I simply didn't have any idea how to proceed) So, they had me circled, and I am guessing it might have been for around five to ten seconds, and I heard one of them say "...he knows karate..." then they rushed me and down I went.

They kicked and punched me for what seemed like a really long time, but I would think it must have been only thirty seconds, and I was curled up in a ball. I suspect they were landing just as many kicks on each others legs and feet as they were on me, and I remember smelling that they must have been drinking. They were trying like hell to kick me square in the nuts and the face, but I was bound and determined not to take a square kick to the nuts or the face, so I was doing a lot of rolling around. I remember taking a few kicks to the sides of my head, and one landed pretty hard on my ear.

This whole time, they weren't saying anything, just grunting and breathing. This all took place right between two barracks full of people, and I was yelling like hell, but nobody came out. At some point, there was a very slight pause, and I leaped to my feet and darted between them, running up the steps to the barracks door. I didn't dare try to take enough time to open the door, because they were right behind me and I knew if I did, they would have me again.

There was a mop in a bucket, and I grabbed the thing and began swinging the handle at them pretty wildly...at that point, they backed away around the edge of the barracks and disappeared. I was appalled that nobody helped, it was around 2300 on a weeknight.

I went directly over to the hangar across the street where my boss was working the night shift. He was a black guy, and his name was Woods.

I told him what happened, and he just looked at me and said "You want to go find them and kick their asses?" I said no.

The truth is...I could not have identified a single one of them. Even the guy who I faced off against initially, I could not have identified him. Very strange. And I never reported it...for some reason, it didn't even occur to me to do so.

For months afterwards, when I saw a black guy walk by, I would look at him pretty hard, trying to see if I could recognize him as one of my assailants. I think it is possible I could have developed somewhat of a tainted attitude towards blacks at that point, but...I worked with some great black guys, Petty Officer Woods first and foremost. Those guys let me know in no uncertain terms where they stood on the subject, and I never reached a point where I developed any kind of animosity. Thank God.

[UCANSEE2]

I forgot to mention the optional ‘grenade’ load.

[Rembrandt]

“Are these black hoodlums so afraid of one or two white guys that they have to gang up?

This sounds so incredibly gutless to me.”

Go to downtown St. Paul and point that out, Steve.

[Gilbo_3]

ooops, almost posted somethin that would get me banned...

payback is and should be a bitch...

[richardtavor]

Welcome to Israel. It never ceases. But to give in to these thugs is to give them victory. So, be ever vigilant, always look around and know your surroundings. In America, we take so many things for granted. Let’s be more attentive to the bad elements around us....

[richardtavor]

Sounds like a liberal democrat, white or black..