Posted on 05/30/2010 7:41:41 PM PDT by tlb
SEATTLE - A 16-year-old boy from West Seattle says he was held hostage and beaten for hours, all because of the color of his skin.
Shane McClellan says two men kicked and whipped him at gunpoint - and told him they singled him out because he is white.
Tim McClellan, Shane's father, says he barely recognized his son after the brutal assault.
"I didn't know if he was alive or dead," Tim McClellan said.
The incident happened as Shane McClellan was walking home from a birthday party at a friend's house Tuesday around 2 a.m.
Shane says two men called to him from the top of a staircase near the intersection of 14th Avenue SW and SW Holden Street. The men asked for a light, and when Shane walked over to oblige, they knocked him to the ground and started kicking him.
The two men knocked the frightened teen around on the staircase, making racially charged remarks.
"They started bringing up the past - like slavery - being like, white people did this," Shane said in an exclusive interview with KOMO News reporter Shomari Stone.
The attackers stripped off McClellan's belt and started whipping his back.
"They said, 'This is for what your people did to our people.' They were like whipping me with my belt, my studded belt," Shane recounts.
One of the men held a gun against the back of his head and burned his neck with cigarettes.
At one point they shoved McClellan's face into a hole with the gun against his head. They also urinated on him and poured beer over him.
"What he told me, when they were beating him with the belt, they were saying, 'I don't like white people,'" says Shane's father, Tim McClellan.
Shane recalls, "They're like, 'Aw, white boy, what are you doing? You can't hang out this late. What are you doing around here?' They're like, 'White boy has no belonging - being out here at 2 a.m.'"
"They targeted me for being white, and they made it very clear thats why they were assaulting me," Shane says.
The boy told police that one of his attackers appeared to be black and the other Asian or Pacific Islander.
The victim's father says this was nothing short of hours of torture.
"Put a gun to the back of his head and told him if he said anything they were going to blow his head off while they sat there and burned him with cigarettes on the back of the neck," he says.
The two assailants held the victim on the ground for some time, and Shane eventually passed out.
When he regained consciousness, the attackers were gone. They had taken his money, a coat and an MP3 player.
Shane waved down a passing car for help and met his family at the hospital.
Seattle police have referred the case to their Bias Crimes Unit for review as a possible hate crime.
Detectives told the family they are working on a photo montage of possible suspects - and will see if the victim is able to identify his attackers from the line-up.
Shane is now out of the hospital and recovering at home.
But he gets chills when he looks at the photos that were taken of him right after the attack.
"Gets me shaken up every time I see it," he says. "I don't know, I just get vibes overall from seeing those pictures."
He says he has learned not to wander through the neighborhood at 2 in the morning - and he hopes his attackers are caught and charged with a hate crime.
It almost sounds like a gang initiation gone... silly.
Prayers and best thoughts that the kid has a full recovery.
They did all that to him, and then let him live?
Not buying this one.
Something is not adding up here.
We will see.
Seattle can be pretty dangerous - ditto San Fran.
Mmmm mmmm mmmm ...
why was he out at 2AM?
The "interview".
This is just what the regime means about a negative situation too good to waste. The regime wants a race situation to take the target off of obama and his recent failings.
This looks just what they ordered. My first thought would be to investigate this guy and his family. They are probably connected to the Chicago players on capital hill.
Remember sharpton and tawana? Didn't she (with shapton’s help) claim being put in a trash can and covered with feces and urine?
This follows the same play bill. Watch the storm start.
Why do you think that’s a relevant question?
That was Al and Jesse, projecting their form of diversity.
The Rats want a race war.
You are right. This is right from sharptons book of plays.
Held for days, totured, covered with feces and urine....
And so it starts...
I do believe they will overplay their hand. It's what happens when you mistake civilized behavior for fear.
A 16 year old coming home at 2 AM was into shenanigans. He should have gotten a ride home or called home. Drinking or smoking pot is the only reason to come home that late.
Yeah...what are the chances he burned his own neck with cigarettes and whipped his own back with a belt?
No - only Whites ever get charged with hate crimes.
The law is not color blind.
Well blacks are incapable of racism, so this story is obviously a lie.
/sarc
At that age, I was running the streets later than that.
Eh, there are so many things at work in that story, if the kid was from that area, he should have known better than to simply stroll home at 2am.
Then again, clearly something did happen.
I also know that racism is not confined to the MSM’s villian the White Male, there is plenty o’ hate coming the other way as well, but that does not mean this kid was the focus of such an attack.
What sort of racist spends all hours of the early morning beating up some teenager? If they were in that drug life they would be trying to earn, or maybe they earned their money and decided to mess up this kid?
Who knows? Hopefully the investigation will clear all of this up, the one thing is though, I’d like to know if the kids parent’s were politically active in radical causes.
16 year-olds feeeeeeel that they are invincible. About the last thing in the world they are inclined to do is follow the advice of fuddy-duddies like their parents who tell them silly stories of what happens to youts who hang out on dark streets in the dead of night.
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And not only that, but they are “taught” in the public fool system how NOT to be “racist” and “judgmental” to the point that good old fashioned common sense is just wrangled out of them.
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