Posted on 06/24/2011 4:32:14 AM PDT by MissEdie
A teenager had emergency brain surgery this week after police say he was the victim of a violent beating in Five Points.
The 18-year-old was running along Blossom Street near the Walgreens and Wachovia after midnight Monday when he was attacked by four men, the Columbia Police Department reported. After the beating, the man managed to run several blocks to Edisto Avenue, where a passerby found him two hours later and called 911, police said.
The teen, whose name was not released by police, was taken to the hospital, where he had emergency surgery to remove a clot from his brain, police reported. The teen remained in critical condition in a Columbia hospital and was expected to have reconstructive surgery on his face, according to police.
The 18-year-old victim had been helping a friend earlier in the night and was jogging back home when he was attacked, said Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott. The chief did not know where the victim had been or where his home was.
The Police Department on Thursday released video footage of men it says are the suspects. The footage, recorded by security cameras in Five Points, shows eight men walking along a sidewalk. Late Thursday, police had eight people in custody and were interviewing them.
Earlier the night of the beating, the group of suspects had tried to attack others, but those people managed to escape unharmed, Scott said.
The police department also has footage for four men darting across the street toward the man, said Jennifer Timmons, the department spokeswoman. However, the department did not release that footage to the public.
All of the footage was provided to police by the Five Points Merchants Association, which has installed dozens of security cameras outside businesses, Scott said.
The security cameras are just one response to increasing concern about crime in Five Points.
A 2 a.m. bar closing, with many exceptions, will go into effect later this summer, and City Council is considering a curfew. The police and fire departments have beefed up overcrowding inspections at bars, and city police are allowed to work off-duty security in the bars.
Strictly Running, a Harden Street shop that sells running gear and organizes training events, has security cameras inside and outside its storefront, said Selwyn Blake, one of the co-owners and a U.S. Track and Field coach. When coaching runners, Blake said he emphasizes safety tips.
But a jogger getting beaten is rare, he said. “I think what you have here is a unique situation, that’s for sure,” Blake said.
Runners more often face injuries caused by distracted drivers and the extreme South Carolina heat, he said. That’s why joggers are advised to run in pairs, to wear identification, to carry cellphones and to wear reflective vests at night. He also suggested runners let someone know when they leave and when they should be expected to return, Blake said.
Strictly Running hosts groups of runners who leave from the store in the early-morning hours. Blake said he feels safe in Five Points but always advises people to use caution.
“You have to remember you are in the city,” he said. “You have to put your city armor on.”
Don't feel alone with that sentiment. When people get fed up with this, these little creeps will pay.
Looking forward to Wolfie Blitzer running this story nonstop on CNN for the next few days and demanding that a hate crime prosecution be started.
I have a 5 shot Ruger 380 in my pocket and a 30 shot Ruger 9mm on the seat beside me.
All legal.
Thanks for the link.
“Nope. SC has the Castle doctrine where a citizen can stand his ground and protect himself or others from harm. And last month, the South Carolina Supreme Court “liberalized” the Castle Doctrine...There’s also a 19th century law in SC that allows citizens to drop a thug committing any felony after dark, which includes stopping him if he’s running away.”
Thanks, bud. I really needed some good news. I’m so used to things getting worse on that front that I just expect it.
Remember Bernie Goetz.
You need to realize that what you’re warning against—that the behavior is polarizing people to not trust black youths—is precisely the goal of those pushing these feral herds to their behavior. The current democrat party, from obama on down to county levels, has as their goal to so disrupt America that their form of federal oligarchy will be welcomed as providing the only means to peace in society. The democrat party is a criminal enterprise throughout, so so have to take a jaundiced view in order to understand what is happening with groups like Holder’s people.
“I really needed some good news.”
People are forgetting that more than 700 patriots were elected to state legislatures in the 2010 election, giving us complete control of 26 states.
These good people are throwing wrenches into the federal fascist machinery all over the US. And the fascist bureaucrats don’t have the manpower or the resources to stop it. For every brushfire that the federal fascists extinquish, ten more flare up.
People aren’t paying attention to what’s happening on the state level. We are kicking federal fascist ass.
All these newly elected patriots - the 700 - are our future leaders. Take note of them. They’re moving to the frontline. Support them. (The number 7 is a sacred number given to all Godly people by the Creator to attack and defeat the enemy. We must never ignore that. It’s one of His signs.)
Semper fi, FRiend.
Has anyone noticed a very obvious trend going on?
Since Obama (the racial hate monger) has been in office we have had a huge increase in black gang crimes.
Our “civil rights” fiasco has turned the blacks into slaves of the welfare system and reverted many of them back into the very savages their ancestors were.
Political correctness has been a huge factor in all of this.
What to do? It’s easy...we have to end special rules for enforcement of laws based on race and apply justice equally among all. Furthermore, we must end the fear of being called a “racist” in the reporting of all of the reporter’s 5 “W”s in all reporting via written or transmitted means. That means the race (and religion) of the criminal(s) should be posted within the article with no fear of racial repercussions.
As we “timid” Jews and gentiles cower down and hide from the truth, our prisons, jails and cesspools of racial hatred of whites festers and is converting not only with racial hate, but to the religion of Islam.
As sure as the sun rises in the morning, the day will come in America when either the whites will be slaves of their masters or a horrible armed revolution will occur to take back our country from the invaders trained in our public schools, universities, prisons, jails, ghettos and racial churches and mosques.
Political Correctness insures this fact. The only glimmer of hope for our children is the fact that they have not taken our guns from us yet....however, they are working on that problem as I speak.
It’s time to wake up!
But attacks such as this are generally by definition launched by surprise.
Thank you one - of my pet peeves.
I lived in Columbia for almost 8 years and spent a fair chunk of time down in Five Points—not usually late at night, but we went down there for dinner a lot. Yesterday’s was always my favorite, my wife liked hitting Adriana’s, and we also went to the Parthenon occasionally. We never stayed late enough for things to get rowdy, though.
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