Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

A beating at Church and Brambleton
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | May 1, 2012 | Michelle Washington

Posted on 05/01/2012 7:45:27 AM PDT by Raebie

Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.

The victim's friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location.

Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton.

It happened four blocks from where they work, here at The Virginian-Pilot.

Two weeks have passed since reporters Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami - friends to me and many others at the newspaper - were attacked on a Saturday night as they drove home from a show at the Attucks Theatre. They had stopped at a red light, in a crowd of at least 100 young people walking on the sidewalk. Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that's when the beating began.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackonwhite; georgezimmerman; mob; norfolk; norfolkva; publichousing; trayvon; trayvonmartin; virginia; youts; zimmerman
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last
To: Raebie

If there are any black parents reading this, tell your kids not to attack white people. Some of us are armed.


41 posted on 05/01/2012 9:01:48 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

The real mistake is to be where these people are. Being armed is not a perfect answer: if you protect yourself you will be faced with an obese mom screaming “he shot my baby”, phony “reverends” calling for your lynching, Holder receiving the would-be lynchers at the DOJ, and Obama saying your assailant looked like his fictious son. No. Staying away from them is the best answer. So sad.
42 posted on 05/01/2012 9:11:53 AM PDT by Godwin1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: Raebie
100 black kids vs 2 white people.

It's never 1 to 1. Not even when the white person is an 85 year old woman, unless the perp is just stealing her purse and running away.
43 posted on 05/01/2012 9:14:18 AM PDT by crosshairs (Worship the Creator, not the created.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Raebie

If the ratio is always going to be that extreme, I need to carry a few more backup magazines.


44 posted on 05/01/2012 9:16:47 AM PDT by crosshairs (Worship the Creator, not the created.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fr_freak

“On the other hand, this guy could be one of those left-wing idiots who has never really interacted with black people in real life on the street...”

You got it. The Virginian Pilot is a left wing rag whose prior editor was rewarded with a Obama admin post recently.

Black editor and past black editor.

I’m really tired of it.

If this would have been 30+ whites on a black couple the leftys would have been crawling out of the woodwork to scream “RACISM!!”


45 posted on 05/01/2012 9:18:37 AM PDT by OpusatFR
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Graybeard58

100 “young people”, rock hits window...

Response:
Pedal to the metal.


46 posted on 05/01/2012 9:19:40 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: stellaluna

Do you see any difference in the occurrences today than 30 years ago?


47 posted on 05/01/2012 9:21:41 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: lado

They look “liberal”.


48 posted on 05/01/2012 9:23:50 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Lurker
Perhaps it's time for some decent people to get themselves properly equipped, head into that area, and teach "they" some manners. It's obvious that the entire law enforcement community has failed in their duty with regard to "they".

First off, keep in mind that your jury pool would be predominantly composed of "they". Second off, at 100-to-1 odds, you had better be driving this.

49 posted on 05/01/2012 9:35:03 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Raebie

Sad that this happened but if you are stupid enough to leave your weapon (the car)to confront a 100 people and you were not intelligent enough to own and legally carry a firearm then shame on you...........


50 posted on 05/01/2012 9:42:32 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ArrogantBustard
I saw that, and instantly knew what City and State, and what the perps looked like. That's a nasty location, almost third world.

Norfolk Virginia. Demographics: 47.1% White, 43.1% African American, about 6% Latino. Mayor is a Democrat, and has been mayor there since 1994. Tells me all I need to know.

51 posted on 05/01/2012 9:48:46 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Raebie
Rostami said the officer told them the attackers were "probably juveniles anyway. What are we going to do? Find their parents and tell them?"

That's OK, officer. Just go back to Dunkin' Donuts and finish your coffee. Just a few high spirited youts having some fun. It was an unprovoked attack and somebody could be in a coma or dead.

But no big deal. Probably couldn't find the parents anyway, and in any case they would do nothing. Nothing here to see. Just move on...

52 posted on 05/01/2012 9:54:17 AM PDT by Gritty (Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they want a war let it begin here-Capt. John Parker, Lexington)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MrB
They look “liberal”.

And therefore prior to this incident would have been positively OUTRAGED at the suggestion that they should never be in an area where white folks would be a minority after dark. Perhaps they are dumb enough to still hold this viewpoint. It's unlikely that a left-wing rag like that would have hired people known to be NRA members.

53 posted on 05/01/2012 9:55:44 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: ArrogantBustard
I first came to Norfolk back in 1979, when I was in the Navy. One of the areas we were told to stay away from? Church Street. Church and Brambleton is in the “projects” and incidentally the location of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial.

So a rock was thrown through the car window? 100 kids around?

He should have floored it and got the hell out of there. He shouldn't have been there in the first place.

There are a few areas of Norfolk into which I don't venture. This is one, and Park Place is another, along with the area known as the “Texas” streets.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

54 posted on 05/01/2012 10:33:48 AM PDT by fredhead (It's my Herbie year...check out the number on the side of the famous VW.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Raebie

.... a crowd of at least 100 ‘young people ‘


55 posted on 05/01/2012 10:57:26 AM PDT by traumer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PapaBear3625

I’d love to hear the excuses they were making for their attackers after they got out of the hospital.


56 posted on 05/01/2012 11:07:22 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: PapaBear3625

There’s probably a “threshold” after which it would just be best to stay out of the area/City...

For example,
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho - safe
Atlanta, Ga - not


57 posted on 05/01/2012 11:15:20 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Raebie

All to get Obama elected! Thank you MSM for putting black/white relations back to the 1950s-— only in reverse. Look to see whites hanging from lamp posts soon.


58 posted on 05/01/2012 11:25:07 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Shannon

From what I’ve read the two were liberals. He was probably going to get out of the car and talk to them and tell them he understands their pain but he’s one of their supporters so they shouldn’t throw rocks at his car. And he still can’t understand why he got the snot beat out of him.

The same thing will happen when some muslim has a sword at the throat of a liberal and the liberal will say “But I was against the war on terror. I believe..........ouch!”


59 posted on 05/01/2012 11:51:09 AM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Forward the Light Brigade

Blame the both political parties support of Diversity, Illegal Immi and Affirmative Action...you have no friends in DC or your local Statehouse!


60 posted on 05/01/2012 11:55:49 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-63 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson