Posted on 08/06/2013 8:13:46 AM PDT by kevcol
Police are investigating three possibly related attacks on people by teens on bikes in and around Edgewood Park.
The Independent reported Thursday on one such incident, which occurred around 5: 30 p.m. on Friday July 26 along the asphalt road that connects the parks duck pond to the skateboard rink. A 63-year-old jogger was partway along that road when, he said, four teens on bikes rode passed. One turned around, rolled a bike at him to knock him over, then knocked him down again when he got up. The teens proceeded to punch and kick him, breaking an arm and cutting open his forehead, before fleeing. They didnt seek to rob him.
On Friday, another Edgewood Park jogger related a similar incident to the Independent. Like the other jogger, he asked to remain anonymous.
This jogger had entered the park at Ella Grasso Boulevard and Chapel and started running down the hilly road toward the duck pond between 1:30 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, he said. Hes been running in the park for five years, he said; never before had he had a problem.
It was hot out; he had on shorts but no shirt. Four teens on bikes came zooming down the hill behind him, passing close to his body.
One of the teens held out his arm and struck the jogger on his neck. I could tell from the way the kid hit me and looked at me, he expected me to go down, the jogger said.
He didnt fall. The kids rode ahead. The jogger kept running and came upon them under the bridge below Edgewood Avenue.
Three of the kids, whom he described as between 13 and 15 years old, moved behind him. Hows your neck? they taunted him. Whats that on your neck? They had beat-up bikes, he said; two of the bikes were girls bikes.
The kid whod tried to clothesline him moments before stood in front of him. No one else was around. He had jeans and a black shirt. He was heavyset. He could have had a weapon. The jogger decided it wasnt smart to confront the kids, so he turned around and jogged back toward the pond. More people were there. The kids rode off and didnt bother him any more.
The jogger went home and called the cops. Three officers arrived at his home; one took a report.
Sgt. Al Vazquez, the police departments chief of detectives, said the department received a report about a third incident that occurred within the same time frame several blocks from the park, at Ella Grasso Boulevard and Derby Avenue. A witness called police to say that a group of teens on bikes had ridden past a man, knocked him to the ground, then started beating on him. The victim fled; he never contacted police. Nor did police find a report of a beating victim entering the hospital for treatment.
Vazuez said the incidents appear to be related. Detectives have no leads yet but are actively investigating the cases, he said. He asked anyone with information to call the detective division at 203-946-6304.
The incidents do not appear to have approached the magnitude of the recent bloodying of a New Haven Power Sports technician on Goffe Street.
New Haven is 83% white and only 1% black.
This isnt Georgia, they dont have racial problems in New Haven. These kids must have been disguised as black kids.
Northern blacks are so much more peaceful and law abiding in North Eastern towns. They have no racial bias.
To hell it is.Whites are. Minority in New Haven and have been since the eighties.The only areas where you’ll find a predominantly white population are areas along the east shore and areas abutting The Yale University Campus.
The Majority of whites have fled New Haven for the safer,more Civilised suburbs.
I Know because I unfortunately lived there my entire life untill I fled in 1980.
What do you call muggers on bikes: Modern day skeet.
PERFECT!!!!!
Ted Nugent in 2016
Those gol-durned “teens”! I sure wish Wally Cleaver and Richie Cunningham would quit with the hijinx already.
I was slow to catch on. This is the only description any of the victims was able to provide police. Oh yea, they were also able to describe the bikes they road. But we don't know the RACE of the perps. All the victims were color blind. At least we can be sure none of the victims were racists.
It's odd now that by omission, the press announces "that which must no be mentioned". Otherwise folks might start to stereotype.
I bet Oprah would call them all Emmett Till.
This took 11 days to hit the news???
This administration is totally out of control.
When they are captured, they should be tied to trees and whipped to nothing but mindlessly screaming lumps of ripped flesh.
Fled???? Fled ?????
You mean white people in Yankee Connecticut have fled because of blacks??
Just doesn’t sound right after the Yankees toss out all of the racist allegations they can at Southern States.
You really mean they actually fled?
Fact is partner I have seen flights like this since the 50’s. And the liberals who shouted the loudest about the racism of other whites are generally the first to get their houses on the market.
Doesn’t change their liberalism though.
Sure they flee. They cannot stand what they push on others.
“What do you call muggers on bikes:”
Road Kill.
Year, but you can swing a lead-filled cane like a baseball bat,,, and with a lot of force.
What we are witnessing is actually guerilla warfare. Obama and Holder have encouraged this behavior every bit as much as the Soviets encouraged Che or Castro....And they are just gettng started.
Makes one wonder if they don’t make the connection between what they advocate and the results they want to flee, or if they see it and deny it.
One of these times a few of these punks are going to pick the wrong person, like the Bernard Goetz situation, and get themselves shot. Like the Goetz case, there will be a huge uproar, especially if it’s a white victim shooting young, black punks. As in the Goetz case, the lib media will naturally side with the black punks who were “just having a little fun” and “didn’t mean to cause real harm”, and “it’s certainly not a racial thing” and all the other bs words libs have used to excuse and cover up black crime for half a century. But I do hope innocent whites start taking more precautions. A few black punks shot heavily publicized might put the fear of God in many others.
Good cracker! Take your whoop-ass and run away. We likes dat.
Obama Jugend.
A lot of kids threw things at non-human objects when they were kids. I remember one time when I was about ten (I'm now 63) watching some friends throw rocks at a freight train. So I threw one and hit one of the freight cars. That actually scared me so bad (there were railroad detectives around), I ran home and never threw another rock at anything. So yes, many kids threw stuff at things we shouldn't have. But nobody ever threw a rock trying to hit another human being.
my cane has a sword in it.
Once I was groped by one of four boys on bicycles - I managed to grab another, knock him down, pin him under his bicycle - called them the foulest names in a raging guttural voice - wouldn’t let him up until they gave me their names.
The names turned out to be fake but those boys NEVER showed up in my woods again.
This was thirty years ago; they were white/Hispanic. In retrospect maybe I was foolish; they were all as big as me and it was in an isolated area. Maybe it would be more foolish today, especially against urban (black) boys who are more steeped in violence, more likely to be armed.
But - it felt good. It served the purpose. If more victims kicked ass there would be fewer victims. The police were worthless in my case. Stupid impulsive predators only learn from immediate consequences anyway.
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