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St. Paul: Bystander brutally beaten after wandering into apparent gang fight
Twin Cities.com ^ | August 10, 2013 | Andy Greder and Tad Vezner

Posted on 08/12/2013 5:32:05 AM PDT by Uncle Chip

Four young males have been arrested after the senseless, brutal beating of a man on a late-night walk Sunday on St. Paul's East Side, police said Friday.

The victim, Ray Widstrand, 26, of St. Paul, reportedly was in critical condition at Regions Hospital with potentially fatal brain swelling....

"He's in the most difficult time right now, as far as swelling and cranial pressure. We're in that critical time," his father, Peter Widstrand, said.

According to the complaint, Widstrand was attacked when he tried to walk through a group of 30 to 50 juveniles and young adults fighting near Payne and Minnehaha avenues in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood about 11:30 p.m. Sunday.

"An innocent man was walking down the street and brutally attacked by a group of youth," said Sgt. Paul Paulos, a police spokesman. "He was out for a walk and decided to go through this group and was assaulted and knocked unconscious."

On Friday, Ramsey County prosecutors charged Issac Maiden, 19, of St. Paul with first-degree assault, first-degree aggravated robbery and crime committed for the benefit of a gang.....

Meanwhile, three juvenile males were arrested Friday, authorities said............

A witness said someone struck Widstrand in the head and knocked him to the ground ....

The second witness said the first person to hit Widstrand did it with a can in a sock.

The witness said a second man then hit and stomped on Widstrand. A third man removed his pants.

The witness said the man was hit and beaten for no reason.

When Widstrand went down, a "whole bunch of little East Side Boys" began to kick him, the complaint said.

When his pants were removed, they went through his pockets.

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1didntsearch; stpaul; widstrand
While this was going on Benjamin Crump was in the crime capitol of St Louis holding a rally against profiling black youths and the right of self defense, leading the crowd with cheers of:

"We Are Trayvon Martin"

1 posted on 08/12/2013 5:32:05 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Poor guy wandered into a Trayvon Martin convention.


2 posted on 08/12/2013 5:39:39 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Uncle Chip

This was an obviously racial crime yet not word mentioning the race of the criminals.


3 posted on 08/12/2013 5:47:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Liberals' first line of defense is emotion...the fall back position is specious reasoning.)
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"It's a tragic thing ...." said Ted Arbeiter, director of operations at Suburban Community Channels.

It's not a vicious criminal assault by feral thugs, it's a politically correct "tragic thing" like a car accident or house fire that just happens.

4 posted on 08/12/2013 5:47:57 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

“Apparent gang fight”, yet he is the only one beaten to a pulp.

In this huge gang fight, how many others went to the hospital?

The Russian people used to have to decode Pravda by what wasn’t said, now we are doing the same.


5 posted on 08/12/2013 5:49:08 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Please... don’t EVER wander near a pack of wild animals. They’ll turn their attention — and their claws and fangs — on you!


6 posted on 08/12/2013 5:54:15 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: ScottinVA
Please... don’t EVER wander near a pack of wild animals.

Are you saying that he should have "profiled" them and walked the other way???

7 posted on 08/12/2013 5:56:25 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Great.

St. Lunatics need no encouragement from that d-bag, the Knockout Game was coined here.


8 posted on 08/12/2013 6:02:28 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Uncle Chip; All

So if there were 51 people in the street and only the white guy gets beaten, that is profiling, is it not?

Where is obama? Where is Eric Holder?


9 posted on 08/12/2013 6:26:38 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Uncle Chip

He wandered into the group WHILE they were fighting? How stupid is he?


10 posted on 08/12/2013 6:29:39 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; All
He wandered into the group WHILE they were fighting? How stupid is he?

Doubt it. Does not pass the smell test.

TRANSLATION FROM THE MSM: He had it coming to him.
11 posted on 08/12/2013 6:32:02 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ScottinVA

“Please... don’t EVER wander near a pack of wild animals. They’ll turn their attention — and their claws and fangs — on you!”

I am in full agreement with you. I am so indcredibly sorry for this guy. I hope that he does recover fully.

But I have to think that he maybe didn’t use the best judgement by walking thru this fight. He could have backtracked or even attempted to walk around it. By showing up in the middle of the fight (IOW, a white guy amidst a bunch of urban Amish), it was like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

Just to be clear to those of you out there who are reading my post...in no way, shape or form am I saying this kid deserved to be beaten. He didn’t.

But by not removing himself from a potantially bad situation, he dramatically increased the odds of something happening to him.


12 posted on 08/12/2013 6:35:14 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: RoosterRedux

It was 31 Lutheran Johanssons fighting with 27 Catholic Svenssons! And the poor assaulted man reflected very little light.

You know without looking that up there in Minnesota that race crimes like this are beatings of black folks by white skinhead gangs.

0bambi tells us so.


13 posted on 08/12/2013 6:47:46 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Where's my pressure cooker backpack wmd ricin laced al qaeda terrorist BASSELOPE?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Stupid enough to move into an all black neighborhood and thinking things were just peachy.

This is a sad, sad case of “stupid white liberal meets reality.”

Too bad it probably cost him everything to learn that lesson.


14 posted on 08/12/2013 7:21:50 AM PDT by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: Uncle Chip

I’m sure Holder’s Justice department is looking into whether this young man’s civil rights were violated ......
crickets
Demonstrations by civil rights leaders?
More crickets
Angry editorials by civil rights edop writers like Leo Pitts and Charles Blow?
Even more crickets
The matter will be down the ol’ memory hole by the end of the day:
the victim is white and the perps are black.

Thanks for bringing us together Barry. You POS.


15 posted on 08/12/2013 7:55:05 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Uncle Chip

This shows what a mistake it was for our grandfathers to give up the right to automatic weapons. In a better world the article would be about 50 “youth” bodies left in the street after attacking an old man.


16 posted on 08/12/2013 8:13:32 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: ConradofMontferrat

I looked at a demographic map and that area is not majority black, maybe about 25-30% at most. It is actually very evenly divided between white, black, and Asian. The majority black areas are to the west of downtown. Still, there are enough to cause a problem. After all, in Portland and Seattle, whites are over 60% of the population and blacks are less than 10%. Yet black-on-white attacks are quite frequent in both places.


17 posted on 08/12/2013 10:33:57 AM PDT by hout8475
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To: RightOnTheBorder

This shows what a mistake it was for our grandfathers to give up the right to automatic weapons.

I would like to believe our grandfathers did no such thing. An out of control Congress who chose to ignore “shall not be infringed” passed unconstitutional law that should not be obeyed that placed a tax on Machine guns. In 1986 they compounded the issue by outlawing all machine guns manufactured after 1986. The populace now is outgunned by every bureaucratic agency known to man, and the available machine guns are old, worn out, obsolete, and a finite number that will only get smaller with time. It is by design and another step in control of the populace. When one considers that in the beginning, it was criminals killing criminals that got the Congressional panties in a twist, things would have been far better had they left well enough alone but noooo.


18 posted on 08/12/2013 8:02:30 PM PDT by wita
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19 posted on 08/12/2013 8:05:17 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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