No. This would have turned out exactly the same way if the driver were black.
If Zimmerman had just accepted his beat down, St. Trayvon may still be alive today (barring further risky violent episodes).
Did See BS only happen to know the race of the truck driver...and not the mob or the boy? Since they entered race into their headline?
CBS? No, not exactly, it’s a CBS affiliate station.
When I first saw the attribution, I nearly went into cardiac arrest. CBS actually reporting a racial-angle story?
The KKK has flooded the comments section there.
A group of men who’d beat someone else to death but couldn’t be bothered to keep him out of the road.
Savages.
Just ask Holder. He’ll tell you it’s impossible for a black man to be racist
Detroit - Where the Weak are Killed and Eaten.
Oddly enough, I’m not so sure. Post-accident driver beatdowns are almost unto themselves as far as crimes go. They usually require two elements: a sympathetic victim, and a driver perceived as driving recklessly.
But there are other, more subtle factors involved.
It doesn’t quite conform to the rules of vigilantism, such as a crowd reaction to a “hue and cry” of “stop thief!”, but it is close.
Importantly, the crowd must have an interventionist attitude, instead of either an “onlooker” or “not my problem” attitude; and this is less common. However, in this case, there might be a reason.
The chief of police in Detroit has told the public to arm themselves and enforce the law themselves. And this may have caused a sea change in public attitudes of late. While this beatdown was wrong, it may have been the first demonstration of a new public confidence in improving their own lives by fighting crime, or what they believe is crime.
It will be interesting to see what comes of this.
Seriously though, I would not be shocked to discover that the boy stepped out and got hit on purpose. I used to flip houses in the part of town that was 95% black. It was an almost daily occurrence that a 13-40 year-old male would step in front of my truck on the thoroughfare. It was a power play to make me stop. You could lay on the horn and they would never even look up. The only time they ever looked up was when they ID'd the driver before stepping out.
Detroit doesn’t need any help, but Obama has been stoking racial tensions throughout his whole term and has made it clear that the scales of justice are tilted toward those who act out against the “other.” Maybe they will burn down a neighborhood to celebrate.
Seriously? Maybe people who wonder if water is wet, or if ice is cold.
Actually it is not uncommon for this to happen to people regardless of race in that community.
“Mostly teenagers”
“They also stole his wallet.”
The press needs to stop dithering around as if each case of black ultra-violence can only be acknowledged if it meets the criteria of progressives.
Call it what it is - endemic black racial violence against white victims.
I'm sorry, but America is involved in some kind of undeclared, one-sided guerrilla war, and nothing will change until the victims fight back, and the powers that be are forced to admit the truth about what's going on.
The article references a video of the incident. If there is a link, I missed it. It would help the debate to see the actual video both of the accident and then the mob attempted murder.
Way back then, the southerners should have picked their own cotton. Slavery has resulted in unmitigated disasters, one after another after another. And more to come, I guarantee it: when the EBTs stop.
Also...the nurse that stepped into the fray to stop the beatdown...brave lady. She deserves an award.
Reason 1054 to stay out of Detroit.