Thursday, July 31, 2014 6:24:40 AM · by markomalley · 37 replies
Bryan Eagle ^ | 7/30/2014 | Maggie Kiely
Posted on 08/20/2014 7:30:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It had seemed to the four clean-cut college freshman that night like a typical McDonald’s: spanking clean, well-lighted, and safe. It was in a good neighborhood too, right next to Texas A&M University in College Station – a campus known for its friendly atmosphere and official down-home greeting: “howdy”
Out on a double date, the two couples pulled into the parking lot of so-called “University McDonald’s” shortly after 2 a.m. that Sunday – and beheld a scene unlike anything portrayed in all those wholesome McDonald’s television commercials. Before them, hundreds of young black males were loitering about, some without shirts.
Other local residents — the more cynical and world-weary, both whites and most blacks — would have taken one look at the crowd and driven off, dismissing many of the young and posturing black males as thugs. But not them: innocent white kids from the suburbs. They presumed this was post-racial America — and that they were in an easy-going college town.
Twenty minutes later, two of them were dead.
Incredibly, the race of the assailants was scrubbed from local news coverage; and utterly missing from tersely written wire-service stories about a Brazos County jury’s whopping $27 million negligence verdict on July 30 against “University McDonald’s” – an outlet owned by the Oak Brook, Illinois-based fast-food giant. What the media considered unmentionable nevertheless loomed over a riveting seven-day trial, which came amid the growing phenomenon of black-on-white violence — unprovoked attacks on whites and black mob violence like the so-called “knock-out game.”
Chris Hamilton, lead lawyer of the small Dallas firm that humbled the corporate giant, was asked, during a phone interview, how many reporters had even bothered to inquire about the race of the assailants during the many interviews he gave.
“You’re the only one,” he replied.
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You, your wife, and your kids don't matter - you are expendable - sometimes your death is an annoyance to them, other times you are fodder in their crusade for social change.
Why do you tolerate it?
BFL
Yes, we are considered racist if we make judgements about people and situations.
We should use our instincts and situational awareness. If there is a place like that, with lots of guys just hanging out, don’t go in there. It is not racist to avoid potential danger.
Nothing good happens after midnight, and nothing good happens in a place with lots of guys just loitering and hanging around like that.
I still can’t believe that the McDonalds was held liable, especially in TX.
“You’re the only one,” he replied.
That's because the rest of us already knew the answer.
You mean the same Texas that let Travis County get away with a phony indictment of the state’s governor?
They expecting a moat and armed guards around the McDonald’s now?
Very marginal case, because the lawyer claims they were killed by the mob, whereas the DA presumably feels they died in the crash, which is why no murder charges were brought.
And one of the messages here and in Ferguson and in countless other unnamed locations is it is okay to kill the Whites and you will be hounded or worse for the rest of your life if you take action against minorities. The police are learning this lesson and Whites had better learn to protect themselves and avoid any location where there is a critical mass of those who would kill them for just what they are. As an aside, this McDonald’s location should have been put out of business permanently.
Bump
Didn’t fit the agenda!
Another message could be that if you are forced to defend yourself against one of the protected class, leave them where they lay, gather your shell casing and leave. Just saying.....
They were liable. There was a history of violence and police responses to that location.
A sensible owner/manager would have hired security to protect his employees AND customers.
McDonalds didn’t. See the link above to see what it cost them.
Are you kidding? Texas has some of the most lawyer friendly laws and courts in the country. People go out of their way to sue in Texas.
Hate crime, anyone?
A never-heard-of-it case.
Very similar to Howard Beach and Yusef Hawkins, only Hawkins wasn’t beaten as badly.
And every good liberal reporter remembers Howard Beach.
I just read the whole article. Apparently the black manager didn’t care too much about safety.
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