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91-year-old man beaten with brick, told 'go back to Mexico'
CNN ^ | Tue July 10, 2018 | Paul Vercammen

Posted on 07/10/2018 2:29:54 PM PDT by Mr.Unique

Tears glistened on the black and purple bruises covering 91-year-old Rodolfo Rodriguez's face as he described being attacked by a group of people while going for a walk on the Fourth of July.

"I can't walk anymore," Rodriguez said in Spanish. "I'm in so much pain."

He'll be turning 92 in September, Rodriguez said, and he's never been hurt like this before, in a life working the fields with cattle and corn.

He had traveled from Michoacan, Mexico, to visit his family in Willowbrook, California, a city in Los Angeles County, his grandson Erik Mendoza said.

He makes the trip about twice a year, and takes a walk through the neighborhood every day after lunch, Mendoza said. "Everyone in the neighborhood knows him already," he said.

Rodriguez said he was walking to a nearby park on Wednesday when he passed a woman and a little girl. Without warning, the woman assaulted him, he said, hitting him with a concrete block and enlisting a group of men to join in beating him.

"I didn't even bump into her kid," Rodriguez said. "I just passed her and she pushed me and she hit me until she was done."

Police are looking for "a female suspect and three to four male suspects" in the assault, the LA County Sheriff's Department said in a statement Monday night.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: 91yearsold; beaten; blacksuspect; brick; mexican; visitor
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To: Mr.Unique

Stereotypes rarely arise from thin air.


21 posted on 07/10/2018 3:00:45 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: GOPJ
Police are looking for "a female suspect and three to four male suspects" in the assault

So according to the outcry from liberals about Trump people, the police are looking for a bunch of Republican black perps. Good luck finding them in that section of LA County.

22 posted on 07/10/2018 3:03:34 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Mr.Unique

When I first heard this story, something told me the perp might be a black woman. The fact that the story does not mention her race is just another example of “fake news,” i.e., omitting a key fact to create an erroneous impression.


23 posted on 07/10/2018 3:11:09 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Mr.Unique

Do an image search.....

https://www.google.com/search?q=rodolfo+rodriguez,+los+angeles+attack&client=firefox-b-1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZzOr2xZXcAhUNzlMKHT8ED48Q_AUIDCgD&biw=1024&bih=669


24 posted on 07/10/2018 3:12:27 PM PDT by deport
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To: Mr.Unique

Holy hippopotamus!


25 posted on 07/10/2018 3:12:33 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Mr.Unique

Bookmark


26 posted on 07/10/2018 3:24:54 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: tje
Oh, come on now...

That's racist.

27 posted on 07/10/2018 3:32:43 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Mr.Unique

To attack an elderly person like that is to be responsible for their deaths even if they may seem to recover to a time. Loss of mobility and final decline are so often related.

The scum that attacked the man need to be charged with attempted murder at a minimum. As there are several of them throw in conspiracy to commit murder as well.


28 posted on 07/10/2018 3:41:59 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mr.Unique

Just Democrats blaming others for their own group’s misdeeds, nothing unusual.


29 posted on 07/10/2018 3:43:46 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mr.Unique

I knew it he minute I saw the headline


30 posted on 07/10/2018 3:50:17 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Mr.Unique

Jerk offs...


31 posted on 07/10/2018 4:16:48 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: deport

Poor guy.

That is terrible...


32 posted on 07/10/2018 4:18:21 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: HotHunt

Not when it’s true...


33 posted on 07/10/2018 4:42:46 PM PDT by tje
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To: Mr.Unique
I knew before you even posted the picture. I just knew.

Filthy coward was "disrespected". Too bad old fashioned justice is no longer in style. One of these days it's due for a comeback.
 

34 posted on 07/10/2018 4:53:52 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: tje
#6: "When race isn’t mentioned, it’s usually not a white person."

If the perp is white, that fact will make it into the lede. No race mentioned guarantees non-whites.
 

35 posted on 07/10/2018 5:07:49 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: MeganC

His go fund me page has over 200,000 already. They asked for 15,000. We are an awesome group of people overall.


36 posted on 07/10/2018 5:35:15 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Steve_Seattle
When I first heard this story, something told me the perp might be a black woman. The fact that the story does not mention her race is just another example of “fake news,” i.e., omitting a key fact to create an erroneous impression.

The story is from Willowbrook, so there was no need to mention the perp's race. Willowbrook is just south of Watts.

37 posted on 07/10/2018 6:11:43 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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