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‘Good morning’ attack lands alleged assailant locked up
The Boston Herald ^ | 07/25/2023 | Flint McColgan

Posted on 07/25/2023 5:30:32 PM PDT by thegagline

The man accused of punching a woman no less than seven times in the face because she did not tell him “Good morning” has been found dangerous and will be detained for 120 days.

“When people say good morning to you, you should say ‘Hi,’ you crazy (expletive),” Ian Atkinson allegedly said to his alleged victim, a 59-year-old woman who at the time prosecutors say was watering her shrubs on Balsam Street in Dorchester after getting home from an overnight shift on July 13.

Atkinson, 33, of Dorchester, appeared Tuesday morning in municipal court in Dorchester for a dangerousness hearing. Judge Maureen Flaherty ordered Atkinson detained for 120 days.

Assistant District Attorney Michael Tomasini said Atkinson got out of his Mercedes sedan parked in the area of the alleged victim’s home, walked over and then, “unprovoked,” assaulted her as she was singing. The punches, according to a hospital report summarized by the prosecutor at the hearing, left her with a fractured nose, subconjunctival hemorrhage to her left eye and multiple contusions.

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Defense attorney John Hightower says that there was a “slight scuffle,” but insisted that the alleged victim in the case was the aggressor and that his client was simply defending himself.

Hightower said the woman walked up and started recording Atkinson and his car with her phone without his permission, which Hightower said is in violation of the state’s two-party consent wiretap law. Atkinson got out of his car and asked her to stop, according to Hightower, and then the woman sprayed him with her water hose and then bit him on his arm, to which Atkinson defended himself.

“When someone hits you seven times, breaks your nose, leaves multiple contusions, it can be hard to remember the one counter-blow you were able to land,” prosecutor Tomasini said.****

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: attack; black; crime; ianatkinson; johnhightower; racism; violence
But of course


1 posted on 07/25/2023 5:30:32 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Like Br’r Rabbit and the Tar Baby.

“Howdy do.....fine, how are you?”


2 posted on 07/25/2023 5:34:43 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: thegagline

This is what simps do. Don’t be a simp demanding recognition and approval from women and going nuts not getting it. They are just as bad as the women who go nuts not getting attention and praise and money from high value men.

If everyone just worked on themselves, the results for all of them would be so much better. Things with the oppsex would work themselves out as well.


3 posted on 07/25/2023 5:37:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: thegagline

Savage.


4 posted on 07/25/2023 5:37:33 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: thegagline
Ian Atkinson allegedly said to his alleged victim

They missed other opportunities to use the word “allegedly.”

5 posted on 07/25/2023 5:49:33 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: thegagline

This is probably why mutes and deaf people always get beat up.


6 posted on 07/25/2023 6:24:36 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: thegagline

UTTER SAVAGES


7 posted on 07/25/2023 6:49:15 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: thegagline

Pavement ape.


8 posted on 07/25/2023 6:50:25 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: thegagline

Figures it’s a damn canadian.


9 posted on 07/25/2023 7:26:36 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.)
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To: thegagline

Put the attorney in the psych ward with the feral animal. Then burn the Mercedes!!


10 posted on 07/25/2023 7:51:52 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: thegagline

He’s just a rabid dog that needs put down.


11 posted on 07/25/2023 8:18:58 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
This is what simps do. Don’t be a simp demanding recognition and approval from women and going nuts not getting it. They are just as bad as the women who go nuts not getting attention and praise and money from high value men.

"Ian Atkinson, 33, allegedly said to his alleged victim, a 59-year-old woman who [...]"

I really doubt that this bloody encounter had anything to do with seeking "approval" or "sexual attention."

Regards,

12 posted on 07/25/2023 10:51:28 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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