Posted on 07/12/2024 6:32:57 AM PDT by fwdude
A 63-year-old man was attacked by a group of more than a dozen teenagers on the Orange Line train in downtown Chicago on Monday night, he told FOX 32.
The victim, Michael Manning, a lifelong Chicagoan, said he was keeping to himself after a 12-hour workday and looking forward to getting home when the group targeted him.
"This was surreal. I think I was just so shocked. I think I kind of went numb," Manning said.
He recounted that it was after 11 p.m. when the group boarded the train at the LaSalle/Van Buren stop.
"I knew right away that this was not going to go well, no matter what I said or did," Manning said. "I stood up, and I’m 6’4", and I guess that was not a good move because I immediately got punched in the back of the head, which sent me forward into the group. They were like, ‘Oh, you're trying to start something with us!’ Then it was like I was literally running through a gauntlet of fists."
Manning said the group consisted of more than a dozen boys and girls.
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All of these teens could havew been Obama’s sons and daughters?
Concealed carry is now legal in Chicago. Just sayin.
If there is any good news at all from this story, it’s that it’s being reported by leftie site Yahoo. So I suppose they are slowly waking up.
It’s too little and too late, of course. Very bad times are ahead. At this point, it’s unavoidable.
There’s never a Mac-10 around when you need one....................
Bad times, indeed. But I have yet to see a robust, effective response.
Teens again.
Keep voting for pro-crime Democrats and this is what you get. He shouldn’t be shocked at all. This is the problem. People go on living their lives as if they are not going to be impacted by the chaos around them. Then when they are impacted, they are shocked.
Did you VOTE for DEMOCRATS, Michael?
Too bad he didn’t draw a fire arm and ventilate a few of them after he got off the train.
A lifelong Chicagoan? He should’ve known better. Easily. He was taking a chance, as he’d done before, his luck ran out. There’s no way I’d ride the El after say, 8 pm, and think I wasn’t a potential target. It can happen anytime of day, granted, but at night, the real parasites come out knowing there’s less chance of being confronted. As for cops on the CTA, uh, where are they? This has always been the case on these trains, going back decades, but much worse now given DA Crimesha’s “law enforcement” and the CPD’s force down 2,000 officers. Chicago is a dystopia more than ever.
Chicago mayor Johnson says that these youth act this way due to a failure of government spending on schools, housing, welfare etc. If only we spend a few trillion more, this poor man could ride the subway in peace.
Paging Bernhard Goetz.
Paging Bernie - Bernie Goetz. Please pick up the white courtesy phone and get your plane ticket to Chicago.
The vic would not even disclose the ethnicity of the group so he is not believable on anything else, he is a liberal. Afraid of being called a racist. If the thugs were White or Black that should have been disclosed one way or the other in the article.
I don't know at what age one is considered senior, maybe its varies from state to state.. But, I would assume an old guy would be allowed to use whatever means available to protect his own life....even a firearm. Yes.??
But I thought he said it was Nixon’s fault?
He knew right away. Why is that?
He is a “Lifelong Chicagoan” and he rides the train. He is not too smart. A brain surgeon he will never be.
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