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HOWLING MOB The four teenaged punks who chased an NYU student into the path of an oncoming car
New York Post ^ | 4-15-05

Posted on 04/15/2006 4:55:52 PM PDT by floridaobserver

The four teenaged punks who chased an NYU student into the path of an oncoming car looked and laughed as he lay on the street dying, a prosecutor revealed yesterday. "They didn't call for an ambulance. They didn't call for help. Rather, they stood on the street corner and laughed," prosecutor Joel Seidemann said of the 13- and 15-year-olds who chased Broderick John Hehman into traffic.

Hehman, 20, died four days later from his massive head injuries.

And the wolf-pack thugs, who allegedly laid in wait for their victim, could have even more to smile about now. Prosecutors lost their bid to try the teens as adults yesterday when their cases were transferred to Manhattan Family Court - where they face about half as much time behind bars if convicted of the top charge against them, felony murder.

Had they been tried as adults, the 15-year-olds would have faced nine years to life behind bars. Now, they face a maximum of five years in "restrictive placement," said Laurence Busching, head of the city Law Department's family court division.

If they're convicted of the lesser charges against them, including manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, they could get off with as little as 18 months in juvenile detention.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: broderickhehman; hatecrime; innercity; juveniles; population; uncivilized; whitevictim
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To: floridaobserver

For better or for worse, this is the way it works in the big city -- you prosecute with the charges on which you can get a conviction or satisfy the public with a plea deal.

What Federal Prosecutor is going to take that case to court? To get that low in your career you'd have to do something really bad, like give the Attorney General a wedgy or start impersonating Moe Howard in court.


41 posted on 04/15/2006 5:40:27 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: evilC

Damn, I hate it when people step on my punchline.


42 posted on 04/15/2006 5:41:26 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Javelina

Why do I suspect that the gang members were all African American?

It was three blacks and a Puerto Rican.

Not that it matters, but the Puerto Rican was black as well.


43 posted on 04/15/2006 5:41:42 PM PDT by floridaobserver
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To: pollyannaish

Those who think that race is not significant in a case like this do not know the law in New York State.If the crime is designated a bias crime then it is treated from day one differently than a non-bias crime by the police department and the courts.That is why the police department ridiculously labeled this an economic rather than a bias crime.


44 posted on 04/15/2006 5:43:12 PM PDT by ardara
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To: livius; durasell
But I have noticed that the management often lets them become hangouts,

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that our major metropolis has Popeye's. I grew up on the Gulf Coast (near New Orleans) where Popeye's started out. Livius is right; it was always a thug hangout, even back when I was in high school. There's a couple in Atlanta where I live now, but I don't recall seeing many when I lived in the Midwest or on the West Coast.
45 posted on 04/15/2006 5:44:59 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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To: floridaobserver

yeah, didn't you hear? The black little hoodlums only wanted his cell phone even though, they were chasing after him saying, "Let's get whitey".


46 posted on 04/15/2006 5:45:17 PM PDT by rambo316 (Social engineering does not work and never will.)
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To: rambo316

I guess this isn't a hate crime, but a love crime?


47 posted on 04/15/2006 5:46:29 PM PDT by floridaobserver
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To: Welsh Rabbit

Fast food is hit and miss in NYC. Some places are better than others. I know people who swear that the KFC on 14th is the best in the city.


48 posted on 04/15/2006 5:46:48 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Past Your Eyes
New York isn't just a city.

Its a socialist hell hole filled with peverts, thieves, and imbeciles who prey on each other and think they are superior to the rest of us.

They all deserve each other.

49 posted on 04/15/2006 5:49:04 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Past Your Eyes
How some of you people can live in a city...ANY city...is beyond my comprehension. I don't even want to live in a village.

All you hear out in the country are the horror stories, but NYC is one of the best places in the world to live and work in. Sure, nasty stuff happens, but dumb cruelty and sadism can be found all over the world; there it just gets more coverage.

50 posted on 04/15/2006 5:49:26 PM PDT by Zeroisanumber
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To: floridaobserver
The politically correct term you used "African American" is incorrect.

The correct term is "African or American"

51 posted on 04/15/2006 5:50:04 PM PDT by rageaholic
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To: livius
Remember the Wichita Massacre?

A notorious crime a few years back (virtually ignored, naturally, by the mainstream media) where two armed black men invaded a home, attacked the occupants (young white people), forced them to perform sex acts, raped the girls, took them all out to a field in the middle of the night, shot them execution-style, and then ran them over with a truck for good measure.

(More reasons for all law-abiding people to own firearms.)

The killers are serving life in prison for their disgusting crimes, but avoided hate crime prosecution because...because...uh...black men never commit hate crimes, right? Black people are never racist, right?

Actually, what really got me angry was the virtual media blackout on this incident in Wichita, not the lack of hate crime prosecution. I guess white people getting killed by blacks just isn't news, at least in the eyes of guilty white liberal journalists.

I believe the whole idea of "hate crimes" is stupid --- a crime is a crime, regardless of the criminal's racial views. "Hate crimes" were invented to hi-light white criminal/black victim crime --- not the far, far more prevalent black criminal/white victim crimes.

Bill Cosby got it right. Too much contemporary Black American culture, esp. in a lot of music, celebrates criminals, thuggery, and racism against whites. Years ago it was blues, jazz, and Motown. Now it's a death culture. And the new music really sucks...
52 posted on 04/15/2006 5:50:19 PM PDT by griffmorpho
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To: floridaobserver

I can remember just a couple of months ago when a kid named "Fat" Nick took a baseball fat to a black in his neighborhood and all the newspapers were calling it a racist act. I live in Upstate, NY but you want to know something? NYers are dopes.


53 posted on 04/15/2006 5:50:47 PM PDT by rambo316 (Social engineering does not work and never will.)
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To: Rome2000

Yes, but we have six or eight different versions of Ray's Pizza and three different Papaya Kings.


54 posted on 04/15/2006 5:51:28 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Zeroisanumber

True, New York is an amazing city. For the record, crime in NYC is at a thirty year low. .

We have murders here in Boca Raton too, by the way .. not too often, thank goodness.


55 posted on 04/15/2006 5:51:30 PM PDT by floridaobserver
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To: Past Your Eyes

Would love not to live in a city. The jobs just aren't in a small town unless you've lived there all your life or already have a profession.


56 posted on 04/15/2006 5:52:18 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: onyx
Soon New Yorkers will have to carry side arms.

4 x .45 cal ....4x 57 cents = $2.28 , which is more than the lives of these 4 punks are worth, but I would spend it in a heart beat.

57 posted on 04/15/2006 5:52:45 PM PDT by Candor7 (Into Liberal Flatulence Goes the Hope of the West)
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To: floridaobserver

But you must remember that N.Y.City's crime statistics are compiled by the same police department that said this case is not a bias-crime.


58 posted on 04/15/2006 5:57:26 PM PDT by ardara
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To: Candor7

What can be purchased for $2.28?
I don't understand. :)


59 posted on 04/15/2006 5:57:53 PM PDT by onyx (It's easier to indict a ham sandwich or Tom DeLay than it is to indict a Democrat.)
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To: durasell
I got a little tired of having guns pointed at me by doped up insane looking cops and doped up insane looking criminals.

My family must have had 30 cars stolen over a 10 year period.

Mot to mention all of the murders and robberies of my friends and relatives.

Lived in Miami since '94 where you don't need to be rich to legally arm yourself.

Anyone still living in NYC really is putting their families life in danger.

The city apparatchiks and the cops could care less about any of King Bloombergs subjects.

I'll trade Rays pizza for Reys pizza anyday.

60 posted on 04/15/2006 5:58:38 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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