Posted on 06/05/2008 6:14:40 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
WARREN, Mich. -- Police said 20 to 30 men who brutally attacked and robbed a motorist Saturday night may also be responsible for several other violent crimes that took place the same day.
Four people were taken into custody for questioning after a motorist was beaten unconscious.
Police said the incident took place when Andy Kauffman, 29, and his wife, Angelina, were driving on North River Road when more than two dozen men wearing ball caps and baggy shorts spread out across the street and blocked traffic.
Kauffman tried to drive past them and someone threw a brick in his window. Kauffman stopped his car and got out to see what happened.
"At that point at least 12 of the subjects jumped on him, beating and kicking him several times to the point where he was unconscious," Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said. "A second man then got out of the car and also was attacked, but not nearly as bad as the first individual."
A short time later, police were called to a gas station nearby for a fight.
A man who was using the pay phone was beaten. He was not seriously injured, police said.
Police said there were several incidents within a few hours and they fear the same group of attackers was involved.
Anyone with information can call 586-469-5151.
more than two dozen men wearing ball caps and baggy shorts spread out across the street and blocked trafficProbably geriatric Caucasian WWII vets. /sarc
The urban version is the "brush-em-aside" guard. ;-)
Sorry guys, you were right, I was wrong. Perps were black, vic was white. Just saw the videos.
I just saw the video too. Suspicion confirmed.
I don't think this is a "you're wrong, we're right" kind of thing. I know it is very un-PC to say, but stereotypes come from somewhere. In the absence of true data, applying them can be helpful.
Here is a similar incident in Portland, OR yesterday. 17 person mob goes bad on the Max (mass transit train). No description given of the perps, but given the neighborhood I’m sure they wear baggy shorts.
Frank Beckman of Radio WJR 760 speaks with Sheriff Mark Hackel about the arrests in Mount Clemens
Frank asked:
Sheriff, all the kids in the video I saw are African-American. All of your victims are white. Is there evidence that this was somehow [attacks based on race]?
Hackel responds: “It’s a question that we are asking. … If it’s a hate crime and it happens to be a white person and the other people involved are African-Americans, we look at those things.”
Beckmann inquired as to whether or not there is a “law to charge them with some kind of hate crime,”
Hackel: “Well, that’s questionable. I don’t know if it applies to an unprotected class, and I don’t know if whites are part of that. I’m not sure.”
Beckmann was shocked to hear Hackel suggest that whites are not entitled to equal protection under the law. A taken aback Beckmann asked:
You mentioned ‘unprotected class.’ You mean white people are not protected by hate crime legislation?
Hackel answered that question by saying, “It doesn’t appear as such at this point and time that there is something that would qualify.
Interview here:
http://www.wjr.net/Article.asp?id=735759&spid=6525
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