Mob Of Men Attack, Rob Motorist POSTED: 2:56 pm EDT June 2, 2008

ClickOn Detroit ^ | 6/2/2008 | Unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

more than two dozen men wearing ball caps and baggy shorts spread out across the street and blocked traffic

Probably geriatric Caucasian WWII vets. /sarc

[verity]

Hang em on the brush guard baby!

The urban version is the "brush-em-aside" guard. ;-)

[hiredhand]

The urban version is the "brush-em-aside" guard. ;-)

Either way you look at it, the prospect of getting smacked with that thing is a very unpleasant thought indeed! :-) But I SERIOUSLY doubt that any number of gang bangers are going to stop it....ka-bump, ka-bump, ka-bump!

I'll bet Squantos has notches in his steering wheel. HA! :-)

[Darren McCarty]

Video of a similar attack in Mt Clemens.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Sorry guys, you were right, I was wrong. Perps were black, vic was white. Just saw the videos.

[Fundamentally Fair]

Sorry guys, you were right, I was wrong.

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.

[Jack Black]

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.

[Jack Black]

MOB BEATS PEOPLE ON TRAIN

[Altura Ct.]

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