Racist mob puts Alabama man in hospital
Matthew Owens remains in critical condition following a beat-down by a mob of 20 adults and children in Mobile. Racist slurs were used, and reference made to the Trayvon Martin case.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 By Martin Barillas
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A racially-motivated mob beat a Mobile, Alabama, man so severely on the evening of April 21 that he is now in critical condition at an area hospital. Mobile police report that Matthew Owens spoke to some neighborhood children playing basketball in the middle of the street at 8:30 PM on Delmar Drive in Mobile. After the children left, a mob consisting mostly of adults returned, armed with chairs, pipes and paint cans.
According to local media, Owen’s sister Ashley Parker saw the mob attack her brother. “It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed,” said Parker. The victim’s sister described the mob as consisting of approximately 20 African-American adults who attacked Owens on the front porch of his house. Some of the assailants used brass knuckles in the beat-down, and “anything else they could get their hands on,” said Parker. Police say “multiple people” are involved. Owens is suffering from severe trauma to his head.
Another witness to the vicious beating, who wishes to remain anonymous, described the onset of the assault on Owens. “I just kept hearing him screaming, ‘Man, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, man don’t do this,’ “ he recalled. According to the anonymous witness, when he heard his friend Owens at the door, he thought it was a joke. “Then I saw about 10 to 15 people from little kids and women with dresses to adult men, just flooding onto the property, surrounding the car, hollering and screaming,” he said. “And then I heard Matthew saying, ‘ I’m sorry, man, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’ And then, the next thing, before I could get to the door, because we have it all deadbolted and everything, and before I could get it open, I heard all the beating and banging.”
Tensions were already high in the Delmar Drive neighborhood because of disputes over children and youths using portable goals for playing basketball in the street. This is a practice that has been banned elsewhere in the U.S. The beating has left neighbors fearful of retribution. Owen’s friend who witnessed the beating said, “Oh, my God. ..He was laying on the ground full of blood. I mean, it was horrible. His head, everything. Blood was pouring from his head, both sides. And his whole body was drenched in blood.”
Reflecting the current climate of inter-ethnic tension in the United States, Parker alleged that one member of the mob said before walking away “Now that’s justice for Trayvon.” Trayvon Martin is the unarmed teenager police allege was shot and killed February 26 by George Zimmerman, who has been variously described in the media as ‘white’ or ‘Hispanic,’ in Samford, Florida. The Florida killing sparked multitudinous marches and flaming rhetoric from African-American political leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. President Barack Obama entered the fray when, expressing sorrow for the teen’s death, said of Trayvon Martin “He could have been my son.”
No suspects have been apprehended following the Mobile incident.
I really can see burnings and drive by shootings and....the authorities had better do something about this.
Another suggestion: Use your cell phone to take photos and videos of any assaults you witness.
These animals need to be caught, arrested, tried and executed. See, I can sound just like the Black Panthers. And how could they criticize my plan because it just mimics theirs....well except for the part where I put a bounty on the head of each of the thugs who beat this man.
“20 African-American adults who attacked Owens on the front porch of his house.”
Owens was on his own porch.
Nice job, President Healer.
“No suspects have been apprehended following the Mobile incident.”
And thanks to the “affirmative action” Mobile, AL Police Chief, none of “his” people will be apprehended, much less charged. Count on it. Matt Owens will just have to get used to it: equal justice does not apply to whites.