Posted on 05/05/2012 8:37:29 PM PDT by marktwain
A 16-year-old male has been arrested after a gang of black youths armed with rocks violently beat a white couple in an unprovoked attack.
Reporters Marjon Rostami and Dave Forster were waiting at a red light at the intersection of Brambleton Avenue and Church Street in Norfolk, Virginia, on April 14 when they were set upon by the 30-strong mob.
But the couple's ordeal was not reported by their employer, the Virginian-Pilot, for two weeks, sparking outrage among some readers who claim the newspaper buried the story for political reasons.
The arrested teen, whose name has not being released because of his age, has been charged with throwing a missile at a vehicle, as well as two counts of simple assault by mob, destruction of property and participation in a riot.
Rostami and Forster were driving back from a concert on the night of the attack when a teenager, who was part of a larger group, threw a rock at their stationary vehicle after reportedly witnessing Rostami lock her car door.
Forster got out of the car to confront the assailant, which is when ‘wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim,’ according to a column by Michelle Washington, which was the Virginian-Pilot's first report of the incident.
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The couple said that there were around 100 youths in the vicinity and 30 in close proximity to their car during the assault.
A day after the unprovoked attack, Forster scoured the internet to see if the incident had been reported, according to Washington's column.
But he was shocked by one Twitter post. 'I feel for the white man who got beat up at the light,' one person wrote. 'I don't,' added another. '(do it for trayvon martin)'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
You are right...and involving two REPORTERS, yet! I agree with anyone who says we are becoming more like a totalitarian state by the day!
Atthe time of the incident, Maurice Jones was the
publisher of the Virginian Pilot. He was nominated by Obama and recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be deputy secretary of HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Senate confirms Virginian-Pilot publisher for HUD post
The Virginian-Pilot
March 30, http://hamptonroads.com/2012/03/senate-confirms-virginianpilot-publisher-hud-post
I'll bring Springfield with me. Hopefully I won't have to use it.
This OP/ED was the first mention of the beating by the Virginian-Pilot newspaper....
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/05/beating-church-and-brambleton
Thanks to this article I think I’ve settled an ongoing debate with myself. I had been undecided on my concealed carry piece. I had been debating the merits of the Glock 19 vs 17. I’m going with the higher capacity 19. Feels better in my hand anyway. So what if it is slightly larger. If anyone notices, that’s just a message: don’t tread on me. A 19 with a spare magazine gives me 34 rounds. Think I’ll carry another spare magazine or two in the car too.
Too bad we have to wait for a Brit Paper to publish this news in order for us to see it...
“The chief says, “This is a vibrant city.” I think we all know what that means.”
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Here’s a guess:
Full of diversity, inclusiveness, and generations-long recipients of the trillions of dollars of reparations protection money, stolen by the government, from productive whites.
In fact, this is the explanation that is officially given, in so many words. By my recollection, in this particular case a police spokesman said that these crowds of kids gathered routinely and looked for trouble. Hence, the incident was unremarkable. In the case of the murdered British tourists similar official remarks were made. I.e. "They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time." Whaddaya gonna do?
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
Yep...I never stop at stop signs and red lights if,on the rare ocasions, I drive thru the “Darker” areas of town.Rolling stops is the order of the day.
But if I am in those parts, my Colt Commander is condition 1.
SOME places in Detroit, you do not want to stop for red lights, but use discretion because it is still illegal to run them.
Be aware of the surroundings.
Do make sure your doors are locked.
Chamberlain looks like a dyke. Does Virginia have a concealed carry law?
The resident doesn’t quite say it all. He still doesn’t ID the group responsible.
And for those who insist these events aren’t a group thing, this Norfolk example puts the lie to that. We are long overdue for a frank national discussion about urban black thug culture.
This has been getting coverage here in Hampton Roads. A first the Chief of Police said it was no big thing, just simple assault. When local TV news kept airing the story she changed it to simple assault by mob. She seems to be sticking to the “handful of people involved”. I thought one TV interview was telling, to paraphrase – the young black male said that they weren’t welcome in their neighborhoods so why should whites be welcome here?
If there were no black people liberals would have to invent them.
Kind of hard fighting them off with a feather duster, you bought it you own it, we can never allow them to do the same here..............
head shots ...
I can’t believe that the guy in the car actually got out to confront the mob. Just how naive and stupid is that?????????
Stupid can’t ever be fixed as this idiot clearly shows.
I’ll bet he was for gun control until this happened. No, on second thought, stupid can’t be fixed.
The ‘affirmative action’ police chief should be fired...she is an idiot.
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