Posted on 05/23/2012 1:33:52 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A group of 18 people dressed in black, wearing masks, wielding steel batons and hammers and claiming to be extreme anti-racists allegedly stormed a suburban Chicago family restaurant in broad daylight to assault a meeting of alleged white supremacists, officials said.
Ten people were injured and at least three required treatment for head wounds as a result of the attack Saturday at the Ashford House Restaurant in Tinley Park, Ill., a quiet Chicago suburb. The restaurant sustained $15,000 in damages including broken plates, glasses and furniture.
"I've been mayor for 31 years," Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki tells ABC News, "and I've never heard of anything stranger than this."
Five of the attackers were caught and have now been charged with aggravated battery, mob action and criminal damage to property, all felonies. Brothers Jason, Cody and Dylan Sutherlin, along with Alex Stuck and John Tucker are all from Indiana. The men are connected to the Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (H.A.R.M.) whose website now claims them as "The Tinley Park 5?.
Meanwhile the targets of their attack were about a dozen members of the Illinois European Heritage Association...
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Two of these victims were also caught up in the police investigation following the incident: Steven Speers of North Dakota was arrested on an outstanding warrant for possession of child pornography and Francis Gilroy of Florida was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
A restaurant surveillance camera captured some of the melee on video and Zabrocki viewed it before it was turned over to prosecutors as evidence in the investigation.
"You see the door opens up, these 15, 18 people walk in. They've got hoods on, they've got masks on," Zabrocki said.
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Note that if these individuals DO turn out to be racists, I’m on your side, but let’s wait for the evidence.
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Read the article. Read the rest of this thread. The evidence is there.
In what way was the group “flaunting” their racism?
How do the events described in the article give the “racist” diners a “black eye” in the figurative sense?
According to reports the “racists” discreetly organized a gathering of like-minded people at a public restaurant. No one at the restaurant knew of their “white supremacist” ideas. The attacking fascists had previously learned of the meeting somehow and conspired and illegally attacked the “racist” diners, other diners, and the restaurant itself.
Why is anyone other than the attacking fascists in the wrong here?
In matters of the law “sympathy” is of very limited relevance.
The law is supposed to treat everyone equally.
That’s why the lady wears the blindfold as she holds the scales.
If we're going to start applauding this kind of thing to be consistent the standard should apply to ALL groups who self identify and associate by race.
That would include applauding a similar attack on a get together of your local MALDEF or NAACP chapter.
Your every post is more unhinged than the last. This is the commie evil metastasizing in your mind.
There is a reason you think that anyone who expects the law to afford equal protection to white racists is himself a white racist.
Do yourself, and civilization, a favor and figure out what that reason is.
Go back and re-read my comment. I expressed support for no one.
There’s a Lithuanian heritage camp of some sort just a few miles from me. I’m guessing they’re primarily white and deserving of a butt kickin too. LOL
Then there’s the Polish alliance in town.....
What’s next? Rocks through the Jews windows?
I smell an FBI setup. Time will surely tell.
Hold on there, tiger!
You are saying (on a conservative board dedicated to defending the Constitution) that if these people dining in the restaurant are shown to hold political ideas that you personally find abhorrent, then you support their being the target of a felonious gang assault?
Really?
That's the kind of Republic you think our founders fought and died for?
I used the word support in quotation marks. As in a /sarc tag. Or something.
“support”
I never meant to suggest that you supported SF. I’m sorry for being wrong and unclear.
And while I’m apologizing.... Upthread in a comment to you, I alluded to the anti white supremacy group that did the attacking as being black.
No basis for that. As far as I can tell - they too were white.
“...anti-racists allegedly stormed a suburban Chicago family restaurant in broad daylight to assault a meeting of alleged white supremacists, officials said.”
Is somebody trying to start a war by attacking people they think might counter attack?
Sometimes its the other way around. Recently some thugs from the English Defence League stormed a meeting of Socialist. The media won’t glorify the EDL like they do the anti racist.
http://m.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/seaham-man-jailed-after-english-defence-league-gang-stormed-socialist-meeting-1-4033146
I kinda assumed the attackers here were white. Something similar to this happened within the past couple of days & the attackers turned out to be OWS types, a very white outfit.
Do yourself, and civilization, a favor and figure out what that reason is.
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Why should I? You - in your ignorant racist little mind - have already figured out the reason.
So I’m still waiting for your rantity to explain that reason and to show your support of SF. Ping me when you post it.
mmm-kay?
My understanding is that everyone involved is white.
The fascistic leftist criminals you support, as well as their law-abiding victims to whom you wish illegal violence done.
You think OWS thugs would not attack a Freeper or TEA Party get-together just as readily, and as violently, as they did these guys?
Everybody on this thread, including you, knows that your support for violent criminality is indefensible.
The more you twist in the wind over it, the more you show yourself to be a person too small to simply admit that you made a mistake and shot your mouth off, saying stupid evil things in the process.
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