Posted on 10/19/2014 11:49:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The beatdowns took place during 3 and 4 AM on Saturday night.
The targets were random and attacked for no apparent reason.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
There have been 45 similar assaults near campus since October 1st. ABC7 reported:
The ABC7 I-Team is reporting a rash of random attacks near the University of Illinois flagship campus. A safety alert for students was posted after Champaign police say five students were jumped and beaten by a roving gang over the weekend.
One-by-one early Saturday morning, a gang of men attacked several people as they walked down streets near the U of I campus. For about an hour, the gang roamed a small section of Champaign and police say they targeted random victims, beating them to the ground, in what resembles a big city gang ritual.
The beat-downs took place between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Saturday, with five victims at four different locations near the U of I campus.
Even though it was overnight, the attacks took place on residential streets and there were witnesses.
Police say a group of six to eight men battered innocent victims as they walked on these streets. The targets were random and they were attacked for no apparent reason, according to police, thrown to ground and kicked in the head and body.
Some victims told police the attackers had jumped from vehicles; a cell phone was stolen. There were no life-threatening injuries, but three people were treated for facial wounds, cuts and bruises.
Is it just me or is the author just really, really desperate to try to label the attack random? The author hasn’t provided any description of the victims.
Were the victims all white?
Or was there a smattering of other skin tones?
“No apparent reason.”
Right. I’m stumped. Can’t think of any reasons why the “teens” would do this. None at all.
Is this in retaliation for what’s hapoening in Missouri? Just a thought. U of I may be keeping it quiet due to heavy recruiting for basketball right now.
If this was retaliation- would be front and center every 24/7.
I believe this will either be cowards doing a gang initiation ritual, or feral utes playing variation of knockout game.
If your gonna go on “random” attacks, Illinois is the kind of place where your victims are least likely to shoot you.
Yeah, funny you don’t see much of that down here in Texas, even though open carry of handguns is illegal.
Illinois has CCW now. Just saying. Lay a trap. Waste them.
No apparent reason? Pretty apparent to those who acknowlege what and who the problems are.
Life is hard in C Urbana, which doubt provoked this...???
I think it’s become a trend to target campuses and get goodies that way. I think this has happened on a few campuses around the country.
Not funny how you see 7-11s get knocked in Texas all the time. http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Texas-7-Eleven-Clerk-Helped-Plan-Robbery-Police-Say-277463111.html And fast food joints getting robbed, people put in a freezer and then killed.
Yeah, seems like it happens every freakin’ day.
http://www.kcbd.com/story/26222664/police-continue-search-for-7-eleven-robbery-suspect
Texas has a big population, therefore more murders. I’m for the Death Penalty but there definitely is a reason why it is being used fairly often with whatever carrying laws there are.
Hundreds of years and some still cannot be civilized.
Put the in a cage or put them down.
I never claimed there was no crime in Texas. Those robbery/killings were not the knockout game.
Why politicians and leftists don’t want Illinois citizens to have guns to defend themselves.
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