Posted on 04/16/2015 5:01:58 AM PDT by HomerBohn
For the second time in eight months, an unruly teen mob has been caught on video attacking a defenseless victim, stirring outrage in Memphis and beyond.
The first incident happened Sept. 6, when a large mob of teens ran through a parking lot outside the Kroger grocery store in Poplar Plaza. The mob assaulted at least three people in a brutal attack that attracted negative attention across the country after the cellphone video spread across social media.
The latest incident happened around 4:20 p.m. Friday at the BP convenience store at the corner of Poplar and Cleveland.
Orrden Williams, 35, stopped to use the store's ATM while his girlfriend and two boys -- 4 months and 2 years old -- waited in the Dodge Caliber parked outside.
Inside the store, an older woman said she was afraid to go outside after she noticed a "large gathering of juveniles" massing in the parking lot, according to the police report. Williams escorted the unidentified woman outside.
"I can't let no woman go out there and deal with that. They were jumping up and down in front of the car, throwing gang signs. They were going to do something," Williams said during an interview Tuesday.
As they approached the woman's SUV, Williams yelled to the crowd to back off. That seemed to enrage the mob, as several boys converged on Williams and the woman. She managed to get in her car as Williams continued yelling at the mob. That's when punches flew, with one boy striking Williams in the back of the head and another taking a wild swing.
"Once I got there, I told them, 'Really, y'all not gonna move? You gonna stay right here?' They acted offended, and that's when the guy came up and sucker-punched me," Williams said.
Williams conceded that he might have incited the crowd, but believes the youths were ready to react anyway.
"When you look at the video, you see them starting to creep up behind me. You see them starting to get in position and stuff. They had their mind set," he said. "But when I said something, that did kick it off."
After the first punches, Williams ducked and ran to the store as the mob -- moving almost like an angry flock of birds -- rapidly descended on the door.
However, store employee Munib Ahmed had locked the doors to keep the mob out. In the video, Williams can be seen pulling on the doors with no luck.
"He held the door so I couldn't come in," Williams said. "He was willing to watch me get beat to death for helping a woman get to her car."
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Ahmed, however, said it happened too fast for him to unlock the door.
"It was quick, maybe 10 seconds. How are you going to do that? He tried to get in, but it was locked. He got in his car," Ahmed said. "When everybody running to the store, we lock it up. When they come inside, they break the store."
Williams managed to reach the car, although the mob -- virtually all boys, although at least two girls can be seen in the video -- continued to assault him as he ran. As Williams' girlfriend backed up to flee, youths kicked and dented the car.
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Ahmed, however, said it happened too fast for him to unlock the door.
"It was quick, maybe 10 seconds. How are you going to do that? He tried to get in, but it was locked. He got in his car," Ahmed said. "When everybody running to the store, we lock it up. When they come inside, they break the store."
Williams managed to reach the car, although the mob -- virtually all boys, although at least two girls can be seen in the video -- continued to assault him as he ran. As Williams' girlfriend backed up to flee, youths kicked and dented the car.
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The mob then dispersed, although many of the teens can be seen laughing, looking at the recordings they made on their cellphones.
Williams told police the mob came from the nearby Northwest Prep Academy, an alternative school for students overage for their grade. Williams suffered several cuts and bruises to his left eye, his right chest and shoulder and his back. No arrests have been made.
"Because this incident occurred off-campus, (Memphis police) are handling the investigation. However, the district is cooperating with officers on their investigation," Shelby County Schools spokesman Christian Ross said.
This isn't the first time a teen mob has attacked someone at that convenience store. In 2011, two 16-year-olds, part of a large mob, were charged with assault and vandalism after they jumped a TV news cameraman who was filming in the parking lot. Mike Moore was hospitalized after the attack.
In last year's incident in the Kroger parking lot, 10 juveniles were ultimately charged. Eight of those admitted their involvement and were placed on diversion. Two other teens, whose records disqualified them from the program, were placed with the Department of Children's Services.
The only adult suspect in the attack, Raheem Richardson, 19, has been charged with aggravated riot and aggravated assault.
Pulling the wings off flies.
Around 80 or 90 percent of blacks who are victims of violence had perps who are black.
Exactly. Any and all *Situational Awareness* advantage he might have had is lost when the subhumans sneak up behind him and ready the beatdown, for helping the elderly lady and yelling at the punks. He’d be lucky to get a single shot off, at that point.
He’s black; very clear in the video.
Shouldn’t that be “ Northwest PERP Academy”?
Just a typo, I’m sure...
The man was attacked because he denied the mob of their white prey.
The left has intentionally molded these situations so that it’s de facto illegal to defend yourself with force.
+1.
Tie civil obedience to government assistance and see how that affects misbehavior.
Later
A karambit would have been effective....
I’ve been advocating that for years.
“...... The real mess is going to happen when Hispanics and blacks clash........”.
I think we need to bring back real “gladiato” games, put these animals in a large cage and let them do all the fighting they want, keep the “survivors” in rat cages and hold them for the next event. Hopefully they will all kill themselves. Useless society!
Then good versus evil. There will be negroes on the right side of the barriers who will fight alongside lighter colored Americans.
Defeat to the thugs beginning with Enemy Number One who will be holed up in the now disgraced White Hut.
Yes it would. Sure is a lot better than having nothing in-hand.
Lots of aspiring rappers in that mob.
One of our relief drivers was beaten up by six ‘yutes’. He was driving a route to a ‘last chance’ middle school and was assaulted by these ‘yutes’ because he was African. The ‘yutes’ were mostly all ‘First Nations’ yutes. The driver suffered a broken nose and black eyes. In reality, these ‘yutes’ should have been in juvenile custody, serving ‘at her Majesty’s leisure’. In fact, after their court appearances, some will be.
Thanks, I only watched one video and I’m at work so I can’t spend too much time on this.
If they had wanted to attack her, it's obvious that he couldn't have stopped them. So he denied them nothing. However, he did change their attention to him if she was indeed the focus of their attack.
Most American cities have gone to hell thanks to unrestrained feral street savages.
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