Posted on 02/15/2016 6:54:17 PM PST by drewh
A former Marine became the target of an alleged assault in a McDonald’s Friday night, as a crowd of youths cornered him and demanded he answer the question, “do you believe black lives matter?†Before knocking him unconscious and robbing him.
Christopher Marquez, a veteran of Iraq and recipient of the Bronze Star for valor, said he was dining at a McDonald’s in northwest D.C. when a group of black teenagers came up to him and allegedly began harassing him about the black lives matter movement. Marquez ignored them which prompted calls and shouts that he was a racist.
Marquez left the establishment after eating, but allegedly sustained a sudden blow to the back of his head outside the McDonald’s, which knocked him unconscious. When he woke up, his pants were ripped and wallet gone, which contained $400 in cash, three credit cards, his VA medical card, school identification, metro card and driver’s license.
“I remember this group of teens harassing me while I was eating, they surrounded my table and kept on asking me ‘Do you believe black lives matter,'†Marquez told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Then they started calling me a racist. I can’t recall if they were saying anything else to me at this moment because the blow to my head really screwed up my memory.â€
DeAnthony Mason, manager of the McDonald’s, reviewed security footage and told Marquez in a phone call Saturday that when he left the restaurant a teen with a white shirt struck him on the side of the head, knocking him unconscious. The other teens then converged on his incapacitated body, taking his belongings. The head blow Marquez sustained left his memory dazed, but Mason’s review of security footage helped him piece together what occurred.
Upon regaining consciousness, Marquez found a cab driver willing to drive him to his apartment across from American University, where he attends school. Workers in the lobby called the police on his behalf, who took him to George Washington Hospital where he was evaluated for several hours. Medical documents obtained by The DCNF show Marquez was treated for head trauma and an eye contusion.
Credit card transactions reviewed by The DCNF reveal that the assailants charged over $115 on his various credit cards at a liquor store, Five Guys and Walmart. Mason, the McDonald’s store manager told Marquez that police have been looking for the group of teens for a previous incident.
“I believe this was a hate crime and I was targeted because of my skin color,†Marquez told The DCNF. “Too many of these types of attacks have been happening against white people by members of the black community and the majority of the main stream media refuses to report on it.â€
Marquez served eight years active duty in the Marines between 2003 and 2011 in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Rifleman and Scout Sniper. He received the Bronze Star for valor during his first deployment after he carried the body of his slain team leader from combat following an ambush during the Battle of Fallujah.
“When I was in the Marine Corps, I served with people from many different backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, and races,†Marquez told The DCNF. “Like all Marines, I fought for the freedom of all Americans and not just one particular group.â€
Marquez was also involved in the infamous fire fight dubbed “Hell House†in Fallujah. He and a fellow Marine, Dane Shaffer, pulled out four Marines who were stuck in a house after an insurgent ambush. A picture taken of them pulling Sgt Maj Brad Kasal out of battle served as the inspiration for a famous war memorial of Iraq located in California, reports The Los Angeles Times. Marquez is pictured on the left side holding Kasal by his right arm.
(Sgt Maj Brad Kasal is carried to safety by lance corporals Chris Marquez and Dane Shaffer in Fallujah. Photo by Lucian Read – http://lucianread.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iraq-Fallujah/G0000_u3actIywZE/I0000q.ZB57TPMg8)
Officer Anthony Hector of the Metropolitan Police Department is currently investigating the alleged assault. The DCNF reached out to the MPD for comment but no further details could be provided at this time. Marquez described roughly 5 black assailants including one female, ages 16 to 21.
Marquez told The DCNF, “I really think this group of teens is dangerous and will do this type of thing again if they are not caught.â€
I look for more of this to happen as their window of opportunity begins to close on them.
And these men volunteered for this nothing but respect
Waiting for comments from the POTUS.
Chirp...chirp...chirp...
When a man (or woman) serves their country in a war zone, either in combat or support, they deserve better when they return home...
I wasn’t spit on when I returned from Vietnam (I wasn’t the most peaceful looking guy). But I was called names and given looks of hate and disgust.
Every time I see a serviceman or woman today, I thank them for their service and their patriotism.
I would implore that we all do this... it could brighten their day a little...
Maybe we need to start public square hangings again!
...(It) would be different, if Chris Mathews or Rachel Maddow or other white liberal members of the media, were subjected to such vicious beatings, such clearly racist attacks...
They could be at the wrong place , wrong time anywhere, anytime.
The irony here is that he fought for black lives, for all of our lives.
He should have called the police before he ever left the restaurant.
Teens. Sick of that word being thrown around for crooks, thugs and assualters.
Low rent piggish people? No. Animals.
I can’t stand it anymore-—it’s a friggin’ nightmare. And in case anyone still thinks there’s anything positive about this phrase, here’s proof that there isn’t. “BLM” used in this context, is the domestic version of “Allahu Akhbar!”
This is why McDonald’s sales are in the crapper.
......well, it explains why every thinking and working and voting American is so pissed off they are planning on voting for Trump..................right or wrong, we’ve all had it with the smooth talkers, the “experienced” politicians, the platitudes, the lies and the smiles...........!!
I’m tempted to use some abbreviated cusswords myself but I won’t.
It is coming to an end. You can sense it.
This won’t be tolerated in the next administration, and we can look for some tough law enforcement to come down hard on idiots like this.
The BML movement will probably see broad push-back next year.
It was the Tenleytown McDonalds in DC, a couple blocks down from Woodrow Wilson High.
People should recall a really bad incident on the DC Metro with kids from Wilson a few weeks back.
If you believe that white lives matter, stay out of a McDonalds after dark.
I think he has strong grounds for a lawsuit against McDonalds.
If there will be a race war, its coming between the Hispanics and Blacks.
When that happens one of the two will no longer be Democrats.
This crap has got to stop- NOW. Can’t carry in DC? Just for starters— let these punk a@@ gangers try this crap outside of DC. People are beginning to take action on their own. These people are going to find out how little their “lives” matter when they do this to other human beings. They will be targeted— a prediction.
This cannot go on— and this doesn’t serve the “narrative” of the socialists to have street gangs justifying their criminal behaviour as a “social awareness movement” as they attack a restaurant patron that matches their “color scheme” . They won’t be doing this much longer, and will get far more than they bargained for. A prediction.
“If there will be a race war, its coming between the Hispanics and Blacks.”
If there is, I’m betting on the HIspanics!
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