Posted on 07/12/2024 6:32:57 AM PDT by fwdude
A 63-year-old man was attacked by a group of more than a dozen teenagers on the Orange Line train in downtown Chicago on Monday night, he told FOX 32.
The victim, Michael Manning, a lifelong Chicagoan, said he was keeping to himself after a 12-hour workday and looking forward to getting home when the group targeted him.
"This was surreal. I think I was just so shocked. I think I kind of went numb," Manning said.
He recounted that it was after 11 p.m. when the group boarded the train at the LaSalle/Van Buren stop.
"I knew right away that this was not going to go well, no matter what I said or did," Manning said. "I stood up, and I’m 6’4", and I guess that was not a good move because I immediately got punched in the back of the head, which sent me forward into the group. They were like, ‘Oh, you're trying to start something with us!’ Then it was like I was literally running through a gauntlet of fists."
Manning said the group consisted of more than a dozen boys and girls.
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Too bad he didn’t draw a fire arm and ventilate a few of them after he got off the train.
He would have been charged with murder; though fists CAN be considered deadly weapons in certain people, fists vs guns surely would not be considered equal and defensible in Chicongo.
Yes, too bad.
I'm sure he would thrive in prison until he died of old age.
Looks like me after a basketball session with those 40–50-year-old kids! < /sarc >
You live in Chicago, it doesn’t matter how you vote, they can count your ballot differently.
Thomas Sowell says that up until the late 50s black families were proportionately more married and committed than white families. Involved and competent fathers teach sons to control themselves and daughters to value themselves. The US needs another Great Awakening.
OMG!!!!
Then maybe he should have drawn a broad sword and laid into these cowans and thugs?
Just lay down and die. That's the spirit!
This is the photo of what happened to him: it is grievous bodily harm, and it warrants deadly force in self defence with a dozen beating on one? You bet:
Love it!
Angry Amish?
This is Chicago. Probably a DEMOCRAT VOTER, lifelong and years beyond.
Guy probably votes Democrat if he lives in Chicago.
I've lived in Chicago for 33 years, minus a few years in Houston.
There's never been a free and fair election here that entire time.
Public employees coerced into making donations and doing campaign work on the clock, ballot stuffing, "walking around money" to pay for votes, huge payoffs to black preachers, etc., etc. There isn't a single aspect of corrupt elections that doesn't feature in Chicago.
I think he was alone in the car when the gang boarded. He would have hit no bystander.
Societies do not recover to their former states after such decay. The path of ra;id decadence is irreversible without a dictator. DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON’T.
That is the legal requirement in places like Chicago.
Thanks. I did not realize that. I strongly believe that self defense is a human right. By whatever means necessary.
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