A gang of black thugs attacked me in Landover, MD (near the Metro station) in 1996, beating me with baseball bats and kicking me repeatedly. They made no attempt to steal anything from me. The police who came to the scene, two out of three of whom were black, believed the attack was racial in motivation. I could not persuade either the Washington, D.C. papers or the Prince George's County papers to report the attack. I later learned that there had been a series of racial attacks on that Metro line in the preceding months -- as far as I know, they had not been reported either.
A gang of black thugs attacked me in Landover, MD (near the Metro station) in 1996, beating me with baseball bats and kicking me repeatedly. They made no attempt to steal anything from me. The police who came to the scene, two out of three of whom were black, believed the attack was racial in motivation. I could not persuade either the Washington, D.C. papers or the Prince George's County papers to report the attack. I later learned that there had been a series of racial attacks on that Metro line in the preceding months -- as far as I know, they had not been reported either.
I'm sorry to hear of your travails (both with the racist mob and the newspapers), but appreciate your telling about them. I hope you suffered no permanent injuries.
I suspect that if such non-fatal black-on-white and black-on-Asian attacks were all reported by the police (most are "disappeared"), they would run at several million per year in the U.S.
I use to work that area in the 70's and 80's. When Landover Mall was first built it was like the prototype mall with the latest and greatest. Then came mass transit and the onslaught of thugs and hoods.
It soon became unsafe to go anywhere near Landover Mall or for that fact, anywhere in the Landover area.
Be happy you escaped with your life...I am.
Dave