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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on April 25, 2012, 10:53:48 AM
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Saving Hawaii
More on Matthew Owens beating - He did pull a knife on kids playing basketball.
Dang, I called that.
It started with a game of basketball. Kids in the Delmar Drive neighborhood play almost every night, and Saturday their ball found its way into a yard down the street where Matthew Owens was staying.
Neighbors say Owens confronted the kids as they chased their ball.
"We said we're sorry," says David Dinkins, one of the kids playing. "He said 'get the F out of the yard!'"
Dinkins says that's when Owens started spewing racial slurs and pulled out two knives.
"It was like kitchen knives," Dinkins says. "They were long."
The kids ran off, but an angry group returned. Police haven't confirmed how many were in the crowd, but they beat Owens so bad he landed in the hospital.
Not saying that the right response is to beat the man to the edge of death. You should call the police. But the rightwing's attempts to claim that this is a hate crime in response to Trayvon Martin are absolute bullshit. No, it's what parents do when jackass 40 year-olds pull knives on their kids.
http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Mayor-Police-Delmar-Beating-Not-A-Hate-Crime/sZA4gRm-_kmh8Jx-OhV-ig.cspx
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002607531
See we can't blame 0bama's kids for this the cracker deserved his beat down.
exboyfil
4. Charge the mob and charge Owens
let the justice system sort it out. You can't have people taking the law into their own hands like this (note to Zimmerman). The law needs to be applied consistently and fairly. The mob should have called the police.
I still think that not prosecuting those responsible for the Reginald Denny beating set a horrible precedent. Being in a mob is no excuse.
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Response to exboyfil (Reply #4)Wed Apr 25, 2012, 09:38 AM
obamanut2012
25. I think calling it a "mob" is framing this badly
It wasn't a "mob."
No it was the neighborhood welcoming committee, they just wanted to give him cakes and cookies. :whatever:
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Maybe he was in the kitchen cooking? Truthfully , after seeing the news reports of "Trayvon revenge" attacks on white people, maybe he was afraid to confront a group of black kids unarmed.
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"... their ball found its way into a yard down the street where Matthew Owens was staying...."
Was that his yard at his home where he lives, or was he merely "staying" there? Isn't "lived" still a good word?
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Was that his yard at his home where he lives, or was he merely "staying" there? Isn't "lived" still a good word?
It is corporeal-centric and discriminates against the dead/undead.
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If you are white or white hispanic and live near negroes have your 12 ga. close by.
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Maybe he was in the kitchen cooking? Truthfully , after seeing the news reports of "Trayvon revenge" attacks on white people, maybe he was afraid to confront a group of black kids unarmed.
Not that it matters, but where was this located, and why do I not see the race of those involved? They sure as hell couldn't wait to call a Hispanic man "white" in order to race bait the Blacks now could they?
I have no doubt the Zimmerman case, have ya noticed they call it the "Treyvon" case now, had a great deal to do with the short tempers in some of these neighborhoods.
If the man was in his yard, he had every right to carry any damned thing he wanted! If it were me, and somehow, I really doubt this guy came out to confront a crowd, it woulda been my .44 mag! Of course he could be a Demonrat, that would explain the stooooopidity.