VIDEO
Posted on 06/20/2007 10:54:14 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
June 20, 2007, 12:30PM Angry crowd kills man riding in car that struck child
By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON Associated Press
AUSTIN — A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said today.
The man who was killed Tuesday night had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said. The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40, of Austin. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The beating began after the car struck the child as it entered an apartment complex's parking lot, said Commander Harold Piatt, who leads the department's homicide division.
The driver got out of the car to check on the 3- or 4-year-old girl and was confronted by several people, Piatt said. When they began to assault him, Morales got out of the car to help and was attacked as well.
The driver got away and is cooperating with investigators, police said. Piatt did not know how many witnesses had been identified but said anywhere from two to 20 people may have participated in the attack.
When police arrived, Morales was lying in the parking lot. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A preliminary autopsy listed blunt force trauma as the cause of death, and Piatt said no guns or knives were used.
Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a city-sponsored Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred, though Piatt said he did not know whether anyone involved had attended. The daylong party featured a parade, a motorcycle show, music, food and events for children.
Juneteenth marks the day Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in 1865 to share news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863.
“This is I’m sure what happened”
This is dangerous thinking, IMO. How can you be sure of what happened unless you were there?
...and/or Katrina refugees
Ebonic?
The two posts on top of each other like that made me giggle.
“Any bets this was Section 8 (Public) Housing?
...and/or Katrina refugees”
Many hard-working, *legal* citizens live in public housing, as are many Katrina refugees. We have always had poor people in our country, my grandparents included, and that has no bearing on what happened here.
There has to be 2 complete and separate MLK parades on the same day because 2 different Black groups can't come together to recognize the "great" civil rights leader.
“Blacks can’t even get along on Martin Luther King day here in the Houston area.”
Do all the whites in Houston get along on any given day? Do I hear a little bigotry going on?
It's not about poverty, it's about the gansta lifestyle.
“All the mob did here was import their culture and values into the US.”
Actually, we imported their ancestors about 300 years ago. We needed the cheap labor, doing backbreaking agricultural jobs that British colonists refused to do, dont’cha know....
>>Never trust people who attend “festivals”.<<
Yikes! My girls dance at them all the time. Both Slovak dance and Polish dance. We even danced at the Arab International Festival in Dearborn (talk about being out of place!)
Gee, we’re not so bad....
Sorry, forgot to add the following... :-)
Phew! Thanks, I was being to wonder about myself!
What’s the origin of the word, “Slave”, anyway? Does anybody know?
Sounds like they have a good handle on what happened
I lived in Austin and it’s segregated. East of I-35, also known as East Austin has many Blacks and Hispanics. Sometimes racial tensions break out between those two groups. Austin is liberal, the most in Texas.
this also happen in Milwaukee
Innocent Motorists Attacked After Juneteenth (Video link)
TMJ4 ^ | 20 June 07 | TMJ4 Staff
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853628/posts
I remember the Juneteenth in Cincinnati one year that
wouldn't allow unescorted juveniles. They cried a racist river.
From Dictionary.com:
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME sclave < ML sclavus (masc.), sclava (fem.) slave, special use of Sclavus Slav, so called because Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages; see Slav]
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