Posted on 07/15/2008 6:54:37 AM PDT by MplsSteve
The father of a 12-year-old girl who tried to keep a young man from groping his daughter at a popular Shakopee amusement park was seriously hurt late on July 4 after he was allegedly kicked and stomped by a group of men in an attack police called "brutal."
The attack on the unnamed man, which happened just outside Valleyfair Amusement Park, resulted in charges against at least six Twin Cities-area men. They were among several people the initial attacker called on his cell phone to summon them to join the assault.
The group beat up the father as his wife and daughter looked on, police said. The man was seriously injured and unconscious when police arrived.
"We see assaults, but that's brutal," Shakopee police Sgt. Jay Arras said.
Arras said the man and his family were leaving Valleyfair shortly before midnight on July 4 when a man "tried to grab the 12-year-old girl in a sexual manner" near the park exit, the father later told police.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Read the names of the suspects and I think you'll get a clearer picture of what happened.
Too bad this guy wasn't a CCW holder. There might be one or two less thugs on this planet.
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I guess everyone just stood around watched.
I’ll say. The guy needed a gun and he needed to blow away some of these scum. I would have if someone had done such a thing to any of my three daughters in their early or teen years...or now for that matter.
I would be like a rabid dog if some punk attacked one of my kids. But you’re correct, God created man, Smith & Wesson made them equal. I feel for the family.
What clearer picture? Three of them were named Evans...?
My guess is that they have multiple convictions already.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the rest have prior felonies as well.
Jessie, Al and the rest of the race hustlers who practice see, hear & speak no evil about black young people would be up in arms if Dad had shot one or two of them.
Seems ole Devondre Evans-Lewis had already been picked up in Dakota County, Minn on a prostitution bust.
http://services.co.dakota.mn.us/ComplaintSearch/complaint.aspx?ID=6610
My guess is they were Somali “youths” who did this. As they groped the girl in public and gang attacked her father and did so brutally.
Over the past several years the Gov has flooded Minnesota with these people. After what they did to our troops (as seen in Black Hawk Down) they have no business in America.
So it went down July 4th, and it’s news to the red star on the 11th
I have no description of the assailants. If they were above the 18 name them. If they were all below the age of 18 cite that
Maybe not then. They were home grown.
Wasn’t there also another attack on a motorist stuck in traffic while leaving the park?
People just stand around and watch because they’re too afraid of getting hurt, yes, but apparently it’s NOW a CIVIL RIGHT to grope and assualt someone.
Their names are listed in the article.
Bipedal mammals commit their litters to lives of crime when they give them names like Devondre, Darris, Derry, etc.. And we pussyfoot around the issue. CCW would’ve been great.
I am certain the main showed restraint when the slimeball grabbed his daughter.
I know if it were me he might not have been alive to call his friends
Hate to ask this, but was this a black-on-white crime or a black-on-black crime? The reason I’m asking is if it was the first one, then the mainstream media is either going to ignore it or find some way to excuse this behavior (probably by making it seem like the victim asked for it).
Valley Fair = Gun Free Zone
In this felony charge, Devondre Quamaine had back-up identified by initials TLA. It’s reasonable to surmise that it is the same Terry Arnold named in the Valley Fair assault charge.
What clearer picture? Three of them were named Evans...?
I have to admit that the names did not help much.
However, Googling the names yielded a hit that shows that one of the Evans, Anthony Gildersleeve and Terry Arnold were all black males with prior records:
Obviously Welshmen.
I didn't read the article, but I am assuming the perps are probably Lutheran farm kids from small town Minnesota.
/sarcasm
Well, there is a solution, but apparently Americans don’t have the stomach for it. This is clearly anti-social behavior, and anyone who was participating in it should be given the death penalty. It will serve as a deterrent at least for such blatant behavior (it is amazing they did this in full view of witnesses—that should scare the hell out of us all) and in addition, they will never EVER do it again.
My prayers for the family. What a brave Dad. Wish there were more like him and less like the attackers.
susie
We never know when one of these savages will be present so we carry. If that had been my daughter that savage would have become a bloodstain. let him call his other bloodstains.
I suppose it doesn’t help growing up having a name like Devondre Quemaine. Seriously, why would anyone name a child something like that?
I woulda thought Minneapolis unlike the Northeast and Dixie and basically everywhere else was fairly safe from black racism?
I guess not.
I bet this would have been unheard of 30 years ago. A group of black thugs beating a man down for protecting his daughter.
This what you get when society ALLOWS a segment of the culture to father children over and over for years and years with no daddys in the rearing.
Shrinks would probably say they were trying to beat their own daddy to death for abandoning them. (not making excuses)
We live in a culture where this sort of thing is celebrated. They probably got high fives all around in jail.
“Yo, main...we beat that old cracker MFer down good....”
I myself nearly had an incident like this at Opry Mills in Nashville 4 years ago with wife, daughters and infant in tow.
I had to lick my nuts...there was no choice. Too many to fight. Firearm not an option with family in the middle. Quick exit was all I had.
Savages....plain and simple. Just like Knoxville...and still the media gives it a pass and pasty little meterosexual boys at MTV still want to be like them.
What a country.
The punk wouldn’t have been able to make a phone call if he’d grabbed my daughter like that. Might not have shot him, but he’d have been the unconscious one laying on the ground first.
why did the wife just stand there?
that’s part of why i love my wife. to start, i’d have had to fight my wife for the right to beat the crap outta the guy for touching our daughter. then as more guys came up, she’d have been right next to me curb stomping them.
Another blessed gift of DIVERSITY & MULTI-CULTURALISM.
This story makes me nervous because I have 4 daughers. And to get beat down or even humiliated in front of your daughers and wife would almost be psychological torture, I think.
This man has bleeding on the brain! I hope they charge all of them with attempted murder, not just assault. And I hope they charge the first man that grabbed the little girl with sexual assault on a child. Why do I have a feeling they will plead out to some lame probation sentence.
There were at least six men jumping her husband, and she had her daughter there? What was she supposed to do, other than protect her child? Don't blame the victims of this barbaric act.
Our troops, although quite a few were lost, figured out how to handle them there in Somalia on that fateful day and sendt hundreds, probably thousands of them out of this world where they could not practise their violence on any more innocents. These six deserved the same.
God bless that father for portecting his daughter, would that he had been carrying when confronted by these aniumals.
is it? I haven’t been there in years.
too bad. guess I won’t be ever.
I know CCW sounds good and all but how are you going to shoot these thugs in a public place?
Plus ... you’ll be labeled a racist or worse for shooting at these poor youths who had a hard life.
I don’t know anymore.
Pardon my ignorance -- Does 'CAPRS' refer to a previous criminal record? I've never seen the term before.
that’s the exact attitude that guy this guy a beatdown, and gets people mugged, beaten and killed everyday. people don’t stand up and help to stop these actions.
so yes, absolutely she should have jumped in. she’s extremely lucky they didn’t turn on her next.
if she really wanted to protect, she should have either helped beatdown the thugs or at least high tailed it out of there while calling in help. standing and watching is inexcusable.
CAPRS Community Air Passenger Reporting System (European Union project to provide air passengers with carriers’ performance info)
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What is this, the movies? In real life, an unarmed woman is unlikely to be able to take on 6 violent thugs.
or at least high tailed it out of there while calling in help.
She may have been in shock- how many people are exposed to violence on a regular basis? Let alone, a group of thugs beating your husband nearly to death after he defends your young daugther from being molested? We don't know whether she had the ability to reach a phone.
Valleyfair was a beautiful park when it first opened in the 70s. It had a turn of the century theme, complete with ragtime music. It was clean, the food prices were reasonable and it was a good value.
I took my family there four years ago. The place was dirty, the food was horrible and way overpriced. The theme had been replaced with a rock-n-roll thrill ride park. The place was crawling with under-dressed teenagers groping each other in public, smoking, jumping lines, etc.
I would judge that Valleyfair has deliberately chosen to cater to teenagers rather than families. Valleyfair has created an environment where such an attack becomes more likely.
And then 'Devondre' how dey got caught!
Hey Jesse, these are the “nuts” you should be targeting...
I don’t think it’s healthy to go off on some CCW fantasy about blasting these people. It rarely turns out to happen that way. These type of incidents are increasing everywhere and nothing is being done.
Sure it feels good to sit here on the board and talk about how we all would have blasted them. It’s not reality though.
We need to stay focused on what is real and realize that criminal behavior is not being punished in this country in an effective way, “unless you defend yourself with a weapon” then you get the book thrown at you and you lose your life’s savings defending yourself.
The civlized are paralyzed. This is bad.
You’re reading way too much into this. These guys are a street gang. They are into prostitution, and likely selling drugs etc.. One of the gang members was challenged by someone who dared to stand up to him. The gang reacted as gangs do in these situations, with violence.
I would shoot them in public or private, and I would not care what others called me or thought of it as long as I was able to protect and save my own in such circumstances.
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