Man shot three times [with BB gun] in street by racist gunman - for wearing Barack Obama T-shirt

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1070975/Man-shot-times-street-racist-gunman--wearing-Barack-Obama-T-shirt.html ^

[AUJenn]

A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.

Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend 'Believe'.

The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting 'I f***ing hate n*****s' and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.

[AUJenn]

I recall someone here on FR suggesting that a racial incident could be the tipping point in this election. Just thought this article was quite unusual, especially it being from the UK.

[mnehring]

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Robert Byrd when this happened?

[Centurion2000]

whoa ...

[BibChr]

So here’s a white guy saying the shooter should be tried and, if found guilty, hung promptly and publicly.

Next issue?

[Tax-chick]

Sounds like a fiction to me. After all, they have gun control in Britain, so there aren’t any guns or gun crime.

[Dallas59]

And what happens if Hussein looses...

[Yankee]

After all, they have gun control in Britain, so there aren’t any guns or gun crime.

Zacherley right.

Just like in DC.

[Blue Turtle]

I was verbally assaulted for having a McCain-Palin bumper sticker...

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Guns are not completely banned in Britain and a “gas-powered ball-bearing pistol” i.e. an air-pistol or BB gun, is an example of one that is perfectly legal to own...

[Yankee]

Concealed carry.

Proud owner of a Georgia Firearms License.

[mlocher]

Three shots at the guy. The gunman needs target practice.

[listenhillary]

Those racist Europeans. Good thing we don’t let them vote in our elections.

[Tax-chick]

I see. We don’t call that a “gun” around here.

[r9etb]

Blimey, mate... I thought he was wearin' a target.

[cowboyway]

Sounds like a fiction to me. After all, they have gun control in Britain, so there aren’t any guns or gun crime.

The article states that it is a 'ball bearing' gun, aka, BB or pellet.

BTW, what kind of last name is 'Egwuatu'?

Are there any people of anglo-saxon descent left in GB?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Yes well, as the victim’s wife said: “’If he had been carrying a real gun I would have been a widow. It is just ridiculous.”

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sounds more like a drug deal “gone bad” to me.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

UK shooting ping. Gee, gun control is really ‘great’.

[j. earl carter]

The attacker then fired the gas-powered ball-bearing pistol three times, hitting the civil servant in the face, hand and shoulder.

You had to read deep into the article to find out it was a BB gun.

Mr Egwuatu's wife, Angela, 35, said neither of them had experienced anything like it during their childhood in Nigeria.

Sounds like they should just move back to Nigeria, if the UK is so awful. I know I sure would like to move to Nigeria.(/sarc)

[Tax-chick]

I believe the article said the gentleman and his wife are Nigerian.

I don’t believe this story. I think it’s another attention-getting “hate” crime, like the Tawana Brawley “rape,” like the nooses and racist grafitti that college instructors and students were placing on their own doors until people caught on.