Hundreds Attend Forum on Attack (Long Beach, CA Hate Crime)

The Long Beach Press-Telegram ^ | 11/16/06 | Tracy Manzer

[Yaelle]

Interesting about the attack in Las Vegas. On CSI, I believe they deliberately took race out of it by putting minorities in both the perp and victim groups, if I recall correctly?

Yes, we are a neighborhood bordered on north and south (and west somewhat as well) by gang-infested neighborhoods. And not all that far from Compton, either. Yet our neighborhood contains a private country club, and stately homes from all decades of the 20th century.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I grew up in SoCal and went through grade and high school in Palos Verdes. We used to spend a lot of time in Long Beach. Our church was in LB and of course there was the amusement park.... we used to go to the the beach in Torrance.

I also remember very clearly that not far away was very poor neighborhoods and The Projects public housing. A couple of years ago we had to go into California for an office Christmas gathering on the Queen Mary and driving through Harbor City and Wilmington areas I was struck by how little that area has changed over the years.

[IronJack]

But everyone is so afraid to start "a race war."

The animals that attacked these girls didn't seem too concerned about it ...

Are we so feeble that we can't handle knowing the truth?

Oh, we all KNOW the truth. It's just that the "leaders" we've appointed to represent us are afraid of SPEAKING it.

[John Lenin]

The local Lib rag The Press Telegram has run many articles on this incident, mostly on the back pages but when it first happened it was on the front page.

[montag813]

So far, police have arrested a dozen juveniles between the ages of 12 to 17 in connection with the beating.

I say send them all to Somalia.

[Question_Assumptions]

To be fair, according the article describing the attack, the Good Samaratan who waded in to the mob and saved the girl was black. Black Good Samaratans saves some people during the LA Riots, too. And some neighbors did say they called 911. Many blacks are simply as terrified of these thugs as white people are. And in many ways, the problem is the same problem that has allowed the thugs of the Muslim world to gain power and grow in numbers. When the good people back down, the thugs feel free to run wild.

[Larry Lucido]

wanted to know what could be done to avoid such crimes in the future.

[Yaelle]

The PT had two days of headline front page articles on the attack, Weds and Thurs of this week, I believe. A liberal rag, to be sure, but this is getting some attention.

[Bella_Bru]

Bixby Knolls is a nice area, but it borders on a really crappy area.