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Alleged Attack Against 13-Year-Old Virginia Boy Caught on Tape
Fox News ^ | Monday, September 24, 2007 | Fox News

Posted on 09/24/2007 10:42:03 AM PDT by Rhinoceros

Edited on 09/24/2007 10:46:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Police in Norfolk, Va., are investigating whether an alleged attack against a 13-year-old boy that witnesses caught on tape Saturday was racially motivated, WAVY-TV reported Monday. The tape shows the victim, Damien O'Rourke, who is white, being violently beaten by a group of African American teenagers.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: animals; damienorourke; norfolk; race; racebaiting; racerelations; races; racial; racism; racist; racists
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I wonder if they'll march on Norfolk, next.
1 posted on 09/24/2007 10:42:05 AM PDT by Rhinoceros
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To: Rhinoceros
Gee, I wonder if racist, Sharpton or Jackson will show up to condemn this or were they the ones LAUGHING in the background?
2 posted on 09/24/2007 10:45:33 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Rhinoceros
"wonder if they'll march on Norfolk, next."

Some of the people on this thread seem to believe that that is in order.

Repaying pettiness for pettiness, guess.

3 posted on 09/24/2007 10:45:43 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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...are investigating whether an alleged attack against a 13-year-old boy...

The tape shows the victim, Damien O'Rourke, who is white, being violently beaten

That doesn't sound like an alleged attack to me, sounds like the kid got 'jumped'.

4 posted on 09/24/2007 10:46:30 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Rhinoceros
Damien O'Rourke, who is white, being violently beaten by a group of African American teenagers.

Hmmm. Why is it that the victim is "white" but the perps are "African-Americans"?

Why isn't the victim a "Caucasian-American"?

Or why aren't the perps "blacks"?

5 posted on 09/24/2007 10:46:37 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: nmh

nope, never happened - who you gonna believe, the tape or your lying eyes.


6 posted on 09/24/2007 10:47:03 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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We must make sure that the perpetrator of this horrible crime is prosecuted and imprisoned!

JAIL THE WHITE KID! </sarcasm>

7 posted on 09/24/2007 10:48:24 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Hillary for President? In the words of Bell Biv DeVoe: "Never trust a big butt and a smile!")
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To: edcoil

Oh, so they were just WELCOMING him into the neighborhood?

My eyes ... must need glasses ... the WHITE kid didn’t seem to be enjoying it or provoking it.

Guess it’s a crime ONLY if a black kids is hurt, by whites of course.


8 posted on 09/24/2007 10:48:50 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Rhinoceros

The most important question on my mind is “who shot the video?”


9 posted on 09/24/2007 10:49:13 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them, I won't chip away at them" -Mitt Romney)
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To: Rhinoceros

Definition of allege: To assert without or before proof.
Definition of attack: To set upon with violent force.

The tape shows an attack, about 5 boys beating and kicking one boy. To say “alleged attack” gives the impression that a) The boy who was attacked has no proof or b) it hasn’t been proven to be an attack. Even if the boy in some way provoked it (not saying that he did, just speaking hypothetically), he was still attacked. Five boys beating one boy, no matter what the reason, is an attack.


10 posted on 09/24/2007 10:49:29 AM PDT by keepitreal
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To: Smokin' Joe

We are going to wait a long time for leaders of the “White community” to go to Norfolk and lead a 10,000 white-person demonstration against this display of racism. Here is the rule: when white kids attack black kids, it is racism; when black kids attack white kids, it is youthful exuberance.


11 posted on 09/24/2007 10:51:41 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: Rhinoceros
They need a Rev. somthing for this march.

Try this guy.

He's just a windy as Rev. Al and Jessah.

12 posted on 09/24/2007 10:51:43 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Got Towel?)
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Ka-ching!

13 posted on 09/24/2007 10:52:08 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: keepitreal

Don’t yo mess wit nobody named “Damien” - he’ll put a spell on yo’!


14 posted on 09/24/2007 10:52:32 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken (Seldom right but never in doubt)
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To: Rhinoceros

I saw this on fox this morning. Didn’t look too “alleged” to me, looked pretty much like a real attack


15 posted on 09/24/2007 10:54:43 AM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (http://realitycheck.blogsome.com - and yes, yes, I'm a "FredHead". Fred Thompson for Prez.)
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To: Rhinoceros

I can’t wait to hear what Soledad or Sam Donaldson will have to say about THIS. I’m sure they’ll demand justice for the kid who was beaten. /sarcasm

(Their coverage on Jena has been absolutely SICKENING.)


16 posted on 09/24/2007 10:55:58 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Rhinoceros

What “alleged??” If it is caught on tape, there is no “alleged” about it. PC “news” dumbs down yet another perfectly useful word.


18 posted on 09/24/2007 10:56:31 AM PDT by redhead (Victory first; then peace)
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To: 3AngelaD

I know, I went through High School in Southern Maryland in the early ‘70s. It got a wee bit rough at times.


19 posted on 09/24/2007 10:56:36 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: keepitreal

I was brutally attacked in this manner when I was a junior in High School by a group of senior black thugs. I was part of a white minority in a majority black school and was tormented daily for being white. To add insult to injury a black vice-principal campaigned to have me expelled along with the attackers because she believed their ridiculous story that I purportedly caused the attack by calling them racial slurs. Fortunately the principal knew that aside from being a good student, I wouldn’t commit verbal suicide.

I learned a hard reality in High School that some folks only understand violence and can’t be reasoned with. That is one reason why I carry...


20 posted on 09/24/2007 11:00:19 AM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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