Posted on 12/07/2007 6:51:44 AM PST by Moose4
Maryland Transit Administration Police said last night that they have found no evidence that the severe beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus this week was provoked and that they are investigating the attack as a possible racially motivated hate crime.
Nine middle school students have been charged as juveniles with aggravated assault and destruction of property in the Tuesday afternoon attack on a woman and her male companion on the No. 27 bus.
Police said yesterday that they have determined that there were two additional victims in the case - a third passenger and the bus operator who came to his assistance.
Investigators were examining video from a surveillance camera on the bus but had not completed their analysis.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Had I not tripped over a reference to this on Michelle Malkin's blog this morning, I wouldn't have known about this incident. Do you think if nine white kids had shattered a black woman's eyesocket and thrown her off a bus, that would be the case? Right.
One does not merely ride the bus into Baltimordor.
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I heard she used the N word and spat on the kids... still no excuse for violence. Assault charges should be pressed. Where is Al Sharphead?
Maybe she was wearing a Steelers jacket.
Surprisingly, it looks like the Bodymore, Murderland MTA is investigating the criminals and not the victims.
The “parents” are apparently defending the little thugs by claiming they were “provoked.” They say the woman spit or perhaps displayed a knife.
Why her doing so would constitute sufficient provocation to justify such an attack is left unsaid.
Apparently the parents aren’t too bright. What they should have claimed is that she used an “ethnic slur.” As we all know, that immediately justifies any and all response up to homicide.
Of course that’s what they’ll CLAIM in order to save their own sorry asses—immediate playing of the race card.
...Baltimore is NOT a safe city....it is a violent place to be avoided....
If she had displayed a knife, she should have used it. Those kids are animals. This is the perfect example of why concealed weapons are necessary.
Baltimore becomes D.C. more each say. Just the worst hellhole in a state which has been taken over by the lefties. I only go back to Maryland to visit family and even that scares me.
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Does anyone seriously believe that a young white woman got on a bus surrounded by a bunch of blacks in a large inner city and provoked a racial incident calling these kids “nigger”? I don’t think so. I think this is the Jena 6 all over again and that Halloween business out in Long Beach, Ca. where a teen age girl got her face bashed in with a skateboard.
“no evidence that the severe beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus this week was provoked and that they are investigating the attack as a possible racially motivated hate crime.”
This is very hard for the Baltimore SUN to swallow.
A white schoolgirl in New York either lost or nearly lost sight in one eye a couple of years ago after a black gang beat her up. The mainstream media buried the story.
“He probably saved this gentleman’s life”
OMG! Someone NOT the criminal scumbag thug was called “gentleman”!
I read that she tried to sit in several different seats and was told NO by these thugs. Finally, she took a seat despite being told not to sit there. And then it all began. I don’t know about the use of any epithets, but if someone were beating on me, some may well come out of my mouth.
Oh, wait, it was.
The real issue is that DC is gentrifying at a fast rate. The lower class folks who can’t afford to stay are being pushed into P.G. County inside the beltway, Southern Maryland, and north to Baltimore...
I’m suprised they didn’t claim the victims hung a up a noose.
‘Mayor Sheila Dixon released a statement saying she was “extremely concerned” about the attack.’
Yet a few weeks ago she went hook, line & sinker for the HOAX of a stupid DRAWING of a “threat” with some vague “noose” on it, and got all enraged about “racism” (you know what kind). In Baltimore, of all places.
Made by a black employee who wanted to cause trouble (because he knows the blacks WILL get all huffed up about it).
“Every once in a while somebody will make some racist remark but you run into that on the street,”
White guys shrug it off.
Baltimore is a cesspool and why any self respecting white person or middle class black person would live there is beyond me.
That's what one of the "youth's" mother says, LOL.
Like any sane person would take on a gang of 9 black teenagers on a bus.
It's so funny that while these racist punks commit their outrages they still try to blame it on whitey.
That’s middle school age in Baltimore? These aren’t kids, they’re full nearly full grown adults.
"I don't feel unsafe on the buses. I feel uncomfortable on the trippers," said Ed Cohen, president of the Transit Riders Action Council. "The general view of riders who ever happen to board one of those trippers is that they've boarded a rolling hellhole."
How likely is that?
If you read through this Sun article (basically they said no “child” brought up “n-word” or knife or spit when deposed; only “parents” who weren’t there) as well as this Examiner article and it’s RELATED” updates boxed within, you’ll see it’s pretty specious.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1089067~Students_beat_woman_on_city_bus__police_say.html
Incidentally, this was a whole big thread yesterday for the Examiner.
Bus Attack A Hate Crime Or Provoked By Victim?
Friday, December 07, 2007
WBAL Radio and The Associated Press
Maryland Transit Administration Police are investigating Tuesday’s attack aboard a Baltimore bus as a hate crime.
Twenty-six-year-old Sarah Kreager suffered broken facial bones and other injuries after she was punched, kicked and dragged off the bus by nine middle school students. A man with Kreager, Troy Ellis, was also beaten.
Kreager and Ellis are white and the students are black.
Transit police say they have found no evidence that the attack was provoked. They continue to examine video from a surveillance camera on the bus.
But some City middle school students are disputing the police version of this week’s assault of a woman on an MTA bus.
The Examiner is reporting that some Poole Middle School students who were on the Number 27 bus at around 3 on Tuesday say the 26-year-old woman started the fight and used the “N” word.
The students say the woman and her boyfriend started the fight that left the woman with broken bones in her left eye socket and other injuries to her head.
One of students who rides that bus says the woman used the “N” word and punched one of the students riding the bus.
But that flies in the face of what the woman told MTA police.
The students are charged with aggravated assault and destruction of property. Police say the teens could face additional charges. Police have identified two additional victims, a third passenger and the bus driver.
Too many around here - and they obviously never get beaten up.
The MTA said that there is no evidence that the victims did anything to provoke the attack- keep in mind that they not only attacked the white woman, but her white boyfriend and another elderly white passenger unrelated to the couple. When the black bus driver tried to break up the attack he too was assaulted.
Uh, they did, right away.
Yeah, don’t you hate it when they call these pieces of offal “gentleman.” I realize they’re using it generically, and apparently don’t even know what it means, but they should.
I think it is immoral and bad for society to repeat such rumors unless you have good reason to believe they are likely true. Do you have a link for this information?
ooops should have been a ?
I see they’re even spilling into Charles Co. Last election - DEMOCRAT!!!! The poison is spreading even more in our state! Used to be just Balto City, Monty Co and PG Co - that was enough to overrule the rest of the state. But now another old southern county has been taken over by welfare leftists!?
Bus Attack A Hate Crime Or Provoked By Victim?
Friday, December 07, 2007
WBAL Radio and The Associated Press
Maryland Transit Administration Police are investigating Tuesday’s attack aboard a Baltimore bus as a hate crime.
Twenty-six-year-old Sarah Kreager suffered broken facial bones and other injuries after she was punched, kicked and dragged off the bus by nine middle school students. A man with Kreager, Troy Ellis, was also beaten.
Kreager and Ellis are white and the students are black.
Transit police say they have found no evidence that the attack was provoked. They continue to examine video from a surveillance camera on the bus.
But some City middle school students are disputing the police version of this week’s assault of a woman on an MTA bus.
The Examiner is reporting that some Poole Middle School students who were on the Number 27 bus at around 3 on Tuesday say the 26-year-old woman started the fight and used the “N” word.
The students say the woman and her boyfriend started the fight that left the woman with broken bones in her left eye socket and other injuries to her head.
One of students who rides that bus says the woman used the “N” word and punched one of the students riding the bus.
But that flies in the face of what the woman told MTA police.
The students are charged with aggravated assault and destruction of property. Police say the teens could face additional charges. Police have identified two additional victims, a third passenger and the bus driver.
Sorry, hadn’t seen that.
See reply #2. I think the parents may be smarter than some of the people who will eventually post on this thread.
“Where is Al Sharphead?”
He and Jesse Jacka$$on are probably holding back until they find a way to turn this around and blame it on whitey.
My big issue is with the unspoken assumption that use of the “N-word” justifies a violent response. This has become quite accepted in our society. It’s wrong. The appropriate response to words you dislike is more words, not violence.
Baltimore is no better or worse than any big city. Some neighborhoods should be avoided...just like every other city. 800 block west 33rd street...I would not hesitate to go here. Right near Hopkins.
No, the age relative to the schooling just tells you the kind of delinquents they are.
...Baltimore is NOT a safe city....it is a violent place to be avoided....
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Chuckling a bit at the melodrama above.
Sorry - Baltimoron born and bred. Been here my whole life. Not to detract from the seriousness of this event (Ed Norris was all over this yesterday on his radio program), Baltimore is an extremely, major league dangerous city for those involved in the drug trade. Any look at the demographics and locations of the God awful number of murders that occur here can see that.
For those NOT involved in the drug trade as buyers or sellers, Baltimore is pretty much like any other big city. There are swaths of the city to be avoided, but there are a number of areas (Canton, Fells Point, Inner Harbor, Federal Hill, among others) that are really OK.
{Travel Brochure Mode OFF)
Can't you just imagine what it is like inside Poole school??
It happened again last week when I heard some other local scumbag crime story. Some idiot called the perp “gentleman”.
It POs me.
What’s really irritating is not that it’s used at all, but you NEVER hear that word used for other men in any other every-day discussion, on the street or on TV. But it’s sure common when talking about thugs!
You were on that other thread. Go to that Examiner article and look at its “related articles”.
It also flies in the face of anything resembling common sense.
What is the likelihood that a woman, even with a companion, would deliberately provoke a large group of teens in a situation where escape would be difficult at best? I'd say that it's vanishingly small.
Exactly. I heard about this more just this morning (that the oh-so-horrid “N-word” was thrown out) and have the same view. This justifies GANGING UP on someONE and beating the tar out of them?
Read the last sentence/quote of this very article for some insight into this whole idea.
I’m sick & tired of this being treated as the very worst crime you can ever do (oops, except maybe drawing a “noose”).
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