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Attack of white woman by 9 black kids a possible hate crime [Baltimore}
Examiner ^ | 12/7/07 | AP

Posted on 12/08/2007 5:46:05 PM PST by freespirited

BALTIMORE - A white woman beaten by a group of black students on a bus has prompted a hate-crime investigation, attempts by transit officials to reassure riders of the safety of the system, and radio talk-show chatter over comparisons with the Jena Six case.

The uproar prompted two leading black politicians to issue statements decrying the attack.

Sarah Kreager, 26, suffered broken facial bones and other injuries after she was punched, kicked and dragged off the bus Tuesday afternoon. Kreager's companion, Troy Ellis, was also attacked, but not beaten as severely. Kreager has an unlisted phone number and attempts to reach her Friday were unsuccessful.

MTA police said evidence has not been found to support claims by the students' parents that the children were provoked.

"We are at this point investigating it as a hate crime," MTA spokeswoman Jawauna Greene said.

The attack immediately drew comparisons on talk radio and Internet blogs to the Jena, La. case in which a white student was attacked by a group of black students, leading to demontrations by black activists who alleged local authorities were prosecuting blacks more harshly than whites. Many callers and web site posters questioned what they considered a lack of outrage over the latest attacks.

But Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and Rep. Elijah Cummings, both black, issued statements condemning the attack.

"The physical assault of any human being, regardless of motivation, is conduct that is unacceptable. As police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime, we must rise together as a community to take a stand against violence toward any of our neighbors," Cummings said in statement issued Friday.

Dixon said after the attack that she was extremely concerned about the beating, which she described as "deplorable."

"I will not tolerate intimidation or violence anywhere in our city," the mayor said. "I have offered the MTA whatever assistance they need to investigate this incident and to do our part to ensure the public transportation system is safe for everyone."

MTA Northern District Capt. David Marzola said the middle school students, three females and six males 14 to 15 years old, are also accused of menacing an elderly white passenger and assaulting the bus operator, a black male who defended his passenger.

"He probably saved this gentleman's life," Marzola said.

The driver was not identified because he is considered a witness to a crime, the MTA said.

Video from a surveillance camera on the bus is also being analyzed as part of the investigation, the MTA said.

The students, who ride the bus to Robert Poole Middle School, have been released into the custody of their parents, Greene said.

Col. John Gavrilis, deputy chief of the MTA Police, said MTA Police have stationed an officer on the line since Tuesday and the city school police force has assigned extra officers to the Hampden school.

Greene said the nine students have had their bus privileges revoked.

"Riding the bus is a privilege," she said. "Public safety is our primary concern."

MTA officials noted the system is safe with a total of 381 crimes this year on the transit system, which carries 250,000 riders a day, with property crimes accounting for the vast majority.

However, the attack was the latest in a string of high-profile crimes to have taken place on or near MTA facilities.

Nicole Edwards, 17, was fatally stabbed near a Baltimore light rail station in November, 2006, during an armed robbery of Edwards and her brother. Lataye S. King, 17, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday in the case, and a 15-year-old co-defendant is to be sentenced in February for robbery conspiracy and aggravated assault.

In October, a twice-convicted rapist was accused of attacking a woman at a light rail station in Linthicum. And an MTA officer shot and killed a robbery suspect late last year at a Reisterstown Metro station after police said he pulled a gun.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 2obvious; baltimore; barbarians; diversity; doubleduh; duh; getwhitey; hatecrime; sarahkreager
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To: Old Sarge

“They realize they have reached critical mass, and they can prey upon The Man without fear of reprisal - all they have to do is play the race card and they walk.”
.....well they’ve certainly reached a critical mass in Baltimore City....majority black population, black mayor, black city council, black school board, black state’s attorney ect....that’s why nothing much will happen to these kids....


21 posted on 12/08/2007 6:11:26 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: freespirited
Kreager's companion, Troy Ellis, was also attacked, but not beaten as severely. Kreager has an unlisted phone number and attempts to reach her Friday were unsuccessful.

Troy is a "her?" This is what passes for reporting by the AP?

22 posted on 12/08/2007 6:13:13 PM PST by browardchad
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To: browardchad

Kreager is a female. Troy is a male.


23 posted on 12/08/2007 6:15:00 PM PST by i_dont_chat (Your choice if you take offense.)
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To: freespirited
I'm guessing that the "Die honky, die honky" aspect of the case might tip off the sharper investigators...

But I'm not going to bank on it...

24 posted on 12/08/2007 6:15:05 PM PST by gaijin
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To: i_dont_chat

What “race” is Troy? Does anyone know? The news article doesn’t say.


25 posted on 12/08/2007 6:19:50 PM PST by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: freespirited

Garbage raised by garbage raising garbage.

This is not going to stop until punks start eating teeth and lead with victims not fearing reprisals.


26 posted on 12/08/2007 6:20:38 PM PST by Eaker (If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
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To: traderrob6
"Possible"?!!! Ya think?! If this were 9 white men on a black woman this would not be a question. Jessie and Al Sharpton would be ALL OVER THE AIR blaming the white man for oppression, and CO2 and hillary clinton...all things evil.

It was a hate crime, pure and simple. There is nothing that woman did to justify what was done to her. NOTHING.

27 posted on 12/08/2007 6:21:35 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (THOMPSON '08)
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To: freespirited
Ugly situation. This takes me back a lot of years. I endured threats from groups of girls in the early 70's, long before diversity became so "correct". Even in those days, school officials were reluctant to assert authority over thuggish young people who relied on strength in numbers to threaten caucasian kids. It ranged from threats on the playing field to taunts, intimidation in the classroom, and sawed off shotguns in school. Girls with whom I sang in choir, and with whom I thought I was on good terms, would gang up mercilessly when the opportunity arose to intimidate individuals. It makes me angry all these years later . . . it was just plain wrong, and the administrators were so overcome with "correctness" that they permitted ongoing injustice to continue.

In some areas, little has changed, or certainly not for the better. Fortunately, in other communities, the situation has improved greatly. In our upper-middle class community, there are a great many inter-racial marriages and families. Our church is a pleasant mix of racial backgrounds, and people seem to have genuinely transcended many of the differences of the past. If all our communities could achieve this, America would indeed benefit greatly from its diversity. These hate-filled episodes are a sad reminder of the lowest behavior among us, whichever group initiates it.

28 posted on 12/08/2007 6:24:22 PM PST by Think free or die
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To: freespirited

29 posted on 12/08/2007 6:24:37 PM PST by Nachoman (My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
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To: STONEWALLS

Speaking of critical mass - in Charlotte, NC the sherrif resigned and the local Democrats had to ‘elect’ a new one. Instead of picking the current Deputy Sherrif who has been running the jail for years they chose a guy who ‘resigned’ from the police force right before the fired him for falsifying work records and who filed bankruptcy for 375k.

BTW the jail has a budget of over 100 billion and now it is going to be run by a guy who can’t balance his own check book. Oh yes, he was also charged with 3 speeding tickets in the last 6 months (2 have already been dismissed and you know the other one will be too) and he had sexual harassment or assault problems when he was a policeman.

However - he had one characteristic the local Democrats wanted. Guess what it was.


31 posted on 12/08/2007 6:26:34 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

And even if she did, so what? I’m tired of hearing how someone disrespecting someone else is license to attack them. These kids need thicker skins.
susie


32 posted on 12/08/2007 6:26:54 PM PST by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: freespirited

What happened to parents and their children.

They just keep getting sicker and sicker.


33 posted on 12/08/2007 6:26:59 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: laconic

No white person in Baltimore, even if they were a racist along the lines of David Duke, is stupid enough to do that.


34 posted on 12/08/2007 6:28:22 PM PST by RockinRight (Rumors of Fred Thompson's death have been greatly exaggerated.)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

Too bad Bernard Goetz hadn’t been on the bus. He would have had five dollars for each of them.


35 posted on 12/08/2007 6:28:25 PM PST by CASchack
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To: Tired of Taxes

I believe he also is white.


36 posted on 12/08/2007 6:29:12 PM PST by RockinRight (Rumors of Fred Thompson's death have been greatly exaggerated.)
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To: Nachoman

Not in gun-free Baltimore. Gun free means crime free, ya know.


37 posted on 12/08/2007 6:29:50 PM PST by RockinRight (Rumors of Fred Thompson's death have been greatly exaggerated.)
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To: ladyjane

“BTW the jail has a budget of over 100 billion...”

The budget for Charlotte’s jail is how much?


38 posted on 12/08/2007 6:30:51 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: Travis McGee; Eaker; Larry Lucido; Lurker

This commercial has been brought to you by the makers of high capacity magazines for handguns..........film at 11.

Stay Safe !


39 posted on 12/08/2007 6:31:45 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: browardchad

You missed a period.


40 posted on 12/08/2007 6:32:11 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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