Posted on 04/18/2010 5:19:03 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
A 59-year-old San Francisco man is not expected to survive injuries suffered Friday afternoon when he was punched in the face by a man who had been part of an earlier assault on the victim's son, police said. Authorities said the victim, Tiansheng Yu, was on life support at a hospital Saturday.
Yu was critically injured about 3:04 p.m. in the 1800 block of Telegraph Avenue just a few feet from the entrance to the Fox Theater. Police said that moments earlier, Yu and his 27-year-old son, whose name was not released, had parked their car in the 1700 block of Broadway, planning to visit a coin store.
Sgt. Mike Gantt said Saturday that as the son was walking to the store, two men confronted him — one of them punching him in the face without warning. Sgt. Gus Galindo said the attacker "did not say a word or make any threats. He just cold-cocked him."
The two men took off, and the son, his face badly bruised and swollen, told his father what had happened. Police said Yu and his son began looking for the men and found them at 18th Street and Telegraph. They confronted the suspects, and one of them punched Yu in the face, causing him to fall and strike his head on the pavement, rendering him unconscious and unresponsive, police said.
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Well maybe not then. Still it is unhelpful to use such language.
I have seen this, also, in NYC. A black bus driver harassing a black Dominican woman. A black subway cop harassing a black or PR vagrant. It happens every day in NY.
If a white bus driver or a white subway cop did this, they’d be toast ... with youtube video to prove it.
I agree racism just doesn't have a place in this world - it makes us all look ignorant. I agree with honesty, if one race is responsible for a disproportionate share of crime it needs to be called out and dealt with - preferably by leaders of that race. But racial epitaphs are counter productive, not fair to law abiding folks, and ignorant. I can assure you even if the press hides the race of a perp, law enforcement does not. If you listen to a scanner in San Francisco or Oakland you will hear the acronym YBM constantly - Young Black Male, or BMA for Black Male Adult.
They confronted the suspects, and one of them punched Yu in the face
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This was his worst mistake,,,
Never chase anybody while unarmed and on foot,,,
A car makes a good weapon...
Oakland is dangerous for anybody. Too bad California is going to reward the ex mayor of this failed social experiment, Jerry Brown, by electing him governor again.
Teen shot dead at his birthday party - girl held
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A teenage girl was arrested early Sunday in the fatal shooting of an Oakland man celebrating his 18th birthday at a party in the San Antonio neighborhood, police said.
Davante Riley, 18, was at a party in an apartment at 2257 East 20th St. when a fight erupted just after midnight and he was shot, police and neighbors said.
Paramedics transported Riley to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police arrested the girl at the party.
An Oakland homicide detective investigating the incident said it was neither gang-related nor accidental, but declined to offer further details.
Sucker-punching sudden attacks are entertainment for these goons - they videotape themselves doing it and post it on You-tube. Sometimes one does not have time to access the defense equalizer, because of the surprise element in the sucker-punch attacks. Here are some self defense tips from this website:
http://www.articlesbase.com/martial-arts-articles/self-defense-training-3-self-defense-tips-for-surviving-a-sudden-attack-2107991.html
Here are 3 self defense tips to add to your self defense training that will greatly increase your chances of escaping and surviving a sudden attack:
1. Train your body to “instinctively” and automatically go to a defensive position that will work to simultaneously control the distance, remove your vulnerable targets, and get your limbs between you and your attacker for shielding.
2. Practice stress-response drills that will reduce the natural time-lag that exists between stimulus and your brain recognizing the threat and need for action to deal with it. These self defense training drills act to condition the body to the adrenal response commonly known as “fight or flight.”
3. Condition yourself to stress-inducing experiences in order to learn to relax and focus under pressure. You cannot do something under pressure that is not within your natural make-up. In other words... You will act as you have trained! Just thinking about it, reading books, or watching videos is absolutely useless in a real self defense situation because you are trying to use one part of your brain to do something that comes from a very different part.
Never Forget The Most Important Self Defense Tip Of All:
If your self defense training does not account for and address what you will “feel,” “experience,” and “find” inside of a real situation, including defending yourself against sudden attacks, you may find that all of the time, effort, and money spent on training will have been for nothing!
Very sad. Self-defense classes and practices are a very good idea. My rule while living in Berkeley was: if you see a group of black guys standing near the sidewalk, then walk the other way. When my friend forgot the rule and then continued walking, he then got punched, then transported to the emergency room, and then the nurse said, “Gosh, not another victim from the same street corner!” It was like near Church and 21st in SF near the high school at 9pm.
Tian Sheng Yu was punched once in the mouth by an unknown assailant and fell to the ground, hitting his head, said his son, Jin Cheng Yu, 27, who witnessed the blow.
"It happened so fast," the younger Yu said Saturday afternoon in front of his home in San Francisco's Portola district, where he stood still wearing pants splattered with blood, his left eye badly swollen from the unprovoked blow. His father was listed in grave condition and was in intensive care at an Oakland hospital.
Jin Cheng Yu, a recent graduate of UC Davis, said that he and his father went to the 1800 block of Telegraph Avenue in Oakland around 3 p.m. to check out coins in a jewelry shop when the attack occurred.
Jin Cheng Yu poses with his parents at his 2008 graduation from UC Davis.
Both descriptions said “black”.
Some folks get tired of waiting for their monetary reparations and decide to collect them physically.
A clear signal is being sent from Washington which says, in essence, “it’s open season on whites” (as well as asians etc.) No surprise that the signal is heard loud and clear. Ever since Mugabe got elected - it’s Rhodesia all over again. Big surprise, huh?
more proof that bare fisted perps are indeed armed...only takes one lucky punch or unlucky fall to be critical...
It will only take one or two instances of vigorous self-defense to put these animals on their heels.
It won’t be long before a couple of these savages pick on the wrong guy and get sent to the morgue.
Nor would I.
It will get worse.
Not to me.
Yes, I realize that, and good for this newspaper. However it is still true that some papers do not do this. You are left to guess the race of the perpetrator like Russians trying to read between the lines of Pravda to figure out which politicians are in and out of favor.
I’m not asking for them to dwell on race with every story about a crime, but when wanted criminals are on the loose, it is madness to withhold a complete description out of a misguided, paternalistic sense of political correctness.
I misread your comment.
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