Posted on 08/02/2010 10:56:49 AM PDT by neverdem
The police on Staten Island were searching for three assailants Sunday in connection with the robbery and beating of a Mexican teenager a day earlier — the latest in a series of attacks on Mexican immigrants in Port Richmond that has spurred a heightened police presence and discussions among community leaders and residents on how to curb the rising violence.
The assault occurred about 2:30 a.m. on Saturday as the victim, a 17-year-old high school junior, whose name was not disclosed by the authorities, was returning home after working a late shift as a busboy at a restaurant in Manhattan, the police and neighborhood advocates said.
As he passed through the intersection of Castleton Avenue and Simonson Place — three blocks from the heart of the police buildup on Port Richmond Avenue, the neighborhood’s main commercial strip — a Hispanic man approached him and asked him a question, possibly to distract him, according to the police. Suddenly, two black men appeared and began punching the victim in the face and yelling anti-Mexican slurs, the police said. The three men stole $10 from the teenager and fled.
The victim was treated for lacerations at Richmond University Medical Center and released.
The police said Saturday’s attack was at least the 10th instance in the past four months in which assailants, mostly young black men, have assaulted Mexican immigrants walking in Port Richmond, which has seen the number of Mexican residents climb sharply over the past two decades.
The police say they are investigating the latest attack as a hate crime. They also treated the nine earlier cases as hate crimes, though in the three cases in which arrests have been made, grand jurors declined prosecutors’ requests to indict the suspects on hate-crime charges...
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Jungle boogie!
Maybe Obuttboy could negotiate an exchange program with the Mexican government?
And, on average, the lowest IQs...
Thanks for the ping!
Yes I was referring to the Rodney King Riot. I didn’t know that factoid until later.
It happened again on Saturday night in Brooklyn. A mob of 20 blacks bludgeoned a young native Brooklynite of Hispanic ancestry to death on 12th St. and 5th Avenue in Brooklyn.
His friend was stabbed numerous times and is hanging onto life at Lutheran Hospital.
Eyewitnesses said that blood was flowing in the streets of this upscale Park Slope neighborhood.
So far, none of the black thugs has been arrested.
Nice going, Bloomberg, for keeping your city free of violence.
Fire Ray Kelly—he’s incompetent and over-the-hill.
Unfortunate. However, those thugs understand something their “leaders” dont or don’t care about. Blacks are main loosers with illegal immigration and cheap labor.
Central and South Americans hate Mexicans because they defend their border so diligently and brutalize any from the south who dare to cross it. Ironic huh?
Port Richmond was stately at the beginning of the last century. It became industrialized with time and then became what it is now. My husband worked with attorneys whose parents had law offices there 70 years ago and can attest to the major decline of the area. Port Richmond was crappy 35 years ago when I moved to Staten Island and has declined even further.
and i bet just because they are black, they won’t be charged with a hate crime...
Just like if I walk in downtown Newark and am attacked, the police report would say that I was the victim of a robbery and that because I am white I was probably looking to buy drugs... that’s just the way it goes, no equality.
these hate crime laws are passed to target and profile the white male who are victims of political correctness gone awry.
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