Posted on 10/01/2010 8:50:35 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
CHAMPAIGN – The number of reports of beatings to white men in Champaign appear to be coming in quicker than police can even process them.
Champaign detective Sgt. John Schweighart said police received three more reports since late Thursday night.
At 10:45 p.m. Thursday, a 36-year-old man was attacked by four black males, who first asked him for a cigarette, then punched his face and knocked him to the ground.
Mike Sola, 50, was attacked in the 1100 block of Crescent Drive about 9:30 p.m. Friday from behind by at least two black males as he left a high school football game.
And about 12:45 a.m. Saturday, a 20-year-old Rantoul man was attacked by two black men in the 700 block of South Sixth Street.
"They all appear to be random," Schweighart said. "On some occasions, the suspects say nothing and they just start to batter. The one on the 23rd, the victim was walking and one of the suspects asked him for cigarette. He told them he didn't have any and was struck from behind."
Schweighart said the similarities in the attacks and the race of the attackers and the victims tie the cases together. But it's clear the problem is spreading.
"Geographically, we can't even map this. It covers from one end of the city to the other," he said.
Police have stepped up patrols in the campus area to deter the attacks and were able to nip an attack in the bud in the 500 block of East Green Street on Sept. 18. But because they usually last only seconds, Schweighart said it's "happenstance" if police catch one in progress.
It was late August when police went public asking for help in catching the attackers, but a Jerseyville woman who contacted The News-Gazette after reading of recent attacks said her son was the victim of two similar attacks in 2008.
Joy Molloy, 58, said her 22-year-old son was walking with a friend in January 2008 on Daniel Street when he was attacked without provocation by several black men.
"They'd been drinking and some kids accosted them and literally beat him and left him for dead," Molloy said.
Her son was admitted to Carle's intensive care unit for bleeding in the brain, multiple broken bones in his face, a concussion and multiple cuts inside his mouth from being kicked. His friend thought when Molloy's son hit his head on the curb, the attackers may have thought he was dead and ran off.
Because he was 20 at the time, the hospital was not required to call his parents, but a nurse persuaded him to contact his mother. Arriving at the hospital, she said she asked her son if he was robbed but he didn't know for sure. She found his wallet in his pants with everything still in it.
"They did it just for fun," she said.
And after physically recovering, her son was attacked again in the summer of 2008, also while walking to his fraternity on Daniel.
"The second time they just punched him in the side of the face. He just kept going," Molloy said.
"It is absolutely not safe to walk the street. It has nothing to do with being by yourself. He was with someone else both times," she said. "Parents need to know this."
"It was so much easier when they were 4 or 5 years old and you could see them and know what they were doing," Molloy said.
Similar attacks on the 16th. St. Mall in Denver.
When caught thanks to a video of the beatings, the vermin was allowed to go free.
1) Concealed carry for everyone.
2) No penalty for shooting someone in self-denfese. Very liberal interpretation of "self defense".
It would bring back politeness.
But these are definitely NOT hate crimes.
In fact, I suspect the white men deserved it for any number of reasons.
Hickenloopers world...
The "asking for a cigarette" is part of the "Interview" stage, where the criminal gets close enough to "interview" you for the crime, sizing you up, seeing if you're prepared for the attack, etc.
This could really backfire on “the bruthas”. I can see it now, “I was afraid for my life, these 4 guys approached me just as the victims in the story I read in the paper this AM.”
Am I now prejudice against fire? Yes! Dam, I'm not stupid.
What political correctness is doing is trying to force us to ignore nature. They are trying to force us to ignore common sense.
What is obvious should be suppressed. We have to believe in some mythical fantasy land where Blacks are smart and Asians are stupid.
Yup. Looper wanted to put the homeless in Coors Field for the winter. The Rockies were not amused. He declared Denver a sanctuary city and is now denying that fact.
His restaurant hired an illegal with a criminal record who shot and killed a Denver police officer.
fight back people....show some gumption...
It didn’t work out real well for Bernhard Goetz.
Where’s Bernie “I have five dollars for each of you?” Goetz when you need him?
Therefore, I will vote Tancredo.
Maybe this is the civilian army Oboma was talking about. Wait until Oboma is losing his reelection in 2012. His army will make sure he stays in the White house whether he wins the election or not. A national "Crises" (created) would give Oboma all the power he needs.(ImANutJob didn't meet with the black panthers and black muslims for nothing. I see major funding going to these radical groups from Iran.)
Isn't it time the "uniter" president did something to stop the racial divide he's created? Why has he not said anything? Why does he remain silent on this issue? Could it be he actually likes it? Could it be he knows he needs it?
Gangs of blacks targeting white people for attack is no more and no less "random" than gangs of whites targeting blacks for attack. However, I'll bet "Detective" Schweighart would not classify a series of attacks in which lone black men were set upon by gangs of young white men as "random". In fact, I'd wager he would be looking for signs of activities by white supremecist groups in the area, and calling for a federal "hate crime" investigation.
But these are definitely NOT hate crimes.
In fact, I suspect the white men deserved it for any number of reasons.
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It’s called Social Justice.
Intimidation is all some people have.
Time to stand up against Black Ku Klux Klan racism like this. Need to rid politicans in both parties who ignore Black KKK violence on whites. That includes politicians in BOTH parties
0bama has emboldened black racists.
Don’t walk without packing heat.....
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