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American Idol Contestant Brutally Beaten By Gang Of Girls
PIX 11 ^ | 15 April 2011 | Mary Murphy

Posted on 04/16/2011 5:49:56 AM PDT by SkyPilot

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, N.Y. (PIX11)— Administrators at Brooklyn Academy High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant canceled Friday's talent show in the wake of a all-girl gang assault on one of the student contestants, PIX 11 has learned.

According to authorities, 17-year-old Shacara McLaurin was brutally attacked by at least five other students on April 1st, one of them hitting her in the face with a padlock wrapped in a sock.

"Yo, b--ch, I got a lock," one of the teen suspects allegedly shouted, as she pummeled McLaurin with the weapon.

"I wasn't able to open my jaw. I wasn't able to talk. I wasn't able to sing," the victim told the New York Daily News.

One of McLaurin's fellow classmates, Jacky Alcine, told PIX 11 he had heard McLaurin rehearse for the talent show and knew she was a favorite to win.

(Excerpt) Read more at wpix.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: americanidol; beaten; clintonlegacy; crime; gang; shacaramclaurin
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To: winner3000

:::released without bail.:::

And all 5 will melt back into the gang-land population, never showing for their trial date unless/until they get busted for something in the future.


41 posted on 04/16/2011 7:15:19 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: BigAl22

Fifty years ago. I am somewhat surprised to learn that, I thought the black family was for the most part in tact at that point.


42 posted on 04/16/2011 7:22:44 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: TSgt; All

Off topic,your homepage.
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43 posted on 04/16/2011 7:27:02 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: trapped_in_LA

>>This is a good example of what happens when there are no fathers taking an active role in raising children.<<

Dad is in detention locally, in a state lockup or a federal one. He doesn’t remember Mom. She was just some gal who picked him up, partied with him at the club, fed him a meal, slept with him and kicked him out on Monday.


44 posted on 04/16/2011 7:34:22 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
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To: Travis McGee
I knew an old timer who used to wear a Brooklyn Dodgers cap, which had 2 heavy lead sinkers pinned inside. I any of the local punks gave him any grief, he'd just doff his cap. And lately the “Hipsters” from Manhattan have discovered Bed Sty. Plenty of them are moving to Brooklyn.
45 posted on 04/16/2011 7:36:17 AM PDT by JimC214
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To: SkyPilot

Everyone’s a music critic these days.


46 posted on 04/16/2011 7:41:21 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: Travis McGee

Here’s one for your book.

A bunch of keys on a keyring and a necktie.


47 posted on 04/16/2011 7:47:17 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Bed_Zeppelin

This is exaclty right.

Meet my .44 magnum, locky.


48 posted on 04/16/2011 7:48:56 AM PDT by chris37 (awesome!)
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To: SkyPilot

Damned Tea Partiers no doubt.


49 posted on 04/16/2011 7:49:48 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SkyPilot

Future Obama voters....


50 posted on 04/16/2011 8:05:56 AM PDT by freebilly
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To: JimC214

Lots of sandstone homes in Bed Sty. I bet the Russians are buying them, gutting them and rebuilding them. NYC isn’t Detroit. There’s money to be made buying the ghetto homes. However there is the public safety factor to be considered.


51 posted on 04/16/2011 8:07:02 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (The storm clouds of war are on the horizon, 1939 is again approaching us.)
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To: freebilly
Future Obama voters....

Or recipients of our tax dollars through people like Obama and our congress.

52 posted on 04/16/2011 8:07:28 AM PDT by riri
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To: SkyPilot

Change.


53 posted on 04/16/2011 8:07:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When and why did Steve Dunham change his name to Barack Hussein Obama? When he converted to Islam?)
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To: Travis McGee
"In my new book, an improvised weapon is a big steel hex nut on a yard of paracord."

I very deliberately select my pants belts for flexibility and, dense, heavy buckles. They can make a hell of a weapon, with the added advantage that your knuckles get the added protection of one or two wraps of leather....

54 posted on 04/16/2011 8:11:40 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Travis McGee

I like those big ole cable ties. If your stealthy the zip is the last thing an enemy hears.


55 posted on 04/16/2011 8:25:35 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (Oligarchy...never vote for the Ivy League candidate.)
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To: TSgt

Sounds like the black version of “Lord of the Flies.”


56 posted on 04/16/2011 8:31:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SkyPilot

You know, the weakest characters get really tough when surrounded by other idiots. I bet that attacker could not stand alone.

This is exactly what the KKK did, gang up and put down others to make themselves big in the own minds.


57 posted on 04/16/2011 8:38:38 AM PDT by wizr (Keep the Faith! Even when it gets tough! Nothing else will do.)
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To: wizr

the = their


58 posted on 04/16/2011 8:40:40 AM PDT by wizr (Keep the Faith! Even when it gets tough! Nothing else will do.)
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To: Joann37
I think the point was that this young woman had very high aspirations in life and had a lot of talent, only to have thugs try to take her life.

ROTFLOL! No...that might be the point arrived at by some readers of the piece; but the 'journalist' deliberately used 'American Idol' in the title to troll for fans of the show...I'm sure there are many other young men and women who have 'very high aspirations in life' and are brutalized daily, but they are swept under the rug because they didn't try out for 'AI'.

We are talking about 'journalists' here...

59 posted on 04/16/2011 8:59:05 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: SkyPilot

Are you really a contestant if you once auditioned? Seems like an attempt to hype this story on the theory that some victims are more equal than others.


60 posted on 04/16/2011 9:03:03 AM PDT by newzjunkey (2009: Obama promised to cut Bush deficits in half. 2011: He's tripled them.)
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