Mayor & Police: Delmar Beating Not A Hate Crime

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Mayor-Police-Delmar-Beating-Not-A-Hate-Crime/sZA4gRm-_kmh8Jx-OhV-ig.cspx ^

[chessplayer]

(MOBILE, Ala.) - It started with a game of basketball. Kids in the Delmar Drive neighborhood play almost every night, and Saturday their ball found its way into a yard down the street where Matthew Owens was staying.

Neighbors say Owens confronted the kids as they chased their ball.

"We said we're sorry," says David Dinkins, one of the kids playing. "He said 'get the F out of the yard!'"

Dinkins says that's when Owens started spewing racial slurs and pulled out two knives.

"It was like kitchen knives," Dinkins says. "They were long."

[OpusatFR]

So the kid who started this is giving his side of the story.

And I should believe him?

There is no excuse for this.

And if these people aren’t charged with lynching, there will be problems.

[rightly_dividing]

Mayor and police chief covering for their own people. Mobile is a hopeless city going down the tubes in an increasingly fast spiral.

Thank God we got out of there when we did.

[samtheman]

There is the General Rule of Hate Crime and the Special Rule of Hate Crime.

I’ll give you the Special Rule first:

A Hate Crime can only be committed by a member of a Bad Race against the member of a Good Race. The member of a Good Race can never be charged with a Hate Crime, under any circumstances.

And now, here’s the General Rule:

A Hate Crime can only be committed by a member of a More Preferred Group against the member of a Less Preferred Group. The member of a More Preferred Group can never be changed with a Hate Crime against a member of a Less Preferred Group.

I hope these two Rules clear things up for everyone on the subject of Hate Crimes.

[calex59]

"We said we're sorry," says David Dinkins, one of the kids playing. "He said 'get the F out of the yard!'" Dinkins says that's when Owens started spewing racial slurs and pulled out two knives. "It was like kitchen knives," Dinkins says. "They were long."

I don't believe this for a minute. TWO knives, not just A knife but TWO of them. Who in the he** carries two big kitchen knives around on them and how do you hide them and keep from stabbing yourself with them?

This is a BS story they cooked up after beating this guy half to death in order to convince everyone he is a racist cracker and needed to be killed.

[Col Freeper]

Dinkins says that's when Owens started spewing racial slurs and pulled out two knives. "It was like kitchen knives," Dinkins says. "They were long."

The kids ran off, but an angry group returned. Police haven't confirmed how many were in the crowd, but they beat Owens so bad he landed in the hospital.

Hmmmm, I wonder why Owens didn't try to defend himself with his two long knives? Did the police/medics/hospital find the knives on his body? Maybe one of the mob saw that they were finely crafted kitchen knives and took them home as a valuable addition to their kitchen?

Whisenhunt says police are often called to the house where Owens stays, and recently arrived with an ambulance.

I guess the reporter didn't feel it was necessary to verify this statement with the police and the ambulance company.

[Verginius Rufus]

If Owens did use the N word, it was stupid as well as wrong for him to do so talking to the kids, but I'm skeptical.

That gets trotted out all the time...like with Reginald Denny and Michael Westerman.

It's like Aesop's fable of the boy who cried wolf.