Posted on 05/15/2012 6:31:30 AM PDT by eak3
Tampa, Florida -- Police want your help finding four men who teamed up to beat a young U.S. Army soldier in a South Tampa street.
It was an awful welcome to Tampa Bay for a young soldier. Police say the victim of a violent beating caught on camera is 24 years old and has lived in Tampa for less than a month.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtsp.com ...
Article: “The victim was not able to tell police much more: they’re all in their late teens to early 20’s. Two were black men with an average build, police said. One attacker was possibly Hispanic, also with an average build. The fourth man was also black, but with a heavier build.”
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody White and feel relieved.”
— Jesse Jackson
This is where “stand your ground” laws don’t mean sxit because they require one to defend against a threat and an action. If someone asks to borrow a dollar even at 3AM, that is not a threat until he sucker punches you, and then it’s too late. If you pull out a firearm in advance they will charge. Open carry might be a better option, but that might get you shot as an ambush.
When your car breaks down at 3A in a city you’re pretty much screwed. We’ve allowed this country to be turned into a third world nation with our immigration policies. Pat Buchanan is right on this.
Cabey and crew wanted to "BORROW" five dollars from Goetz.
'The victim was not able to tell police much more: they're all in their late teens to early 20's. Two were black men with an average build, police said. One attacker was possibly Hispanic, also with an average build. The fourth man was also black, but with a heavier build.'
If Obama had a son who needed to borrow a dollar, he’d look just like the group of men who assaulted and robbed the soldier.
They asked themselves “what would Trayvon do?”
Three of the perps were black and the fourth was possibly hispanic. Probably looked like he could have been Obama’s son.
Looks like we all have to become a Paul Kersey in this new patern of US Society? Are we better off today than we were 60 years ago? Where did we go wrong and can we go back and start over? I don,t see it happening.
Didn't they know the soldier was fighting for Obama?
—Upon capture these four should be put down like any other rabid animal!!!—
That is pretty much how I see it. I drove a bus for my church in the 890’s and 90’s and I saw some of the older kids as wild animals - They’d kill you for a dollar. I apply Ecclesiastes to them. Some are “natural man” only, and very dangerous to both themself and society. Barring a miracle from God, nothing - and I mean NOTHING - good will come from or of them.
Young black men, at night, wearing hoodies.
Noted.
I recommend the movie "Death Sentence" ... Paul Kersey on steriods (this is *not* your daddy's Kevin Bacon!)
Enough !
If that means some kinda war, so be it.
Below are the links to the articles regarding all of the black community and national leaders who have come out against Al Sharpton and other calls for violent revenge for Trayvon:
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Once again, in a situation like this, I would much prefer an appropriate knife, as the closing distance was too narrow for effective, unprepared gun use.
The soldier had bad luck (a car breakdown in a bad neighborhood), at a bad time of day (3am). But there are all sorts of good things in a car that would make great weapons. If nothing else, take the tire iron with you.
He knows no one there, so he has no reason to approach somebody, or for somebody to approach him. Unless he had been drinking, that alone should have been a tip off.
Then he allowed the stranger to close to within punching or kicking distance. If they try, then back step. This sends a strong signal of “back off”, so if they approach you again, they are definitely hostile.
By this time, situationally aware, I would have had my knife in hand, Hwa Rang Do style, with the blade concealed behind my forearm. He throws a punch, I back step then open a large artery in his arm.
A tire iron is even easier, but you know he is stupid if he tries to punch somebody with one in their hand.
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