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They thought I was easy pickins': Mayoral candidate beaten up by two teenage girls with a billy club
http://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 28 December 2013 | Ashley Collman

Posted on 12/28/2013 6:23:01 PM PST by BBell

A former Minneapolis, Minnesota mayoral candidate was mercilessly beaten up by two teenage girls after having his cellphone stolen at a Mall of America Starbucks.

Mark Andrew came in second to Betsy Hodges in the most competitive mayoral race Minneapolis has seen in a generation.

The former Hennepin County Commissioner had just hung up the phone and was in the middle of writing his New Year's resolutions Thursday evening when a young man came up and swiped his iPhone 4S off the cafe table.

'I was targeted because the phone was out and I'm 63 years old, and I'm sure they thought that I was easy pickins,' he told the Star Tribune.

Not one to sit ideally by while a wrong is committed, Andrew got up and chased after the man but was stopped by his two teenage girl friends.

'If somebody is gonna do that to me or somebody else, I'm not a bystander by nature I'll go in and fight,' he told CBS Minnesota.

The women, one of them armed with a billy club, didn't let Mr Andrew get away and mercilessly beat him over the head until he started bleeding profusely.

When Mr Andrew fought back, one of the women,18-year-old Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain from Brooklyn Park, gouged his face with her fingernails and said: 'I'm going to kill you! Let me go or I'm going to kill you'.

Mr Andrew says it took about five minutes for police to arrive and that hundreds of shoppers witnessed the incident, but no one intervened because 'they were too afraid' and he called that a 'sad commentary'.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: betsyhodges; easypickings; markandrew; minneapolis; minnesota; nogunspolicy
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To: ClearCase_guy

And GG the Fed ended up in the hog pen, and we all lived happily ever after.


21 posted on 12/28/2013 7:09:11 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: funfan

They remind me of the Nazi brown shirts who would publicly beat people. I hope people start getting over the shock and start fighting back hard!


22 posted on 12/28/2013 7:10:54 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Doomonyou

In an interview with the Star Tribune, Mr Andrew says he walked into his home and lifted his fist in the air and said: ‘We won’.

He says he’s going to continue to stay involved in the case against the two women who beat him up.

‘In my estimation, these kids are damaged,’ he told TwinCities.com. ‘They have to be held accountable. The juvenile may be too far gone. She was extremely violent. I believe she was trying to kill me, and her actions supported her statement. She was swinging as hard as she could’


The money quote and very shocking from a liberal - “she may be too far gone.” If you or I said that, we would be labeled racists or uncaring, but sadly it is a true statement - many of these kids are too far gone.

That is a money quote - a rare moment of truth from a liberal who just got mugged in the worst way.


23 posted on 12/28/2013 7:15:46 PM PST by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: BBell

I’m betting he was the only one at his table. That leaves 270 degrees unprotected when you lay your phone on the table. And nothing like being distracted looking down and writing in a busy public area. Mark, buddy, you are a mark.


24 posted on 12/28/2013 7:16:19 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BBell

Two black teenagers beat up a white liberal.

The white liberal wonders why NOBODY comes to help him.

???

Liberalism is really a mental disease.


25 posted on 12/28/2013 7:26:08 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: volunbeer
Well he did say "may." If he had any balls he should have called out fearless leader to condemn the violence.
26 posted on 12/28/2013 7:26:17 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Would it have been better if the phone had a wrist tether? Not so easy to swipe?

I have to be very careful about displaying my phone. There are too many shady people in this town who are on the lookout for prey. I even ran into a couple coming back from church on Christmas Eve. One can’t be too careful.


27 posted on 12/28/2013 7:33:59 PM PST by thecodont
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To: BBell

Perp Pic:

Letajia Shapree Cutler-Cain

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52bef0e1eab8eaeb46adc34d-480-359/2etajia-shapree-cutler-cain.jpg

Article:

Mayoral Candidate Allegedly Beaten Up By Two Teenage Girls At Mall Of America

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-andrew-allegedly-beaten-up-at-starbucks-2013-12

No surprises. What a name.


28 posted on 12/28/2013 7:42:50 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Looks like another liberal was just converted to a conservative.

LOL - yes - - an unintended consequence of being mugged...

29 posted on 12/28/2013 7:54:21 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: knarf
How did a faggot get so many kids ???

Mass adoption.

30 posted on 12/28/2013 7:54:29 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: dennisw

These non-denominational yoofs did us a favor by beating crap (one can only hope) out of this clown
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You’re celebrating this guy being robbed and beaten with billy clubs?

What the hell is wrong with you?


31 posted on 12/28/2013 8:14:46 PM PST by bramps (Mark Levin: Would Christie, McConnell, and Boehner repeal obamacare? Not a chance!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> one of the women,18-year-old Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain...

Must be one of those Newport Rhode Island Cutler-Cains, and 18, so she must be back from Swiss boarding school...

Thanks BBell.


32 posted on 12/28/2013 8:16:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: thecodont

This was a well-planned operation. They scouted the place for quite some time. They used two female blockers. One of them evidently armed with a baton. These were serious thieves. This guy was lucky he didn’t get killed or blinded. The best thing is to have the fear of the legal system in people to prevent this sort of thing from happening. These people don’t have that fear. Why? A three person operation to steal a cell phone? Methinks they may have been looking to find Mark’s house.


33 posted on 12/28/2013 8:28:17 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BBell

This may interfere with Lataijee’s chances at a scholarship to Harvard or Stanford.


34 posted on 12/28/2013 8:29:05 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Rembrandt

I saw Mark’s graduation pictures from the school of hard knocks. Very impressive. He was allegedly beaten. Then again his head may have spontaneously begun to ooze blood. Lataijee’s friend Shatonya says that the Ivy League scholarship is in the bag.


35 posted on 12/28/2013 9:19:16 PM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: BBell
Mark Andrew, a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, owns the environmental consulting firm GreenMark

So Mark, how is rich white liberalism, global warming hoaxes & pandering to black thugs (male & females) working out for you these days? Personally I would like to see more rich white liberals across the country get the sh_t beat out of them by black thugs. It would serve them right to be on the receiving end for a change! Maybe they might have a change of heart about 0dumb0sh_t & Holder as well.

36 posted on 12/28/2013 9:51:29 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: BBell
The former Hennepin County Commissioner had just hung up the phone and was in the middle of writing his New Year's resolutions Thursday evening when a young man came up and swiped his iPhone 4S off the cafe table.

How does one "hang up" a cell phone?

Regards,

37 posted on 12/28/2013 11:03:20 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Enterprise

Assault and battery with a weapon, during a robbery.

Lacrapainyourpantsa is going to do some very hard time.

If Treyvon Martin had a sister.....


38 posted on 12/29/2013 2:01:45 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: BBell

Why aren’t there any pictures of the two teens that mugged the guy? Don’t tell me: it’s because they were black and he was white? This censorship by the media reeks of racism against the victims of the black criminal class.


39 posted on 12/29/2013 2:22:48 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: bramps

Stop the presses!!!!
Silly arse liberal gets bopped by two constituents!!!!


40 posted on 12/29/2013 2:47:52 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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