Posted on 04/09/2014 4:00:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Taking a stand.
You may have heard about this story, although maybe not as much as we're hearing about it in the Detroit-area media. It happened last week, when a man from the suburbs named Steven Utash accidently hit a young boy with his car, then jumped out of the car to check on the boy. A mob of approximately 12 youths, having seen the car hit the boy, subsequently attacked Utash and severely beat him.
It now looks as if Utash is going to live, but we're only hearing today about the reason the beating apparently stopped short of killing him.
Writing in the Detroit News, my friend and fellow Tiger fan George Hunter introduces us to the courageous Deborah Hughes:
The retired nurse said Monday she didn’t hesitate when she saw a group of men savagely beating Steven Utash last week, after he got out of his pickup on the city’s east side to check on a 10-year-old boy he had hit with his vehicle.
“Nothing was really going through my head, other than ‘They need to stop beating this man,’ ” said Hughes, 56.
The incident started about 4:10 p.m., when Utash, a tree trimmer, accidently struck 10-year-old David Harris near Morang and McKinney. Hughes, who lives across the street, said events unfolded quickly.
“I looked out the window and saw that the boy had been hit, so I threw on my coat and ran out there,” said Hughes, who is retired from the St. James Nursing Center in Detroit.
Hughes also made sure to pack her .38 caliber pistol. “You have to carry a gun around here,” she said. “This neighborhood is terrible. I don’t walk around without my gun.
Hughes's first instinct, naturally, was to tend to the boy, who was sitting on the ground in the street crying while he father was in the store. (Why his father went into the store and left a 10-year-old outside on the street . . . yeah, let's leave that for another day.) As the father emerged from the store, Hughes informed him that she was a nurse and asked him to let her try to calm his son down.
But her focus quickly changed when she saw the mob descending upon Utash and beginning to beat him, and she realized that if someone didn't intervene, they might very well beat Utash to death.
Now the story doesn't indicate that Hughes pulled her gun, so if you're hoping for a pro-gun narrative that includes the armed citizen firing a shot in the air and warning everyone to back off or else, I can't give you that. But you do have to wonder if she would have had the same courage had she not been packing.
By the way, much of the reporting of this incident comes with a racial undertone because Utash is white, the boy he hit is black, and the mob appears to have been mostly black (as is Hughes). Hughes indicates that she heard nothing racial as she was approaching the mob, and further that the mob did not resist her as she a) told them to back off; and b) worked on Utash. By massaging his neck, Hughes was able to get Utash's blood circulating. Once he came to, he started kicking and flailing his arms - understandbly considering what he had just been going through - and she had to restrain him with the help of the EMS drivers who were by that time arriving.
There is a lot that's ugly about this entire incident, but Deborah Hughes is a hero for sure. We need more people like her, not just in Detroit (where we desperately need that), but everywhere.
“Mama Grizzlies” can come in all colors. Props to this decent woman.
It seems to me the Detroit News would know what she said
“Unless the dozens of other articles are all wrong, this version is false, there was no gun on her at all....”
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I guess this quote from her is wrong—or the day of the incident was an exception to her usual pattern?
“This neighborhood is terrible. I don’t walk around without my gun.”
I just did a search on the Detroit News site and the early article that everyone quoted is MIA now.
I read that in the Detroit News in one of the first articles that came out, it was before they had arrested or even identified any of the perps.
In that version she was also quoted as saying that she kept screaming for them to stop but they didn’t.
A driver stopping for any reason probably has almost as great a chance of being beaten as this man did. I don’t think it takes much to set off these inner city feral yutes. Stopping in “their” hood is probably enough reason. Kudos to this nurse for stepping in.
The plague is feral black kids, and the feral black "adults" who spawn them ... and the tyrant democrat politicians who create the environment for breeding feral black people.
We know the cure but it can’t be stated.
Sure ... the Ruling Class needs to stop stealing from the Productive Class to support the Parasite Class and the Criminal Class. More importantly, we ALL need our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, without whom we ALL are lost, both in the temporal realm and the eternal realm.
She has the same "permit" as you and me, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution: the Right of the People to Keep AND BEAR Arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
Not to put this woman down but massaging the neck of someone that has major head and neck trauma to get the blood flowing? Really? Manipulating the neck is the neck is the last thing you should do.
Who intervened BEFORE the thugs left him on the road to Jerico!
She was the exception that proves the rule.
That's parts of it, But I'd say that requiring NOTHING from the 'poor' for these freebies is a REALLY big part of it.
TOO much spare time available.
The streets should be SPOTLESS in 'poor' neighborhoods!
No, making feeding and caring a government entitlement has made them uninhabitable. Were the recipients forced to ASK for charity, the situation would be totally different, because they would have to DO something to receive it. They would have to change their behavior, get an education, help do work that needs to be done, stop being so destructive, etc. or they would not get the aid. It is the entitlement that is the problem, not the aid itself.
YOu get more of what you subsidize.
This is how Amerikans react to an incident in post “hope & change” Amerika (I’m referring to the lynch mob).
God Bless this woman!
And less of what you tax.
I heard they were on Oreally’s show using that line, I would be glad to be wrong. I simply do not watch tv news, so I go by second hand scoop.
I heard, I heard, I heard... Blah blah blah. Stop listening to rumors.
Strong work Mrs. Hughes ( who mos likely was a child in Detroit when I was).
“IMHO most media won’t mention the gun at all.”
Yup.
Nary a peep about it on any news outlet.
Maybe they wouldn’t be able to spin the gun negatively because its use saved a life (lives), or maybe because of the race of the armed woman?
Just saying.
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