Posted on 06/09/2014 6:16:29 AM PDT by csvset
Mark Ball, 50, was charged in connection with the beating of a tourist near the Lyric Opera in late May. Stagehands intervened and helped the injured victim. | Mugshot provided by the Cook County Sheriff's Office
No mention of the victim's race. Knockout game? Robbery apparently wasn't the motivation.
I'm glad that Mr. Hartge took the time to get involved.
Nice job, stagehands.
// “He just walked away like nothing had happened,” Hartge said of Ball, who was dressed in brown pants, a brown shirt and a brown hat and had a traveling bag with him. //
What can brown do for you?
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Another weak excuse to put a black man in jail /liberal
I knew even without the picture. Whenever there’s a “random attack” for “no apparent reason,” it’s race-related. And when race is carefully not mentioned, the perp is black.
Good job Lyric guys!
yeah perp probably didn’t like white men drinking starbucks
I walked into an urban court house and spoke to one of the security guards who glared at me resentfully and refused to banter like the others..........treated me like I am his oppressor
‘scuse me but I believe my tax dollars go into the pot that his checks come from, how is that an oppressor
If you want to vacation, stay away from the big cities — and sure as he11 don’t live there.
Oh, I forgot: nothing wrong with drugs.
A perfect observation...but then what else would I expect from ya? :o)
Not true. I live in a big city but am not stupid.
I STAY away from those parts of town where the drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes abound. It's not rocket science; it's common sense.
Crime happens everywhere in this world but it happens MORE in some places than others...so I stay away from the high crime areas.
My daddy taught me to avoid STUPID.
“Police say Mark Ball, 50, allegedly began beating a 27-year-old Boston man...near 20 W. Wacker...”
Is this a joke or is truth stranger than fiction?
You live in a big city? I thought you lived on a mountain. :)
I DO live on a hill, in a big city. Our "hill" is almost 800 feet high. I would call it a "mountain" but those folks in the Himalayas call anything UNDER 14,000 feet "foothills."
It's all perspective, innit?
You are of course quite right.
I’ve always found it odd that criminals are so territorial, seldom leaving their neighborhood to prey on those who presumably have more money and less likelihood of being on their guard.
I am, of course, glad that they are, it’s just always seemed odd to me that a 10-minute drive in a car creates such an enormous difference in the crime rate.
How many of his dogs would you shoot?
Ball: Rocket Surgeon?
That Mark Cuban was sooooo racist, wasn’t he, crossing the street to avoid an urban attacker
Would like to point out that the article doesn’t specify the race of the victim. While this usually means he is white, we can’t logically just assume it as fact.
““Police say Mark Ball, 50, allegedly began beating a 27-year-old Boston man...near 20 W. Wacker...””
ALLEGEDLY? The victim had “alleged” broken bones and contusions too!
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