Posted on 09/16/2011 8:06:07 AM PDT by george76
DENVER – Police are asking for the public’s help tracking down a large group of violent teenagers.
They say 10 to 15 young people — described as black or Hispanic and both male and female — attacked four white men on the 16th Street Mall at about 10:45 p.m. on Sunday.
Denver police say the men were standing on the mall near Arapahoe when they were approached by the group. After a conversation, the group turned violent and they attacked the men.
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In 2009 a similar series of attacks took place near downtown, on the 16th Street Mall and in surrounding areas. The victims were usually white or Hispanic and the suspects were black. Surveillance video captured one of the attacks on camera.
Many of those arrested in connection with the assaults were known to have ties with street gangs. Police said some or all of those attacks may have a kind of gang initation.
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
Buried in the article the authorities noted that robbery was not the motive as nothing was taken.
Gee. What is the SECOND most likely motive then?????
Even in CCW friendly Colorado, this problem continues in downtown Denver for a couple reasons.
Most folks are downtown for:
Sporting events,
Dining at places serving alcohol,
or work.
Each of which constrains exercising your CCW rights.
The punks know this and take advantage.
What could their motive be? Whatever could it be? Hmmm...
“I believe they were arguing about whether Beethoven was greater than Bach. I’ve seen knives come out over this.”
Well it’s a good thing the were not arguing about whether Oppenheimer was smarter then Teller- somebody might have gotten nuked!/s;)
“LoDo assault victims often sucker-punched”
I always thought of a sucker punch as literally a punch (to the stomach), as opposed to getting whacked from behind on the head. But I guess everyone has their own definition: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sucker+punch
My favorite is: “The act of saying “Hey what’s that just there on your shirt?” then as the person looks down, punching them swiftly in the face.”
To me, someone who is the victim of a blind-side attack isn’t a “sucker” whereas someone conned into looking down at their shirt arguably is.
The question is, are you being “racist” when you mention “darkness” coming upon all of creation?——RACIST????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8UHYxAeXFM
New Black Panthers Gird Your Loins, This Is War Against Capitalist Bloodsucker American
There are at least 2 cops on every block of the 16th St. mall.
I’d like to know what they were doing as this situation escalated?
Sitting on their ass calling for back-up?
One big issue is we don’t live in a white male dominated nation, yet we are living under rules designed for a nation where evil white males are oppressing minorities and even females.
Does racism exist? Yes, among all races. At any level that justifies affirmative action, minority contracts, etc? Minorities do everything in our society today which would be impossible in a white racist society.
Where would the racism come from? Government, schools and corporations are totally dominated by liberal policies and philosophies, and in many cases by minorities themselves.
If this were turned around, there would be no equivocating about motive. It is call racism. Our pop culture creates and nurtures it among minorities, and the rest of us are too enlightened with the ignorance of diversity to stop it.
I still carry when I'm down there - rather be judged by twelve than carried by six!
So far there haven’t been such attacks in Arizona which makes sense once you understand the culture here.
When you attempt to enter the state of Arizona you are stopped at the border and asked if you are carrying a firearm. If you answer no they assign one to you.
That, is a good one.
This is something everyone keeps in mind -
it is SO easy to overwhelm the resources that keep order,
and once the mob sees that someone did X and got away with it,
it’s bar the door, because they lose all self-restraint.
We had a similar attack on two teenage boys right here in Bellingham, WA. The two boys had come into town on the bus and were getting a Slurpie at the 7-11, when two guys called to them to come over. The one young man, went over and the man told him to hand over his cell phone and empty his pockets, the other guy sucker punched him and broke his jaw in 2 places, and put him in the hospital. The teen agers were not at all street savvy and Bellingham is not exactly a dangerous place. The mother of the boy who was beaten up is a minister.
Denver ping
White people who are not actively training in unarmed self defense are complete idiots given what is going on.
After a conversation,give us your money.
More to this than meets the eye. I suspect that the two “victims” who got out of there had a reason to get out of there unrelated to the event.
Which raises an interesting point. If this was a flash mob type attack, and they picked on some real badasses to attack, there would be a lot of flash mobbers wounded and bleeding, if not dead. However, if their intended victims were extreme badasses, they would likely walk away, because the police would be far more interested in them than a bunch of thuggish flash mobbers.
Mind you, any day now I am looking forward to a group of flash mobbers who are out “wilding”, and choose a concealed carry as their victim.
CCL is the universal cure for this problem.
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