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Four arrests made in MAX beating seen on YouTube
KPTV Portland OR ^ | Jan 12, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 01/14/2012 1:22:20 PM PST by bkopto

Two women will be arraigned Friday on charges stemming from the beating of a teenage girl on a MAX train.

YouTube video from the Dec. 26 attack surfaced this week, sparking outrage in the Portland area. It showed a 14-year-old girl being attacked by three other passengers on a MAX Green Line train in southeast Portland.

The cell phone video also showed others who appeared to be celebrating the attack. It didn't appear that any MAX passengers tried to intervene or stop the attack.

On Thursday, police arrested 38-year-old Selena Harris, her 18-year-old daughter Rakeshia Burns, and Burns' 16- and 13-year-old half-sisters.

The mother is being charged with hindering prosecution because officers said she hid her kids from the police and lied to keep them from getting arrested.

Her daughters are charged with assault, disorderly conduct, riot, harassment and interfering with public transportation.

Police said the YouTube video helped in the investigation -- they shared the video with the Portland Police Bureau's Youth Services Division and began to identify the suspects. Additional tips came in to investigators after the video was seen on local newscasts earlier this week.

Burns and Harris were booked into the Multnomah County Jail and will be arraigned tomorrow.

The two juvenile girls were lodged at the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Home.


TOPICS: Extended News; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: barbarians; chimpout; collapseofcivization; getwhitey; hatecrime; holderspeople; obamavoters; simianpassion; societalcollapse; urban
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To: Truth29

The simple answer is far too much. In the DFW area, the local mass transit agency made the county hospital district a regular stop on one of the system’s light rail lines. The same individuals that believe someone else should pay for their medical care also believe someone else should ensure they have safe, efficient and taxpayer funded transportation.


41 posted on 01/14/2012 3:48:49 PM PST by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: manic4organic

“Rakeshia. I don’t even have to watch the video.”

Yeah, and notice that she has two half-sisters who are both also teenagers. The 38 year-old “mother” is just a whore populating the country with miscreants who have been taught to hate anyone who isn’t black.


42 posted on 01/14/2012 3:52:43 PM PST by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: TigersEye

the only way you defuse that situation is within that milisecond when something hits you.you take down the biggest one immediately.
and keep going.


43 posted on 01/14/2012 3:57:20 PM PST by catroina54
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Let me understand, you’re afraid of getting flamed for suggesting that dark-skinned sub-humans and mental retards are responsible for predatious behavior as if they are entitled too do that because of the empowerment they get from a racist pro dark-skinned ruling political party? Is that it? Nawww, you seem right on track there.


44 posted on 01/14/2012 4:00:46 PM PST by tupac
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To: All
What's next? Headline?

White victim "not articulate"
Police Dismiss Charges Against Black Teens
"She should verbalize better, she's a typical white folk, that video could be a fake," said a Obama/Holder Dept. of Just Us spokesman

45 posted on 01/14/2012 4:09:20 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It would not be a problem at all if non-felons and non-crazy people would be allowed—everywhere—to legally carry at least a 9 mm. People would be very polite.


46 posted on 01/14/2012 4:16:08 PM PST by Pharmboy (Ah got better...(Monty Python))
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To: catroina54

A big job for a petite 14 yr old to take down a big hog of a 38 yr old and her hoglets.


49 posted on 01/14/2012 4:33:25 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: livius

Wow. I live and work in Los Angeles, and I ride the buses every day from West Hollywood to the downtown area and back. I get off in a very gang-infested area. Happily the kids around here seem to be quite nice, however, and so far I haven’t seen anything like that. I’ve been riding the bus for 2 and a half years now. But I’m not in South Central or anything like that. Just downtown.


50 posted on 01/14/2012 4:35:52 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (Anyone opposed to Newt should remember: we're not electing a messiah, we're electing a politician.)
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To: bkopto
Politics Prevents Portland from Prosecuting Girls for Race Crime video here too
51 posted on 01/14/2012 5:14:35 PM PST by epithermal
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To: TigersEye
For no good reason other than it being after I viewed the video of the victim and the fact that I agree with you... I hardly agree that she's an airhead. She's a teen that uses words and phrases - oh my God!' - that we've moved beyond. As a teen, she does a pretty good job of describing what happened to her, her attackers should be prosecuted.

For those discounting her attack, "airhead" or not, according to her account, she did nothing to provoke the attack. If that is true, her attackers should be prosecuted and punished accordingly.

That said, I wonder if she's an -bama supporter

52 posted on 01/14/2012 6:10:51 PM PST by theymakemesick
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To: bkopto
"Mother-daughter duo arrested after attacking people on TriMet bus"

and

"Four arrests made in MAX beating seen on YouTube"

~~~~~~~~~~

In addition to being in Portland and being transportation-related, do these two incidents have anything else in common?

53 posted on 01/14/2012 6:20:03 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Krankor

“Warning: She is an airhead.”

“She may be the bravest girl in the world, but she is an airhead.”

“A space cadet.”

Very revealing comments.

About you, that is.


54 posted on 01/14/2012 6:41:49 PM PST by wolficatZ (:"TV is king, you're my everything..")
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To: theymakemesick
I would neither be impressed nor concerned with a 14 yr old's political opinions although I do know a 12 yr old who can out-debate probably 80% of the adults in this country using facts and sound conservative logic. She's a bit unusual though.

The girl in this story certainly does a lot better than TOTUS 0bozo. No "uhs" no stammering and very few redundant phrases. Far fewer than the Hildebeast uses in fact.

55 posted on 01/14/2012 6:46:28 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: wolficatZ

I tell you what. If you’re so impressed by the young lady, I suggest you use her as a role model for your kids. You know, like, like, like, what I mean?


56 posted on 01/14/2012 6:48:45 PM PST by Krankor (Her voice was soft and cool. Her eyes were clear and bright. But she's not there.)
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To: Krankor

You’re projecting. She only uses “like” about three or four times. The true definition of an airhead is someone who can’t make a rational argument to defend their claims. Wear the moniker well, airhead.


57 posted on 01/14/2012 6:54:22 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye
She only uses “like” about three or four times.
Umm...were you, like, dropped on your head as a child? She use "like" over 25 times. If you can't count, I cede the airhead title to, like, you.
58 posted on 01/14/2012 7:09:45 PM PST by Krankor (Her voice was soft and cool. Her eyes were clear and bright. But she's not there.)
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To: Pharmboy
The people eventually remaining would be very polite.

There.

59 posted on 01/14/2012 7:43:45 PM PST by Erasmus (Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Or, get out your 50mm/1.2.)
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To: Krankor

Yes, she does use ‘like’ a few more times than I said. About one third of the instances she uses it she uses it appropriately. Airhead.


60 posted on 01/14/2012 7:50:06 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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