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Beating of Alabama man not seen as hate crime, despite claim 'Trayvon' invoked
foxnews.com ^ | 04/24/2012 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 04/24/2012 1:07:41 PM PDT by massmike

A racially charged beating of a white Alabama man by a throng of African-Americans is not being investigated as a hate crime, despite one witness' claim that she heard an assailant exclaim: "Now that's justice for Trayvon."

Matthew Owens, of Mobile, Ala., was assaulted with baseball bats, paint cans and other weapons at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday after telling a group of children to stop playing basketball in the middle of Delmar Drive, according to Ashley Rains, public information officer for the Mobile Police Department.

After the children left the area, a group of adults armed with weapons returned and confronted Owens, 40, in his front yard, where he was assaulted. Owens' sister, Ashley Parker, told WKRG she witnessed the attack and that there were as many as 20 assailants. Parker said she overheard one of them say, "Now that's justice for Trayvon."

Asked if the incident was being investigated as a hate crime, Rains replied: "No, it's not. It's being investigated as an assault."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: blackonwhitecrime; chimpout; hatecrime; justicefortrayvon; justicefortrayvoninc; matthewowens; odinga; trayvonmob; trayvonrevenge
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1 posted on 04/24/2012 1:07:48 PM PDT by massmike
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To: massmike

Rule Number One: Anything that happens to a white person can never be considered a hate crime.


2 posted on 04/24/2012 1:11:44 PM PDT by kempster (HIPPO)
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To: massmike

Of course not.... It was self inflicted.....


3 posted on 04/24/2012 1:11:53 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: maggief; hoosiermama

As the story develops..


4 posted on 04/24/2012 1:11:53 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: massmike

The sad thing about this is it WILL bring about “revenge” from some real live racists. I know we’re all getting enough of this crap but we have to keep our heads about it. We just need to be prepared in case it happens to us. Prepared like Zimmerman was.

I do wonder how many neighbors watched and did nothing.


5 posted on 04/24/2012 1:12:23 PM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: massmike
I would say that whenever a gang of 20 of one race assaults a person of another, it's prima facie evidence of a hate crime.

Whether we should have hate crimes at all, or just very heavy gang enhancers to the basic charge of aggravated assault is another topic. But, a 20 on 1 beatdown isn't just a neighborhood disagreement out of hand.

6 posted on 04/24/2012 1:12:45 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: kempster
Rule Number One: Anything that happens to a white person can never be considered a hate crime.

That's because we hate them so much.

7 posted on 04/24/2012 1:13:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Do I really need a sarcasm tag? You're really that dense? Really?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I heard that they were shouting

“Random beatdown! Random beatdown!”


8 posted on 04/24/2012 1:13:52 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: massmike

Hate crimes work in one direction only.


9 posted on 04/24/2012 1:14:01 PM PDT by bgill
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To: massmike

And please explain exactly why this is suprising to anyone, either black or white?


10 posted on 04/24/2012 1:14:43 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Hey Obama! All you have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled us with a terrible resolve!!)
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Racist mob puts Alabama man in hospital

Matthew Owens remains in critical condition following a beat-down by a mob of 20 adults and children in Mobile. Racist slurs were used, and reference made to the Trayvon Martin case.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 By Martin Barillas

http://www.speroforum.com/a/JRYYFJHYKM27/71529-Racist-mob-puts-Alabama-man-in-hospital

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A racially-motivated mob beat a Mobile, Alabama, man so severely on the evening of April 21 that he is now in critical condition at an area hospital. Mobile police report that Matthew Owens spoke to some neighborhood children playing basketball in the middle of the street at 8:30 PM on Delmar Drive in Mobile. After the children left, a mob consisting mostly of adults returned, armed with chairs, pipes and paint cans.

According to local media, Owen’s sister Ashley Parker saw the mob attack her brother. “It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed,” said Parker. The victim’s sister described the mob as consisting of approximately 20 African-American adults who attacked Owens on the front porch of his house. Some of the assailants used brass knuckles in the beat-down, and “anything else they could get their hands on,” said Parker. Police say “multiple people” are involved. Owens is suffering from severe trauma to his head.

Another witness to the vicious beating, who wishes to remain anonymous, described the onset of the assault on Owens. “I just kept hearing him screaming, ‘Man, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, man don’t do this,’ “ he recalled. According to the anonymous witness, when he heard his friend Owens at the door, he thought it was a joke. “Then I saw about 10 to 15 people from little kids and women with dresses to adult men, just flooding onto the property, surrounding the car, hollering and screaming,” he said. “And then I heard Matthew saying, ‘ I’m sorry, man, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’ And then, the next thing, before I could get to the door, because we have it all deadbolted and everything, and before I could get it open, I heard all the beating and banging.”

Tensions were already high in the Delmar Drive neighborhood because of disputes over children and youths using portable goals for playing basketball in the street. This is a practice that has been banned elsewhere in the U.S. The beating has left neighbors fearful of retribution. Owen’s friend who witnessed the beating said, “Oh, my God. ..He was laying on the ground full of blood. I mean, it was horrible. His head, everything. Blood was pouring from his head, both sides. And his whole body was drenched in blood.”

Reflecting the current climate of inter-ethnic tension in the United States, Parker alleged that one member of the mob said before walking away “Now that’s justice for Trayvon.” Trayvon Martin is the unarmed teenager police allege was shot and killed February 26 by George Zimmerman, who has been variously described in the media as ‘white’ or ‘Hispanic,’ in Samford, Florida. The Florida killing sparked multitudinous marches and flaming rhetoric from African-American political leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. President Barack Obama entered the fray when, expressing sorrow for the teen’s death, said of Trayvon Martin “He could have been my son.”

No suspects have been apprehended following the Mobile incident.


11 posted on 04/24/2012 1:16:01 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: massmike

Holder Admits No Equality Under Hate Crime Bill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOABBn5Tnm0


12 posted on 04/24/2012 1:16:34 PM PDT by massmike (Massachusetts: If they had just kept hanging witches a bit longer...........)
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To: Terry Mross
"it WILL bring about 'revenge' from some real live racists"
"I do wonder how many neighbors watched and did nothing"

Neighbors who did nothing are not 1/10 the problem as are people like you who call rational people racist.


13 posted on 04/24/2012 1:18:07 PM PDT by I see my hands (If you say what you think then no one will like you.)
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To: robowombat

I really can see burnings and drive by shootings and....the authorities had better do something about this.


14 posted on 04/24/2012 1:18:56 PM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: massmike
Does anyone know anything about this area. From the map it looks to be close to US 90. I think that people who worked at the now closed Air Material Center at Brookley AFB used to live here in large numbers. Brookley was closed by 1970 so I am curious as to what sort of area this is. From checking real estate listing it appears to be an area of small free standing houses, many look well maintained.
15 posted on 04/24/2012 1:20:32 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: massmike

Well, whites in that neighborhood have learned not to complain about black activities.


16 posted on 04/24/2012 1:23:21 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: massmike

I’m surprised it’s not being considered an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Why, to even insunate a group of Black folk attacking and beating a White man is just ‘crazy talk’.


17 posted on 04/24/2012 1:24:53 PM PDT by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: I see my hands

I didn’t call anyone a racist. And I certainly didn’t call any rational people racist. I’m talking about people like the guy in Oklahoma.

If you think someone who loses it and goes out and shoots a black man just for being black is rational, you’re the problem.


18 posted on 04/24/2012 1:27:33 PM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: massmike

If it wasn’t a hate crime, what was the motivation of 20 black people in beating him up?

And they wonder why Trayvon Martin got shot.


19 posted on 04/24/2012 1:28:02 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: massmike

It was a lynching. You get people ganging up on you like that and trying to kill you then it is a lynching. When do a gang of white people do this kind of wolf pack beat down? I can’t think of any in recent years but the black on white version is frequent though under reported by the main stream media


20 posted on 04/24/2012 1:28:34 PM PDT by dennisw
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