Mike Brown question sparks MetroLink beating caught on video

http://fox2now.com ^ | march 27, 2015 | joe millitzer

[lowbridge]

A MetroLink beating captured on video is now lighting up social media in St. Louis.  Viewers sent the video to FOX 2 on Twitter and Facebook pages looking for answers.  Police say the beating happened on Monday evening at 9:54pm.  The victim, a 43-year-old white male,  tells investigators that a question about Mike Brown sparked the incident.

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He told investigators that he was seated on the train when he was approached from behind.  The man in the red hat and shirt asked for his cell phone.  The victim refused.

The suspect in the red hat then asked the seated man what he thought of the Mike Brown situation.  The victim tells police that he hadn’t put much thought into it.  That is when the man in the red hat started beating him.

[MeshugeMikey]

awl kinda amish violins!!!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Obama’s son behaving badly?

[lowbridge]

A sort of variation on the knockout game.

And the weather is warming up.

[Kartographer]

PING!!

[demshateGod]

The end of all this will come.

[forgotten man]

Good reason not to use public transportation, unless you are armed.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Carrying a firearm in California can land you in jail or prison, but it has some lax knife laws in most Counties. My Self Defense folder is a Spyderco Civilian, the next best thing to carrying a concealed firearm:

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

They keep poking that sleeping bear, keep poking it. And sooner or later, one of these “victims” is going to go full Dirty Harry on their asses.

[Tupelo]

Just another very rare isolated incidence of young black princes of the urban jungle acting in preemptive defense against a racist white guy? Think so?

[Impala64ssa]

You all got it wrong. All this homie did was take Starschmuck’s “let’s talk about race” gig to a different level. Chill out, it’s all good /s

[Baltimore ken]

I’m 62 but stay in shape. I would have been up in a flash kicking that punks’boney,black ass.

[Bogey78O]

Looks like it’s made to chew through flesh on slicing movements with little skill needed. Curve blade will bite and follow.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Exactly.

[liberalh8ter]

Bernie Goetz knows how to handle this kind of situation.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

If anyone does anything at all about such incidents, one will be arrested and charged and the whole crowd with Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson will descend upon that person AND their home.

You can all talk big, but you better not do ANYTHING in such a case. The man sitting there did the right thing by not killing the foolish young man. If he had, his life would have been over.

[Rodamala]

I am surprised the Klan has been so quiet throughout all this.

[SamuraiScot]

You can all talk big, but you better not do ANYTHING in such a case.

I have to disagree. You have to do the right thing. Otherwise, as your handle says, we will be found wanting.

[JGT]

I carry a fixed-blade karambit in a plastic sheath tied around my neck. After a lot of practice, I'm able to get it out and ready in about a second. Devastating weapon.