Posted on 07/13/2018 11:41:54 AM PDT by Simon Green
A woman accused of attacking a 91-year-old Mexican man with a concrete brick has been charged with attempted murder.
Laquisha Jones, 30, was arraigned Thursday at the Los Angeles County Superior Court and stood behind her lawyer, away from TV cameras. She was also charged with elder abuse, infliction of injury.
Jones entered a not guilty plea, reported CNN affiliate KCAL.
She was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of beating Rodolfo Rodriguez, 91, on July 4.
Rodriguez said he had been walking to a park when he passed a woman and a girl. The woman assaulted him without warning, hitting him with a concrete brick and enlisting a group of men to beat him, he said.
"I didn't even bump into her kid," Rodriguez told CNN. "I just passed her and she pushed me and she hit me until she was done."
He suffered a broken jaw, broken cheekbones, two broken ribs and countless bruises, his family said. Rodriguez is recovering at his relatives' Willowbrook home south of Los Angeles.
Misbel Borjas was driving by when she saw the woman hitting Rodriguez repeatedly in the head with a concrete brick, she said.
"I heard her saying, go back to your country, go back to Mexico," she told CNN by phone. "When I tried to videotape her with my cell phone, she threw that same concrete block, tried to hit my car."
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement Wednesday that "detectives have discovered that this is not a hate-related incident."
The felony complaint alleges that "the defendant personally used a deadly and dangerous weapon, a brick, during the commission of the crime and that she committed great bodily injury upon the victim," according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
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“Laquisha sounds like some sort of food dish.”
Or some kind of sub tropical clap.
Oooh, that’s not going to help black- Mexican relations!
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement Wednesday that "detectives have discovered that this is not a hate-related incident."
A black woman tells an illegal to go back to mexico and this slides???? Jeez if I even say "mexican" I am branded as a racist fear mongering entitled white guy.
I’ll be they thought he’s white.
Perhaps somewhere in her attack she yelled...”I LOVE YOU MAN!” as she clobbered him. That would negate a “hate crime” attack.
The police must consider the 91-year old guy to be a white Hispanic ...
What makes you think he's an illegal? According to an earlier article, he lives in Mexico and is visiting family that resides here.
Didn't you get the memo?/sarc
The first headline I saw about this just said “Racist attacks 91 year old” and focused almost exclusively on his being told to “go back where you came from”. Clearly one of those bitter white Trump supporters! Then pictures came in in the British press, and the racist angle disappears from the headlines.
“So I’m assuming a black can’t be charged with a hate crime?”
Yes, that is correct.
When she arrives at prison, “La Familia” will take exception to this not being a hate crime, and she is going to take a lot of hate and she’ll lose that weight.
If it’d been an elderly white man...
saw a picture of the attacker - if its accurate it was a black ...
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