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Here is what the local newspapers did not report about the mob of dozens of motorcycle riders who chased, stopped and beat the father of a young Asian family on a Sunday afternoon in New York City: One, the mob was black, says the police report. Two, this is merely the latest of several such examples of racial violence on wheels, witnesses say. Except this one is on video. All six minutes and 27 seconds of it. Recorded on the helmet-cam of one of the members of the black motorcycle mob. “The newspapers say it was a motorcycle gang,” said...

But Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar appears to have acted alone, campus police say A UNC-Chapel Hill graduate told investigators he intentionally drove into a crowd of students on campus Friday to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world," UNC Police Chief Derek Poarch said Saturday. Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, told detectives to go to the Carrboro apartment he shared with two other men, saying authorities would find evidence there that would explain his decision to hurt students. Poarch declined to say what, if anything, was found, but emphasized that Taheri-azar appears to have acted alone. It does not appear that...

SUV Plows Into Convenience Store 7-Eleven Clerk Injured In Apparent Attack   POSTED: 5:51 am PST January 24, 2005 UPDATED: 9:41 am PST January 24, 2005  SEATTLE -- The driver of a sport utility vehicle plowed into a convenience store in West Seattle Sunday night in what witnesses said was a deliberate act, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. The man behind the wheel drove the SUV through the front of a 7-Eleven story on Erskine Way Southwest and repeatedly plowed into the store, leaving it in shambles and injuring a clerk. Video ] Video: Witness Describes Convenience Store Attack...

<p>A day after a large fire destroyed seven City of Poughkeepsie businesses, investigators Wednesday ruled out a possible cause of the fire and reopened South Avenue.</p> <p>A state expert in investigating automobile fires joined city firefighters and investigators from Dutchess County Wednesday afternoon to help determine the cause of a fire. Before the Office of Fire Prevention and Control expert's arrival, investigators had ruled out several possible accidental causes.</p>

Father told son SUV to blame for mother's driveway death By Franci Richardson Thursday, February 19, 2004The Kingston man police say confessed to running down his ex-wife in her driveway told his 12-year-old son - who tried to revive his mother - the accident was the SUV's fault. ``Their father said the wheel was turned the wrong way so (the son) blamed it on the car, and I don't think Joey knows any different today,'' the Rev. Cindy Shepherd said Joey Garuti Jr. told her. ``At least as of (Tuesday), he was just mad at the car.'' Joseph Garuti, 49,...

SUV hits 2, then plunges over seawall 3 taken to hospitals after Isle police chase By MIKE GLENN Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Three people were injured Sunday, including the driver of an SUV who was chased by police as he sped along the Galveston seawall before sending the vehicle over the wall crashing into the beach.

Stolen SUV wanted in rape and kidnapping case (Mecosta Township, February 13, 2004, 12:24 p.m.) Police are releasing a description of a stolen SUV they think may be involved in the rape and kidnapping of a 16-year-old girl in Mecosta County. Police tell 24 Hour News 8 the teenager was abducted last Friday while walking home from school in Big Rapids. Officers think the suspect took the girl to an empty summer home, broke into the house, and assaulted her. A Colfax Township resident found the girl tied up in the snow off a roadside embankment. Police are looking for...

SUV Crashes Into Home Crash Knocks Resident To Ground POSTED: 8:42 AM PST February 9, 2004 UPDATED: 11:07 AM PST February 9, 2004 LONG BEACH, Calif. -- An SUV crashed into a house in North Long Beach early Monday, badly damaging the structure and narrowly missing the room where a young girl was sleeping, authorities said. The collision occurred about 1:40 a.m. Monday in the 6200 block of Obispo Avenue, said Long Beach police Officer Greg Schirmer. The driver, whose name was not immediately released, was taken into custody. NBC4 learned that the driver was booked for driving under the...