Posted on 04/06/2006 5:07:26 AM PDT by jimbo123
The NYPD hate-crimes unit is probing a report that a white NYU student killed by a car in Harlem was fleeing a gang of black teenagers screaming "Get whitey!" sources said yesterday.
If the report proves true, the violence could turn out to be an eerie replay in reverse of the infamous 1986 Howard Beach murder, where a black man was chased into traffic and killed by a group of white bigots.
The 20-year-old student, John Broderick Hehman, died yesterday, six days after the attack.
The sources said Hehman might have been targeted as a soft mark for robbers after the teenage gang spotted the caring urban-studies major handing pocket change to a wheelchair- bound man near the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue Saturday night.
The gang of youths, some of them as young as 11, had been smoking pot inside a nearby Popeye's fast-food eatery at 8:30 p.m. when they spotted Hehman walking by and then stopping to help the handicapped man.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/nyregion/03hit.html
The police were trying to determine why Mr. Hehman ran into the intersection, at 125th Street and Park Avenue. Witnesses told investigators that it appeared that Mr. Hehman was being chased by several young men, the law enforcement official said.
David Jones, a homeless man who sells used goods at the intersection, said he witnessed the accident, which took place about 8:30. "They were trying to beat him," he said. "Some kids were trying to beat him." Mr. Hehman, who ran east on 125th Street, turned south into the intersection, he said, and then was hit by the car, which the police said was a silver Mercedes-Benz.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/406488p-344202c.html
NY Daily News also leaves out the race of the attackers and their victim as well as the "Get Whitey!" remarks.
And, of course, there's an obligatory reference to white racists killing a black man in Queen's in a similar fashion...
Ah, political correctness.
Hate Crime?
These young "youths of color" need Cynthia McKinney's attorney immediately.
"...the violence could turn out to be an eerie replay in reverse of the infamous 1986 Howard Beach murder, where a black man was chased into traffic and killed by a group of white bigots."
Really, now. We're to believe that this kid was the FIRST white person killed by those of another race since 1986?
Funny. Chai Vang was Hmong and he murdered six white hunters in cold blood also wounding a white woman and a white child in our state in 2004, and no one DARED whisper "Hate Crime."
What a bunch of cr@p.
Yes. Now we see the real damage McKinney does...by keeping the hate alive.
"had been smoking pot inside a nearby Popeye's fast-food"
???????????
It was my understanding that Vang may have been connected to another murdered hunter a couple years before due to the fact that it turned out the pick-up he drove matched that of another scene - but the press never made much of this either.
The blacks who killed the white man were "black teenagers"
The whites who killed the black man were "white bigots".
There's more to this story than reported. Wait for it...
Beat me to it. Nice catch, C.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/61926.htm
Marisa Hehman said her brother is an urban-affairs student at NYU. "We're very distraught, very worried," she said. "This is our worst nightmare."
Their mother died of cancer six months ago, she added.
Which story, Harlem or WI?
The NYC story. It isn't complete.
Oh. I'm turning on my TV. How come I don't see wall-to-wall coverage of this? How come it's not on the crawlers? Why aren't they saying "stay tuned for the latest on the hate crime"?
I'm opening my paper. No headlines. No nothing. I expected to see screaming headlines "Racist attack in New York".
Nothing.
As always, the racist biased leftist-dominated newsentertainment media suppress things that don't bolster their agenda: that whites are the only racists.
Specific things you know?
"When someone says, 'You're in the wrong place, my friend', you'd better leave." --Bob Dylan
I don't know any specifics, but the story doesn't add up.
The one specific I do have is that I've been by that Popeye's chicken many times on my way to pick up take-out food. Nobody has ever bothered me, but it's definitely a "hang out."
Plus, this wasn't some kid off the bus from Iowa. He was a "city kid."
White kid dead? No hate crime here.
Move along, nothing to see here. Move along.
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