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Cops Probe String Of Teens-On-Bikes Assaults
New Haven Independent ^ | Aug 2, 2013 | Paul Bass

Posted on 08/06/2013 8:13:46 AM PDT by kevcol

Police are investigating three possibly related attacks on people by teens on bikes in and around Edgewood Park.

The Independent reported Thursday on one such incident, which occurred around 5: 30 p.m. on Friday July 26 along the asphalt road that connects the park’s duck pond to the skateboard rink. A 63-year-old jogger was partway along that road when, he said, four teens on bikes rode passed. One turned around, rolled a bike at him to knock him over, then knocked him down again when he got up. The teens proceeded to punch and kick him, breaking an arm and cutting open his forehead, before fleeing. They didn’t seek to rob him.

On Friday, another Edgewood Park jogger related a similar incident to the Independent. Like the other jogger, he asked to remain anonymous.

This jogger had entered the park at Ella Grasso Boulevard and Chapel and started running down the hilly road toward the duck pond between 1:30 and 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 21, he said. He’s been running in the park for five years, he said; never before had he had a problem.

It was hot out; he had on shorts but no shirt. Four teens on bikes came zooming down the hill behind him, passing close to his body.

One of the teens held out his arm and struck the jogger on his neck. “I could tell from the way the kid hit me and looked at me, he expected me to go down,” the jogger said.

He didn’t fall. The kids rode ahead. The jogger kept running and came upon them under the bridge below Edgewood Avenue.

Three of the kids, whom he described as between 13 and 15 years old, moved behind him. “How’s your neck?” they taunted him. “What’s that on your neck?” They had beat-up bikes, he said; two of the bikes were girls’ bikes.

The kid who’d tried to “clothesline” him moments before stood in front of him. No one else was around. “He had jeans and a black shirt. He was heavyset. He could have had a weapon.” The jogger decided it wasn’t smart to confront the kids, so he turned around and jogged back toward the pond. More people were there. The kids rode off and didn’t bother him any more.

The jogger went home and called the cops. Three officers arrived at his home; one took a report.

Sgt. Al Vazquez, the police department’s chief of detectives, said the department received a report about a third incident that occurred within the same time frame several blocks from the park, at Ella Grasso Boulevard and Derby Avenue. A witness called police to say that a group of teens on bikes had ridden past a man, knocked him to the ground, then started beating on him. The victim fled; he never contacted police. Nor did police find a report of a beating victim entering the hospital for treatment.

Vazuez said the incidents “appear to be related.” Detectives have no leads yet but are actively investigating the cases, he said. He asked anyone with information to call the detective division at 203-946-6304.

The incidents do not appear to have approached the magnitude of the recent bloodying of a New Haven Power Sports technician on Goffe Street.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: blackcrime; blackrage; blackviolence; flashmob; gunfreezone; holderspeople; newhaven; nwa; obama; syg
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Though race (of course) is not mentioned in the article, one of the article comments is from a victim who adds that detail and her case#. I'm guessing the parents might be here.

Meanwhile, "Rock musician Ted Nugent is scheduled to perform at Toad's Place in New Haven tonight, but some folks aren't happy about it because of Nugent's comments on the Trayvon Martin case....Organizers of the protest want Toad 's Place to call off the show. A petition posted on change.org asking Toad's to cancel the show has more than 2,700 supporters." [LINK].
1 posted on 08/06/2013 8:13:46 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

What do you call muggers on bikes:

Modern day skeet.

I hope Ted does not back down. Unfortunately up in Conn, he cannot bring along any of his arsenal.


2 posted on 08/06/2013 8:18:51 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: kevcol

Carry a strong cane, and stick it in the front spokes.


3 posted on 08/06/2013 8:18:54 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: kevcol

What’s with the added “Amish playing knock-out polo”?


4 posted on 08/06/2013 8:21:16 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Waiting for next tagline.)
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To: FrankR

Or a sawed off broomstick or mop handle.


5 posted on 08/06/2013 8:21:31 AM PDT by sport
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To: kevcol
Not a problem.
At least as long as the victims just submit to the beatings. BUT should one of them beat the shit out of one of the little princes of the urban jungle or pull a gun and blow one straight to hell, it would be bad. Real bad and probably even racial profiling. Oh the horror.
6 posted on 08/06/2013 8:21:53 AM PDT by Tupelo (The Government lies, then the media lies to cover up the government lies.)
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To: kevcol

was Martin playing this game with Zimmerman ?


7 posted on 08/06/2013 8:22:54 AM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: kevcol

saint trayvon payback no doubt. I remember when I was a kid we used to ride bikes around and throw eggs at houses and cars..................maybe I wasn’t such a bad kid after all.


8 posted on 08/06/2013 8:23:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: kevcol

This is a comment from one of the victims:

posted by: Tylerd182 on August 2, 2013 5:46pm
To TELL IT LIKE IT IS and everyone else:
I am white. the attackers were black.


9 posted on 08/06/2013 8:24:21 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: kevcol

Apparently, these “teens” had no description by which to identify them...


10 posted on 08/06/2013 8:24:55 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: molson209

He was playing, beat Whitey’s brains out game.


11 posted on 08/06/2013 8:25:04 AM PDT by sport
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To: kevcol

New Haven is 83% white and only 1% black.

This isn’t Georgia, they don’t have racial problems in New Haven. These kids must have been disguised as black kids.

Northern blacks are so much more peaceful and law abiding in North Eastern towns. They have no racial bias.


12 posted on 08/06/2013 8:25:21 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: kevcol

This is going to happen until those lil rascals tangle with someone who’s carrying. Then, when he pulls down on them and caps a few of these twirps, he’ll be “Zimmed” by all the usual black apologists.

If The System is so hamstrung by political correctness and outright cowardice that it can (or will) not protect innocent joggers in a park, then the social contract is dissolved and it falls to We the People to provide for our own common defense.


13 posted on 08/06/2013 8:25:55 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: Venturer

Bwahahahahaha ...


14 posted on 08/06/2013 8:26:15 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Tenacious 1

because its more accurate than the actual title.


15 posted on 08/06/2013 8:27:13 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: FrankR

Get an electrician to bend you a cane from electrical conduit. Fill the top handle, and the bottom 1 foot with lead shot and epoxy glue. Paint it brown or black. Tape the handle, and get a crutch tip from the pharmacy. Quite formidable for swinging and poking/jabbing.


16 posted on 08/06/2013 8:27:29 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: kevcol

The path by the duck pond sounds like a good place for Paul Kersey to relax.


17 posted on 08/06/2013 8:28:20 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: MrB

Don’t kid yourself, the cops don’t want them identified. Because if they were identified, the cops would have to arrest them and then they would be accused of profiling and being racist. When it comes to violence where Blacks, particularly young Blacks and Whites, the Whites are on their own.


18 posted on 08/06/2013 8:29:28 AM PDT by sport
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To: SpaceBar

“you believe in Jesus?...well, you’re gonna meet him”


19 posted on 08/06/2013 8:33:45 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: kevcol

A lady shifted her bag strap, a boy played with the door lock in a passing car, a man deep in thought failed to make eye contact.

The sands of time slowed to a halting trickle...


20 posted on 08/06/2013 8:39:40 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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