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Assault at ‘First Fridays’ under investigation, victim calls attack a ‘hate crime’
WHNT TV Huntsville, AL ^ | June 8, 2015 | Catherine Awasthi

Posted on 06/11/2015 2:42:42 PM PDT by walford

FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) – Police are investigating an assault that was reported during First Fridays in Florence.

Investigators said 20 to 30 juveniles assaulted a Lauderdale County man and his 14-year-old son at Wilson Park on Friday, June 5.  According to the victim’s wife, who witnessed the attack, the group “was using slurs of race” while tasing her husband and beating him.

“Randomly, they just him me in the back of the head,” said 14-year-old Brandon Dawes. “I didn’t think nothing of it at first because, well, I thought maybe somebody tripped or something.”

Juli Dawes said her husband Kevin was trying to protect their son when they turned on him.

“I got in between him and the attacker and told him to go toward the van , and that’s when I started getting attacked,” Kevin said.
She said the juveniles also shattered the windshield of her car, where she was waiting with her 4-year-old.

Screen Shot 2015-06-09 at 5.42.06 PM“My four-year-old said ‘look mommy, they’re dancing’, Juli said. “I said, ‘no, baby they’re not dancing they’re fighting’. Then I see my husband and he’s on the ground being tased.”

Juli said she felt helpless watching the group of thugs attack her family.

“There’s this wall of people and there was nothing I could do,” she stressed. “If it could happen to us it could happen to anybody, and it was unprovoked. I would really love to know why, what they were thinking.”

Juli is concerned such a horrific attack could happen at a family friendly event. Florence Police Chief Ron Tyler said they are not ready to identify the assault as a hate crime, or say that it was gang related.

“We are considering all angles,” said Chief Tyler. “There are no set of circumstances that would ever justify an unprovoked attack by a group of thugs, and we will not allow any group to hijack the family friendly First Fridays event.”

Investigators do not have any people of interest yet in this case.

The 14-year-old sustained facial injuries.

The 14-year-old sustained facial injuries.

At last check, Kevin Dawes has a fractured eye socket and multiple taser burns.  Brandon, 14, sustained minor injuries.

Juli Dawes hopes someone may know who was responsible. She said it was senseless violence, and wants to prevent the same thing from happening to another family.

If you have any information, please call Florence Police at (256) 760-6500.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; mediabias; racism; thugculture; violence
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To: Gator113

Thank you!


21 posted on 06/11/2015 4:08:25 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: walford

What a dumba$$ police chief. Is he really that damned stupid or just covering up a hate crime? Did he not have any officers in the park for this First Friday event? Unless he is a knee grow himself.


22 posted on 06/11/2015 4:09:27 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: Gator113
I too do not knowingly go to places where these bugs gather, but we like to travel and we could easily find ourselves around this slime, gas stations, rest stops, truck stops, etc.
Like ending up on an MLK Blvd in an unfamiliar area. Or even in familiar areas. Spring Valley, NY near where I grew up, where MLK meets Harriet Tubman Blvd. is one of the worst neighborhoods in the Hudson Vly.
23 posted on 06/11/2015 4:10:15 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: libstripper
At age 72 this is why I will not go any place where large numbers of young black males can be found.

A lesson that should be learned at age 12.

24 posted on 06/11/2015 4:13:08 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS; spawn44; All

I consider the increasing number of roving black gangs perpetrating these racially motivated attacks and the #knockOUTgame to be pawns in a long-term program designed by would-be tyrants.

This is a multi-generational project conducted by the Left starting with the so-called War on Poverty. [The result of that was 70% of black children being born out-of-wedlock and the fathers replaced with white social workers who wear sensible shoes.]

For every one black killed by the police, 40 are murdered by each other. Nonetheless, they are raised to distrust the police and blame Whitey for their own failures and pathogenic behaviors.

So, rather trouble themselves with introspection, they are taking the much easier course of lashing out against anyone who is the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time — and appears to be defenseless. This is why the elderly, small, disabled, etc. are targeted by these savage cowards.

But part of this plan is for white police officers to become demoralized and cease enforcing the law with respect to blacks. It is already happening in Baltimore, with predictable results.

The next step will come when the designated targets start fighting back in significant numbers. We are already seeing riots and looting when police and law-abiding citizens successfully resist violent attacks — based upon skin color, rather than evidence.

Just as it was with Gaza, it will not be deemed a crisis — and there will be no calls for cease-fire — until the fight goes both ways.

Those of you saying for them to bring on the race-war, because “we” have “them” out-numbered and out-gunned should bear in mind that Obamanation is not going to stand idly by and watch their jackals being cut down when they attack. The federal government has more weapons and has shown that they will use them to slaughter men, women and children [e.g. Waco] if a group dares to step out of line.

Then the next planned phase will kick-in: The citizenry will be disarmed, local law enforcement made subordinate to a federal entity [if not outright taken over]. Perhaps Obama and the Party of Jim Crow will then declare a State of Emergency, suspend elections and declare Martial Law.

The limit is only in what they think they can get away with, because I promise you this is what Obamanation is lusting for — and they don’t care how much blood is spilled to get what they want: absolute, arbitrary power and the replacement of Rule of Law with Might-Makes-Right.


25 posted on 06/11/2015 4:16:18 PM PDT by walford ("In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: walford
I carry a HKP7 M8, because the grip of the double-stack M13 feels uncomfortable in my hand.

But, I'm over 3/4 century old, and the emergence of larger and larger packs of feral attackers like this is causing me to seriously consider going to very high-capacity double-stacked magazines.

Standing idle while you and/or your family is/are assaulted -- no matter the color of the feral pack -- is not an acceptable option.

In this instance, 9 + 8 (spare mag) might not have sufficed for a "clean sweep" of the assailants. (But, I would expect that some would have taken flight before magazine-swap time.) Nonetheless, the issue of magazine capacity does bear some serious re-consideration.

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Unfortunately, I fear that it may take several widely-publicized "pack hose-down" responses before the ferals get it through their thick skulls that the tide has turned and their "game" is no longer "fun"...

26 posted on 06/11/2015 4:20:27 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Amen..


27 posted on 06/11/2015 4:21:07 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Indeed. I don’t think I have ever seen a MLK anything that looked like a good place to be. LOL


28 posted on 06/11/2015 4:25:27 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Look at what they did to Zimmerman and that was just one black thug. What do you suppose would happen to a white guy who drops 5 or 6 blacks in defense of his life?


29 posted on 06/11/2015 4:34:55 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: walford

Definitely a family friendly event that needs concealed carry. Seriously, if you are attacked by a mob, shoot any that approach you, and if they charge, have your knife in your other hand.

And if it turns into a Ferguson after you leave, it’s not your problem.


30 posted on 06/11/2015 4:39:33 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: walford
Carry everywhere you go and be prepared to defend yourself. There are animals loose on the streets.
31 posted on 06/11/2015 4:47:05 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: walford

If white folks had a brain they would DESTROY Florence Alabama’s bad neighborhoods this weekend.


32 posted on 06/11/2015 4:47:06 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: The Toll

Yea, where are the freaking skinheads? Too busy selling meth?


33 posted on 06/11/2015 4:53:21 PM PDT by walford ("In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: walford

Hee hee. Skinheads? They died off after the Geraldoassic period.


34 posted on 06/11/2015 5:00:21 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: RightOnTheBorder

You’re assuming the white guy lives through the attack.

Someone will capture it on a camera somewhere.

Disparity of Force. That’s what is on our side. When people are gang attacked, attacked by surprise, outnumbered, even if they may not have firearms, the victim can fight back with equal or greater force. Throw into it if they are attacking an elderly person, a person protecting a child, a disabled person, an already-injured person, a person that’s deaf, for example, a small person, and those are additional disparity of force justifications for it.

It’s time white people wake up.

Only the white european countries are taking in other groups and told they are racist if they don’t.

Onyl white europeans are told they have to abandon and not celebrate their cultures because its not inclusive.

Everywhere else that isn’t white, we see none of this crap. Nobody else in the world is told to accept other cultures and change and make room for them, to celebrate stuff they don’t want to celebrate, to take in other cultures or else they are racist. They get to retain their identities and only white europeans have to give theirs up because

most whites are stupid and believe white guilt and stupid to think that forced, unnatural (ie the liberal pc busing way of diversity, the majority suffers at the expense of the minority, the majority culture is suspended for the minority) diversity makes things better.

THis is destroying white european cultures. On purpose. And whites are refusing to see it, and largely afraid to say anything about it.

They are going to give their kids a far less safer world to get the living crap beaten out of them by roving minority gangs of people. People who do this kind of thing. ANd many will die from it. They will be like the libtard reporters pulled from their car by rioting blacks and beaten nearly dead.

Wake up. Wake the eff up. There is a global war on white europeans and their cultural identities. We are told to abandon that stuff because of minorities deliberately being allowed to flood these countries, and the very same people who allow this to occur are the same who then say the welfare systems paid by whites must fund these minority immigrants, and when these minority immigrants are violent and break the laws they say they need to be given passes because their cultures don’t live by the white european laws and cultures.

This occurs nowhere else in the world. It is proof white cultures are being targeted for eradication. All the while they are feeding whites the lines that they are racist if they oppose it. Hence why whites haven’t objected strongly to this going on to date.


35 posted on 06/11/2015 5:04:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“...Everywhere else that isn’t white, we see none of this crap. Nobody else in the world is told to accept other cultures and change and make room for them, to celebrate stuff they don’t want to celebrate, to take in other cultures or else they are racist. They get to retain their identities and only white europeans have to give theirs up...”


Multiculturalism: Every culture is valid and worth preserving except your own.

Cultural Relativism: Every other culture can only do good, while your own can only do evil — particularly if the other culture begets tyranny, war and poverty while yours promotes peace, prosperity and freedom.


36 posted on 06/11/2015 5:09:49 PM PDT by walford ("In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: walford

Multiculturalism: Every culture is valid and worth preserving except a majority-white culture. This is more accurate. This is representative of what we see around the world. Other places don’t fall for the crap of multiculturalism because they can’t trick the people using white guilt. Only white cultures are dumb enough to fall for white guilt.

Cultural Relativism: Every other culture can only do good, while white european culture can only do evil. Beneficial aspects of white culture are ignored and downplayed, their flaws and failures are exaggerated. Minority cultures’ flaws and failures are hidden and not discussed, good things are only mentioned, and if few of those can be found, they are grossly exaggerated/made up.


37 posted on 06/11/2015 5:17:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well, the “white” part is implied. Multiculturalism and Cultural Relativism were invented by Europeans and is only intended to apply to those of European descent.

That is why, in response the astronomical increase in rapes perpetrated by Muslims upon European women, the latter are told that they must accommodate their new neighbors stop behaving and dressing like European women in European countries.

There is, of course, no expectation that the new neighbors should adjust to their host culture. Heaven forfend!


38 posted on 06/11/2015 5:27:59 PM PDT by walford ("In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: walford

The usurper is proud of his sons.


39 posted on 06/11/2015 5:36:23 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Very poor SA on the part of the father. Bet it doesn’t happen again, and I doubt the 14 year-old is going to be real receptive to black whining about “white privilege.”


40 posted on 06/11/2015 5:45:26 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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