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LMPD Chief: Teens at Big 4 Bridge had gathered to remember TARC stabbing victim
Posted: Mar 25, 2014 10:54 AM CDT Updated: Mar 25, 2014 3:36 PM CDT By Danielle Lama - email LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Community leaders and city officials are trying to make sure that an outbreak of violence similar to what occurred this past weekend doesn't happen again. Police responded to several assaults and robberies throughout downtown Saturday night. LMPD Chief Steve Conrad says 10 people were attacked by teens who gathered to remember a stabbing victim. "We take this personal. We are going to hold people accountable for their behaviors," said Conrad. City officials promise a larger police presence downtown and at Waterfront Park. This weekend there will be a big convention in town and baseball games. "We don't expect any type of problem. People are more comfortable when police are around," Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said. Police are reviewing surveillance videos and taking tips after Saturday's violence that started after police dispersed the crowd at the bridge involving a mob of around 200 teens that attacked and robbed people at Waterfront Park. Many of those in the crowd also stormed Bader's Food Mart on South First Street, assaulting the clerk as he tried to lock the doors. Conrad says investigators have learned the teens originally gathered at the bridge to remember TARC stabbing victim Me'Quale Offutt. "People came together at the park to remember Me'Quale," Conrad said during the meeting Tuesday organized by the group ManUp. "I do not believe -- and based on what we were able to see on social media that we looked at, public postings -- that there was any information that we were going to come to the park to cause damage, that we were going to come to the park to rob people, or come to the park to assault people." A spokesperson for Me'Quale Offutt's family tells WDRB the family's event to remember the 14-year-old happened Friday and without incident. While the investigation continues into who's to blame for Saturday night, police say to tackle big picture problem, they need help. City officials say they already have a broad community response in place to respond to these types of incidents-- like the Safe and Healthy Community team. "We have young people who are out of control and we've got to deal with that. This is not a race issue, this is a problem with the young people in the community," said the Mayor's Chief Community Builder Sadiqa Reynolds. Efforts from community leaders in coming weeks will include visiting spots around town where large groups of kids come together. "When kids gather there we want to be there and then start putting in some positive reinforcements there and connect them with mentors," said Safe Neighborhoods Director Anthony Smith. There are also community meetings planned in West Louisville Thursday to talk to teens about violence and what happened over the weekend, Reynolds says. http://www.wdrb.com/story/25067647/l...tabbing-victim Eric Johansen · Louisville, Kentucky That's funny. It took them 3 days to dream up a valid reason for a gathering of "youths". I guess after the vigil it was time to get down to the usual order of business. Reply · Like · 14 · Follow Post · Yesterday at 12:03pm David Nevitt · Top Commenter Hell,it's two different days,Chief. Friday was the family's event,Saturday the attacks. Earlier they said,the mayor and chief,that another nearby attack was not related to the Bader's incident. Speaking of bridges,wanna buy one? Reply · Like · 3 · 19 hours ago Debbie Jones Best · Top Commenter I don't believe their "reason" for gathering. Reply · Like · 4 · Follow Post · Yesterday at 12:04pm Gary EvenMe Billings · Louisville, Kentucky Reason? That's more like an excuse. But, giving the benefit of the doubt to the 'reason', should I assume that the young man who tragically lost his life was friends with these people and if so can we assume he too had this type attitude when 'rollin' with his friends? And if that be the case, is it possible that he may have provoked the confrontation that led to his losing his life? Many questions arise that have yet to be answered. Reply · Like · 12 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Jim Cosby · Louisville, Kentucky I wonder if Me'Quale's spirit feels honored by yet more ridiculous violence. Reply · Like · 4 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Tim Rout · Loss Prevention Manager at Lowe's Home Improvement It's really sad the community is trying to justify the actions of these youths. Reply · Like · 8 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Ed Hamilton · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Why don't the police scan the social network pages of the kids names they have? Oh that's right, hate to invade the privacy of anyone. How about the radical idea of putting a curfew of 6 PM on TARC for kids under 18. If anyone has rode the 23 and 18 buses then you might understand my point. 14 year old gets stabbed on TARC @ 1030 at night? How do kids get to these gatherings? m sure their parents take them,,,,lol Reply · Like · 4 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Ed Hamilton · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Also TARC drivers should be trained that if a bunch of kids get off at the same stop that late at night at a park to have police noted. My bad that's profiling Reply · Like · 5 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Marcus Maraldo · Works at Goat Herder oh thank god, now that i know this its all okay. wait what? so somebody gets killed by an individual and they have a vigil for them. so far im following, that makes sense. but then they start assaulting a little girl and the man that tried to defend her? so let me get this straight somebody was murdered and no one came to their defense but to rally against these types of acts of violence we go out assault people and the people that try to defend them - then we go and rob stores and assault others to secure the memory of our friend? how do we end this? violence creates more violence. im not saying you shouldnt defend yourself - you should, but we as people need to figure out other ways beside just 'packing' to make it better Reply · Like · 5 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Laura Kamer Warren · Top Commenter · Providence High School It just sickens me how ignorant people act over in Louisville, these kids are nothing but ghetto garbs coming out of the projects like cockroaches. There are never no consequences for their actions, they rob, steal, kill each other its freakin just right down ignorance, why dont they push their grandparents down, break their glasses and bruise them up, push and harrass their sister around rob her, beat up their brothers, fathers, uncles etc...Its got to stop sometime make it now! They kill someone their out in 6 months if any time at all. Its like they control the streets and cops cant do anything about it. I realize most of them grow up in crack ally probably most of the parents are crack heads but thats no reason not to better themselves, they are just plain and simple unruly punks that needs to be stopped and have harsh punishments.If I was govenor none of the punks would be aloud to be on the bridge or waterfront period without the parents! There isnt enough money in the world for me to live over there, no way Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Cover Up That's why you're not GOVERNOR...STUPID!!!! Reply · Like · 2 · 19 hours ago Rob Richeson · Sellersburg, Indiana What a joke, just like our community, so called activist and city leaders. This is a pure BS cover up regarding a bunch of wild animals that aren't yet civilized. Pathetic Reply · Like · 7 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago ---------------------------------------------------- Ron Castle · Follow · Top Commenter · Iroquois High School Such an outstanding way to show remembrance. How about you try to become productive members of society instead of thugs next time. Hopefully, if this ever happens again, several will be dropped like the piece of garbage they truly are. Exit wounds are a fashion statement these punks need. Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Lori Vincent · Top Commenter · Milltown, Indiana thugs Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 23 hours ago Tony Thieneman · Top Commenter · Floyd Central High School They gather to remember a kid stabbed by a black guy so they decide to go out and vandalize ,steal and beat up people is that the best you can do Chief,Louisville need's a new Chief!!!!!!! Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · 22 hours ago M. Desiree Callan · University of Louisville Again Covering up something that would make the city look bad. Just admit that there were not enough officers on duty for that big of a crowd Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 22 hours ago Kari Wick · Top Commenter I don't believe that for a second. That does not explain the violence. Why is he making excuses for them? I am sure the victims are thrilled to hear this. Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 22 hours ago Todd McKinley · Works at JayC Food Stores Who cares about the reason they gathered. The point is that this happenef and the bigger point is what is lmpd going to do about this problem that has been going on long before the attack that garnered media attention? Reply · Like · 4 · Follow Post · 20 hours ago Charlene Watts Brown · Top Commenter · Eastern Kentucky University Unfortunately, we know what they are going to do about it---NOTHING. This has been going on for years but they don't allow the public to know about it. We might be smart enough to stay away from downtown if they let it be known. Now they are going to talk to some kids. Whoa, won't that scare the ones that beat people and come back to make fun of them?! Stupid same old talk! Reply · Like · 3 · 18 hours ago Steve Vesel · Top Commenter · Works at Jefferson County Public Schools Yeah Todd, unfortunately nothing will change. The LMPD brass hope this will eventually blow over. But with Thunder coming up in a couple weeks, hopefully this will stay front page news to pressure LMPD into some kind of move other than sticking their collective heads in the ground. They must really think they are doing the citizens of the Metro a service to NOT tell them all the dangers of going downtown. Reply · Like · 2 · 14 hours ago Fred Richardson That's the LMPD Chief 's story and he is sticking to it Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 19 hours ago Darrell Neil · Follow goverment fed animals Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · 19 hours ago Charlene Watts Brown · Top Commenter · Eastern Kentucky University Talk, talk talk that is all that will be done while these innocent people are paying medical bill and the rest of us are fearful to come to work in the city. I don't give a rat's why they were there--they were and they were criminal. Do not tell me more excuses--give me names and charge some of them. Make an arrest otherwise you are just putting a stamp of approval on it and guaranteeing that the next one will be bigger and more dangerous. Wait til Thunder! Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 18 hours ago Sherry Cutcher- Highbaugh · Follow · Top Commenter · CMA at Pediatric Associates of Louisville omg.. yeah.. wow.. that was some remembrance. yeah.. let's roam the streets like rats and beat innocent people up.. I'm getting my concealed weapon permit for reasons just like this..!~ Reply · Like · 3 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Larry Hibbs · Top Commenter · Southern High Schooll I think the reason for gathering was exactly what happened, gather and cause trouble to innocent folks that should be able to use what our money is being used to build. Until the city fixes the problem and quit making excuses people should just stay out of town and don't go to any planned events. Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 14 hours ago Eric Childers · University of Kentucky how many blacks were assaulted if their isn't then it was a racist assault that took place at these locations Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · 14 hours ago Steven Wagner · Top Commenter · Jefferson Community and Technical College This is what you get after a couple generations of Democrats breaking down the family unit, Church, and schools. A complete generation that has no accountability for actions because there is no consequences to their actions. Whats funny is these people will end up in prison eventually. Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 12 hours ago Phil Parrish · Elizabethtown Technical College "We have young people who are out of control and we've got to deal with that. This is not a race issue, this is a problem with the young people in the community," said the Mayor's Chief Community Builder Sadiqa Reynolds. This is not a race issue???? Why is it that a large group of black kids attack and assault multiple white people is not a race issue??? If it had been white kids attacking the blacks, you can bet your bottom dollar that it would be labeled as a racist act! Our local Metro Government wants us to close our eyes and pretend that a problem does not exist. I refuse to do so! Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 9 hours ago racial comments always somehow find their way to the bottom, and somehow is editor's thumb pushing them down there Last edited by Alex Linder; March 26th, 2014 at 01:11 PM. |
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Point is, you can see that the semiliterate whites of the area fully understand what's going on, many of them:
- they know the downtown is not safe - they know it's niggers making it unsafe - they know the mayor, police chief and media try to hide this from the public |
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Louisville to add Waterfront Park cameras in wake of weekend violence
Posted: Mar 26, 2014 12:39 PM CDT Updated: Mar 26, 2014 12:50 PM CDT By Marcus Green Quote:
At the same time, Louisville Metro Police have undertaken a comprehensive review of the downtown surveillance camera network, including potentially tying in cameras on private businesses. In remarks to reporters, Fischer said cameras at Waterfront Park will be in place before the popular Thunder Over Louisville air show and fireworks display on April 12. "Cameras are proven deterrents around the country. This type of activity that took place Saturday night is not tolerable. We're not going to allow it," Fischer said. "We're going to make the necessary investments, whether it's manpower with increased police presence, or capital expenditures like this with cameras to make sure that we have every possible safety measure in place." In addition, Fischer said authorities have beefed up their monitoring of social media sites. According to police, groups of young people attacked 10 people downtown Saturday night, including an initial attack at Waterfront Park. |
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Ch 6 (CBS) in Richmond, Va ran this story tonight on the 11pm news. They showed a clip of a White woman with a black eye. From what I gather her husband made the mistake of stopping and getting out of his vehicle. She said something about he was afraid that he was going to run over some of "the kids" in the street. Why didn't he keep the windows rolled up and floor it? Would anyone fault him for protecting his wife and 3 kids from a mob?
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Timeline and map of last Saturday's chimpout in Louisville
http://www.courier-journal.com/story...-step/6981285/
Here are some highlights from the article: Within minutes, 10 teenagers on the bridge shoved another man to the ground, beat and kicked him, as his wife and granddaughters watched and wept. More than 30 people called to report trouble. Police have counted at least 20 crimes, and suspect there are more that have yet to be reported. "They were organized and nobody else was," Jean Henry said of the mob that knocked her 61-year-old husband to the ground on the Big Four Bridge, then beat and kicked him. "When I was running to my husband, I looked around. I couldn't tell who was in the group and who just happened to be up there. People were in shock, I think that's why nobody helped us." At 7:23, just minutes after the two attacks on the bridge, police received a call of trouble nearby. A group of teenagers apparently decided they wanted a 13-year-old girl's sneakers. They punched and kicked her as they robbed the child of her iPhone and her purse. A 30-year-old stranger tried to come to her aid. The mob turned on him; someone stole his wallet, while another took his cell phone. Between 8 and 8:30 p.m., back at Waterfront Park, a group of teens punched a 15-year-old in the face and stole his cell phone and wallet. A police officer there attempted to stop a teenager, who "pulled away from the officer and postured himself in an aggressive manner and balled his fists," one incident report states. The officer ticketed the boy for menacing. He was released to his parents, Mitchell said. A few minutes later, around 8:45, about 60 teens stormed Bader's Foot Mart on South First Street, about a mile from Waterfront Park. Employees tried to block the door, said Najisha McCubbins, a clerk whose husband also was working the store. The group piled up outside. Employees could see them organizing: they said "ready, set, 1, 2, 3" and charged. They pushed inside and beat McCubbins' husband him on the head, according to the police report. Surveillance footage shows the teenagers grabbing candy and chips as they fled. The group moved down Liberty Street, where a 25-year-old woman was stopped at a stoplight around 8:55 p.m., according to the report. "Out of nowhere," she told police, a group of between 30 and 40 teenage boys surrounded her car and banged on it. They threw trash cans and rocks at her. One reached through her open window and punched her in the face. Minutes later and two blocks away at South Second and West Liberty streets, a 53-year-old man sitting in his truck watched as a horde of teens circled him, cursing and banging on the side of his pickup. He got out and told them to leave him alone. They punched him in the face and stole the cell phone from his shirt pocket. Then they climbed onto the hood of his truck and kicked in the windshield. Around the same time at Sixth and Broadway,the mob attacked a 37-year-old man riding a yellow bicycle along Sixth. They knocked him off the bike, then punched and kicked him in the head. The group fled with the man's bike, leaving him bleeding on the sidewalk from a cut to the head. The accounts of the attacks in this article only skim the surface of what happened. There were many more not mentioned, but it gives the reader a general idea of how events unfolded. Reading how it's presented here gives the impression of a semi-organized, military style, hit and run attack on hapless white victims! Scary shit! Is this a precursor to similar attacks across the country? Last edited by J Roberts; March 28th, 2014 at 03:53 PM. |
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Police memo shows teen mob violence in last 3 months
by WHAS11 WHAS11.com Posted on March 27, 2014 at 6:18 PM Updated Friday, Mar 28 at 9:01 AM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11)—The WHAS11 I-Team has obtained new information about what LMPD knew about teen mobs before Saturday’s incidents. WHAS11 obtained a letter from Colonel Yvette Gentry with LMPD. The memo is written to those with the community group Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative. In the memo Gentry said over the past few months flash mobs of violence from teens has been an issue that has left numerous citizens victimized and some with serious injuries. These incidents are not just at Waterfront Park, but at various locations through the city. The memo said children as young as 11-years-old are involved in groups of 30 or more children. Police said the information they had previously did not involve any type of attacks like what we saw Saturday at the Waterfront Park. Additional officers are in place at the Big Four Bridge and at the Waterfront Park, in addition to 4th Street Live. http://www.whas11.com/home/Police-me...252769291.html [dont seem to be or be allowing any FB comments on this story. well....appears they allow comments but no one made one? hard to believe] |
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Link here is to a "topix" board discussion with 127 comments, last one made about 12 minutes ago, most of the posts are made by those who are fed up with the boon violence.
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They are in full swing with their kum-ba-ya schtick now, libtards sure would have loved to have had a candlelight vigil/march but they were probably to afraid to go out at night and experience more that diversity has to offer Louisville.
This march will magically make niggers act civilized. http://www.courier-journal.com/story...-walk/7083997/ |
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Kike media already going to bat for two of the savages arrested, typical "theys good keedz" bullshit.
http://www.wave3.com/story/25109741/...laim-innocence |
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[notice how it just opens up with just a little tap up top - this is what WN can do, make people comfortable speaking openly about race]
http://www.courier-journal.com/story...128#f3acc92d48 125 comments Also post on Facebook Posting as Alex Linder (Change) Alex Linder · Top Commenter · Pomona College Boy, our policy of pretending blacks are people is really working out well, huh? I love how the white man beaten by blacks "claims" it, but the city saying these wildings aren't race-related "says" it. The reporter is more of a coverer-up, a tool servicing authority. Reply · Like · 12 · Unfollow Post · March 25 at 2:55pm Steve Brann · Works at Gotham City "Of the 10 victims of Saturday's violence, 20 percent are black. He broke down the race and gender of each known victim: seven white men, one white women, one black man and a 13-year-old black girl."-----Translation: During the assaults on white people some "spillover" crimes were committed and some tennis shoes got jacked. Reply · Like · 8 · March 25 at 4:47pm Steve Magruder · Follow · Top Commenter · General Manager / Web Programmer at WebCommons :: Media You're a racist swinebag. Reply · Like · 2 · March 26 at 8:01am Ted Laun · Follow · Top Commenter · Trinity High School "our policy of pretending blacks are people" really? Reply · Like · 1 · March 26 at 8:32am View 7 more Steve Shaughnessy Jr. · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky More disturbing than the events themselves is the ignorance these people are spewing and trying to convince the public this is not racial. Can you for one second imagine if the tables were turned? HOLY COW! Then it would be labeled hate crimes and they'd all be in jail. Reply · Unlike · 25 · Follow Post · March 25 at 4:14pm Steve James · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Steve your people are the greatest thieves, robbers, rapists and murderers that the world has ever known. Reply · Like · 1 · March 25 at 8:41pm Steve Riggs · Top Commenter Steve james I see you are from Baltimore why'd you leave. Did the city go broke? I'm sure you are a welfare gypsy going wherever you get the biggest handout. How are things at the Louisville hotel? Reply · Unlike · 9 · March 26 at 4:49am Steve James · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Steve Riggs this just further go to show your ignorance and how racist your people really are. For you to assume that I am on welfare and that my people represent the bulk of people on welfare yet we only occupy 13% of the population is beyond me. If you really want to see who is benefitting from welfare you should look at you own people. Just FYI I live a very opulent lifestyle and choice Baltimore because of it's culture I also have a home in L'ville on St. James Court and an apt in London England that doesn't take a back sit to you or anybody else. So go figure and yes I am a thug or whatever racist code word that you and your people best describe me. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1165485 Reply · Like · 1 · March 26 at 9:34am Reed Matthews · Top Commenter Not the first or last time this sort of violence will happen! The community is well aware that these terrorizing and pillaging incidents have been around for years. Downtown is not the only part of town this violence has happened. Dixie Manor businesses have experienced this before. A couple of years ago at Dixie Manor, police called in eight tarc buses to send these unruly teens back to the West End. They stormed a store at Blanton and Manslick doing a snatch and grab. Call it what it is: Terrorizing and Pillaging of innocent citizens! Reply · Unlike · 14 · Follow Post · Edited · March 25 at 2:40pm Reed Matthews · Top Commenter The incident at Dixie Manor most of the kids were from the West End according to the police that order in the buses. Also, why are the West End leaders so involved in this incident if these kids were not from the west end? The Rev. Kevin Cosby, senior pastor at St. Stephen Church and president of Simmons College, “beefed-up police force is not the answer to these cases.” “The answer.” he said, “is beefed-up investment in west Louisville.” Reply · Like · 5 · Edited · March 25 at 7:46pm Steve James · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky The West End leaders that you speak of are members of the Clergy and if you knew anything about politics you would know that the Black community has always been lead by clergy members. Some people chose to follow the path of the late MLK. Some choose to follow Re. Kevin Cosby and others me personally I akin to follow the path of the Honorable Nat Turner. Reply · Like · March 26 at 9:39am Reed Matthews · Top Commenter http://www.examiner.com/article/the-...aterfront-park http://www.wdrb.com/story/25061641/b...lated-incident http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/roving-bl...any-to-ignore/ Reply · Like · Edited · March 26 at 9:54am View 2 more Steve Riggs · Top Commenter This is absolutely race based. Same race of people doing the same old thing. Same class of people(the ruling class) making excuses for them. Stop going to the YUM center and they will change their tune. Reply · Unlike · 14 · Unfollow Post · March 25 at 5:25pm Steve Magruder · Follow · Top Commenter · General Manager / Web Programmer at WebCommons :: Media Except that violent people are found in all races. Try again. Reply · Like · 4 · March 26 at 8:00am Steve Riggs · Top Commenter Magruder really. Who committed 80 percent of the murders the past few years. You're living in a fantasy world Reply · Like · 3 · March 26 at 8:55am Steve James · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Steve Riggs you statistics are completely off. What percentage of White people committed White murders. Get outta here. You are looking for any chance to advance your racist cause but it won't work on me. You are a lightweight. Tell me just one race of people that have committed more atrocities against mankind that your people. Just one. Everything that Hitler did he learned from what your people did to the Afrikan slave. Reply · Like · 1 · March 26 at 9:42am View 2 more David Johnson · Cincinnati, Ohio Hey white people: get a gang together and roam the west end beating and robbing anyone you see. Don't worry about being arrested, I'm sure you will just be "dispersed". Reply · Like · 12 · Follow Post · March 25 at 3:21pm William Turner · Top Commenter · University of North Alabama The problem is, if white people were to do this, it will be reported as racial terrorism and every colored mouth piece, including Obama, will be in Louisville screaming for justice. Reply · Unlike · 12 · March 25 at 3:40pm Kita Davis · Top Commenter · Tennessee State University yeah, they did that from like 1800-1970's. Reply · Like · 7 · March 25 at 7:41pm David Johnson · Cincinnati, Ohio Kira: mob violence is wrong no matter the skin color of the mob and the victims. What I was making a point about was the inaction by the LMPD. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that were not saying the current violence is acceptable payback. Reply · Like · 6 · March 25 at 9:18pm View 9 more Stanley P Haas · Top Commenter · University of Louisville It is definitely black on white crime. City officials have their heads stuck in the sand to say otherwise. Reply · Like · 12 · Follow Post · March 25 at 2:22pm Mike Trautmann · Top Commenter · Works at The Courier-Journal At least 2 of the victims were black. Reply · Like · 4 · March 25 at 2:37pm L Destined Cox · Top Commenter · Eastern Kentucky University That's right...that's why there were NO black victims.... Reply · Like · March 25 at 5:29pm Ted Laun · Follow · Top Commenter · Trinity High School L Destined Cox Is is sad isn't it? Reply · Like · March 26 at 8:37am View 2 more Kathy Cheatham · Top Commenter Who gives a rats butt if this was racially motivated or not? As a matter of fact..who gives a rats butt why it happened? I only care that it DID happen. Mayor Fischer can tell people on the couch to get up all he wants but fact is, this is his baby. He needs to address it. Stop making excuses for it and start producing those responsible. Reply · Like · 11 · Follow Post · March 25 at 7:55pm Ted Laun · Follow · Top Commenter · Trinity High School If you don't deal with why it happened, it will continue to happen. Reply · Unlike · 4 · March 26 at 7:43am Kathy Cheatham · Top Commenter I understand what you are saying. However, I believe that what happens when you behave that way is the best preventative. At least it was when I was growing up. Reply · Like · 2 · March 26 at 7:49am Charles Vernia · Top Commenter · New Albany, Indiana I hold the parents responsible for all of this. Where are they? Perhaps I may be old school, but when my kids where 14 they were never out at 1:30AM by themselves. Seldom where they our at 1:30AM period. The Adults need to start acting like adults and parents. Reply · Like · 9 · Follow Post · March 25 at 3:16pm L Destined Cox · Top Commenter · Eastern Kentucky University I agree, but everything mostly happened around 7:30 PM...it was not that late. We aren't talking about kids that were out late at night. Reply · Like · March 25 at 5:26pm Robert Buttons · Top Commenter · School of Life and Hard Knocks The only "parents" they have is the government. Reply · Like · 6 · March 25 at 9:31pm Anne Milligan · Top Commenter · Artist, Musician, Singer, Master Gardener at Me myself and i Robert Buttons: No actually a lot of them have mothers who work to survive. And some of them have two parents who work to survive. Reply · Like · 2 · March 25 at 11:28pm View 2 more L Destined Cox · Top Commenter · Eastern Kentucky University I don't know how anyone can think this is race related. Many thugs have been terrorizing the West End for years....but I guess it was OK because it was blacks terrorizing other blacks. Who cares about them, right. It bothers me so much because my Aunt (in her 60s) and grandmother (in her 90s) live in the West End. My grandmother's house and the house next to hers has been broken into. It is so sad because The West End was a nice place years ago. Now even older blacks are scared. Many older blacks own their homes and can't afford to just move away. But nobody cares about them. As a black woman, I have known for years there are certain areas I don't go to at night. I'm not any less likely to get attacked because I'm black. If you think that, then you are crazy. The young people today are a different breed. They don't...See More Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · Edited · March 25 at 6:47pm Terry Gray · Top Commenter · Southern New Hampshire University I don't recall any gangs of 200 whites terrorizing anyone. You have a point but that point was invalidated once the violence spilled out of the West end. A mob can attack their own race but when that same mob, at a later date, attacks another race, it is racial. Maybe all the violence in the west end was just practice. Reply · Like · 3 · March 26 at 7:58am Ted Laun · Follow · Top Commenter · Trinity High School Terry Gray It is obvious to any reasonable person these kids were attacking anyone who got in their way. Reply · Like · 1 · March 26 at 8:40am L Destined Cox · Top Commenter · Eastern Kentucky University Terry Gray The point I was trying to make is that race of the attackers and victims are irrelevant to me. The situation should have never happened....period. Everyone should focus on the finding the actual attackers instead of painting every young black person from the West End with the same brush. Reply · Like · 2 · March 26 at 2:53pm Jim Carter · Top Commenter · Owner-Operator at Self Employed and Loving It! What type of throwback still uses the word "colored"? How can you embrace the Internet, but still be stuck in 1950s with your language? Do you drive a 60 year old car? How about your TV, is it a B & W? If you're not going to read AND understand the story, then shut your stupid, redneck pie hole. Some of the victims were B L A C K. Get it? B L A C K and W H I T E victims. Some of the "victims" were also unknown, as they were parked cars. Who knows, maybe some of the owners were A S I A N or whatever 1950s slang you care to cough up. Reply · Like · 6 · Follow Post · March 25 at 4:46pm Steve Riggs · Top Commenter You mean the two colored people who tried to stop the store from being looted? REALLY. Don't think that is relevant. Reply · Like · 3 · March 25 at 5:58pm William Turner · Top Commenter · University of North Alabama "Colored" is much more appropriate here than some other choice words that come to mind regarding this type behavior. . Reply · Like · 7 · March 25 at 8:20pm Steve James · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Well Wiliam feel comfortable saying the word. I am sure you use it daily among family and friends. 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Louisville looks to other cities for lessons on flash mobs
Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal.com; 4:27 a.m. EDT March 30, 2014 Three years ago in Germantown, Md., dozens of teens, mobilized by social media, descended on a 7-Eleven and ransacked the shelves. That same year, as many as 1,000 teenagers, drawn by Twitter and email terrorized a city Fourth of July celebration in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights. Quote:
Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad said last week that he plans to seek advice from cities such as Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia, which were once plagued by roving gangs of teenagers but have managed to get a handle on the problem. The solution, The Courier-Journal found, may include a combination of stepped-up enforcement, savvy monitoring of social media such as Twitter and Facebook, and possibly legislation to curb mob behavior. The Philadelphia approach Philadelphia officials say that flash mob violence initially caught them flat footed, but their response has been cited as a national model. First, Mayor Michael Nutter — who is black, like many of the city's flash mobbers — rejected the notion that race or city spending cuts played any part in the disturbances. "I don't think people should be finding excuses for inappropriate behavior," Nutter told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "There is no racial component to stupid behavior, and parents should not be looking to the government to provide entertainment for their children." The city stepped up enforcement of a 9 p.m. weekend teen curfew, began holding parents legally responsible for their children's behavior, and threatened to cut back hours that students could use free bus passes, to limit their ability to ride downtown. Police — with help from the FBI — began monitoring social media. They put bike and foot-patrol officers on the streets when they knew teens were going to congregate, and they adopted a zero-tolerance policy to prevent crowds from forming, said department spokesman Lt. John Stanford. They also enforced statutes on breaching the peace and unlawful assembly, lawyer Lauren Claycomb wrote in a University of Louisville law review article that hailed Philadelphia's response. Schools, police and privacy security companies joined to blast text messages about gathering crowds to 7,000 people who subscribed to an early-warning system called Alert Philadelphia, the Inquirer reported. The police department worked with downtown high schools to stagger dismissal times, reached out to students on Facebook, and recruited hip-hop artists to go on radio and TV to urge teens to end the violence. Juvenile courts also cracked down — 10 offenders were ordered to dress mannequins and greet people at the department store they had plundered. The efforts worked, Inquirer columnist Dan Rubin wrote in September 2012, after a summer that was flash mob-free. "Communication and cooperation across many agencies contributed, as did more creative programming and policing. And sometimes trends just ebb," he said, quoting one teen who said the episodes were just "a fashion." Louisville is already embracing some of those tactics. Responding to last Saturday's mob violence in Louisville, Conrad said the department has beefed up patrols on foot, bike, horseback and in squad cars. Two officers will be stationed at the foot of the Big Four Bridge around the clock. Mayor Greg Fischer also unveiled a $227,000 plan to add 24 cameras to the city's security. And TARC said it is increasing security on buses but declined to provide details or say if a guard will be posted on every bus. Going hi-tech Some cities and states have tried more high-tech measures to thwart flash mobs, while others have proposed legislation. To pre-empt a mob that was intent on disrupting train services in San Francisco, Bay Area Rapid Transit officials turned off its underground fiber-optic network on Aug. 11, 2011, disabling cellphones and Wi-Fi service — a decision that sparked widespread condemnation from civil libertarians, politicians and some members of the public. It appeared to work, though: No protesters materialized. In Illinois last year, responding to groups of teens who had run amok on Chicago's glitzy Magnificent Mile shopping district, scaring shoppers and tourists, Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law doubling from three to six years the penalty for anyone who uses social media to organize a violent flash mob. Kentucky has no such statute, although First Assistant County Attorney Julie Lott Hardesty said a felony charge of rioting in the first degree, a felony punishable by 1 to 5 years, could be imposed for the violent mob conduct March 22 in Louisville. Other efforts to criminalize similar behavior elsewhere have hit legal snags. A move to criminalize flash mobs in in Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania ran aground because of First Amendment concerns. Cleveland's City Council enacted an emergency ordinance in 2011 to "prohibit the improper use of social media to induce persons to commit a criminal offense." But Mayor Frank Johnson immediately vetoed it, saying that laws must not "unduly interfere with the rights of law abiding citizens." The ACLU had said the proposed law might impinge on the right of peaceful assembly. Business tactics Increasingly, retailers also have focused on what have been dubbed "flash robs" — also known as "swarming" and grab-and-runs — in which youths are summoned by social media to target specific stores. The National Retail Federation in 2011 polled retailers nationwide to gauge the impact of multiple-offender crimes — including flash robs — and found that 79 percent had been a victim over the previous 12 months and that 10 percent of those offenses involved flash-mob tactics. The retail group issued recommendations urging retailers to monitor social networks and websites for announcements of planned events and to have salespeople immediately report to store security when large gatherings of people are spotted inside stores or directly outside. Mob mentality Experts such as Christopher Ferguson, who studies makes excuses for violent behavior among youths at Florida's Stetson University, said random flash mob violence often stems from "anger that has been seething for a long time." He said it usually arises in the context of "perceived social disparities" in communities with high unemployment, where there are disparities in incomes that may have "festered for generations." Some of those attributes can be seen in Louisville's West End, where a lack of jobs and economic opportunity have prompted community residents and public officials to demand greater public and private investment. Black teens said last week at a city-sponsored forum that the city needs to invest more on beautification west of 9th Street and less downtown, and that churches also need to contribute. blackmail: give us money or we'll riot Councilwomen Mary Woolridge and Vicki Aubrey Welch noted at a special meeting that they have no recreational facilities in their districts, while Barbar Shanklin said those in hers are inadequate. "If you don't have somewhere safe to go, you're going somewhere," she said. Ferguson said members of mob groups "whip each other up" and that some participants just want to "engage in mayhem to throw off all of society's shackles." "Once the ball gets rolling, its hard to get control of it," he said. Another authority, Mark Leary, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, has likened a violent flash mob to a "spontaneous street gang." What is new is that social media makes it easier to recruit a larger group of people, he has written, including individuals who would not rob a store or riot on their own but feel freer to do so in an anonymous group. "It's more fun to do wild things in a group than by yourself," he said. Reporter Andrew Wolfson can be reached at (502) 582-7189 About flash mobs Named by Harper's magazine editor who staged the first one, flash mobs started innocently enough. On June 17, 2003, 130 people converged on the rug department of New York's Macy's department store, said they wanted to buy a "love rug," then silently dispersed, leaving bewildered customers behind. Similar playful acts followed around the world as participants — drawn together by social media — froze in place in subway stations, chirped like birds on bridges, and engaged in pillow fights in shopping malls. But more recently, the events have taken a darker turn in cities such as Cleveland and Philadelphia. yeah except those earlier events were whites being wacky, and the other ones were niggers being niggers. the idea that they're related is a deliberate lie. http://www.courier-journal.com/story...-mobs/7030697/ Jerry Shepard · Follow · Top Commenter · Fairdale High School Stop calling it a Flash Mob. It was a racial riot. These idiots need to be dealt with in a strong manner by LMPD, with billy clubs and bust some heads open! Why should innocent citizens be subjected to this and these SCUMBAGS get off with a slap on the wrist? I'm sick of the liberal administration of this city wanting to find ways to occupy these POS time........punish them, eliminate them, etc!!!! Enough is ENOUGH! Do NOT care what their lame problems might be.....just stop their sorry a**** from destroying law & order at ANY COST!!!! Reply · Like · 5 · Follow Post · March 29 at 5:36pm Vic Patrick · Top Commenter Jerry Shepard If you think that was riot I don't think you've ever seen a riot, even on TV. Also I don't think you've been reading the news of the last week. If you had you would know that the same thing happens in that area regularly. There is a group of punks who figured out that the police were told not to make any arrests north of Broadway and east of 4th street and to discourage anyone who wanted to report a crime in that area. They wanted official crime reports to make the area seem crime free. So whenever the weather was good on a Saturday night the punks gathered, got a bit violent, smashed a few car window, a few faces, raided a few stores and went on their way. Much of it was done right in front of police. The only difference last week was it was a bit larger of a crowd possibly because the weather has been so bad for so long. The problem is not race. It's a matter of police creating an arrest free zone. Reply · Like · 7 · Edited · March 29 at 8:59pm Jim Carter · Top Commenter · Owner-Operator at Self Employed and Loving It! Vic Patrick - Your post deserves MULTIPLE thumbs up! Reply · Like · 2 · 19 hours ago Valley Smith · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Vic Patrick Legally, it probably could be argued as a riot. The big problem is, when you are dealing with juveniles, is even if you catch them, there is no place to take them (JCYC won't accept anyone under a Class C felony - they are taken to the SafePlace on Crittenden if they can't readily cite and release to parents.). We need a temporarily holding facility, say for 24 hours, for them to be stashed. Juvenile Court won't do anything to them, I'm told it isn't unusual for kids to show up without even a parent - if they show up at all - no shows are common even when they are cited. This isn't LMPD's fault - by the way - the same rule applies to all police agencies in Jefferson County. Reply · Like · 1 · 18 hours ago View 2 more Jim Carter · Top Commenter · Owner-Operator at Self Employed and Loving It! "I don't think people should be finding excuses for inappropriate behavior," Nutter told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "There is no racial component to stupid behavior, and parents should not be looking to the government to provide entertainment for their children." These are words from a very wise man! For those here who continue to beat the racial drum, I've heard the facts from the mouths of the victims. Apparently; you (a) haven't listened or (b) are not capable of understanding English. The folks from Baders said (on video) that similar events occurred in Fern Creek and including white teens. I want those from outside Kentucky who read these posts to know that we (unfortunately) still have a bunch of inbred, rednecks who are stuck in the 1950s. I (as a native Kentuckian) have the LOWEST POSSIBLE OPINION of these throwbacks. Ignore them...that's the best thing you can do for insignificant irritants. Reply · Like · 2 · Follow Post · 19 hours ago Valley Smith · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky I don't know why the kids did it. I don't want to call it racial - it sounded like more of "targets of opportunity." The first in the series involved a black on black robbery - of a 13 year old - and there was one other robbery involving a bicycle. The others were more ... they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Reply · Like · 1 · 18 hours ago Valley Smith · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky "Barbar" Shanklin? And no, they don't need somewhere to go - we never once went to a community center when I was a kid - we stayed around home, played games, rode our bikes, just hung out. When I got older, it was no "getting dropped off at the mall." We learned never to complain about being bored, though, boredom meant chores. But parents/adult supervision were always around, too, something many of these kids lack now. Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · 17 hours ago Anne Milligan · Top Commenter · Artist, Musician, Singer, Master Gardener at Me myself and i It's beautiful to see the "flash mobs" that spread good energy among people. Everyone goes away feeling better. These ugly mobs don't come close to that. Although they pretend to be having "fun" with their "friends", they really go away from their violent acts feeling mentally and physically sick because it is not normal to act like that. I pity them their bad karma. Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · March 29 at 1:35pm Anne Milligan · Top Commenter · Artist, Musician, Singer, Master Gardener at Me myself and i 100% guaranteed that most of last Saturday's punks are physically sick right now and bad things are already happening to them. Karma doesn't give a flying rat's ass what color skin you have or what neighborhood you live in, or even what your name is . Karma gives us each back whatever we put out there. Reply · Like · 3 · March 29 at 1:39pm Valley Smith · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Anne Milligan You have a lot more faith in Karma than I do ... these are the kids that get rewarded with free movies and pizza this week at the Shawnee Golf Course. Reply · Like · 1 · 16 hours ago Anne Milligan · Top Commenter · Artist, Musician, Singer, Master Gardener at Me myself and i I hear you but you know what I mean. Everybody gets "reap what you sow"... The thing is, it's true. I called them punks. I have to live with that too. You were pretty nice in your comment, so you get more good points!!!!! Boy I'm going to have to get moving on my "pay it forward" stuff!!!!! Reply · Like · 15 hours ago Al Carpenter · University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Individual citizens should legally arm themselves and be prepared to use strong action before they are physically harmed by these roving thugs! Reply · Like · 1 · Follow Post · 15 hours ago Valley Smith · Top Commenter · Louisville, Kentucky Does no good to take them into custody without a place to quickly drop them off ... and there is no such secure location for juveniles. Once you make the arrest, that is one more officer OFF the street for an hour or more, on a good day. These types of situations demand something Louisville does not have ... a paddy wagon to come to the scene and pick them up. They own one, but it is rarely "staffed." Reply · Like · Follow Post · 17 hours ago William Turner · Top Commenter · University of North Alabama Maybe Birmingham and Selma, Alabama can offer some helpful advice. Reply · Like · Follow Post · 6 hours ago Facebook social plugin Last edited by Alex Linder; March 31st, 2014 at 03:59 AM. |
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A swarm of two dozen teenagers walked up to a man on the Big Four Bridge around 7 p.m. Saturday and asked him for a cigarette. Then, without provocation, they pummeled him. Within minutes, 10 teenagers on the bridge shoved another man to the ground, beat and kicked him, as his wife and granddaughters watched and wept. The simultaneous attacks in broad daylight early Saturday evening were the opening salvo in a rampage that spanned at least three hours and two dozen blocks, and has, in the days since, sent city officials scrambling to reassure the public that downtown Louisville has not devolved into a lawless battlefield. A Courier-Journal review of dozens of incident reports obtained from Louisville Metro Police chronicle the teens' movements. Mobs of teenagers roved the streets, several dozen people deep. They beat a man unconscious, broke windows, threw rocks at moving cars, looted a store, threatened a police officer and mugged anyone who dared get in their way. More than 30 people called to report trouble. Police have counted at least 20 crimes, and suspect there are more that have yet to be reported. "They were organized and nobody else was," Jean Henry said of the mob that knocked her 61-year-old husband to the ground on the Big Four Bridge, then beat and kicked him. "When I was running to my husband, I looked around. I couldn't tell who was in the group and who just happened to be up there. People were in shock, I think that's why nobody helped us." Police Chief Steve Conrad has spent the days since defending his department's response to the outbreak of violence, and explaining how a mass of kids managed to elude police for hours and continue robbing, beating and vandalizing. The Louisville Metro Police Department, it turns out, had been prepared for a different sort of trouble — in a different place. TARC stabbing A week earlier, on March 16, a 44-year-old man stabbed a 14-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl on a TARC bus, according to police. More coverage of downtown mob violence Louisville looks to other cities for lessons on flash mobs Louisville police arrest two more in connection with mob violence downtown More arrests expected in downtown mob violence Saturday's Louisville mob violence step-by-step Click our map of Saturday's mob violence Dozens of youths gather to talk about violence JCPS sharing information about mob violence with LMPD The boy, Ma'Quale Offutt, died of his injuries two days later. That same day, a horde of teenagers attempted to storm one bus at 34th and Broadway, and threw rocks at another bus four blocks west,a TARC spokeswoman said. At the same time, large groups of teens had been reported congregating outside the McDonald's on West Broadway downtown, a nearby Kroger and at Shorty's Food Mart at West Broadway and 35th Street, said Deputy Chief Col. Yvette Gentry, who supervises the department's patrol units. Police aren't sure whether the mischief was inspired by Offutt's death. But, fearing more trouble the following Saturday — March 22 — the Louisville Metro Police Department stationed their VIPER and K9 units along Broadway on the fringe of downtown, Gentry said. Their patrol staff was larger than usual: 21 officers were working the First Division, which covers downtown, and 18 were assigned in the Second Division, which begins at the south side of Broadway. In all, 49 police officers were stationed along the Broadway corridor, the main route where they feared disorder. Gentry acknowledges they were not expecting the explosion of violence at the waterfront. Series of attacks Police pieced together after the rampage that a group of around 200 teens had gathered at Waterfront Park in the late afternoon that Saturday for a memorial for Offutt, according to police. The memorial, they believe, began peacefully. But at 7 p.m. — and for reasons that no one has yet offered — groups attacked Henry's husband and the other man on the bridge, both strangers to them. Police soon responded but did not take a report, something Police Chief Steve Conrad has acknowledged was a mistake. Henry took himself to the hospital. The violence quickly spiraled. According to the police reports: At 7:23, just minutes after the two attacks on the bridge, police received a call of trouble nearby. A group of teenagers apparently decided they wanted a 13-year-old girl's sneakers. They punched and kicked her as they robbed the child of her iPhone and her purse. A 30-year-old stranger tried to come to her aid. The mob turned on him; someone stole his wallet, while another took his cell phone. The man was taken to the hospital with cuts to his face and the back of his head. An officer responded to that attack, and a witness pointed to a man they saw pull a gun from a trash can. Officers wrote that 18-year-old Je'Rece M. Archie was "making furtive movements to his pants." They stopped him at gunpoint and ordered him to show his hands. He allegedly pulled a loaded revolver from his pocket; police ordered him to drop it, and he complied. Archie and a 17-year-old friend were arrested on illegal weapons charges — the first and only arrests of the hours-long ordeal. Some groups of kids fanned out to other parts of downtown. Others stayed behind and wreaked more havoc at the park. Police responded to each incident, but never caught them in the act. Officers encountered groups of kids in the streets, but witnessed them commit no crimes and had no grounds to arrest them, said LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell. Instead, they ordered them to disperse. But the groups just splintered, reorganized and stormed the streets some more. Sometime between 7:30 and 8 p.m., a group jumped up and down on a car parked in a Courier-Journal parking lot on West Broadway, according to incident reports. Between 8 and 8:30 p.m., back at Waterfront Park, a group of teens punched a 15-year-old in the face and stole his cell phone and wallet. A police officer there attempted to stop a teenager, who "pulled away from the officer and postured himself in an aggressive manner and balled his fists," one incident report states. The officer ticketed the boy for menacing. He was released to his parents, Mitchell said. A few minutes later, around 8:45, about 60 teens stormed Bader's Foot Mart on South First Street, about a mile from Waterfront Park. Employees tried to block the door, said Najisha McCubbins, a clerk whose husband also was working the store. The group piled up outside. Employees could see them organizing: they said "ready, set, 1, 2, 3" and charged. They pushed inside and beat McCubbins' husband him on the head, according to the police report. Surveillance footage shows the teenagers grabbing candy and chips as they fled. The group moved down Liberty Street, where a 25-year-old woman was stopped at a stoplight around 8:55 p.m., according to the report. "Out of nowhere," she told police, a group of between 30 and 40 teenage boys surrounded her car and banged on it. They threw trash cans and rocks at her. One reached through her open window and punched her in the face. She ran bleeding into Bader's, and was later taken to the hospital for stitches in her left cheek. Minutes later and two blocks away at South Second and West Liberty streets, a 53-year-old man sitting in his truck watched as a horde of teens circled him, cursing and banging on the side of his pickup. He got out and told them to leave him alone. They punched him in the face and stole the cell phone from his shirt pocket. Then they climbed onto the hood of his truck and kicked in the windshield. Then just after 9 p.m., back near The Courier-Journal,surveillance cameras pointed at the newspaper parking lot captured a mob of people, at least 30, parading down Fifth Street toward Broadway and across the newspaper's visitors' lot. Some marched along the tops of cars, others jumped on them like trampolines, one did a flip onto the roof of a sedan. Around the same time at Sixth and Broadway,the mob attacked a 37-year-old man riding a yellow bicycle along Sixth. They knocked him off the bike, then punched and kicked him in the head. The group fled with the man's bike, leaving him bleeding on the sidewalk from a cut to the head. Around 9:15 p.m., a 29-year-old man told police he was driving along Fifth Street, near The Courier-Journal building, when 40 to 50 males swarmed his car. They punched the car and threw rocks and trash cans at him. Police believe that same group beat a 58-year-old man unconscious — officers found him at South Fifth Street and West Broadway, around 9:40 p.m. with obvious broken bones and a missing wallet. He was taken to the hospital. Police could not provide an update on his condition Thursday. As suddenly as it started, the violence petered out: the next report came two hours later and more than 10 blocks away. A woman called from South 15th Street to say several teenagers pushed her, hit her in the head, grabbed her cell phone and fled. That night and the following morning, people returned to their cars and their offices to survey the damage the mob left in its wake. Employees at a West Broadway business discovered the front window missing. People called police from all over downtown to say that their cars had been defaced: they reported shattered windshields, dented roofs and cars covered in dirty shoe prints. The mob's wake Days later, as officials hurried to prove to frightened and angry citizens that they can keep the city safe, prosecutors announced that the man who stabbed Offutt would not be charged with his murder. A grand jury watched the surveillance video from the bus and determined that Anthony Rene Allen jabbed his knife at the teenagers in self defense. The teens attacked him; he tried to retreat, he even asked the bus driver to open the door and let him free. Conrad, with activist Christopher 2X, pleaded with teenagers not to avenge Offutt's death with more random violence, and begged parents to keep tabs on their kids. Reporter Claire Galofaro can be reached at (502) 582-7086. Follow her on Twitter at @clairegalofaro. Last edited by Alex Linder; April 4th, 2014 at 01:15 PM. |
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There are in full damage control mode now. The next time they extend themselves to give alternate explanations for "White racism" or certainly a biased attack where a White attacks a Black person will be the first fucking time. http://www.courier-journal.com/story...lence/7655271/ Writer looks to be White, questionable on whether or not he is a man, very questionable. http://www.courier-journal.com/story...urnal/4211003/ |
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Take note of this article on the "Thunder on the River" event held downtown yesterday. With violent Negroes about, it is evidently now a point that needs to be pointed out by the media that crowds were "orderly". When this country was 90% White that kind of was an expectation that most took for granted.
http://www.courier-journal.com/story...rowds/7658981/ It is admitted that "some" felt nervous about coming down to this event while "others stayed home altogether". However much of the rest of the article basically dismisses those who would avoid the area because of safety concerns as fools - they were quick to use this quote by some lemming "People who didn't want to come down, too bad on them,". I detect ebonics in that statement. |
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Middle school yoofs gangs are enough of a problem for the FBI to distribute a memo to local officials.
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