... the other Black experience
The attack, which police say happened on March 18 after St. Patrick's Day celebrations, was captured by at least two cameras. Video of it went viral.
"Not only did they rob him, but they attempted to strip him of his dignity. They tore his clothes off; they mocked him. That behavior just will not be tolerated," said Detective Nicole Monroe with the Baltimore police.
Police say they have identified one suspect, but have made no arrests.
They are not releasing the victim's identity except to say he was a 31-year-old man from Arlington, Virginia.
The victim was on the way to his hotel from a downtown Baltimore club when he was attacked, according to a police report. The man had been drinking. He told police he couldn't recall exactly what happened, but the videos fill in the blanks.
In them, a man is seen standing, unsteadily, against a row of mailboxes. A crowd starts to gather and women dance suggestively against him. Someone notices his watch and a hand seems to grab something from one of the man's front pockets.
He pursues the supposed thief and is punched in the face. The man falls over backward and his head hits the sidewalk so hard it can be heard on the video.
"Smackdown!" someone yells.
His pockets are rifled and his clothes pulled off. Some people can be heard laughing. No one comes to his aid.
According to the police report, the man lost his Tag Heuer watch, which he valued at $1,300, his iPhone and car key.
CNN showed video of the attack to a number of people in Baltimore to gauge their response.
"That's pretty sad," said Finley George of Virginia, who was visiting the city with family. "I mean he obviously didn't do anything to anybody. They just got up on him and started beating him."
Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on This guy reminds me of some bitter black men:
According to Local10.com, Rudy Eugene (the naked man who was killed when he wouldn't stop eating another man's face in Miami on Saturday) was previously married, though the union was short-lived, lasting 18 months, and described as mostly violent.
“I wouldn’t say he had mental problem but he always felt like people was against him type of attitude. No one was for him, everyone was against him,” said Eugene’s ex-wife. The woman told Local 10′s Terrell Forney that Eugene became increasingly violent toward her.”That’s why I left,” said Eugene’s ex-wife. The two had not spoken in three or four years. Source
Permalink Reply by coollikethat on Why is it when SOME black people do some stupid shit, we're ALL to blame for it? That's some bullshit! These motherfuckers and THESE motherfuckers alone were responsible for the shit they did. They'll get caught definitely---I hope so---but,yeah that was fucked up. Since when the hell are ALL black people held responsible for some stupid shit a couple of assholes who are black do? They're responsible for the shit they did,NOT us.
What I've noticed though, in the last couple of years, since social media has become more & more of a daily thing in our lives, is that people film anything and everything on their phones and just stand there and watch no matter what it is, as if it's just a damn TV show going on in front of them and it's not real---it's like all the preponderance of all this media and the easy instant access to it has in a way straight-up desensitized people to real life, and has become a replacement for it.
That's what's scary to me, and I also think it's part of the reason why people are so quick to shoot each other down nowadays here in the D over even more stupid shit. A 12-year old was shot and killed in her own home less than a month ago, just because her mother got into an argument with someone over whether a cell phone was stolen or not. That, and the fact that it seems young folks aren't taught any coping skills,or how to resolve issues without running for a damn gun and shooting people up anymore---they seem to think that they can get everything right here and right now, like they're entitled to it, and if they can't get it, or if something dosen't go right in their life and they can't handle it,they want to nut up because they can't deal with reality and it actually works. That's what's fucked up,however.
Permalink Reply by something else on I guess "bitter black men" are making it all up.
LesYpersound said:
This guy reminds me of some bitter black men:
According to Local10.com, Rudy Eugene (the naked man who was killed when he wouldn't stop eating another man's face in Miami on Saturday) was previously married, though the union was short-lived, lasting 18 months, and described as mostly violent.
“I wouldn’t say he had mental problem but he always felt like people was against him type of attitude. No one was for him, everyone was against him,” said Eugene’s ex-wife. The woman told Local 10′s Terrell Forney that Eugene became increasingly violent toward her.”That’s why I left,” said Eugene’s ex-wife. The two had not spoken in three or four years. Source
Permalink Reply by Darkness Unlimited* on Ahhh, Kifaru, with the BLACK HATE once again! YEAH, FUCK Black people, right?
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