I live in this city so I feel qualified to speak from an informed point of view.
There was some bad history between this victim and some neighbors.
What prompted this latest incident was an ongoing problem with children taking portable basketball goals into the streets. The streets were then blocked to traffic and the children/teenagers/young adults refused to move them out of the street so cars could pass and shouted racial ephitets at anyone who complained. As you might expect these situations escalate and then parents/adults get involved and soon you have a mob scene of vigilantes. It was somewhat like the Rodney King episode in Watts, California years ago. So far without burning the entire neighborhood down.
The Mayor called in the FBI to investigate this as a "hate crime".
We shall see how it turns out.
Where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson now since the victim is caucasian?
COTEP CBOB0638
Last edited by Quick Draw; 04-27-2012 at 11:44 PM.
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