Tuesday - August 26, 2014

More Willful Blindness

A West Point [Mississippi] man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after he and a friend were attacked by a group of around 20 [male, black] people in a Huddle House parking lot, police said, potentially as retaliation for Michael Brown’s killing.

Ralph Weems IV, who is white, was injured early Saturday but is now in fair condition at North Mississippi Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Genie Causey said.

A relative, Bradley Barnes of Madison, told The Associated Press by telephone on Sunday that his brother-in-law was in a medically induced coma following brain surgery.

‘They’re going to try and wake him up tomorrow and see what damage was done,’ Barnes said, describing Weems as a 32-year-old former Marine who had served in Iraq.

Police Chief Tim Brinkley told the Clarion-Ledger that 22-year-old Courtez McMillian of Okolona was arrested on Monday evening.

He is being held in the Clay County Detention Center and will be charged with aggravated assault.

Brinkley said other arrests are also pending, and that most, if not all of the assailants appear to come from Monroe County. Detectives are reviewing video footage of the incident.

David Knighten of West Point told AP earlier by phone that he and Weems had gone to a Waffle House early Saturday.

He said a black man waved him over outside the restaurant and told him politely that people were upset by the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and it wasn’t a safe place for whites.

When he went in, he said, Weems was inside and was arguing with a round seven black men.

They left after an argument that brought police, Knighten said.

Brinkley said a Waffle House employee told officers who answered a 1 a.m. disturbance call that a patron was creating a disturbance and upsetting other patrons.

After he was asked to leave, employees also asked the other patrons to leave, Brinkley said.

Knighten said he showed those officers his .45-caliber handgun and his concealed carry permit.

On the way to Weems’ house, Knighten said, they went into a Huddle House restaurant with a nearly vacant parking lot.

However, he said, they apparently had been followed by a group of more than 20 black men.

Knighten, who said he had served with the Air Force in Afghanistan, said he came out of the restroom to find Weems surrounded.

The story is a bit hard to follow. Two guys go to a restaurant, but in the few seconds it takes the one guy to get told a warning, his buddy is in a big argument inside. The cops come. They leave. They go somewhere else, but a crowd has followed them. So the one guy goes inside to use the bathroom? And then they get tossed out of that second place, but by the time guy #2 (Knighten) is through the door his buddy is already down and beaten half to death. WTF? But he didn’t use, or brandish his legal gun, and he didn’t get the owners of restaurant #2 to call the police ... no, the 2 of them just went out into a crowd of 20 wound up black guys? And it took Knighten that much extra time to go through the door that his pal was already down?

Go read the rest of the story, and see if it makes any sense to you. BUT it says in no uncertain terms that the crowd of goons was yelling for revenge for Michael Brown. But oh no, this can’t be a hate crime. Only if you’re a shit-filled leftist who defines “hate crime” as something perpetrated by whites on other races. PS - Chief Brinkley is Black.

Knighten told reporters he was trying to diffuse the situation [at the 2nd restaurant]. When a security guard told everyone to leave, Knighten said he was blocked from getting to Weems, who was on the ground being kicked by a group of people. Knighten said others then attacked him.

“I do remember racial slurs being yelled from the crowd,” he told the Associated Press.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/26/2014 at 06:21 PM   
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