Thursday - April 10, 2014

You Don’t Say

A Detroit teenager was charged with assault and a hate crime today over the brutal mob beating of a driver who stopped to help a boy he had accidentally hit with his pickup truck.

The 16-year-old boy, who has not been named, is the only one of five people charged in the April 2 attack on Steve Utash to face an ethnic intimidation count.

Mr Utash, a 54-year-old grandfather is white, and the teenager and four adults charged in his beating are black.

‘In the case of the 16-year-old charged as a juvenile we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt the crimes of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and ethnic intimidation,’ Kym Worthy, Wayne County’s prosecutor, said.

‘In the case of the four adult defendants that have been charged, the facts and the evidence does not support a charge of ethnic intimidation.’

Like hell. But miracle of miracles, a black person has been charged with a hate crime.

Worthy said she ‘would not be surprised’ if police submitted more warrant requests stemming from the attack.

‘This case is still under investigation,’ she said. ‘We are still looking at every avenue and every aspect. We know that there were a number of people involved in this case.’

The 16-year-old is in custody and faces a hearing Saturday in the county Juvenile Detention Center.

Latrez Cummings, 19, was charged Thursday with assault with intent to murder and assault with intent to do great bodily harm.

Bruce Wimbush Jr., 17; Wonzey Saffold, 30; and James Davis, 24, were arraigned this week on the same charges and are being held in the county jail on $500,000 bonds pending preliminary examinations on April 21.

And once again, I had to look at the UK news pages to find the latest news and pictures on a “sensitive” story here in the USA. Coverage here has been very “plain brown wrapper”. Um, is that a pun in this situation?

Let’s get one thing straight: the savage mob attack on a white motorist in Detroit by a dozen or more black men on Wednesday was not a “vigilante style” attack.

Yet that’s what Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and City Council President Brenda Jones are trying to call it in a joint statement meant to play down the unavoidable racial element.

May I suggest that the members of this ad-hoc mob of neighborhood goons already harbored racial animus long before Utash’s pickup ever entered their neighborhood?  May I suggest that, after a lifetime of being told by community leaders, schoolteachers, politicians, clergymen, and countless other role models, that every one of them is a victim of racial injustice, and every one of them is righteously entitled to racial justice “by any means necessary” – that these punks spotted a chance for racial vengeance and took it?

Well, it’s kind of raw and ugly to put it that way.  And it says more about what’s really going on in Detroit than just a lot of cool restaurants opening up downtown. 

What happened in Detroit on Wednesday is that a black child was hurt accidentally by a white man, and then a gang of racist thugs almost killed him, driven by blind, insane revenge. 

Yeah, no kidding. They’ve been fed the curdled milk of human hatred since they were born. Several generations, poisoned from birth. Such a waste.

Going all Zapruder:
Link to security video that shows the kid getting hit, here; see the hit at 0:35 and the zoomed recap at 0:54, when 4 kids race out onto the high speed road from behind several stopped cars, right in front of the truck. Watch closely and you’ll see at 0:34 that the 2 kids in the middle are in a runner’s crouch, and they start their sprints when the truck is barely 10 feet away. Not too bright a move IMO.

Other thoughts ... if what the uncle says on the video is correct, Utash pulled in to the gas station right behind where the boy was hit. And his beat down was in that same spot. So why is this not on the security tape that covers that area? Oh please, like somebody ran in and stopped the tape? No way. And where is this mob coming from? I don’t see anyone hanging around, and maybe only 1 other pedestrian. Presumably they all came running to get in on the excitement, but from where? The pizza shop across the street? The church next door? This is not an urban density residential area. Were they all inside the gas station’s mini-mart? And again, WHY was the tape cut so short? (as if I need to ask)

Posted by Drew458     on 04/10/2014 at 10:29 AM   
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