NOT A HATE CRIME – RIGHT?

(CNN)—When one man sat down next to a second man in a St. Louis light rail car and asked him his opinion on the shooting of Michael Brown, it was not the beginning of a discussion.

It was the start of an assault, police said.

The second man, who was white, didn’t want to answer the question. Then the first man, who was black, boxed him in the face. Two more African-American men joined in the beating, according to a police report about Monday’s incident.

It was caught on surveillance cameras on the MetroLink train and a passenger recorded it with a cell phone and posted the video online. It has gone viral.

Police confirmed to CNN that the online images came from the attack.

Late commute

The victim, 43, was commuting home when a young man in a red T-shirt and cap walked up to him. The victim asked not to be named in media reports.

The man asked to use the victim’s cell phone. He declined, and the young man sat down beside him.

“Then he asked me my opinion on the Michael Brown thing,” the victim told KMOV, “and I responded I was too tired to think about it right now.”

The suspect, in his 20s, stood up.

“The next thing I know, he sucker punches me right in the middle of my face,” the victim said. The video showed the suspect unleashing a barrage of punches at the head of the victim, who covered himself with his hand and forearms.

The two other men, also in their 20s, joined in, police said. As the train pulled into a station, a security guard saw part of the beating and alerted police.

The man in the red T-shirt could be seen on video kicking at the victim’s face before the train’s doors opened and the assailants ran out.


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Mike in CT
Mike in CT
March 29, 2015 4:18 pm

Sheet..I’m 60 & only a 145 lbs on a good day..That Punk can’t Punch..Bring It A Hole..Mike In Ct

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr
March 29, 2015 4:31 pm

Try that here and they will be hauling two Blacks to the morgue.

IndenturedServant
IndenturedServant
March 29, 2015 5:40 pm

I might not have enough ammo on me to kill a train car full of ’em but the nigger in the red shirt would have died from acute copper and lead poisoning and I’d worry about the rest of them after that. My guess is they scatter like roaches.

Always be armed people. If not a handgun then a good multishot pepper spray and a locking blade folding knife. Do what you can to live in a place where concealed carry is legal. Do not bury your face in iCrap and keep your head on a swivel when in public. Women should carry a decoy purse while keeping their valuables and handguns elsewhere. Let them take the decoy and go if they want.

bb
bb
March 29, 2015 6:16 pm

I S ,I’m beginning to like you so don’t screw this up.Notice how they always go after easy targets And in packs.These cowardly thugs never go after white guys they think would fight. It’s always weak white men or women.I carry a little 38 so in my pocket just for situations like this.That guy in the red shirt would be dead.

JC
JC
March 29, 2015 6:35 pm

I ain’t bluffing…

JC
JC
March 29, 2015 6:43 pm

If you go to all the trouble to make me pull my CCW I will be seriously thinking about shooting you just for making me do it.

Just because shooting you is the very last thing I want to do, doesn’t mean I won’t…

bb
bb
March 29, 2015 8:06 pm

The Media in this country is being ordered not to report racial attacks when blacks attack whites. This shit has Jewish cultural Marxism written all over it .I am really starting to hate these Damn Media Executives more then central bankers.

Rise Up
Rise Up
March 29, 2015 8:18 pm

I could barely hear what the mo-fo who made this cell phone recording was saying, but it’s suspicious that he taped the entire thing starting before the blows were struck. Makes me think he was in on it and recording it for the perps.

Overthecliff
Overthecliff
March 29, 2015 8:36 pm

This is my area. Metro St Louis is dieing a slow death. The only reason it isn’t total Afroghanistan now is the large queer community and 40,000 Bosnians. Most people in the suburbs only go there to see the Cardinals and Blues ( the circus part of bread and circuses). Nobody wants Metrolink expanded to the burbs. Even liberal Democrat St Louis county would resist unification with the city.

Soon to be Detroit.

Archie
Archie
March 29, 2015 8:58 pm

Calling Bernie Goetz. Calling Bernie Goetz.

dc.sunsets
dc.sunsets
March 29, 2015 9:21 pm

Force continuum.

We can cite George Zimmerman or Bernhard Goetz, but the bottom line is that a MAN shooting an unarmed assailant is courting life-altering problems. That may not be “right,” but it’s reality. A man can win the fight and lose everything else.

It seems to me that a man has little choice but to either be an MMA expert or carry some non-lethal weapon (pepper spray seems like the best of poor choices) to deal with situations where simply shooting the jerks is imprudent. It’s unlikely to get you arrested if you wave a can of spray at someone, while waving a gun at them is a really bad idea. A knife isn’t much better, and few of us have the time or inclination to obtain good training. OC it is.

Also, I suspect most if not all mass transit systems prohibit CCW-holders from carrying on their buses and trains. You might ignore that, but it’s risky; the a-holes have nothing to lose, but you probably do.

The reality to me is that you have to be prepared if possible to deal with armed and unarmed assailants, and the only way you avoid a crowbar motel stay is to have the right level of defense available.

Others disagree?

Persnickety
Persnickety
March 29, 2015 9:40 pm

Most mass transit systems prohibit defensive weapons, CCW license or otherwise, and most states have mass transit allow this. So that’s problem #1.

Other than that…

“I might not have enough ammo on me to kill a train car full of ‘em”

Glock 19, 15 round mag in the grip, Glock 17 mags (17rds) work great as reloads, carry the gun loaded and 2-3 reload mags, you should be good. You can do the same thing with an M&P9c (12 in the grip, 17 in reloads), the Ruger SR9c, and probably with some other brands/models as well.

Overthecliff
Overthecliff
March 29, 2015 11:17 pm

Better judged by 12 than carried by 6. Besides, when you’re 70 years old you can’t go man to man with a 20 year old.

starfcker
starfcker
March 30, 2015 12:24 am

What kind of dumbass white man is on that train car at night unarmed. Sheeple. Critical injuries? Didn’t look like much to me. I’m with mike, i’d have stomped that idiot. Live the we are the world, they’re just like us lifestyle and don’t be surprised when it goes bad.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED
March 30, 2015 9:19 am

Again…this the reason to carry….Bernie G was charged with illegal carry but I belive that was it. The folks he shot got what they deserve. Maybe if a few shootings of Feral Blacks by a white guy getting beaten up made the MSM then perhaps this would stop. We have liberal gun laws in S.C. you don’t read about this kind of crap in our papers.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED
March 30, 2015 7:06 pm

Overthecliff….did the Bosnians extract any revenge on the folks in St Louie for the death of one of their own ?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/02/bosnian-killing-st-louis-hammer-murder-charges/19768909/

TE
TE
March 30, 2015 9:10 pm

Ah, I’ll bet our little friendly thug was just following Starbuck’s lead and wanted to “open a dialogue about race relations.”

All violent crimes are “hate crimes.” I’ve never seen someone get their ass kicked because the other guy didn’t have a problem with him.