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Complete article at: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-wants-answers-after-angry-mob-puts-dad-coma-n73221
"You're that concerned about the kid, why are you jumping all over my dad and jumping in his truck and stealing his belongings," Steve Utashs son, Joe Utash, told the Detroit Free Press.
Steve Utash accidentally struck a 10-year-old boy who stepped off the curb and into the path of his pickup on Wednesday, Detroit Police Officer Jennifer Moreno told NBC News. The boy suffered a broken leg and has since been released from the hospital.
But, when Utash stopped his vehicle to check on the boy, at least ten "juveniles" rushed to the pickup and brutally beat him leaving the man so critical that doctors induced a coma, Moreno said.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)are arrested and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Yes, they should be punished for Assault With Intent to Commit Bodily Harm and robbery, but NOT hate crimes.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)as part of this assault, why should it not be prosecuted as a hate crime?
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)They will beat a black man to death as quick as a white one.
It is not about race, it is about a violent, frustrated, macho culture lacking in positive activities to channel that energy.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Still, though, I wouldn't discount the possibility entirely.....just sayin'.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)There's zero evidence this was a hate crime.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Disgusting animals.
alp227
(31,961 posts)Choose your words carefully, can't be calling blacks "animals" on a progressive message board because it's the same language used by the KKK.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Isn't it a little early to draw any conclusion one way or another?
According to Michigan government statistics, in 2007 there were 324 hate crimes against black people and 223 against white people (and more against many other groups).
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/msp/Bd-HateCrime07_263709_7.pdf
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)The racists are more than happy to use this story to propagate their agenda.
Warning: Do NOT read the comment section of Detroit media. It is really depressing seeing the KKK auxiliary jumping all over the story.
alp227
(31,961 posts)Notice you can't tell the difference in tone between comments by the users with low post counts and high post counts since both types are asserting "black on white crime=hate crime".
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)or that it is impossible for a hate crime to be committed against a white victim?
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)Having lived near and worked in Detroit, I have no doubt that they would have done the same to an African American in the same situation.
Evidence:
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/25177111/man-beaten-to-death-outside-detroit-gas-station
DETROIT, Mich. (WJBK) - It's a story that's becoming too common in Detroit, a mob attacks a man at a west side gas station. This time, the victim, Eric Miles, 38, did not survive.
Family members tell us Miles was beaten up and crushed from the waist down after he was attacked and run over by a car outside a Valero gas station. His loved ones are looking for answers. Miles leaves behind two children and a number of heartbroken relatives. Police have spent hours going through surveillance video. So far, no arrests. Anyone with information on this deadly beating should call Detroit Police or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-SPEAKUP.
Detroit is a very frustrated, violent city.
LuvLoogie
(6,854 posts)Gangbangers get what they get. Fuck 'em,
ripcord
(5,084 posts)Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)This can never be ok.
hate crime? hard to see how it isn't...
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)He was attacked for being there.
Yes, violence is hate, but I don't think his race was the cause in this case.
Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)If the races were reversed, calling "hate crime" would be all the rage. Why is that?
The victim's family seems to think it was racial. Unless mob attacks on motorists are an everyday occurrence there, or a common occurrence, then this was different - something else, rather than some random attack.