| | | Kenny, Here ya go. Start your day off in good spirits...This man was attacked for being White and test riding a scooter.
Black mobs erupt in Ivy League region
White man left bloodied near Yale University
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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Brooks Macquarrie sits bloodied on a New Haven, Conn., street in the aftermath of an attack.
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Brooks Macquarrie sits bloodied on a New Haven, Conn., street in the aftermath of an attack.
Brooks Macquarrie does not remember much about the black mob violence that almost killed him one month ago.
Macquarrie was test driving a motor scooter for a shop where he worked as a mechanic. A group of black people approached him as he waited at a downtown New Haven stop light.
When he woke up in the hospital, surrounded by his five children, police thought he might have been hit by a car: Broken ribs. Twenty-one stitches. Fractured eye socket. Broken nose. Head injuries. And lots and lots of blood all over the street.
According to the New Haven Register:
“For his part, MacQuarrie remembers a young man on a bicycle coming at him with an ‘angry look’ in his eye, according to a coworker. He remembers trying to avoid eye contact with the person. He remembers getting hit on the back of the head. After that, he remembers nothing of the incident. “
Macquarrie has not yet returned to work.
Some police still think it might have been a car accident. But they are about the only ones left who do. Aside from local newspaper editors.
But people who work with Macquarrie know differently: “Managers totally discount that police theory that Brooks Macquerrie might have been hit by a car,” says WTNH news. “They say that because there was no damage done to the scooter he was riding.”
Two black people were identified riding away on the scooter.
Car or no car, police and local media are working overtime to convince residents that race had nothing to do with this – or other – black mob violence in the area.
“Our problem is that people have been reporting that this is a race-related issue, nothing in our investigation supports that whatsoever,” said David Hartman of the New Haven police department.
Others wonder if the racially charged atmosphere surrounding the acquittal of George Zimmerman the week before had anything to do with the violence. New Haven was the scene of at least three pro-Trayvon rallies.
“I think people are just speculating. I haven’t heard anything to the fact that it was related to the Trayvon Martin case or anything like that,” Katrina Jones told WTHN. “I just believe it was an isolated case.”
Macquarrie himself has chosen not to speak with the media; he doesn’t want to enflame controversy, said the Register.
Maybe it was related to Justice for Trayvon. Maybe not.
But it was certainly not isolated: New Haven is the scene of regular and intense episodes of black mob violence directed at non-black people.
Editors are fond of saying that because no one carried a sign, or uttered racial slurs, or issued a press release, that means there is no evidence the violence is race-related.
But a lot of people in New Haven are starting to wonder why there have been so many recent episodes of black mob violence. And why the newspapers are loathe to cover it in any way – other than to deny it is happening. |
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