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To: longnshort who wrote (763280)	1/11/2014 4:23:21 PM
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Knockout Attackers Freed, You Won’t Believe What Happened to the Victims ................................................................................................................................................ January 10, 2014 By Sara Noble independentsentinel.com Two African-American knockout-style attackers in Charlottesville were immediately released on their own recognizance and only charged with a misdemeanor after an assault on a man and woman in a downtown shopping mall on December 20. Police Chief Longo, who arrested the assailants, said there is evidence of the male victim losing a tooth and suffering soft tissue damage but he would need evidence of more serious injuries to raise the charges. The injuries were far more serious than that according to the victims. In the meantime, these two assailants didn’t even have to post bail. The police department never used the female victim’s photos snapped during the attack to help identify the attackers and didn’t assign the case to a detective until ten days after the attack. Richard Bernard Spears, left, and Malcolm James Stevenson, the assailants in the mall attack One assailant punched the woman in the head and the two kicked and beat her companion after he fell and while he tried to get up. The victim lay on the ground during part of the assault which continued after Adams repeatedly tried to escape up the mall. During the attack, the assailants, Richard Bernard Spears and Malcolm James Stevenson, hugged each other and laughed. Another man and a woman who were with them did not take part in the attack and the woman continually screamed for them to stop; after the arrest, they helped the police. Marc Adams and Jeanne Doucette were walking through the mall at 1:30 am when Adams tripped and fell. While he was trying to get up, a man charged up to him and he and another man started beating and kicking him, according to the victims. Doucette went up to one attacker and she recalled what happened next, “I came up and pushed him away and said, ‘What are you doing?’” One of the attackers then repeatedly punched her in the ear, her earring stabbing her over and over. The men then continued with their assault on Adams which only stopped as two people called 911 and Doucette started to take pictures with her camera. The attackers broke Adam’s ankle, cracked his ribs, and knocked out one of his teeth. He also reportedly suffered a concussion. He was temporarily knocked unconscious. The female victim suffered bruising to her head and tearing of the cartilage in her ear after she too was punched. Doucette threw her bag at one of the assailants at one point but they were not interested in her money, only the brutality which they delighted in. On January 8th, Malcolm James Stevenson, 25, and Richard Bernard Spears, 23, surrendered, according to Police Chief Tim Longo. They were freed the same day. The assailants, their two companions and witnesses all confirmed the event as described by the victims: Adams tripped and fell and the soon-to-be attackers began to mock and laugh at him. After Adams asked the men what they’d said, “Malcolm Stevenson lifted him up and threw him to the ground.” According to Longo, it was Spears who allegedly punched Doucette in the head. There is no evidence that the assault was racially motivated, said Longo. The victims are white and the assailants are black. Chief Longo is on it now though and in the future they will have multiple captains and the investigations commander to review every new report placed in the system daily “to make sure it was assigned properly.” He addressed concerns that the department acted slowly. That delay did two things, he said. “One, it created the perception that the department didn’t take the matter seriously, and two, it gave the impression that nothing was being done,” Longo said. Perception??? I can’t imagine why!!! Compare this with the case of the white man who knocked out a 79-year old black man and who is now in prison facing state and federal charges for his crime that hold a sentence of life in prison. His crime was labeled as racially-motivated. In his case, he did make vile racial statements. The age of his victim, who might have had more severe injuries, does make the case different, however, why is a case by blacks against whites treated as a non-crime? Photos taken by Jeanne Doucette: Full story at the Charlottesville Weekly