Mob of 100 teens beat couple in Norfolk, media bury attack

[Guest AmericanWorkMule]

I bet he wished he'd stayed in the car. I wonder if being armed would've stopped a mob?

A beating at Church and Brambleton

http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2012/05/beating-church-and-brambleton

[Steelharp]

Sickening. That's my old home area.

[mcurrier]

Sickening. That's my old home area.

Same here.

[gjohnsoniv]

It's a shame that people are using that as an excuse. It makes you really wonder if they think it will solve anything. Also, if certain people didn't act like that, maybe Zimmerman wouldn't have looked at martin like that in the first place. Let's be real here people, when you act like a thug, you're going to get looked at like you're a thug.

[BryanP]

It doesn't really appear to me that the media is "burying" the attack. Here's the key paragraph as to why it's not getting much coverage:

Forster and Rostami's story has not, until today, appeared in this paper. The responding officer coded the incident as a simple assault, despite their assertions that at least 30 people had participated in the attack. A reporter making routine checks of police reports would see "simple assault" and, if the names were unfamiliar, would be unlikely to write about it. In this case, editors hesitated to assign a story about their own employees. Would it seem like the paper treated its employees differently from other crime victims?

[hornett22]

I lived there in 94 and it was a cess pool. Glad I was smart enough not to stay.

[peejman]

I bet he wished he'd stayed in the car. I wonder if being armed would've stopped a mob?

A beating at Church and Brambleton

http://hamptonroads....-and-brambleton

I seriously doubt it. They've likely got a lot more guns than you.

I went to school in a downtown area. It was widely know that you didn't stop for red lights late a night in some areas, especially if people were out roaming around. We always treated them like a stop sign.... pause... look both ways... keep on moving.

[UncleJak]

He should have stayed in the car and called police, but that is no excuse for his beating. I have discussed issues like these with a few people and we all agree that a gun won't stop it but it will help. If I am suffering a "mob-style" beat down, I would definitley be in fear for my life and would try to fire my pistol. I might get taken out in the struggle, but not before getting a few shots off. Maybe this would run off the rest? I don't know. People in crowds act so differently. What is wrong with people??

[mcurrier]

More arrested for attack

http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/more-blacks-arrested-in-mob-attack-on-whites/

[Sam1]

I seriously doubt it. They've likely got a lot more guns than you.

I went to school in a downtown area. It was widely know that you didn't stop for red lights late a night in some areas, especially if people were out roaming around. We always treated them like a stop sign.... pause... look both ways... keep on moving.

When I moved to Ft. Stewart we would occasionally go to Atlanta for concerts or ball games, and that was not a place you stopped at stop signs or stop lights if people were hanging around on the corner. Having a gun for protection in that situation was not something to rely on because you would be a sitting duck trapped n your car cause almost all of those punks had something on them as well. Best thing to do was get the hell out of dodge and worry about the repairs later, no car is worth getting hurt over.

[mcurrier]

Man in Tampa Attacked

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_tampa/brutal-robbery-and-attack-of-macdill-afb-serviceman-caught-on-camera-in-south-tampa

[mcurrier]

Delegate warns of 'black youth mobs'

McDonough urges 'no-travel zone' at Inner Harbor

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/breaking/bs-md-mcdonough-race-20120516,0,101275.story

McDonough refused to back down, saying he had heard from police that the crowds involved in several recent incidents were all black. Failing to mention the race of the participants, he said, would be "political correctness on steroids."