Next stop: Cleveland. Some local media reported that 200 people were celebrating at a block party. But the real story is that 200 black people were in a “massive” fight that took 30 police officers to quell. But not before three people were shot, one fatally.577
Insert here all the requisite promises from local activists that this will never happen again -- as long as they get more free stuff.
Let’s head over to Indianapolis: For a good chunk of middle America, Memorial Day means the Indy 500 -- the world’s largest sporting event. It also used to be the safest, until this year when one person died and others were hurt in several cases of black mob violence.578
Racial violence is a regular feature of life in Indianapolis. From the Indiana Black Expo every summer, to regular groups of black people rampaging through downtown and suburban shopping malls, dozens of videos leave little doubt of that.
There is also little doubt that the local newspaper is loathe to cover it -- other than to call it random and pretend that the mob violence is somehow not limited to one racial group.
Aamidor already straightened us out on that.
But the Indy 500 was largely separated from that, until 2014. The event itself was unremarkable. But in the two days leading up to the race, black mob violence broke out in the parking lots where fans camp and gather for the race.579
One person was shot and killed. Others were beaten and robbed. One woman described the scene of the killing as fights all over -- the “most dangerous” thing she had ever seen in her entire life.
“It’s the same idiots who cause all the trouble downtown and at the malls,” said one cop via email.
One local lawyer belled the cat on racial violence in this once bucolic city: “Indianapolis, you have a problem,” said Abdul Hakim-Shabazz, writing in Indiana Barrister magazine. “Your problem is young black men who are out of control.”
Let’s head on down to Memphis for some more holiday violence. No one knows why Tequila Benton stabbed Steven Wright to death. But after it happened, a large fight broke out, and WREG caught the entire melee on camera.580
No one else died in this rolling riot. Though a grey haired grandmother did get knocked down. But at least one person said they were fighting because they were not happy the police did not stop the earlier violence.581
There are reporters in this country to whom that makes sense: Create violence because they were unhappy about violence.
Maybe Jennifer could help us understand.
In Baltimore, they know the drill: Minimize any discussion of frequent episodes of black mob violence in and around the upscale Inner Harbor area downtown. And if anyone notices, criticize them.
That is what state legislator Pat McDonough discovered in 2012 when he and his wife were sitting at a stop light in downtown Baltimore and they witnessed hundreds of black people rampaging, fighting and creating mayhem.
With nary a cop in sight.
Soon after, McDonough asked the governor to declare the downtown a “No Go” zone until city officials made the area safe from “black people” who were “terrorizing” the area.
Democrats from all over the region lined up to take their shots at McDonough. As did the Baltimore Sun in an editorial. The same day that newspaper was on the streets, so were three more episodes of black mob violence downtown. All in the middle of the day.
Since then, downtown violence has become so bad -- and so visible on so many videotapes -- that the largest employer there, T. Rowe Price, threatened to move out if it does not improve.
One year after making that threat, T. Rowe Price is still there. And so is black mob violence. On Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, the Baltimore Sun stayed true to form: Hundreds of black people were on the streets, fighting, robbing and creating mayhem. Here’s how the paper described it: “A large group of teens … assaulted people with bricks and sticks and robbed at least one battered person of a phone.”582
At least the paper allowed comments, however heavily moderated.
And the Mayor was true to her word as well: Only two were arrested.
A ray of light in Baltimore: A white woman recently wrote a story where she complained about crime and violence. She said she constantly felt like “a target.” She lived.
At least the folks at the downtown Union Memorial Hospital can feel safer: They just added two K-9 dogs to their 60-person security team. Said one of the dog handlers: "We have experienced that when a patient is upset, their attitude changes as soon as we bring the K-9’s in."
They could have used a few at a Baltimore High School graduation on Memorial Day where the students ended their year with a brawl. Or a riot. Or whatever you call it when 20-30 people start fighting and kicking and ripping each other’s clothes off and hair out. 583
So many more
stories, so little space. So let’s just skip large-scale episodes
of black mob violence during the Memorial Day Weekend in
Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Providence, Michigan and several other
places. But check them out at the footnote
here:
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But before we do, let’s just acknowledge one thing from many of the articles: Oh yeah, it’s been happening here a long time.
We still have to return to Florida, where it all began. But not before a stop over in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Home of Black Bike Week.585
Like Black Beach Week, local reporters give this gathering another name that no one uses -- Atlantic Festival or some such thing. But the 300,000 black people on motorcycles who descend on this beach town every Memorial Day would probably not recognize that name.
Ten years ago, local officials tried to stop the rampant violence and mayhem and noise and trash and lawlessness that mark this holiday. Nothing worked. Local businesses closed, trying to stop the damage. That did not work either: The ACLU and NAACP filed lawsuits forcing them to remain open.
Much of the law breaking is documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot.
Any illusions that Black Bike Week was somehow getting more mellow and family-friendly were disabused over the 2014 holiday weekend. At least 8 people were shot, three killed, some on video. 586
For some locals, it became impossible to ignore the relentless black mob violence. Ryan Dodd took to the web site of WMBF TV news to say he had enough. He compared a recent “white” biker rally with Black Bike Week.
“During white bike week, the scanners light up with traffic collisions and some DUI arrests. During black bike week, we have nudity, littering, murders, stabbings, people shitting in elevators, walking out on bar tabs and restaurant tabs, and on and on.
When the city tried to get rid of bike week because of black bikers, they had to tip toe around the NAACP and flush out both weeks. Last night's stack of incident reports shows that generally speaking, the face of the two bike weeks brings different hazards to the business owners and citizens of this community, which I've lived my entire life.
WE WILL NOT TIP TOE around the FACT that blacks come here, act like goons, stretch our emergency services resources way beyond the limits, making it hazardous for us, and disrespect our entire community, and I speak for many of us when I tell you that I'm sick and tired of it.
The city of MB needs to stand up and let black bikers know that some of them have ruined it for all of them. Then when the NAACP calls in Jesse Jackson's racist self, officials need to extend their longest finger in that direction while handing them the stack of incident reports from 24 and 25 May 2014.
Next stop, Clearwater, near Tampa. Clearwater is known as an upscale tourist and family beach town. Not Memorial Day 2014. Starting at around sunset, several large groups of black people started fighting, shooting guns, rampaging, defying police orders, and creating havoc.
According to the Tampa Bay Times: Anne DeDominick, a Hyatt guest visiting from upstate New York, had just stepped out of a hot tub at the hotel when she spotted about 15 SWAT officers with assault rifles. "I was shaking in my shoes," she said. "I didn't know what was happening."587
Three people were wounded by the gunfire -- by all accounts, they made up just a small portion of the bullets fired all over that town during a 90-minute stretch. Four people were arrested. And the mayor blamed it all on a different crowd that does not normally go to the beach.
“It was absolutely crazy,” said TV reporter Peter Bernard. “I’ve lived here for 20 years and have never seen anything like this.”
Let’s finish in Fort Lauderdale. For years, city officials have congratulated themselves for ridding their beach town of the crazy college kids who used to make their city the destination of choice for wild and destructive Spring break parties.
And Black Beach Week? That was Miami Beach’s problem. Not theirs.
That all ended in 2013, when black beachgoers who chaffed at the armed camp atmosphere of Miami Beach headed over to Fort Lauderdale -- where they fought, destroyed property, defied police and created mayhem.
Some of it on video.588
One year later was a repeat: Large groups of black people -- hundreds -- came to Fort Lauderdale looking for trouble. They rampaged, destroyed property, jumped on cars, punched drivers in the face, attacked police, threw bricks at a bus, and caused holy hell for several hours until 42 people were arrested. Lots of video.
One person was stabbed.
Last year, a local radio personality said all the ruckus was just one big misunderstanding. She could speak for all of those who still refuse to believe that black mob violence exists out of proportion on Memorial Day. And every other day:
"You had many more people up that way than previous years," said Jill Tracey. "You have that many young black people together at any one time, it frightens white people."
I’m not frightened of black mob violence. But I am terrified of the bat shit crazy people in the media and government who ignore it, condone it, encourage it, and even lie about it.
Now those folks are dangerous.