The New Haven police do not know why a mob of black people attacked the elderly white jogger, breaking his arm, then taking off without robbing him.
But they do know this: It had nothing do with a black mob attack in broad daylight that almost killed a downtown New Haven business owner the week before -- just a few days after the rally for Trayvon.
Nor did it have anything to do with dozens of other examples of black mob violence in the New Haven area over the last two years.
Some fatal. All random, they say.
But they are pretty sure how to solve it: Don’t wear headphones while jogging. And don’t go outside anywhere in this Yale University college town where violence might happen. Which is pretty much everywhere.
This happened July 2013 -- soon to be renamed Month of St. Trayvon -- when a 63-year old jogger encountered a group of black people riding bikes in his upscale Beaver Hills neighborhood. The New Haven Independent picks up the story:707
He had moved to the side to let them pass.
“I heard someone say something about ‘turning around,’” the man recalled. Then he saw one of the teens get off his bike and roll it at him. The rolling bike knocked the jogger down.
He got up. “What is this about?” he remembered telling them. “I don’t have any money.”
Then one of the teens “charged at me and knocked me down” again. Others joined in and punched and kicked him repeatedly for about 20 seconds, he estimated.
“Then they got back up and took off.”
They didn’t check his pockets. They wouldn’t have found a cellphone or any valuables on him if they had.
But they did break his arm. Which is worse than what happened to another jogger in “an eerily similar attack in the same location” July 21. Also worse than what happened to a New Haven “female security officer that was attacked by a group of teens” on her way to work in July.
None of these attacks was listed in the reports police issue to media and neighborhood groups.
Police learned about the attack on the jogger “from a New Haven Independent reader who saw it referenced in the site’s comments section.”708
The swarming attack on the jogger happened in the same park where, on July 20, 100 people gathered to protest racial profiling in New Haven in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman trial.709
The jogger does not want to be identified. He is still afraid. Even so, he said he felt lucky. At least he did not get brutalized the way the downtown business owner Brooks Macquarrie had two weeks before. Macquarrie’s family owns a motor scooter shop and he was test-driving a new scooter when a black mob attacked him, knocked him off his bike, beat him up, and stole his machine.
His injuries were so severe at first police thought he may have been hit by a car. Two fractured ribs. Twenty-one stitches. Fractured eye socket. And lots and lots of blood all over the street.
The paper did not report the race of the mob. But readers and witnesses did. Which provoked the ire of more than one reader: “This race baiting is ridiculous,” said one reader. “Grow up already.”
Other readers rejected any relationship between the violence and the recent Justice for Trayvon rallies in New Haven: “If young black men stole the guys scooter and beat him up that is horrible enough, simply that the guy got beat up by anybody but, don't twist it into something to do with Trayvon Martin,” said the reader. “Another twisted story of race baiting used to fire up the bigots.”
The reader may have a point: There was plenty of black mob violence in New Haven long before the Zimmerman acquittal. And after, as we shall see.
In January 2013, Matthew Turner told one of his neighbors that the jack holding up his car was unsafe. He offered to lend him another, but the man underneath the car refused. Instead he asked if he could borrow a screwdriver from Turner.710
While Turner went to fetch one, the jack collapsed. The man under the car died. When Turner went to a memorial service to offer his condolences to the man’s wife, nine of the man’s friends left the service and pursued Turner back to his nearby apartment. They blamed him for the death.
They were caught on video beating him almost to death. After he recovered, he moved to a new neighborhood to escape more death threats. The assailants stalked him to his new home. He is now in a witness protection program. The New Haven Register said:
“Sources said police did note racial undertones in the case — Turner was white and the assailants black — but ultimately race bias charges were not filed.”711
Bottom line: Every story contains info about even more stories. And no one seemed surprised. Let’s stay in Yale-town for more examples: The All Black Affair. And no: They are not talking about clothes.
Newspapers may be loath to report the black mob violence that struck New Haven in October 2013. But those involved didn’t hide it. They celebrated it.
The occasion was a Sunday night “All Black Affair” at a downtown restaurant -- just one of many parties that went by this name at that location. Most are targeted to New Haven black professionals. This one was for black teenagers.
Black did not refer to dress code.
By 9 p.m. the manager of the Kudeta (pronounced coup d’etat) knew she had more trouble than she could handle: The promoters advertised the party and charged admission. That was not supposed to happen. Neither were the large fights that started inside and “spilled out into the streets” involving as many as 500 people in what a local TV station called a “massive brawl.”
News8 picks up the story:712
Police say at some point, kids in ski masks arrived on bikes and an all out brawl broke out,” said reporter Kent Pierce. “Every available officer in the city was sent in to try and stop the fight. Even the chief of police was there.”
Eventually the fighting stopped. The crowd scattered to two other nearby teen nightclubs. Police were called to stop fights there as well.
Eyewitness News in New Haven called the party a “near riot” and a “near catastrophic event.”
The New Haven Register dutifully reported, “There were no reported assaults or injuries at the scene.” And that “a police investigation is looking into the possibility that laws were broken.”
Who writes these crazy TV news stories? For others in the downtown, law breaking and chaos were not a “possibility,” but a dangerous reality.
The local NBC affiliate reported, “neighboring restaurants and businesses told police they feared for the safety of their customers and were locking their doors to keep out members of the crowd.”
No arrests were made because police were concentrating on crowd control, officials said. “You sometimes have to forgive the crowd issues to concentrate on the general safety issue,” the police spokesman said. “It was just an overwhelming crowd issue. Over 500 kids.”713
There’s that under-reported crime thing again. Congressman Conyers? Did you hear that? Aamidor? Seiler?
Several partygoers blamed police for causing the violence. Others at the Register web site wondered about the racial nature of the festivities: “One can only imagine the outrage expressed in this newspaper had there been a party held downtown on Sunday night for 500 people with flyers handed out calling the event "The All White Affair Party."
Miggity Mike promoted the All Black Affair. What local news called a riot, he called just having a good time. On his Instagram pages, he posted several pictures of the violence: “My Party Made the News,” he bragged. “If that doesn't explain how big it was idk (I don’t know) what else could.”714
He also encouraged party-goers to pick themselves out of videos of the news coverage because his party: “Keeps Showing Up on the News -- Who Sees them self up here?”
“Bro u the sickest,” said one of his admirers. I’d pay for someone to say that about me on my Facebook page.
None of the New Haven media reported how the All Black Affair was not about clothing. How it was promoted by black people for black people. How this was just latest in a series of black mob violent episodes there.
Guess the people of New Haven like it that way. The Aamidor way. The Jennifer way. The Wenger way. The Seiler way.
In Grand Rapids over the same weekend, black mob violence outside of a downtown nightclub left one dead. The violence is just the latest in a series of fatal episodes there.715
In Fayetteville over the same weekend, three black people tried to rob a Chinese restaurant. A restaurant employee shot one of the robbers in the head, fatally. But one restaurant worker remains hospitalized in critical condition after a robber shot him.716
In Bellefontaine over the weekend, 50 miles northwest of Columbus, police found 50 black people fighting outside of a bar. They arrested one person, who, said the Examiner, “later apologized to the officer.”
In Indianapolis over the weekend, police put the public on alert after an armed black mob robbed two people. The mob threatened to do the same at a downtown event sponsored by the Indiana Black Expo -- an event that even the local paper has to admit has become “inescapably tied” to epic levels of violence.
In the Detroit suburb of Hamtrack over the weekend, two black people beat a 59-year old white person known as the “cat man” for taking care of stray animals. "He's a wonderful kid, he's very respectable to the elderly people in the community, and I think he was just brought into something, not being in my care," said Mark Real, one of the perpetrator’s father to the NBC affiliate. 717
The man is in critical condition and family wonders if he will survive. The alleged attackers were 13 and 14-years old.
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