Ask a cop. Any cop: Racial violence is worse than you know.
That is why so many cops -- active and retired -- send me so many stories from around the country. They want more people to know about the epic levels of racial violence happening in almost every part of the country almost every night.
Here are a few from one weekend in October 2013, courtesy of my cops.
Let’s start with a New Jersey bowling alley. For those who have not picked up a ball for a while, a visit to your local alley in the daytime is like stepping back in time. Same lanes. Same beat up shoes. Same scuffed up balls.
But weekend nights, many bowling alleys -- and roller skating rinks too -- shed their white, lower middle class trappings and are transformed into gleaming centers of hip-hop, with the latest and greatest in lights, sounds, fashion, booze and drugs.
All topped off with frequent large-scale, black mob violence.
This example came from the Central New Jersey town of Piscataway. The Associated Press reports the violence817
It involved roughly 250 people. Authorities say the combatants were fighting inside the alley and in the parking lot, but most of them fled when police arrived.
Acting Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey says 23-year-old Jamount Atkins man was injured during the brawl and taken to a hospital, where he died shortly after. It appeared Atkins was the victim of a beating.
Any cop will tell you -- as will Google -- bowling alleys are now predictable places for black mob violence. Check it: Saginaw, Jersey City, Allen Park, Temple Terrace, and on and on and on.
In Elk Grove, California, south of Sacramento, two black people were shot during a large fight in March 2013 at a bowling alley. It was not the first time, said the Elk Grove Patch:818
The Laguna Boulevard bowling alley where this incident took place has seen violence before. In March of 2011, a large fight sent four to the hospital. A few months later, a man was taunted with homophobic slurs before being assaulted in the parking lot.
The neighbors have had enough. One neighbor summed up local sentiment in the comments section:
Let's be real please.... it’s a hip hop club. It always has been a hip hop club.... the nightclub garbage needs to go, period... This has been a problem with this facility that transcends every owner. Non-stop thug violence from scumbag gang-bangers and hip-hop crowds...
Up in Rochester, where New York reporter Carl Seiler likes to deny the existence of racial violence on one hand even as he explains it as being the result of 400 years of slavery and oppression on the other, large scale black mob violence struck again.
This time Friday night outside of a nightclub where two people were shot following a “large fight.” On YouTube, large fights at closing time even have their own name: Let Out fights.
Rochester has been the scene of dozens of episodes of recent large-scale black mob violence. Some at a local beach during a holiday rib party. Others at the annual Lilac festival. Still others downtown. And of course the ever-popular nightclub fights.
The local TV station gives up some background:819
This is not the first time violence has broken out in that area. In June, two men were shot and killed following a fight across the street from the Club Network. The suspect in the June shooting--Ralph Strong Junior--is currently being held awaiting trial.
Sometimes the violence is smaller scale. But cops like to point out that as well because when it is on video, it shows people what is really happening in their towns. Or, as George Orwell put it, while “People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
In the Brooklyn, every night packs of black people walk the streets waiting for that one hipster with a bit too much to drink to stroll even one block to a place where he should not be. Result: One beating and one stolen iPhone.
Right around the time of the New Jersey bowling alley beat down, prosecutors released a security camera tape of a beating, knifing and robbery in the Bronx. It shows a white man entering the foyer of his apartment building. As he makes his way up the staircase, a black man bursts through the door behind him, which had not yet shut.
The robber grabbed the victim in a chokehold from behind and dragged him down the stairs. The victim resisted, and the man pulled knife and stabbed him three times as his female accomplice kept a lookout. He lived.
The predators fled together. Still unarrested.820
In Brooklyn the week before, ten black people beat up a white couple -- though it did not make the papers for almost a week. The black mob damaged his car when he honked his horn at them for crossing during a red light. Then they damaged him. Then the wife.
Some broken bones, blood. Four people caught. Six more on the loose.
Just another day. Ask any cop.
Cops do not like talking about racial violence any more than anyone else. No matter how much they know about it first hand. They go to the same cocktail parties, tailgate at the same football games and watch their kids at the same soccer games as everyone else.
And they don’t want anyone calling them racist. That happens enough on the job. Here is a homework assignment. Find a cop, active or retired. Ask them the following question: When you stop a black person in a car or on the street or in a home or anywhere in the course of your duties, how often do they say “You are only doing this because I am black?”
Let me know if, that is, it is something less than 100 percent.
Postscript: In Grand Terrace, California, a large fight broke out at a roller skating rink on New Year’s Eve January 2015. One security guard is dead. Five black people arrested.821
In Houston on New Year’s Day, hundreds of black people fought in and out of a party at an ice skating rink. The reporter said it was a miracle no one was killed.822