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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on September 27, 2011, 02:09:13 PM
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Anyone in the Philly area catch this on the local networks/newspapers? Why is this a two week old event with NO other coverage?
Can you imagine if it was a white mob doing this to a minority family?
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110927_Chased_home__Mob_attacks_man_in_his_house.html?cmpid=124488459
Chased home: Mob attacks man in his house
BY JULIE SHAW
Philadelphia Daily News
shawj@phillynews.com 215-854-2592
This story was updated at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27.
ABOUT 11 P.M. on Sept. 9, dozens of youths with bats and pipes descended on a tidy residential area of Port Richmond looking for white teens who allegedly had attacked an African-American kid at Stokely Playground a couple of hours earlier.
Two fearful white teens spotted Mark LaVelle on Indiana Avenue near Belgrade Street and asked for help. Suddenly, the mob appeared. LaVelle, who said that he didn't know the two kids, who looked to be 13 or 14, ran with them into his nearby house.
" 'We got you, you white mother-------!' " LaVelle said he heard someone yell in the "mob" of black and Hispanic youths.
Inside his house, LaVelle, 37, called to his wife, Kim, 30, to go to their bedroom with their twin 13-month-old boys, Mark and Mason, and to call police. He also ordered his two other sons, 11 and 17, and his nephew, 7, to stay upstairs.
With the two teens hiding in the house, LaVelle, 5 feet 10, 220 pounds, a well-known sports-league organizer and coach in the community, went outside to try to calm the angry mob.
They were standing on his steps. One shouted, " 'Something's going to happen now!' " LaVelle recalled in an interview Friday at his house. LaVelle got nervous and went back inside, locking his door with a deadbolt.
But the attackers pounded on his front windows and kicked his wooden door so hard, it flew open and some of them entered his house.
"The first guy hits me with a pipe. The second guy knocks me in the face. All I'm hearing is my wife and kids screaming," said LaVelle, who feared that the next time they saw him, he would be in a casket.
He said that he was able to push the attackers out the door, but then a third man - who had a gun - tried to extend his arm. LaVelle grabbed onto the gunman's lower arm and shoulder so he couldn't raise the weapon. Then, police sirens screamed in the neighborhood, and the mob turned and ran.
LaVelle was able to identify three of the people from the melee. He said he did not know if they had been chasing the white teenagers, or if they were just trying to find someone to attack.
Police arrested Bergson Morin, 21, of Rosehill Street near Wyoming Avenue, Feltonville, as the man with the gun. They arrested Enrique Delgado, 32, of Rockland and C streets, Feltonville, as the man who hit LaVelle with the pipe. And they arrested a 17-year-old juvenile as the one who punched LaVelle in the face, giving him a black eye.
LaVelle said that the next day the mother of the juvenile came back with some other people, banging on his door, screaming. LaVelle, who was at a charity sports event, was called back to the house by one of his sons.
When he got home, LaVelle said, the mother yelled at him, " 'You white mother------, you got my kid locked up! You got my son locked up because he's black, you're white!' " The mother claimed that her son had been "a witness," not an attacker. To that, LaVelle said if that were true, it would come out in court.
But the mother, according to LaVelle, then yelled: " 'If you make it to court! I know where you live!' "
Police public affairs could not confirm yesterday if the mother has been arrested for making threats.
Patty-Pat Kozlowski, president of the Port Richmond on Patrol and Civic Association, said that police told her that the attack on LaVelle stemmed from the incident at Stokely Playground, Indiana Avenue and Thompson Street, a few blocks from LaVelle's house.
She heard that an African-American "kid got knocked off his bike or fell off" and white kids were laughing at him. The group of African-Americans and Hispanics came back for retaliation, Kozlowski believes.
She said she didn't know any of the people involved in the playground incident or in the attack on LaVelle. LaVelle said he also did not know anyone involved.
Morin and Delgado, who face charges of aggravated assault, conspiracy, burglary, weapons and related offenses, were scheduled to face a preliminary hearing in Municipal Court today, but the hearing got postponed to Nov. 7. Delgado, who is in state prison, was not brought down to the city. Also, both defense attorneys requested a lineup in the case, which the judge granted. Morin is in custody in county prison. Their family members could not be reached for comment Monday.
Freddy Godoy, Delgado's attorney, said yesterday that someone Delgado knows "was probably related to the child" who was attacked in the playground. But he contends that Delgado was not one of the people who attacked LaVelle.
Richard Patton, Morin's attorney, declined comment yesterday.
Kozlowski, a legislative aide to City Councilwoman Joan Krajewski and a lifelong Port Richmond resident, wrote about the attack in The Spirit community newspaper, which serves the river wards. Since then, the story has created a lot of buzz in the predominantly white neighborhood.
Kozlowski and Maryann Trombetta, president of the Port Richmond Town Watch, both recalled the murder of Sean Daily, a white teen who was beaten and shot by bat-wielding youths, mostly Latino, in May 1989.
They don't believe that the attack on LaVelle started as a racial incident, but believe that there was a racial element to it when the mob "called him a white mother------" and when the juvenile's mother allegedly threatened LaVelle.
LaVelle, who runs sports leagues composed of youths and adults of different races, said he doesn't want any retaliation on the people who attacked him. But the attack has instilled fear in him and his family, and he hopes that there will be more of a police presence in the neighborhood.
His wife is afraid to stay at home, and "every time I hear a car, I'm looking out the door," he said.
"It's not a good way to live."
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That's what a Remington 870 is for. Damn savages. These "violent flash mobs" as posted about before, in other parts of the country, are getting more frequent and ONE SIDED....Notice it's minority mobs attacking whites?
Yet NO mention of this on the MSM, or it is buried on pg. 21A of a local newspaper......
I'm sure it would be a National Front Page Story if reversed. OR when a lawful citizen shoots and kills these scumbags fearing for his life and family.
Just a matter of time....
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AG Holder has already stated the DOJ will not prosecute "hate crime" cases in the case of blacks attacking whites because whites "have not suffered enough".
You're on your own, stack the bastards up.
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You are right, the MSM has decided not to cover these stories. Shoot one of the little B@stards though and see how much press you get. Just ask Bernard Goetz, he is famous, and lucky not to be in prison. If it weren't for an honest jury they would have put him away for life.
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AG Holder has already stated the DOJ will not prosecute "hate crime" cases in the case of blacks attacking whites because whites "have not suffered enough".
You're on your own, stack the bastards up.
Yep.
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AG Holder has already stated the DOJ will not prosecute "hate crime" cases in the case of blacks attacking whites because whites "have not suffered enough".
You're on your own, stack the bastards up.
And this from the nations Top Jackbooted Thug.....
I cannot believe that the AG can publicly announce that the DOJ will apply the law unequally based upon race and he is still in office...
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All U gave to say is I wouldn't want to be the 1st few people thru the door.
if this was a mob of whites, there would non stop coverage from every network.
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Even in a firearms hostile environment like Philly, I think that the first few through the door would be a test for the Ginsu marketing claims.
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Much like Hussein's failed policies, liberals will never learn that multi racial, multi cultural societies have never worked anywhere they have ever been attempted. That is becoming more evident in our country every day. Bill T.
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One thing AG Holder has been dead right about.
"Race" is the 800 pound gorilla in our political room.
No one dares admit that the majority of urban blacks conduct themselves as much like savages as if they were living in Rwanda.
Instead of Hutu's and Tutsi's we have Crip's and Blood's.
The exceptions such as Bill Cosby, Allen West, and Thomas Sowell simply make that more obvious.
And the problem is compounded by the leeches like Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters who capitalize on that inability to assimilate into a civilized society for their own personal gain.
If I'm wrong then the black community should prove me wrong by changing some statistics, rate of teen pregnancy, drop out rate, rate of incarceration, unemployment rate, percent classed as below the poverty level, percent on welfare.
All the things are significantly worse among the black population than even among other minorities.
If I'm I racist, why can you map the black neighbor hoods of a city based on the crime rate ?
Don't believe me ?
Look at a map of Chicago, Boston, or Baltimore. mark the locations of murders, then put a demographic overlay over that.
Each city will have dozens if not hundreds of entries, all clustered in black dominated ares, with a very few "fliers" in other areas.
We have seen several examples here lately where Black activists called for violence against whites.
If whites made the same sort of comments the LSM would would turn it into a 7 day wonder, but what do we hear ?
Crickets chirping.
Even the Neo Nazi's and KKK (a Dem organization ) are not spouting this type of hate filled rhetoric
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If I'm wrong then the black community should prove me wrong by changing some statistics, rate of teen pregnancy, drop out rate, rate of incarceration, unemployment rate, percent classed as below the poverty level, percent on welfare.
Also don't forget the fact over 70% of blacks are born out of wedlock. That in itself doesn't guarantee a criminal, but it sure ups the odds. Again it's a proven fact. Bill T.
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Also don't forget the fact over 70% of blacks are born out of wedlock. That in itself doesn't guarantee a criminal, but it sure ups the odds. Again it's a proven fact. Bill T.
Same with Jail, drop outs, welfare, and all the others, these are the Govts own numbers we see, and they are probably low.
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I guess when a group of people has been told for long enough by their .gov (read that "Democrat Party") that they are a sub-species that can't succeed on their own, they begin to not only believe it, but actually perpetuate the stereotype.
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The problem with liberal Democrats is they always confuse the word "SHARE" with the word "EARN". Bill T.
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The problem with liberal Democrats is they always confuse the word "SHARE" with the word "EARN". Bill T.
Bill, you're assuming that the word "earn" exists on their planet.
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Republicans always are required to PAY their fair SHARE, while Democrats are seemingly concerned about RECEIVING their fair SHARE. The underprivileged blacks loot and burn when they're not on the RECEIVING end of things. It will be no different this time around I suspect. Bill T.
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The liberal term "Share the wealth" is a code phrase that actually means "Every one who disagrees with us can share the poverty while we gather and keep all the wealth"
Look at the old Soviet Union, The Party favorites had Dacha's and the "GUM" store, every one else had lines for everything from food and shoes to toilet paper.
This is why the more recent influx of Russian immigrants are our best allies in the fight against the communist Dems. They "been there, Done that" and don't want to go through it again.
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Republicans always are required to PAY their fair SHARE, while Democrats are seemingly concerned about RECEIVING their fair SHARE. The underprivileged blacks loot and burn when they're not on the RECEIVING end of things. It will be no different this time around I suspect. Bill T.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. If the public has courage enough to stand up and shoot enough of them it may encourage the others to smarten the hell up.
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This is why the more recent influx of Russian immigrants are our best allies in the fight against the communist Dems. They "been there, Done that" and don't want to go through it again.
Very true. Even as bad as it is now in Russia, with the Russian Mafia controlling a lot of their commerce, most all Russians are still very much against going back to Communism anytime in the near future. Bill T.
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Very true. Even as bad as it is now in Russia, with the Russian Mafia controlling a lot of their commerce, most all Russians are still very much against going back to Communism anytime in the near future. Bill T.
That reminds me.
I've seen several news stories that Vladimir Putin will be running for President of Russia in 2012.
I have to say I greatly admire the guy, I wish we had one like him.
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But the mother, according to LaVelle, then yelled: " 'If you make it to court! I know where you live!' "
Anyone else would be charged with "making terroristic threats". This bitch gets a pass on that. ::)