Report: Another beating on a Baltimore bus
Surveillance video screenshot via WBAL
Jeff Quinton alerted me this morning to another reported beating on a Baltimore bus involving an alleged racially motivated attack on white passengers by a group of young black riders. I waited to see if more evidence would develop today before posting. Copycat incidents are unfortunately a concern. Well, WBAL reported on the incident last night–and follows up with surveillance video today showing the alleged attackers. It took city officials three days to release photos of the suspect:
“We were saying the whole time to the driver, ‘You need to help us, call the police,’” [Patrick] Green told 11 News reporter Kerry Cavanaugh. “He said, ‘I can’t. I’ll get in trouble.’”
Roth said the driver closed the door and drove away, even though the attack continued once they got off the bus.
“We could’ve been left on the side of the road, dead,” [Robert] Rothe said.
MTA officials said the driver of the bus is currently not operating a vehicle while the incident is being investigated.
MTA officials said they’re not currently classifying the incident as a hate crime. They said they’re simply calling it a common assault.
Green and Rothe said they’re mad it took MTA officials three days to release photos of the suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to call MTA police at 410-454-7720.
The victims say the driver refused to help. None of the other passengers helped, either, according to the victims. The investigation continues.
Meanwhile, the first assault case involving Sarah Kreager and her boyfriend moves forward. Prosecutors are mulling charging some of the teens as adults.
A decision is expected by Christmas.
Charm City has lost its charm.
Stay off the buses.
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The rest of society is nothing but prey to these animals. Excused in their behavior by the PC police for a generation, we now have a criminal class that is stupid, violent and ignorant and proud of it.
We need more armed women!
You know, a sign that the bus driver is armed is effective. Arming them is even more effective.
When you have an endless supply of victims, you will have an endless supply of victims.
No, that was not a typo.
Wow, I’m just glad these attacks were not racially motivated.
/sarc
Am I wrong to long for the day when I am faced with something like this? I am normally a very non-confrontational person, but damn…..someone would have their butt kicked and it wouldn’t be me. If your child comes at me like these animals, I will beat your child down. Ifyou don’t like it….come see me and I will beat you down too.
Sorry for the violent rant….I just can’t wrap my head around this…
I can absolutely guarantee that if it were a group of whites attacking a couple of “african-americans” the MTA would’ve had the video out within hours under the title “Hate Crime”.
I see a new advertisement for auto sales: “Buy a car and avoid the beatings you get on the bus!”
OK, this has my blood boiling. NO ONE could help? Not one passenger could call the cops from their cell phones? The driver says he would get in trouble?
In trouble for WHAT? What has this society come to? Unbelievable.
When I lived in PA, I had my CCW permit. I now live in the Socialist Republik of Kalifornia, and I can’t get a CCW.
So, what have I resorted to? Something that’s easier and legal here in KA. Believe it or not, you can carry a Taser.
Better than nothing.
But I’m sure someone, somewhere in the KA legislature is trying to figure out a way to outlaw those too.
Sorry guys. They had to get mommys take on it first because - you know - you guys spit on them and pulled knives.
/max sarc
Which is light years faster than the Columbia University security video.
Wonder what the whites did to cause this assault? Are these little kids OK?
I hear their knuckles are a bit sore.
Any news today?
Today’s Free of news.
What, exactly, would need to happen to a white person at the hands of a protected minority to be considered a “hate crime”?
Future New Jersey residents.
According to whom?
Sharpton? or real people?
Hate crime = Thought crime. Wait till you see how bad this will get. Opens up
a nasty can of worms.
It probably had something to do with these kids, while beating them, were saying;
“You like us. You really, really like us.”
BlameAmericaLast, I hear that in Orange County one may be able to get their CCW.
BOB, according to modern socialthinkers, hating whites isn’t racist, therefor whites cannot be the victims of hate crimes.
In english please…..
I’m sure the bus driver will be Totally Forgiven.
Well of course they are, because it is turning INTO a common assault. So common that there seems to be an attack on a white person by a roving gang of black thugs just about every other day in that town.
While it is common, it is by for not a “Hate Crime”. On the contrary. As opposed to what the one victim was saying, when he was complaining that these poor young children were saying, “White this and white that…”, they were merely using the term white as a descriptive word and not in the derogatory form that he was thinking. IF anything, the hate crime is clearly against him for racially profiling these kids. Just because they were describing him as white does not mean they were using it as a racial slang and therefore he was trying to encite the violence and thusly deserved to be beaten. HE incited hundreds of years of pent up feelings within these four young lads who only had visions of sugar plums and Santa Clause in their minds on their way to their Aunties and grandma’s houses.
I would like to know how you would have reacted. There is clearly a problem in this city with the way Whites are treating the black youths. They are clearly setting them up to where there is nothing they can do without appearing to get into trouble. they can’t even ride the bus. DO you really think for one minute that if these white men were getting “attacked” as hey claim they were that the bus driver would have just sat there and not called the police?
I mean really. Another conspiracy. What this town needs is Hill-Dawg. She can straighten it all out. She has the experience to make things right.
What I mean is when you can be charged for what your thinking, well, it’s not
a good thing. This road is gonna get very rough.
Maybe it took the MTA three days because it was trying to contact the perps’ fathers. And you know how thick the Baltimore white pages are.
Boy, I sure hope Rick is picking up on ol’ Burner here. First Alan Keys on the debate thread and now “muzzie”.
I implore you Burner, keep it up.
I believe that, according to prevailing leftist race-baiting thought, only a member of the “dominant” class is capable of bigotry and “hate crimes.”
Isn’t that handy?
Where’s Al & Jesse? This incident would appear to be racially motivated where the white guy was repeatedly hitting the black guy’s fist with his head!
What gets me, is it was good white Christians that made sure people of color could become anything they want to be.
Now, white folks are said to be evil demons in many households across America.
Time for some rap, and a little bling bling ya’ll. U no whats eye be sa-in.
In parts of California, if not the entire state thanks to illegal imigration, whites are no longer the majority race. What is the break down of races in Baltimore?
Dr. Jerry Pournelle nails it:
Fred Reed also points out some disturbing thoughts on the bigger picture.
Rich people don’t take the bus.
And no one in Baltimore can follow NYC’s example of having Guardian Angels if not undercover cops on buses?
At least those criminal illegal aliens/Colombians in Houston won’t be repeat offenders thanks to Joe Horn. Where’s Charles Bronson/ Bernard Goetz types when you need them?
The Baltimore Police need to put white under cover cops on the buses. Otherwise these types of crimes will happen with even more frequently. It’s obvious that punks like these think that this is cool now. If the cops don’t crack down quickly, then sooner or later an armed white citizen will shoot some of the punk scum and the armed citizen will be made out to be the racist. The blacks will call him or her another Bernard Gietz.
In the meantime if your white and ride the busses in Baltimore, ya better start packing!
Better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
Where’s Nifong when you need him? He could’ve cut through the bureaucracy and smoke and due process and all that nonsense and found a hate crime to charge these crackers with. I mean, for crying out loud, interfering with a municipal employee while he tries to serve the public? What were these guys thinking?
#4 said:
You’re not wrong, but these “kids” know exactly what they’re doing. I was held up at gunpoint by 5-6 of them (all teenagers)4 years ago in NJ. The photo in this case looks just like the pack that got me. They always wear caps and hoods which are pulled down when they accost and flee. Also, notice that they always wear clothes that are 5x too big, so you don’t know what they might have hidden underneath. But most of all, they all know how to play the system. Look at the libs out there defending everything these thugs rely upon; from the size of their clothing to their lack of any curfew.
Right, whites pummeling the fists of black teens with their lips, ears, and eyelids isn’t a hate crime.
Justice Department will be on the Baltimore MTA as fast as TSA will search a Muslim on a prayer rug at LAX with a backpack of Gifts For Allah….. Never.
Nothing says “Stop hitting me you punks” like foaming pepper spray with dye all over their punk little faces. It is cheap and makes a great stoking stuffer. So far, Liberals haven’t outlawed that yet.
heh, this reminds me of an incident my freshman year of high school. I was taking the public bus home and there were a bunch of “african americans” on it. A few white “nerds” tried to go sit in “the back of the bus” (ironic, no?) and were thusly given a butt-whooping. What did these african-american youths do? Why of course, they all jumped out of the EMERGENCY WINDOWS and left, leaving these poor kids bloody on the floor. What did the bus driver do? Pull over and wait for her supervisor to come. Since then, I never took the public bus again.
#36 said:
I just googled your suggestion and got the following disclaimer at the first site I found:
I swear to you, self-defense is a crime where liberals are in power.
That’s because they knuckles drag on the ground when they walk.
I noticed that the hate crime perps (black) were all wearing the same green and black jackets. Is it a gang uniform?
It is time for all of us to go to the range, practice, and be prepared.
as a white man i understand that it s PC to hate white men
Hate crime is like racial bias. Only whites are allowed to be condemned for it. We should be thankful for the privilege, as demonstrated by these fun-loving boys.
I just don’t see how anyone can take offense at being called “white this” or “white that” I mean, it is the same as being called “gringo” or “cracker” and they use those words on UPN and other TV shows all the time. I hear blacks calling whites that all the time on TV and everyone gets a big laugh, even the white guys. Just ask Rusty…he doesn’t think these things are racial at all. How can this be a hare crime?
Sue everybody…fast…get it in the news anyway you can. MSM won’t cover it…
SUE!!!
Time to start carrying you Glock 27 in Baltimore….
Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. I guess that depends on the 12…
As far as this hate crime thing goes, NO ONE SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH A HATE CRIME! The thoughts of the accused go to motive, and should lead to more severe sentencing if the the prosecution successfully identifies it in a court of law.
Instead, legislation leaves us on the slippery slope of weakly defining which actions will be charged, which leaves juries (the 12 idiots that we call our peers) to decide the defendants crime, and takes the burden off the lazy prosecutors.
Assault is assault is assault!
Murder is murder is murder!
It won’t be long before it’s a Hate Crime to debate politics, since clearly all of our thoughts on personal responsibility are simply racism in disguise. Want to debate illegal immigration? Hate Crime! Want to debate national funding of Health Care for every American? Hate crime! Want to debate whether we should be in Iraq? Hate Crime, you Islamophobe!
This story is disgusting, and it is racism. But arrest and charge the kids, and fire the bus driver for not living up to his charge as a municipal employee, and upholding the public good and safety.
And stop asking for Al Sharpton to step in. He’s too busy with the Federales right now
These two stories remind me of a visit to my Aunt’s house in Glen Burnie in the late 70’s. My cousins and I were leaving an afternoon concert in Baltimore and noticed we were being followed by a half dozen or so black kids. Nearly at our car they rushed us, we pulled our pants belts off and started swinging. We made it out ok but it was the first time I was ever assaulted.
When I read this headline this morning, it reminded me of that moment and then Tom Clancy’s book “Without Remorse”. The story of how John Clark (John Kelly) came to the CIA.
Incidents like this just breed copy cat attacks. How long before it spreads to NYC, Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, etc? Attacks carried out teen hoods who are ‘gonna show the man that those punks in Baltimore ain’t got nuttin on the homeboy. In Vegas they are already shooting each other at bus stops. In Atlanta, near the Six Flags amusement park about 6 months ago we had an incident like this which left a kid in critical condition in the hospital for about 2 weeks. It does worry me but at times I use public transportation to commute back and forth from work. Let’s say that I am much more aware now and getting a Concealed carry permit is moving up the priority list.
They will keep doing it as long as they feel they can get by with it. White America is not a protected class and by virtue of that line of reasoning therefore fair game.
But hey Baltimore has that alleged murderer Ray Lewis as a superstar so who do you think the kids are going to emulate. Around here Lewis is considered more then alleged, just another rich guy with good lawyers.
Concealed Carry.
Oh no not again.
What happened to the cops beefing up security on these buses?
It’s being taught in the universities. So, if you happen to make something of yourself and are pursuing higher learning… You don’t come out unscathed. You come out thinking the white man is still trying to persecute you. I had a friend tell me that I “need” to sign up for an African American studies class. Apparently, my thought processes weren’t “black” enough for her. Recall the directive that came out from Delaware University.
Somebody is fostering this idea and it is coming from liberals.
The black community is ripe with its issues. Crime, drugs, out of wedlock births, traditional family values - non-existent and it’s glorified. BET, MTV, rap music, etc., all glorify this lifestyle.
Just last night I had an argument with my younger brother (he’s 27) and doing absolutely squat with his life. He only calls me when he needs something, more specifically, he only calls me when he wants money. Last time we spoke he managed to get money from our mother on my word that I would pay her back. That was a lie. So, he calls me up this time - no apology for lying on me or for stealing from me. Instead he gives me attitude, like I owe him something. In fact, he tried to make me feel bad, (his usual tactics)I’m lonely, your judging me, I don’t need you, you think you are better than me, etc… Really, I think I am better than you but you call me asking me for money. So, my “status” is good enough as long as you get what you want. The point I am trying to make here is that again, someone is fostering this mentality. Someone is being an enabler. Someone is aiding and abetting this thuggery. And someone needs to pay for it. These kids need to learn that this behavior is unacceptable and the proverbial book needs to be thrown at them.
Then our liberal friends can decry how our prisons are overrun with blacks, set them free only to have them wreak more havoc in their communities. Things need to change and quick. More blood will be spilled. I say, it high time those who dish out beatings get a taste of their own medicine. After all they bleed too.
When white people start arming themselves like Bernie Goetz, then the MTA and those who deny that these are hate crimes, will get the message.
Two words.
Ryukyu Kempo.
Hard to attack someone when the whole left side of your body is paralyzed or you’re unconscious.
With regards to the “Judged by 12 instead of carried by 6″ remark, I have an interesting idea. Perhaps if we have lawyers who read this page, they can clue me in as to how effective this might be?
If you (God forbid) are in a situation where you have to kill someone to protect yourself and this goes to trial, sue the surviving attackers (if any) or their families for “Violation of your civil rights.”
This was occurring in San Francisco in the ’70s. A social worker tried to calm down one mass attack, high school kids attacking business commuters in mass, and was slugged in the face for her effort. Poetic justice in action. They’d break windows on the bus, grab purses and briefcases, then run. This motivated the ongoing use of my personal vehicle until parking increased to over $200 a month. Then, no recourse but BART.
No Michelle, we need to get on the bus.
You’re exactly right, Michelle.
When I was an intern in DC for the US Senate , I knew not to venture into Baltimore. (This was waaaay back in ‘94, the Sharon Pratt-Kelly era).
There is a “Hairspray” joke in this somewhere. (The movie takes place in Baltimore.)
Let me try: One of the assailants was a chubby white girl with high hair . She was heard shouting “Run and tell that m!!&&&&er f*&&&er!!”. She was later nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
It’s time to say , “Goodbye” to Baltimore.
Charm City never had any charm. Check the stats. Its one of the worst cities in the country…murder rate, drug use, STD’s, armed robbery, quality of life…
Like the other neat slogan city officials use to cover the stench of the truth, “The City that Reads”, neither one is true.
Now its also one of the highest taxed, thanks to the “commander in thief” o’malley. welcome to the dimocrats playground. this is what you get when they’re in charge.
It is an insurgency, so please “Get us out of Baltimore.”
I suppose in Baltimore, white people shouldn’t either….
“Apple Core!… Baltimore!… Whose your friend?… etc”
Notice this isn’t happening to ordinary, innocent citizens in Rhode Island, Maine or Pennsylvania to name a few. Those are “shall issue” concealed carry states, meaning that unless the sheriff has a specific reason not to issue you a concealed carry license (CCW), you get a CCW. Maryland, like most of the northeast states, is a “may issue” state. What that usually means is that unless you can prove a current, ongoing threat that you have documented with the police department, or unless you are a judge, prosecutor, attorney, politician, doctor or wealthy connected citizen, you aren’t going to get one from what I hear and read from numerous sources. If you do get one and you use a firearm to defend yourself, you better have an umbrella liability insurance policy unless you have a millions dollars laying around you aren’t using because the bad guy can sue you in most, if not all, of those states for harming him while he was trying to kill you.
Unfortunately in mob/gang attacks like the ones in question, somebody is going to have to get shot and killed to get these punks’ attention. Maybe a lot of somebodys, meaning that just pointing a gun at punks like that won’t stop them. I would hypothesize it is going to take several incidents of them attacking an innocent person on public transportation and one of them getting shot to have any significant effect on behavior. Otherwise it is just an isolated incident to them.
Good points, deepdiver!!
I’m out in Colorado, where they still believe in allowing you the right to self protection. There have been several instances in the last few years where citizens with CCW’s used firearms to protect themselves from thugs. Of course, each case was investigated, but nobody was charged.
Curiously, the local media have not tried to make bad guys out of the CCW holders. The recent church shootings come to mind.
I have a CCW, and you can bet when I’m out in the public, with God knows who around, I’m armed! I will not be a victim!!!
#59 said:
Maybe not public transit gang assaults, but my brother informs me that trouble is brewing around Williamsport and Harrisburg PA, a la post Katrina, and it’s not being covered.
Seems that crime in Philly has gotten so out of control that the genious Gov. of PA has been transporting urban bad apples to public housing in other areas of the state. My brother’s in laws are now reporting crime statistics in their neighborhood which never used to exist until this current situation was put into effect.
I have read about that on a PA forum I lurk at on occasion. Armed law abiding citizens is not a panacea, but it does level the playing field quite a bit. And it doesn’t take all that many instances of criminals running into armed, proficient citizens willing to defend themselves to convince the criminals to prey on people elsewhere, probably somewhere that citizens don’t carry guns.
You can thank Giuliani for some of that too. He apparently bused a lot of people out to those areas in his cleaning up NYC campaign. I go through that area of PA a lot and it is unbelievable how those areas have changed. And the residents aren’t calmly taking it because it seems every other house is for sale. Lock Haven, infamous for its ban on renting to illegals, has become a total ghost town.
Where is the REVEREND Al?
Bill Cosby to the rescue!
Waaaaay back at #2,
Fixed that one for you, Soap.
Ladies and gentlemen, always remember that YOU are responsible for protecting yourself. No one else. Certainly not the police, who are already overworked. The sad fact is, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Protecting yourself is just another form of personal responsibility. Step up to the plate.
Congratz dumbass perps - all you’ve done is add fuel to the fire - unfortunately for you, the fire you threw the fuel on is the one that’s burning you.
Damn uppity white crackas…tryin ta use tha bus to get from point a to point b. Just who do they think they are?
BTW - the word ‘white’ by itself is not be a racial slur, just as the word ‘black’ is not, by itself - it is the context that makes the difference. Yelling “f***ing white c***” at someone while beating them is no less racist than yelling “f***ing black c***”, yet for some reason these authorities fail to see what is right in front of their face. I am sick of the so-called ‘reverse’ racism in this country - racism is racism, regardless of what direction it goes in, and all this current PC crap is doing is creating racism were previously it did not exist.
Another example of black cultural assimilation into American society: See no evil,hear no evil, speak nothin bad against da bros.
Bus driver should be charged as an accessory to the crime. Those types of citizens of Balitmore be damned!
SCOTUS ruled as early as 1856 (first cite of which I am aware) that the civilian police force is NOT responsible for protecting individual citizens. There have been at least 5 SCOTUS rulings since then upholding that principal in various regards. The responsibility of the police is to maintain civil order and protect the assets of the political subdivision (city, county, state, etc) of which they are employed. Over 90% of all police work occurs AFTER the crime is committed.
While I certainly agree that the vast majority of police officers are decent people who truly care about their communities and work hard in an often thankless job, the fact is that they do NOT have an obligation to protect you. That makes prohibitions and limitations of civilian carry of firearms near suicidal.
The assailants are probably graduates of the University of Delaware. They’re just following through on what they’ve been taught.
#62 said:
Agreed.
I guess they need “Bus Marshalls” in Baltimore…..More government jobs, it’s a good thing.
After the fubar at the University of Delware, people reverse racism doesn’t exist and its just a term white america uses to maintain their privledges at the expense of ethnic minorities. /sarc off-stuff I have heard in my sociology classes.
Reverse racism is not some pc term, it has become a way to identify that the perputrators of racism are ethnic minorities since the prevailing stereotype is that the only ethnic group capable of being & practicing racism are whites. Until America accepts the evidence that all ethnic groups are capable, and do practice various forms of racism then the term “reverse racism” is an acceptable way to address the problem of racism that is specifically directed at whites and between other ethnic minority groups.
In short, this term has become a coping mechnism in dealing with racial bigotry that non-bigoted whites in the south face from segments of the African America community on a daily basis. Since I moved to Memphis; I have been subjected to more racism in 18 months that I faced in 20 years of military service that had me stationed all over the east coast. The racism can be narrowed down to either subtle or blatant.
Subtle racism is based on a change of a persons behavior that is reflected in how they deal with diffrent ethnic groups. E.g rudeness-if a persons rude consistently, then there racism maynot be there. If a person is selectively rude and only one ethnic group is being favorably-then racism is there.
Blatant racism is the most obvious and its manifested by slurs, violent behavior against a person for no other reason than their color of their skin and discrimination in the job market when being passed over by an inferiorly qualified applicant. Sadly I have seen this sort of behavior by the several elected pols in Memphis, and the tri-state area. If a non-black ethnic made simuliar comments they would be fired or at least accused of a hate crime.
I have seen this several times in the hospitality industry and local hospitals when during the group interviews all the non-black applicants were not accepted for the second round of interviews.
The last time this happened, those of us that were passed over compared resumes and saw what the “accepted” group had-our clothes were approbiate, resumes on quality paper, answered the questions in thoughtful/non-stuttering language, were articulate in speech and we had lots of experience.
Well since Mayor Herenton (Memphis)stated that if people don’t like his racist accusations for disagreeing with him then people should just move out. Well thats what I plan on doing once I graduate from college in 2009 and just leave.
GSP
I am a Maryland resident now living in Virginia (AD military). I tried repeatedly to get a CC permit in the state of Maryland after a physically abusive ex boyfriend repeatedly violated a restraining order in Montgomery county. I was turned down every time. I have no criminal record and nothing prevented me from legally purchasing and owning a handgun. I was told that my reason was not good enough and to just call the police if he showed up again.
Well one evening while he was attempting to break down my front door it took the police over 30 minutes to show up and he was gone.
I moved to the tidewater area of Virginia last year and had my CCW within 2 weeks. I was amazed at the speed and ease of obtaining my permit.
I will never be a victim again. When my military service is over I will also never be a Maryland resident again as well.
The liberals that have overtaken my beautiful home state have ruined it for me.
This has been going on for a long time, and it isn’t going to stop. Even now, in the “suburbs” north of Houston, “minorities” are forming gangs based along “ethnic” lines. These are kids that have never missed a meal, do not live in “the hood”, and have never been “done wrong” by “the man”, yet somehow they feel that they must lash out at ol’ whitey… THe answer is clear, and has been for a long time. We have to start fighting back. Consistently. Every time. We must have million man marches and riots whenever injustice rears it’s ugly head. In the Jenna 6 case, how many blacks showed up to support those thugs? LOTS. So, how many of us are going to support Joe Horn? Oh yeah… We’re already doing that in Houston. You should check out what happened when the Black Panthers decided to protest in front of Joe Horn’s house only to arrive and find 100’s of BIKERS waiting on them.