White Girl Bleed a Lot (22 page)

As usual the newspapers tell one story, and the video tells another. The paper bent over backward to avoid telling the race of the perpetrators, but the video clearly shows they are all black. And apparently, that wasn’t the first time a local venue has shut down because of fights on Memorial Day. Says the local paper:

Seabreeze made it a policy to close on Memorial Day starting last year after rumors of violence. The city has an ongoing issue with crowds of youth at the Liberty Pole downtown.

“I think what you saw at the beach is what we’ve been seeing in many of our neighborhoods for two decades,” said (black) Councilman Adam Mcfadden. “It’s just that you had
a lot of people there who are not used to that culture and got to witness it personally.
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I dare you to explain to me what he means by the term “that culture.” Go ahead, I dare you.

According to local ABC affiliate WHAM 13, this has been going on in Rochester for a long time in several different parts of the city.

As we keep encountering more places where more black officials say these violent events happen all the time, it gets more and more difficult to see how large the problem is. Other than it is very large. And when the media and officials do everything they can to downplay the events, it makes it even harder to understand the news. They just throw in the usual comments from store owners, victims, and clueless police and elected officials and call it a story.

No one is suggesting that the race of every criminal be reported in every story. But here’s where we can start: When you hear an elected official, black or white, say that crime and violence are just part of black “culture,” you don’t have to argue with them, or do much of anything. Just every minute or so, even if at random, say “What do you mean by that?” Then write down what they say. Then every other Friday, pick up your paycheck. That’s pretty much all there is to it.

In June 2011, hundreds of black people rioted on Brighton Beach in an annual event called Brooklyn-Queens Day. Four people were shot and one killed. According to the
New York Post
:

The shootings didn’t surprise neighbors, who’ve gotten used to trouble on previous Brooklyn-Queens Days.

“These kids come not to swim, they come for turf fights,” said Pat Singer, president of the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association.

“It’s a problem every year. It’s really hard on the businesses. All day long, all you see are hundreds of teenagers. Of course you’re going to have problems.”
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In July 2011 a Bronx man said he was taunted for being white and was beaten by a black mob on a subway. No charges were filed and police refused to list it as a hate crime.
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Near New York in July 2011 David Strucinski of northern New Jersey came to the aid of his friend who was under attack from a group of thirteen black people. He was “savagely” beaten and hospitalized with a coma in critical condition. Nine black people were arrested, including the mother of one suspect who was trying to smuggle him out of the area in the trunk of her car.
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On Staten Island in December 2011 two police officers were hurt trying to control a mob of fifty black people attacking a single family home. Firefighters finally disbursed the crowd with fire hoses to get them away from the officers. Lots of pictures and videos show some of the action.
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On Memorial Day 2011 hundreds of black people created a “riot” in Long Beach at Nassau County. The local Fox affiliate removed its video coverage from its Web site, but witnesses to the event posting on the Long Island Patch said lawless behavior from mobs of black people was a regular feature of life at that beach town.

“I was fortunate enough to witness both incidents,” said Kevin Spelman on Patch. “The one on Friday (senior cut day) and the one yesterday. I would classify the people I saw over the weekend leaving garbage and vandalism in their wake as ‘unsupervised, poorly raised teenagers’! The group involved in the riot was overwhelmingly black. But to your point, does that mean all black youth are troublemakers? I watched two white kids vandalizing one of the benches on the boardwalk.
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Some would consider that good news.

Less than a year before, five black men were arrested and two police officers were hurt after another riot at that beach town. The police had chased a suspect into a Long Beach house, where he refused to come out. According to the Long Island Press:

When the door was finally opened, the two other suspects attacked the officer, a large crowd gathered, and a melee ensued.

“Many members of the crowd began participating in the melee, cursing at, kicking and punching the police officers at the scene,” police said.”
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In September 2011 six black men in northern New Jersey, beat up a man, robbed him, and left him unconscious in the street. The victim was soon run over by a car. He was taken to a hospital where he died.
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In May 2012 twelve black women taunted two teenage girls on a subway before “hauling” the girls off the subway, beating them, and stealing one of their phones. The local NBC affiliate did not disclose the race of the mob, but it did not have to because the attack was videotaped.
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In June 2012 eleven black people were arrested for rioting, fighting, and mayhem outside of a Long Island emergency room. “The loud and disorderly crowd … walked into Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow around midnight and tried to get into the emergency room, while threatening the hospital staff.”
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In July 2012 the papers were full of stories about a “wave of violence” and several attacks at a new community swimming pool in Brooklyn. Cops and lifeguards were beaten and punched. Even the
New York Times
dipped its toe in, referring to the racially-charged debates following the attacks—and fights. Lots of fights.

On Friday teenagers scuffled with a lifeguard who had ordered them to stop doing back flips, and the pool closed … early. On Monday, two police officers were injured by swimmers who also persisted in doing back flips. Three men were arrested and charged with assault in the second degree, inciting to riot, criminal nuisance and menacing.
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Three men were arrested. All black.

My readers at WND.com and listeners at WDEL radio like to send e-mails to local reporters, asking why they are not covering racial violence. When one asked Clem Richardson of the
Daily News
why he did not cover black mob violence, he wrote back: “And you believe this?”

Keith W. Kohn, the Assistant Long Island Editor at
Newsday
, wrote back: “I don’t cover NYC and your site appears to dwell on racist coverage. Not interested.”

Maybe Keith didn’t know three of the incidents were on Long Island. When he does, maybe they will make him an associate editor.

Since my reader received these letters, several more incidents happened:

In October 2012 in Brooklyn, black mobs attacked two Jewish people.

On October 25, 2012, a man hurrying home to seek shelter from Hurricane Sandy was set upon by a group of five black people. They knocked him out, robbed him, and stepped on his head before walking away.

A few days later, the Crown Heights news reports: “A young Jewish boy was attacked this evening while on his way home. The victim, a 10 year old, was returning home from Yeshivas Erev. At approximately 8:15 pm he was accosted by a large group of black youths near the corner of Kingston Ave and Lefferts Ave.”
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In March 2013 Brooklyn broke out in two riots over three
nights because of what the protestors say was the racist killing of Kiki Gray. Two plain clothes police officers shot Gray after he ignored their order to stop and appeared to reach into his waist band to pull out a gun. Kiki would never point a gun at a cop, said his family and friends. He would never even carry a gun. And if he did have a gun, he would never pull it at a police officer. “He was not that kind of kid,” said a family friend to the Associated Press. After all, Kiki was only sixteen years old and “some mother’s son.”
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Kiki had a record of at least four arrests for inciting a riot, larceny, and grand theft auto.
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He had just returned from a baby shower and was hanging out in front of a friend’s house. That’s when cops tried to question Kiki; he ran. While they were chasing him, Kiki pulled a .38 caliber hand gun out of his belt, say police. Neighbors say that Kiki didn’t have a gun and that they heard Kiki begging for mercy, telling the police not to shoot him anymore. “Stay down, or we’ll shoot you again,” said one of the officers, according to
The New York Times
.
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Kiki died soon after. Then came the riot.

“These cops is ridiculous, they really are,” said one neighbor to PIX news. “Running around shooting people’s kids. They were just beating up on a boy on 51
^st
; now they came down here and shot somebody’s child.”

“Kiki was a good boy, in school, just doing his thing,” the same family friend told Channel 12 news in Connecticut. And that is why 130 black people from Kiki’s Brooklyn neighborhood had a candlelight vigil for him that “devolved” into an old-school race riot—violence a city councilman had not seen before.
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While chanting “NYPD KKK,” rioters tossed bottles, rocks, and trash cans at the police. They tried to break into a small business that specialized in African movies but the owners were able to fight the looters off by locking themselves into their store
behind a rolling metal grate. The fire department had to cut them out later. “It was like the end of the world,” the video store owner told the New York
Daily News
.
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Many of the 130 people broke into a drug store, trashed it, looted it, and tried to get the cash register. No luck there. They left after attacking the manager, employees, and a security guard. They bashed a bottle over the head of a minister, stealing his iPhone before he was rushed to the emergency room. While several media outlets downplayed the nature and extent of the violence—NBC called it a disorderly protest—the
Daily News
carried the most complete account of the riot. The paper talked to Mary John, a woman who lived in the path of the racial violence. “People were standing up on vehicles. I saw them take garbage from the sidewalk and throw it onto the street. I saw someone take a TV and smash it into my neighbor’s car. They were throwing rocks at the cars. “I said, ‘Oh my god! What’s going on here?’” she continued. “They were calling out, ‘Rest in peace, Kiki.’ I was shocked.”
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A member of the New York City Council who represents the area said black people are upset for a lot of reasons. But no one is listening to them. “There’s a lot of anger here,” said Councilman Jumaane Williams. Black people in New York City are unhappy at the city’s “stop and frisk” policy. And that is why they rioted. Not just for Kiki, he said. “Police officers shooting black men, black men shooting black men, it’s a problem that needs to be dealt with. If they want to ignore it, it’s just going to keep happening,” said the councilman.
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“Justice for Kimani Gray,” is a Facebook page full of gauzy memories, accusations of racism, and calls for justice. As well as a Trayvon-like picture of pre-adolescent Kiki, from several years earlier.
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At sixteen, Kiki was younger than Trayvon Martin when a
neighborhood watch captain shot him last year in Florida, provoking a firestorm of protest. Unlike Trayvon, Kiki left some videos. The videos show a different picture of Kiki. A violent, lawless Kiki that perhaps his family and friends did not know. A person known on violent videotapes as Shapow. That is what he is known as in the Bloods, the Flat-bush franchise of a well-known street gang.

In one video from several months ago, Shapow--a.k.a. Kiki--wearing the trademark blood-red hooded sweatshirt that identified him as a member of the gang, finds a thirteen-year-old-member of the dreaded rival Crips on the street. With a camera phone rolling, Kiki taunted the Crip and pulled off his necklace before stomping it into the ground. He and his friends slapped the Crip in the face before the boy went on his way.