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"Not a hate crime" White family attacked at gas station/"Wrong Neighborhood"
Big Chief
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http://www.wafb.com/story/22240991/family-attacked-for-being-in-wrong-neighborhood
"At the corner of Plank Rd. and Scenic Highway sits a Chevron gas station. It's off I-110 near Memorial Stadium. Around 10 p.m.Sunday, a family stopped here to get gas. "Upon our arrival, we located A man said he, his wife and his daughter were all punched because they were in the "wrong neighborhood" when they stopped to get gas at night.
It went on to read, "the defendant told him he was in the wrong neighborhood and he was not going to make it out." The victim said that's when he "was punched and knocked to the ground."
At this time, his wife got out of the car and ran to help her husband. The victim said, "he continued to struggle with the defendant and was eventually knocked unconscious, which later he awoke in the hospital."
His wife told police, "after running to help her husband, she remembers falling to the ground and (being) knocked unconscious."
According to a close family friend, that's when the couple's teenage daughter got out of the car to check on her parents and, "observed a female punch her mother in the face, when her mother then fell to the concrete, hitting her head on the surface."
The daughter was also punched in the face.
"There were only three suspects but there were multiple people in the parking lot," said Stubbs.
The owners of the gas station did not want to comment on camera, but said there's a wide variety of customers in and out of the store in the daytime. At night, though, it's not the safest of places, especially with the area having some of the highest crime in the city.
"It was a small scene but it got to be a big scene after the fight broke out and it was a big scene when the police came," said Keisha Henderson, a witness.
Stubbs said a man wearing a pink shirt was in line trying to pay for gas when Donald Dickerson, 41, started making fun of him, leading to an argument.
"The defendant (Dickerson) approached the white male victim," the police report stated
Of those three, Dickerson was arrested and charged with second-degree battery. The other two suspects, Devin Bessye, 24, and Ashley Simmons, 22, were released on site after police wrote them each a summons for simple battery.
When police were questioned about why all three defendants were not charged with felony second degree battery, Stubbs responded, "Because you have to have disfigurement for a second-degree battery charge, and only one victim had disfigurement and he was attacked by the one suspect that we booked."
However, Louisiana law defines second-degree battery as "bodily injury which involves unconsciousness, extreme physical pain or protracted and obvious disfigurement."
The victim suffered "a broken eye socket, broken nose, and several lacerations to the face," and his wife was knocked unconscious.
"I feel that's racist," said Henderson.
As to why officers only charged one suspect with second-degree battery, police said under former Police Chief Dewayne White, officers were told to take all offenders to prison. Towards the end of his term, the policy changed and officers were told to use discretion. That's the policy in place now.
As to whether this falls under a hate crime, police said early reports show it does not meet the statute but remains under investigation.
All three defendants, Dickerson, Bessye and Simmons, have had run-ins with the law prior to Sunday's incident"
http://www.wafb.com/story/22240991/family-attacked-for-being-in-wrong-neighborhood
http://www.wafb.com/story/22240991/family-attacked-for-being-in-wrong-neighborhood
"At the corner of Plank Rd. and Scenic Highway sits a Chevron gas station. It's off I-110 near Memorial Stadium. Around 10 p.m.Sunday, a family stopped here to get gas. "Upon our arrival, we located A man said he, his wife and his daughter were all punched because they were in the "wrong neighborhood" when they stopped to get gas at night.
It went on to read, "the defendant told him he was in the wrong neighborhood and he was not going to make it out." The victim said that's when he "was punched and knocked to the ground."
At this time, his wife got out of the car and ran to help her husband. The victim said, "he continued to struggle with the defendant and was eventually knocked unconscious, which later he awoke in the hospital."
His wife told police, "after running to help her husband, she remembers falling to the ground and (being) knocked unconscious."
According to a close family friend, that's when the couple's teenage daughter got out of the car to check on her parents and, "observed a female punch her mother in the face, when her mother then fell to the concrete, hitting her head on the surface."
The daughter was also punched in the face.
"There were only three suspects but there were multiple people in the parking lot," said Stubbs.
The owners of the gas station did not want to comment on camera, but said there's a wide variety of customers in and out of the store in the daytime. At night, though, it's not the safest of places, especially with the area having some of the highest crime in the city.
"It was a small scene but it got to be a big scene after the fight broke out and it was a big scene when the police came," said Keisha Henderson, a witness.
Stubbs said a man wearing a pink shirt was in line trying to pay for gas when Donald Dickerson, 41, started making fun of him, leading to an argument.
"The defendant (Dickerson) approached the white male victim," the police report stated
Of those three, Dickerson was arrested and charged with second-degree battery. The other two suspects, Devin Bessye, 24, and Ashley Simmons, 22, were released on site after police wrote them each a summons for simple battery.
When police were questioned about why all three defendants were not charged with felony second degree battery, Stubbs responded, "Because you have to have disfigurement for a second-degree battery charge, and only one victim had disfigurement and he was attacked by the one suspect that we booked."
However, Louisiana law defines second-degree battery as "bodily injury which involves unconsciousness, extreme physical pain or protracted and obvious disfigurement."
The victim suffered "a broken eye socket, broken nose, and several lacerations to the face," and his wife was knocked unconscious.
"I feel that's racist," said Henderson.
As to why officers only charged one suspect with second-degree battery, police said under former Police Chief Dewayne White, officers were told to take all offenders to prison. Towards the end of his term, the policy changed and officers were told to use discretion. That's the policy in place now.
As to whether this falls under a hate crime, police said early reports show it does not meet the statute but remains under investigation.
All three defendants, Dickerson, Bessye and Simmons, have had run-ins with the law prior to Sunday's incident"
http://www.wafb.com/story/22240991/family-attacked-for-being-in-wrong-neighborhood
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Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
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AKA: Former Founding Member
It's sad to say, but even in this day and age, there's places you don't go after dark. That's if you're white or if you're black or if you're brown. But I agree, this is hate driven crime, I don't care who the perps are.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.
What he said. As far as hate crimes go, it appears that the laws are enforced one way when the accused are caucasian and a very different way when the accused are minorities. This has got to stop.
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the FBI Hate Crimes Unit would be on it like stink on a turd pile, that's what. Obviously they were attacked because they were white and in the "Wrong Neighborhood" . I hope further charges are made against the others who only got a citation.
Hate crime prosecution shouldn't be a one-way street, it should apply equally to all Americans.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Jerry
http://www.wafb.com/story/22253278/fbi-may-step-in-to-help-brpd
Good, the victims and public outrage may have got their attention to investigate further.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Sounds like they are going to make things right. Too bad it took a lot of public outrage for it to happen.
Like I said earlier:
"If we are going to be equal then let's be equal!"
AKA: Former Founding Member
Don't hold your breath until it happens. Liberal judges, pot-stirring lawyers, and the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, and the other professional crybabies will cloud the issue with claims of "racism" until it fades away to nothing, and Odumbo will make some sort of profoundly stupid comment in the process. deja vu all over again!
Jerry
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Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.
Noooooo, a wisecrack law will only stop law abiding citizens from making wisecracks, the criminals will still use wisecracks whenever they want! Haven't you learned anything we've taught you?
AKA: Former Founding Member
What wisecrack was made?
Jerry
Jerry
:uhm::roll::bang:
Hey Slant where ya been lately?
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
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Jerry
Therein lies the problem.
A very serious problem!
Morality is a long lost art.
Jerry
Guardrail
I have no doubt, but can you imagine the headlines if the guy in the pink shirt would have put these two thugs in the hospital/morgue? NOW it would have been all about racism...."White Bigot Guns Down Two with Assault Rifle, Arms Cache Discovered in Van...Family members report "They were good boys who only ventured out to buy baby formula...." "
Ate at a Pizza Inn or Hut and then got into a neighborhood trying to get back to the Interstate where we were getting some very hostile dirty looks. I had borrowed the or swapped guns with the old man and had his (now mine, I inherited) model 13 loaded with American Eagle 158 grain .357 JSPs, my "Highway" load. It gave me great comfort on the front seat in a holster next to me. The girls were little back then and didn't catch all the hatered and racial tension in the air, you could literally feel/sense it in Little Rock or the area we were in.
Anyway, got turned around and back on the highway and I was very relieved to get outta there.
I've stopped in a few places and drove right past the pumps and found another place to get gas. Usually a quick scan of the area and/or a gut feeling is what motivates me to stay or go and sometimes the price per gallon, especially if the last exit was 10-20 cents less a gallon and I have enough to keep going!
And don't get me wrong, I'm live and let live. I've stopped in places that were predominately black, white, Hispanic or whatever and it makes no difference to me.
As stated, these days bad things can happen anyplace at any time to anyone. However it would behoove all us to try and use some common sense about our selections when possible.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!