A video has emerged from last St. Patrick’s Day that shows a brutal attack on a tourist in Baltimore who is beaten, robbed, and stripped naked as a crowd stands around and laughs. No one reportedly called police and someone stood filming the scene of utter inhuman and depraved conduct by the crowd. [Update: A second video of the brutal attack has emerged]
On the video, the tourist is largely passive when he walks a few feet toward a man, who proceeds to hit him in the face and causing the victim to hit the ground with considerable force. The man appears dazed as people proceed to beat him and steal his clothes and belongings. The tourist is stripped of his car keys, watch, money and iPhone.
Until the video was released, the man never knew what happened. He woke up at his hotel with cuts and bruises and no memory of the horrific attack.
Obviously, the place to start is the person who thought this was a funny scene and posted the video on YouTube. Then there are the people who brag and laugh about the attack on the video.
While the victim appears white and his attackers black, there has been no suggestion that the attack was a hate crime or racially motivated. There has also been relatively little outrage nationally about this attack.
I count at least a dozen separate crimes on the film from repeated assaults to robbery by at least seven different people. Some, upon seeing the man in a helpless state, immediately walk over to strip him of any valuables rather than offer assistance or call the police. It is the lack of humanity shown in the film that makes these people so dangerous to society — they show no feelings or sympathy for the victim who is merely an object to be taunted and abused.
Source: CBS
Bunch of effin nigger animals
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3] There were no firearms present or used,
Oh, it’s Baltimore. There was definitely one there.
MikeS,
Dredd made a good point, but mine saying that when you treat people to demeaning situations like the crowding of pigs, etc then they will react and fight more.
Similarly the Arendata Roy point that in India, the condition occurs where the individual misery falls into depression or indifference, when the individual becomes aware of the greater evil encompassing millions who sit fast in their shared misery.
“when you treat people to demeaning situations like the crowding of pigs, etc then they will react and fight more.”
ID707,
Both your point and Dredd’s point are equally true. There are complex causes for just about everything. Human overcrowding definitely raises violence, as does poverty.
You cannot have a Government acting like thugs and thieves in the world and expect that the behavior will not be mirrored, in some manner, by at least some percentage, of those who are governed.
The past 10 years and longer we have all watched as those who blatantly disregard the law, torture and harm others and take what is not thiers walked away enriched and unrepentant….and without being held responsible. What do you think that does?….Make the world a safer and better place to live?
This event seemed to take place in an open downtown area…where was the patrol car? or maybe that area wasn’t ‘deserving’ of the spending of those tax dollars….also, whats w/the chick in her undies????
“While the victim appears white and his attackers black, there has been no suggestion that the attack was a hate crime or racially motivated. There has also been relatively little outrage nationally about this attack.”
Well, I’m suggesting it, because that’s what it was.
“Appears” white? Please. What are you, a lawyer?
Stop comparing this to the Florida case. THERE IS NO COMPARISON.
1] The white man is presumably still alive.
2] He was assaulted by a crowd in public.
3] There were no firearms present or used, so it would seem.
4] The victim appeared to be intoxicated in public.
5] It appears that the attackers assaulted, humiliated and robbed the victim.
This assault is criminal and disgusting.There should be outrage from the general public as well as that community. It makes the entire city all look like the lowest of the low in animal terms. Opportunistic and crass. Not a community to be proud of if this is harbored and protected, rather than turned in to authorities. I hope there is a lot less money spent in the establishments there on St. Patrick’s Day next year in light of this treatment of tourists.
You know, I wonder if he was from another country. Perhaps, he had no idea he was in a place where such a thing could happen to him — perhaps he didn’t have a learned response to people in the black community as being dangerous or threatening. Maybe he spoke with an accent and that helped fuel the flames of the attack. Maybe this is much broader than a simple black and white crime.
Whatever it is makes me sad and sick. You who posted this: I hope you are culpable. You who assaulted this man, I hope you suffer.
Jude, thanks for the reference to World Star Hip Hop — that was my first thought when I saw this post. While we can argue about centuries of oppression, etc., the fact remains that we are individually moral actors, and what is shown on this video and regularly on World Star Hip Hop represents a pathology as virulent as the Tulsa shootings, or Zimmerman, etc. Does anyone know of any leaders of the African American community (NAACP, SCLC, etc?) speaking out against this phenomenon of black men assaulting white people in public and posting (boasting) their crimes on line?
Those humans were mocking Jesus in that human being assaulted by that cruel human. The cruel human verily will get his reward.
I think an interesting way the underlying cause manifests itself is the reaction of putting the attackers, victims, and spectators into groups. This sort of thing is more likely to happen when those involved stop thinking of each other as individuals and start thinking them just as part of different groups.
“Another consideration might be that we fail to grasp the principle of microcosm – macrocosm, because we tend to deduce that the small evil is a greater evil than the large evil.”
Dredd,
Hate to make this a mutual admiration society, but you raise an importat point. There seems to be a tedency among us humans to be able to emptthize on a microcosmic level, but somehow lost the ability to the frame the issue on a macrocosmic level. It’s like seeing a dog rescued during Katrina weeping and becoming angry that people were upset while being encased in the domed stadium. This could be merely a human phenomena in that it takes a certai intelligence to see issues macrocosmically, or it could be that it is easier to deny that ones leaders are behaving reprehensively. The dovetails with the concept of authoritarianism in that the characteristic identified was the bland acceptance of the “wisdom” of those one perceives as leaders.
Unfortunately I am not surprised at all by this. Where is the national media on this? Are they absent because the hate crime is occurring against a white male? The “attackers” are behaving like animals in the video. Pathetic.
Quit celebrating Saint Patrick.
Speaking of freedom on the press in the USA, but not apparently in AZ.
“Hey, I’d like you to be on the alert if you read anything about this new law here in AZ. They have really gone over the top, it seems. It’s regarding
internet and politicians, I guess especially Arizona republicans, that if you bad-mouth or name call about them they can arrest the person.”
Anybody clear on what the new law says there in AZ?
FYI:
“Issues of race must also be addressed directly: both perceptions and reality. The perception
that race matters in these confrontations is strong, including among many officers of color.
Just as many people of color are aware that they are more likely than their white
counterparts to be stopped and questioned by police, so, too, many officers of color believe
that they are more likely than their white counterparts to be mistaken for a criminal when
out of uniform, and that the danger is many times greater when they are taking police
action with their gun displayed.”
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/programs/criminal-justice/Police-on-Police_Shootings.pdf
Dredd,
Wish I could agree with you. Nowadays, a “group” of two will beat a man to death.
So will even a lone person do the same.
Yes, it spreads like wildfire in a group, There you are right. And that is as old as Rome. It is latent, waiting for a match in many public street gatherings of young intoxicated persons. Only in some groups it is somewhat restrained by other cultural norms, (Spring breaks).
Come to Sweden and see the youth have two of their annual drunken celebrations. Few fights, and no one needs to steal, nor has the need to prove his street cred by such we see here.
I think we are still generally in agreement. Good luck pushing yours.
Hardly anything like the violence and disgusting behavior perpetrated against Afghanis, Pakistanis an Iraqis who view Ameican soldiers as “monsters.”
For the record, when this aired on the news, the victim hadn’t been identified, but the police were still claiming to be diligently searching for the criminals responsible.
In Baltimore, that doesn’t always mean much, but they at least might seem to care. Now that they know it’s a tourist, they probably care more… Gotta keep ’em coming and spending.
Group depravity. You always hope that there will be atleast one person who will help but in some neighborhoods it is every man for himself. Im so glad we have conspiracy laws for people who dont offer assistance or get help! We need to teach kids from a young age the appropriate response. Life is not a cage match.
I think a majority of the worst things on World Star Hip Hop could be classified as hate crimes, to be honest.
Also, totally proud to live Baltimore… Yep! I mean, gosh, what pride I have in the people of this city!
idealist707 1, April 9, 2012 at 8:44 am
Dredd,
You wrote:
“The macrocosm to this video is the imperial wars that U.S.eh? foreign policy is waging, and the complacency the public has about doing anything radical about it.”
IMHO:
The public wants to get out of Afghanistan, but is only too lazy to make sufficient public protest. They also wish that this be done so that they will not experience any consequences or discomfort.
Is this one more example of : we have it as we deserve it?
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Good question.
Another consideration might be that we fail to grasp the principle of microcosm – macrocosm, because we tend to deduce that the small evil is a greater evil than the large evil.
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
To me, that implies overarching subconscious dynamics that are not triggered in an individual setting, because a group dynamic is required to trigger it.