Bus Beating: Lessons Learned
Michelle Malkin points us to this story out of Baltimore:
The woman and her boyfriend boarded the No. 27 bus and tried to find a seat as it traveled through North Baltimore.
But a fight quickly broke out between the pair and a group of nine students heading home from their Hampden middle school, police said.
By the time Maryland Transit Administration police officers reached the bus along East 33rd in Waverly on Tuesday afternoon, the teens had punched and kicked the woman, dragging her out of the vehicle’s rear door and leaving her with broken bones around her eye.
Okay, why did they do that?
According to a police report, one of the boys kept jumping in front of the woman, Sarah Kreager, 26, and claiming that the open seats on the bus were reserved.
When Kreager finally found a seat, the teens began throwing punches at her and her boyfriend, according the report. The beating continued, police said, even as the eastbound bus lurched to a stop and the driver radioed for help about 3 p.m.
At one point in the Tuesday afternoon attack, police said the teens punched and kicked Kreager, broke down the rear door of the bus and dragged her into the street. The report says she suffered two broken bones in her left eye socket, two deep cuts on the top of her head and other cuts on her neck and back. Her face was bruised and her left eye was swollen shut.
The beaters were ages fourteen and fifteen (which seems a little old for middle school, but that’s beside the point). What do the beaters say?
But the mother of one of the suspects says the victim, for an unknown reason, provoked the attack by spitting in the face of one of the girls. Beverly Bell, whose son is an eighth-grader at Robert Poole, said the victim’s boyfriend then pulled out a knife and threatened the girls, which prompted the boys to attack the man.
Interviewed after Wednesday’s court hearing, Bell said her son had never been in trouble before. Testimony in juvenile court revealed that five of the six boys arrested had no juvenile records.
“We don’t know why that woman did what she did,” said Bell, referring to the alleged spitting incident. “But I can’t see these kids jumping on anyone for no reason.” Another parent said it was Kreager who did not want any students sitting next to her initially, prompting an argument.
Yeah yeah yeah. Your son’s an angel. He was provoked. The facts, however, are coming out, and this may be considered a hate crime:
Maryland Transit Administration Police said last night that they have found no evidence that the severe beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus this week was provoked and that they are investigating the attack as a possible racially motivated hate crime.
Nine middle school students have been charged as juveniles with aggravated assault and destruction of property in the Tuesday afternoon attack on a woman and her male companion on the No. 27 bus.
Police said yesterday that they have determined that there were two additional victims in the case – a third passenger and the bus operator who came to his assistance.
Whether this was a hate crime or not, whether this has happened often on the MTA bus or not, it doesn’t matter. It’s unfortunate that Ms. Kreager was injured in such a horrific manner, but it’d be worse if we didn’t learn anything from it. I’m not blaming her, but the safest thing for her to have done after the first few teens refused to let her sit down would be to just leave the bus, or failing that, go stand at the front and get off as soon as possible. There was no way for her to have known that she would’ve been horribly beaten as a result of her taking a seat, but why risk it? Why push for a confrontation with people you don’t know, especially when you’re outnumbered? It’s just a bus ticket. You can get a new one. You can’t as easily get a new eye. And what if the assailants had been armed? Now, instead of broken bones, she might’ve ended up with a screwdriver in her gut.
What if she’d had a gun? Same thing. Leave. Screw. Unass the area. Don’t beg a confrontation. Don’t beg a gunfight. Be street smart. The predators in this case were showing perfect animal territorial behavior, attacked in a pack when their territory was breached, and denied wrongdoing. You can’t reason with that. Just have no part of it.
Themocracy
white america should be ashamed. we use to be tuff. life got to good. those blacks should have been to scared to do that crap. i say we take it to the streets with them. there are 37 million blacks in this country and there are 230 million whites. just say the word!
Don’t ever comment on this website again you racist imbecile.
Yeah, mufasa!! Let’s start tha lynchin’!!!
An armed society is a polite society.
It is a shame no one on the bus beside the driver stepped up to stop these little turds. Walk away? I don’t think so.
If you believe these animals will only harm other races, you are delusional. Their mamas will soon have some ’splainin’ to do when they assault another of their own in their own neighborhood.
15 years old and STILL in middleskool????wassupwitdatyo?!!?!?
Wow. This post really brought out the best in people.
Which wasn’t my purpose, believe me.
hopefully Sarah Kreager will be seen as a white Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to a bunch of redneck racist ghetto thugs.
i am glad she didn’t allow herself to be intimidated into getting off the bus. it was a very symbolic act on her part and should give others the courage to stand up against this growing form of racist hate.
Thankfully Rosa Parks was not attacked by a white mob and beaten to blindness.
I don’t know much about America, mate, but it seems to me that “rednecks” are whites from the U.S. South. It also seemes to me that the unfortunate young miss and her bloke should’ve gotten out of there at the 1st sign o’ trouble. What did she gain? A bloody hell of a beating and not much more. And what does this simbolize?
Bloody hell.
Where the fuck was her loser boyfriend? He’s probably dumped by now. He should have at least TRIED to defend her honor.
They are usually ok when they are not in packs. They shoulld be seperated to a max of three. Kinda like dogs, they get that way when they run wild. Wild animals.
I’m closing comments on this post; it’s brought out the Stormfront assholes and assorted racist shitbags.