Over three days last week, at least 150 blacks attacked
whites at random around Temple
University. Victims were
surrounded, punched and kicked. Wallets and phones were stolen. Rocks were
thrown at passing cars. When cops showed up, one was knocked from her bike and
a police horse was even punched twice in the muzzle.
Most of the assaults took place on Friday. On Saturday, Joe Lauletta, a father
of one victim, reported on FaceBook:
I spent last night in the ER at St. Mary's HospitaI. I received a call from my daughter Christina after my sons football game. She was crying, I couldn't understand her, my heart dropped, I became scared, I said what is the matter? Dad, I was jumped, I'm beat up pretty bad. Where r u? Temple, they stole my phone. We're heading to the police station. I do not hear from her until she gets to her apartment. Rage is running through my mind the whole time. She said she is getting a ride home and wants to go to St. Mary's. I find out that her and her 2 male friends where badly beaten by a group of 30-40 black teenagers on their way home from the Temple football game. This happened after they got off the subway at Broad and Cecil B Moore. These sick animals held her down and kicked and stomped on her repeatedly. Thank god, the people from the pizza place intervened. They arrested 2 people at the scene. I have not let Christina out of my sight, she is resting. Every part of her body is badly bruised, it makes me cry just thinking about it. No broken bones. If you have children at Temple, tell them to be careful. Please keep Christina Lauletta in your thoughts.
CBS Philadelphia describes another victim's ordeal:
He says around 9:30 Friday night he
was leaving work when he saw what looked to be at least 200 juveniles walking
in large groups.
He said he overheard police saying the kids were playing the knockout game.
He says a juvenile around 10 years old started shouting obscenities at him and
grabbed his phone out of his hand. The student says the juvenile then came back
and threw the phone at him, striking him in the face.
Around 15 minutes later, the student says he was walking with his girlfriend
when they were approached by at least seven juveniles. The student says he went
to hit the Temple
Police alert button when
his girlfriend was struck by one of the juveniles.
As the student was chasing them away, he says he was struck in the face by a
someone he estimates to be eight years old.
This is not new. In 2014, five black girls, aged 17, 15, 15, 15 and 14,
committed three separate attacks on random white people at Temple University.
Struck across the face with a brick, a 19-year-old white student suffered a
fractured jaw and nearly had her teeth knocked out. Her 15-year-old assailant, Zaria
Estes, was given a 2 -6 year sentence.
Across America,
gangs of blacks have beaten random people for decades, just for the sport of
it. This cathartic recreation has been dubbed wilding, catch
and wreck, knock out game or flash mob, and it can happen at parks,
shopping malls, state fairs or even your living room.
In 2012, a mentally-handicapped woman was relaxing on her stoop in Chester, just outside Philadelphia, when she was attacked by six
black teenaged girls. When the terrified woman tried to flee inside, they
rushed into her living room to continue the savage beating.
Had these girls not posted their exhilarating workout on FaceBook, they might
never have been caught.
A white bartender at my neighborhood dive was attacked, just outside her front
door, by a group of black kids around 12 years old. After throwing a rock at
her head and knocking her down, they kicked her a few times as she curled up on
the ground, then they scattered. "Just like that, it was over. All I could do
was go inside and cry."
Not surprisingly, the latest incident at Temple University
has received scant media attention. Though AP did cover it, it never pointed
out that these were racial crimes. As usual, only "teens" are fingered, with
their race not mentioned. Had mobs of whites attacked random blacks, the entire
world would have known about it by now.
Locally, a black writer editorializes in the Philadelphia Inquirer that
gentrification is ultimately responsible. In "Behind Temple
attacks, rage often comes with exclusion," Solomon Jones explains:
In a city where poverty is
concentrated outside the universities, we can't truly expect the poor to watch
jobs and wealth and excess pass them by without any reaction at all.
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