Driver beaten by crowd after hitting boy is in critical condition


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Video in source my be graphic for some....

 

 

? UPDATE: Crowd stole motorist's money, credit cards after beating him unconscious

 

A man who accidentally hit an 10-year-old boy with his pickup on Wednesday on Detroit?s east side remains hospitalized in critical condition after he was beaten by a large group of men, police said.

 

The 54-year-old Roseville man got out to check on the boy after the accident at about 4:10 p.m. near a gas station at Morang and Balfour streets. Then a large group of men assaulted the man, according to Detroit police Sgt. Michael Woody.

 

?My understanding is that it was a low-speed accident. It was exactly that ? just an accident,? Woody said, adding that the boy stepped off a curb in front of the truck. ?The man did try to stop and render aid. He did everything he could exactly right.?

 

 

More and Video in source....

 

 

http://www.freep.com/article/20140403/NEWS01/304030067/Driver-beaten-boy-hit-Detroit-east-side

 

 

Stories like this really instill my faith in humanity.  Hope they catch everyone who beat this guy and stick it to them.

 

 

Wtf?

 

Now, had he tried to hit and run... maybe I'd not feel as bad about this. But that's just terrible and unnecessary.

 

I particularly like the fact that he's trying to assist and these guys are all only worried about "justice" -- some real heros right there.

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Wtf?

 

Now, had he tried to hit and run... maybe I'd not feel as bad about this. But that's just terrible and unnecessary.

 

I particularly like the fact that he's trying to assist and these guys are all only worried about "justice" -- some real heros right there.

 

Really messed up that after they knock the guy out, they steal his belongings.

This is just wrong on so many levels. Its terrible about what happened to the boy but the driver should not have been beaten and had his stuff stolen for trying to help. If this was done intentionally that would be another thing but you can clearly see in the video that the boy steps right out in front of the truck and was not the drivers fault.

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This would encourage hit'n'run

 

If the driver was genuinely concerned and stopped to render aid to the child, he shouldn't have been set upon, the child could have been loaded into the driver's car to be transported to the nearest hospital, or an ambulance called if the child could not be moved, then the police called to investigate, and the case be brought up to whichever magistrate for ruling after all investigation results were handed in.

(ok he should have been paying more attention to the road also)

 

But to beat the guy, especially since he stopped, seems a little too extreme, regardless of locale.

This is just too much. I hope they find these people and they serve a very lengthy jail sentence...

 

The more I read about Detroit the more I never want to step foot in that city :|

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Local news says this is being investigated as a black on white hate crime. Wouldn't be surprised if the Feds got involved.

 

I thought black on white crime was never recorded as hate crime? I hope someone was rendering aid to the boy, since they were beating to death the guy that had attempted to help him.

The US Justice Dept. under Attorney General Holder is very reluctant to prosecute black on white hate crime, though this case may be extreme enough to change that. Can't wait for that PC POS to go.

Michigan's AG on the other hand, and especially our very tough (black) female County Prosecutor, will be all over it. They don't give a rip which way the color balance goes.

This is just too much. I hope they find these people and they serve a very lengthy jail sentence...

 

The more I read about Detroit the more I never want to step foot in that city :|

 

This. I have flown through the Detroit airport a few times and it's the only city where I never considered going out of the airport and having a look around. Anywhere else I like to pop out if I have time, to see new places, but I don't care if it's a 10-hour stopover, in DTW I'm staying in the airport where there are safety freaks everywhere :laugh:

 

Really hope they find the people who did this. How awful to try to do the right thing and be so brutally punished for it. What if the boy suffered more because he didn't get aid as quickly due to this?

Update: news reports 2 arrests, age 15 and 17.

In Michigan minors who commit serious crimes can be charged as adults, but until that happens their names cannot be released.

Edit: story....

http://m.detnews.com/topstories/article?a=2014304050041&f=1207

The US Justice Dept. under Attorney General Holder is very reluctant to prosecute black on white hate crime, though this case may be extreme enough to change that. Can't wait for that PC POS to go.

Michigan's AG on the other hand, and especially our very tough (black) female County Prosecutor, will be all over it. They don't give a rip which way the color balance goes.

 

Never understood that attitude. Hate crime is hate crime, skin colour should have no relevance.

 

Not prosecuting "black on white" crimes is just giving free reign to victimising one class of citizens.

Tonights news had his son on. He says every time they try to bring him out of his medically induced coma, he starts fighting like it was still happening. They have to put him back under.

Let's be honest here; if this were a black driver and white kid & crowd it would have been a 24/7 news item. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson etc. would be clamoring for their blood and the usual suspects here would have driven this to 50 pages by now.

#DoubleStandard

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Tonights news had his son on. He says every time they try to bring him out of his medically induced coma, he starts fighting like it was still happening. They have to put him back under.

Let's be honest here; if this were a black driver and white kid & crowd it would have been a 24/7 news item. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson etc. would be clamoring for their blood and the usual suspects here would have driven this to 50 pages by now.

#DoubleStandard

This is so true.  When I black person gets on a soapbox and talks about some injustice, he is a "proud black man" and heralded.  A white person gets up and says something even remote close to possibly, maybe offending someone in the most abstract, and innocuous  way- he is labeled a racist and crucified by the media.  I will admit that this fact fills me with hate.  Hatred of the media for propagating this, and hatred of any individual or group of individual who uses this, or hides behind this  ESPECIALLY profits from it.

Saw this on the local news tonight also.

 

News reported it was a total accident and not the drivers fault from witness accounts. 

 

They failed to mention that it was blacks on white though. Should've figured being Detroit! I wouldn't go there to visit even in a million years!

There was a news update just a bit ago, and it included security camera footage.

Guess what?

The injured kid and at least 3 of his buddies were playing "chicken" with traffic. They were sticking their legs or bodies out into the street hoping to make the cars panic stop, then pull back at the last second. He lost.

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