Three Race Murders in Seattle
Media pretend race was not a factor.
By Nicholas Stix

[Originally published on March 16, 2009, in American Renaissance News, and then re-published in the April, 2009 issue of American Renaissance magazine.]
 

Kristopher Kime, James Paroline, and Edward Scott McMichael had three things in common: They were white, they helped make Seattle a more civilized place, and they were murdered by blacks. Only Kime’s murder was officially recognized as racially motivated, but it is hard not to conclude that the other two men were also killed because they were white.
 

Edward Scott McMichael

Late last November 2 [2008] or early the next day, Edward Scott McMichael, 53, better known as “Tuba Man,” died of injuries he suffered several days earlier when he was stomped by five Seattle “youths” at a bus stop. Three of the five were arrested but their names were not released because they were only 15 at the time of the attack. McMichael, a lifelong Seattleite, had gained local fame as a busker, a street musician who played the contrabass tuba wherever people gathered for sports and cultural events. The gregarious eccentric could be identified by his tuba, Dr. Seuss or Uncle Sam hat, scraggly beard, horn-rimmed glasses, and by the fact that he often needed a bath. The classically trained McMichael took requests for a price, remembered old customers by name, and played rock songs, movie themes, American pop standards, and classical music.

 
“Tuba Man”
 
At about midnight on October 25, five teenagers attacked McMichael and stole his ring and wallet. After they knocked him to the ground he curled up into a ball but they continued to beat and kick him. A passing police officer arrested two attackers on the spot. Police have also caught one of the three who ran away but are still looking for the other two.

On November 12, an estimated 1,500 mourners, mostly sports fans, gathered for a hastily organized memorial service for Tuba Man at Qwest Field Event Center, where Seattle Mariners president Chuck Armstrong tearfully read a tribute written by Mr. Armstrong’s son: “It was just impossible to be sad while he was playing that tuba.” The New York Times even sent a reporter to cover the service.

At the service, someone handed out a flier, pointing out that McMichael’s death was part of “the hidden campaign of murder against white people.” An indignant Todd Dybas, editor of Seattle Sports Online, said this took “a staggering level of insensitivity.” The truth may be staggeringly insensitive, but not as insensitive as beating someone to death.

None of the many prominent news stories and columns I read about the crime gave any description of the attackers still at large or mentioned the race of the two who had been arrested. It took several days for me to find a quote from a message board, and follow it to a copy of the Seattle Police Department’s “morning press release” at a crime blog, which reported: “Unfortunately, the only description that we have is that the suspects were black males in their mid-teens.”

On November 7, an entry for McMichael appeared at Wikipedia, the Internet’s most popular reference (see “Wikipedia on Race,” AR, August 2008). The entry did not mention race, and still does not.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published a column on the killing that attracted over 1,000 reader comments. The vast majority of responses were deleted for “insensitivity,” and a number of people whose responses remain were permanently banned after complaints by politically correct posters.

 
James Paroline

On July 9, 60-year old, Vietnam War veteran James Paroline was killed in his residential Seattle neighborhood of Rainier Beach, as he did his daily duty of watering the garden in a small traffic circle in front of his house. He always put out traffic cones to prevent cars from driving over the hose, which he ran from his house. This meant some cars had to drive the long way around the circle to avoid the cones.

That evening, three black women in their teens and early twenties in two cars refused to drive the long way around. They stopped their car, and started yelling at Paroline. A neighbor shot a video of the confrontation, in which Paroline tries to ignore the girls, while one can be heard claiming they were hosed and beaten by Paroline. One can be seen throwing a jug of water at Paroline. One girl then fetched her sister’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Keith David Brown, who walked up to the older man, spoke quietly to him, and then “sucker-punched” him in the face, according to court documents. The blow knocked Paroline to the pavement, fracturing his skull in several places. Mr. Brown got in his car and drove away. Paroline died that night in the hospital, without ever regaining consciousness.
 


 
The next day, a white Seattle television reporter at the crime scene described the killer only as “a man in his twenties.” That same day, the black women admitted to police that they had lied, when they claimed they did not know the man who killed Paroline. Police also found no evidence that Paroline had assaulted them.

Once Seattle police learned Mr. Brown’s name, they publicized his photograph but still could not find him. His mother contacted the NAACP, which arranged for Mr. Brown to give himself up at what it called a “neutral” and “safe” location, a black church known for “social activism.” One week after the killing, the police finally got their man. Mr. Brown had a previous record of nine criminal convictions, including theft, felony drug possession, criminal trespass, and two convictions for felony assault. On one occasion, he head-butted and nearly strangled a woman to death.

His mother said Mr. Brown was wracked with remorse since killing Paroline and had been “praying continuously.” She called him the “sweetest” of her three sons, and said he would have attacked Paroline only to protect the women. She also explained that he had moved in with foster parents when she had had to serve time for bank robbery. Shewanda Coleman, the mother of Mr. Brown’s seven-year-old son, reported that he was “a sweetheart,” who “tries to do everything to help everybody.” Mr. Brown has pleaded innocent.

Wikipedia has no entry for James Paroline.
 

Kristopher Kime

During Seattle’s 2001 Mardi Gras celebrations, gangs of blacks — male and female — charged into the crowd of predominantly white revelers, beating and robbing isolated whites, hitting them with brass knuckles, skateboards, rocks and bottles, and groping white women (see “Bloody Fat Tuesday,” AR, April 2001). White vandals smashed several cars, but the assaults were overwhelmingly by blacks against whites.

Kristopher Kime, a 20-year-old white man who worked in construction and attended Highline Community College, came to the aid of a lone, petite, white woman on the ground being stomped by blacks. One of them, 18-year-old Jerell Thomas, came up behind him and smashed a bottle on the back of Kime’s head. Kime went down, and the pack stomped him.

Seattle’s Finest were assembled nearby, some on the ground, and some on rooftops, and could see the savagery, but were ordered to stand down because Chief Gil Kerlikowske didn’t want to stir up the rioters. When Kime’s friends telephoned 911 for help, the dispatchers refused to send officers into the riot to rescue him. He died that night in the hospital as his grief-stricken father looked on.

After the murder, two Seattle police officers publicly condemned Chief Kerlikowske for ordering police to stay out of the fighting, and one sent the Kime family the $200 in overtime he had earned that night. He said it was to help pay for the funeral. Seattle police eventually recommended that the Kime murder and other black-on-white attacks be treated as hate crimes, but the King County prosecutor made no hate crime charges.

 
Seattle police officers publicly condemned Chief Kerlikowske for ordering police to stay out of the fighting.
 

Black Seattle preachers and community leaders were outraged — not by the racist violence — but because the media had dared to show that the perpetrators were black. Black preachers and the president of the Urban League, James Kelly, met with Mayor Paul Schell to demand that the media stop mentioning the riot’s racial character, calling complaints about black racism a “vilification of African Americans.” Chief Kerlikowske dutifully announced that race had had nothing to do with the race riot, and the media took the same line. Eventually, in a rare show of honesty, Chief Kerlikowske did admit that the attacks were racially motivated.

Jerell Thomas was convicted in 2001 of Kime’s murder and sentenced to 22 years in prison. In 2003, however, the Washington Supreme Court overturned Mr. Thomas’ conviction and those of hundreds of other killers in an arcane and controversial decision that appeared to require that murder convictions require incontrovertible evidence of an intent to kill. Mr. Thomas was then re-charged with manslaughter. In February 2006, he pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and received a sentence of 10 years in prison.

Kris Kime’s family sued the City of Seattle for failing to protect him, and in 2002 received a settlement of $1.75 million, a small scholarship fund set up in Kime’s name, and a plaque in Pioneer Square.

At Wikipedia, the original May 10, 2005 article about the riot clearly described the racial nature of the riots, but it was quickly removed by censors and replaced with a vaguely worded, 39-word stub that mentioned nothing about race. The current version says the riot’s racial character is a matter of dispute.
 

Media Complicity

In all three of the above cases, the media were in some way complicit with the killers. During the 2001 Mardi Gras riot, the press photographed dozens of mob attackers, all of them black. After publicizing some images—the next day, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran a cover picture of a 250-pound black man wearing brass knuckles—the media remembered their duty to downplay black crime. The first images, however, were transmitted around the world via the Internet.

On the day following the murder of James Paroline at his traffic-circle garden, Karen O’Leary, a 24-year veteran of Cox Broadcasting’s KIRO Television, told viewers that “the suspect is a man in his twenties.” The police had, of course, told her the man was black, and she knew by then that she was reporting on a murder.

The black girls who claimed Paroline had attacked them followed the “don’t snitch” policy and falsely claimed to the police that they did not know who he was. The police quickly publicized his name, but the “don’t snitch” mentality ensured that Mr. Brown had a full week in which to think over whether to turn himself in.

In the case of Edward Scott McMichael, the “Tuba Man,” I looked through dozens of news articles and columns without finding a single reference to the race of the killers, even though I was able — after much digging — to find the description the Seattle police had originally given the media: “two 15-year-old black boys.”
 

Blacks attack a ponytailed white boy during the Mardi Gras rioting in which Kris Kime was killed
 

So how do you fight crime in a city in which race must not be mentioned and motives must not be examined? Seattle’s current mayor, Greg Nickels, first won office in 2001 with a promise that never again would a man be beaten to death in Seattle while police looked on. He said that if he were elected, he would hang Kristopher Kime’s death certificate on the wall of the mayor’s office. He kept that promise, but left Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske on the job despite campaign hints that he would fire him for incompetence. His latest crime-fighting proposal? Shortly after “Tuba Man” was killed, he proposed a new city regulation that would make it illegal for a private citizen to carry a gun in any city-owned building or park. This would include citizens who have the legal right to carry concealed weapons.

Most legally armed citizens are white, while a vastly disproportionate number of gun criminals are black. Law-abiding citizens would, of course, be the only ones who would obey this silly law, leaving them defenseless against robbers and murderers. If his proposal goes through, Mayor Nickels had better be prepared to hang more death certificates on the wall of his office.
 

[From WEJB/NSU’s Seattle files:

“De-Policing in America’s Cities: Erasing the ‘Thin Blue Line’” ;

“Race Hustler Alert at Wikipedia! Someone Has been Making Mischief Regarding Maurice Clemmons’ Lakewood Massacre”;

“Seattle: Diversity Trainers Wage War on Policing”;

“Ex-Cons May Gain Affirmative Action Status in Madhouse Seattle”;

“Seattle's Meanest Streets (Updated!)”;

“Seattle Cop Rails Against Affirmative Action Policing”;

“Seattle: Baby-Faced ‘Tuba Man’ Killer, Billy Chambers, Strikes Again”;

“Stone Killer Billy Chambers, Who Murdered Seattle’s Beloved ‘Tuba Man,’ Edward McMichael, is Undercharged Yet Again in His Newest Alleged Crime”;

“War on Competent, White, Male, King County, WA Prosecutor James Konat Continues Apace: NAACP Demands His Dismissal, and He is Removed from Two Murder Cases”;

“Is It Possible for Blacks to Have a Good Time Without Bloodshed? Seattle Reader Asks if ‘Bite of Seattle’ Festival Could Become Blood of Seattle”;

“A Riot in San Francisco, with More to Come! Cop Shoots Innocent Black Honor Student (from Seattle), Kenneth Wade Harding, 19, in the Back; the Brothers are (as Always) on War Footing”;

“Seattle Blacks Believe That They Can Resist Arrest, and Aid and Abet Those Resisting Arrest with Impunity Against White Policemen…”;

“Billy Chambers, Racist Killer of Seattle’s Beloved ‘Tuba Man,’ Edward McMichael, Pleads Guilty, Gets Minimal Sentence, in Attempted Murder of Witness”;

“One of Tuba Man’s Killers Goes to the Big House, but for a Mere 22 Months for Attempted Murder”;

“For Alleged Reporter Levi Pulkinnen at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, There are No Black Murderers of Whites, Only ‘Accused’ Ones”;

“AOL/Huffington Post and AP Manage the Black Air Jordan Riots Story”;

“Seattle: Since Blacks Support Black Criminals, City Needs Surveillance Cameras Everywhere”;

“Seattle: Nameless, Faceless, Raceless Suspect Arrested for Murder of Faceless, Raceless Victim in Belltown”;

“Belltown Murder: Still Raceless and Faceless in Seattle”;

“Cause and Effect? Seattle Reader Writes on Military Academy Diversity and Rape, and the Seattle Air Jordan Riots”;

“Seattle’s Good Nazis Watch Racist Black Mob Attack Couple for 4 Minutes, Without So Much as Calling 911; Racist Blacks Perform for Bus Cameras”;

“Seattle: The Raymel J. Curry Story”;

“WA Wants to Solve Crime by ‘Disappearing’ Videos; ‘Security’ Wants to Watch; Violent, Career Felon, Aiesha Stewart-Baker, 15, Wants Ghetto Lottery”;

“Seattle: Blacks Account for 7.7% of Residents, Yet They Seem to Have Taken the Entire City Prisoner”; and

“Seattle Police Have Pushed Down the Crime Rate—Through Discouraging Victims from Reporting Crimes!”]

Eric T. Burri vs. Whitney Houston: Which One was a Bona Fide American Hero? And You Will be Tested!

 

Army Specialist Eric T. Burri died June 7, 2005 while on active duty in Iraq

 

A flag at half-mast in Newark, NJ, as per the order of Republican Gov. Chris Christie, February 18, 2012

 

Did Whitney Houston die for her country?

 

Johnny Cash: That Ragged Old Flag


 

February 19, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Dad of fallen Michigan soldier burns N.J. flag to protest Houston tribute
By Steve Pardo
The Detroit News
75 Comments

Wyoming, Mich. - A Michigan man whose son was killed while on patrol in Iraq in 2005 burned the New Jersey flag on his outdoor grill in protest after learning flags in that state were ordered flown at half-staff for the death of Whitney Houston.

John Burri said lowering of flags should be for those who have given their lives for their country.

"It was a slap in the face. It cheapens the meaning of lowering that flag," said Burri, 60. "They're watering down the meaning of a hero."

Burri traveled to Flags Unlimited in nearby Grand Rapids and bought a New Jersey flag - just so he could burn it.

"It was $12.95 and it was the best money I ever spent," he said.

He purposely slammed it in his trunk and drove it home but at first passing through a veteran's memorial park in Wyoming where there's a brick with his son's name on it, in his honor.

"I didn't do this to offend the people of New Jersey," he said. "If I did and you're offended, I'm sorry. But I did this because it was wrong and it was to show the governor (of New Jersey) how wrong this was."

His son, Army Specialist Eric T. Burri, died June 7, 2005 while on active duty in Iraq. Burri, 21 of Wyoming, just south of Grand Rapids was killed when an improvised explosive device went off near his vehicle in Baghdad. Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered flags to be lowered on June 15, 2005 for one day in honor of his service.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was criticized for his decision to order flags to be flown at half-staff. In published reports on Wednesday, he defended his decision. Christie said Houston was a "cultural icon" who was as source of pride to New Jersey residents.

Granholm absorbed criticism of her own in 2003 after she decreed that flags be lowered for every Michigan soldier killed in the line of duty. Defenders of the U.S. Flag Code said she went too far. The national flag code, adopted in 1942, says the flag shall be flown at half staff by order of the president " … upon the death of principal figures of the United States government and the governor of a state, territory or possession, as a mark of respect to their memory.

At the Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs website The flag should be flown at half-staff when directed by the president or the governor.

President George W. Bush in 2007 signed into a law a bill named after a Michigan soldier killed in Iraq that requires federal facilities to observe a governor's decree for flags to be flown at half staff to honor slain soldiers.

The bill was named after Army Specialist Joseph P. Micks, a 22-year-old Rapid River man killed July 8, 2006 in Ar Ramadi after an explosive device went off near his vehicle during combat operations.

Then-U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, said he learned of "uneven respect" in areas of the state when it came to lowering flags by a governor decree. The legislation would "ensure consistency in how we honor fallen heroes," Stupak said in 2007.

spardo@detnews.com
(313) 222-2112

[Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this story.

Previously, on Whitney Houston, at WEJB/NSU:

“Whitney Houston Dead at 48: Racist Singer Found Submerged in Beverly Hills Hilton Bathtub Saturday; She Struggled for Years with Drug Addiction; Cause of Death Pending”;

“Thou Shalt Not Blaspheme the Diva: Fox Tampa Bay Facebook Censor Deletes Less than Worshipful Memory of Whitney Houston”;

“Hosts of KFI’s John & Ken Show Suspended for Telling the Truth about Whitney Houston; Reconquistas Demand Termination; Prosecution to Follow?”

“Whitney Houston Singing the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl (1991): Did She Set the Standard?”; and

“Whitney Houston’s Family Refuses to Invite Her Ex, Bobby Brown to Her Funeral Service, Then Invites Him, but (Says Brown) Harasses Him, Until He Walks Out.”]

 

A Different Johnny Cash Performance: 1990, at Star Spangled Branson



Thanks to Hippekuln!

 

Charles Murray’s The State of White America, as Reviewed by F. Roger Devlin

Charles Murray’s new work, The State of White America—not to be confused with the eponymous work of five years ago that I edited and co-authored—is to a large degree concerned with the yobbification of America, a theme he sounded, as a warning, in The Bell Curve (with the late Richard Herrnstein), 17 years ago.

Marriage and religion are both dying among the white working class. Simultaneously, both institutions are relatively robust—especially marriage—among the white upper classes. Social classes which 50 years ago dealt with each other on reasonably civilized terms, have become completely alienated from one another, and have little to do with one another. (The well-to-do whites eliminated working-class whites from their lives, and replaced them with illegal aliens, a topic that Murray apparently avoided, like the plague.)

F. Roger Devlin has written a brilliant, 7,100-word review of Murray’s book, in The Occidental Quarterly.

Roger is the most brilliant critic of the feminist project to destroy marriage, and turn sexual relations into a state of perpetual war, and not in the sense of the once-humorous phrase, “the battle of the sexes.” While he is eminently readable, he is, however, the hardest important contemporary writer I know of, to quote. He does not cooperate by providing the reader with sound-bites. He can, however be summarized, though I will do so using less elegant language than he did:

‘Charles Murray sees the decline in white, working-class marriages as being due to men being derelict in their duties. The truth, however, is that feminism robbed men of their previous status, while expecting them to fulfill their duties, while it gave women a condition of license. As a result, there was no good reason for working-class men to continue to act as their fathers had. Such behavior would merely result in their paying mercenary ex-wives who divorced them, and stole their children.

‘Working-class white men had always been expected to be selfless; feminism demanded a continuation of same, while demanding that women be granted license to be completely selfish.’

Devlin writes,

The author begins with a description of American life on the eve of the Kennedy assassination…

Only three and one-half percent of American families were headed by a divorced parent. In many neighborhoods, houses were left unlocked and children could go about unsupervised.

But American women had “much to be outraged about,” the author tells us, such as being expected to marry and have children! If Murray gets portrayed as a ‘hard-rightist,’ it is only because presenting data honestly is now all such a designation requires or implies.

College education occupies young people during their prime mate-seeking years.
Combine this fact with the cognitive sorting now performed by the college admissions process and you get intellectual homogamy: people marrying those with similar cognitive ability. This level of ability tends rather strongly to get passed on to their offspring. Most children within the cognitive elite have parents with an average IQ of 117 or more. Only about 14 percent of them are produced by parents from the bottom half of the distribution.

So while the brilliant son of a plumber from Podunk will still occasionally break into the Ivy League, there will never be enough others like him to determine the character of those schools. Most of his classmates will come from affluent families, and a disproportionate number from the new upper class itself. American meritocracy has ended up producing something like a hereditary upper class….

The number of children born to white, unwed mothers has skyrocketed from three percent in 1960 to nearly thirty percent today. For mothers without a high school diploma, the figure is now around sixty percent. Many of these mothers are teenagers, and their children often end up being raised by the grandparents. Yet among mothers with a college degree, the proportion of unmarried births has yet to rise above three percent.

So far as I know, Devlin has not written a book on American sexual relations, but I sure hope he does.

There are two main ways to approach Murray: In terms of race, and of sex. Devlin approaches him, based on the latter factor. It remains for someone to review him, based on his handling of the race question.

By Nicholas Stix



 

Carter Strange Attacker Gets a Juvi Freebie for Attempted Murder

 

Victim Carter Strange, before encountering racelessness

 

This may be a picture of Carter Strange after encountering racelessness, but before surgery

 

By David in TN and Nicholas Stix

One of Carter Strange’s attackers, age 15, will not be tried as an adult. Family Court Judge Robert Armstrong “thinks the youth could be rehabilitated.” Note that Judge Armstrong left no doubt that he was more concerned with the future of an assailant who had sought to beat a young man to death, based solely on the color of his skin, than he was for the victim’s future. The judge’s misuse of the word “fear” told you where he was coming from:

 

Carter Strange after undergoing surgery
 

When we fear, that fear turns to anger, and we want the people involved to be punished, to answer for the crimes. We want justice,” Armstrong said. “But to do that, to find justice, we must look to and be guided by the law. If we are guided by fear and our anger, there can be no justice.”

 
Family Court Judge Robert Armstrong, during an August, 2010 trial
 

Well, isn’t he just full of courage!

The judge sophistically turned justice upside down, so that it became the opposite of punishment, even lying about the law, in the process.

Equating morality and law with “fear” is a generations-old Democratic framing strategy.

Note that we are talking about one of the attackers who stomped Strange almost to death, took his cell phone, so he couldn't call for help, and left him for dead. Had someone not found Strange two hours later in the dead of night, and called 911, he would have died. Thus, we are talking about a free pass for attempted murder.

 

The 15-year-old defendant in the racist attempted murder of Carter Strange, who was protected by Family Court Judge Robert Armstrong, talks to his lawyer Jack Swerling during a hearing, on February 7, 2012. Gerry Melendez /gmelendez@thestate.com
 

Previously, on the Carter Strange case, at WEJB/NSU:

“Columbia, SC: In Non-Bias Attack, Eight Raceless Assailants Jump 18-Year-Old from Behind, Beat Him Almost to Death” ;

“One Suspect (Out of Eight) Indentified in Columbia, S.C., ‘Jogger Assault’”;

“Near Fatal, Columbia, SC, 8-on-1, Black-on-White Attack Not a Hate Crime”;

“Columbia, SC, Hate Crime: Bond Hearing, Charges Laid”;

“8-on-1, Suckerpunch, Black Hate Crime Attack on Carter Strange in Columbia, SC: Selected Reader Comments to WLTX’ ‘8 Suspects in Custody for 5 Points Beating of 18-Year-Old Carter Strange’”;

“Carter Strange Beating Update, on NBC Today Show”;

“Carter Strange Beating: Some Juvis to be Charged as Adults; Otherwise, Usual, ‘Not-a-Hate-Crime’ Official Story”; and

“In Carter Strange Case, Defense Attorneys Argue Black Attackers Who Beat White Within an Inch of His Life were ‘Just Having Fun,’ and Can’t Possibly be Convicted of Conspiracy; Prosecutors: Two Juvis Should be Tried as Adults”; and

“Carter Strange Beating Update.”

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Carter Strange attack
Teen’s case stays in juvenile court
Despite violence of Five Points attack, judge thinks youth could be rehabilitated
By Noelle Phillips - nophillips@thestate.com
The State
Thursday, February 9, 2012

A Richland County family court judge decided Wednesday that a 15-year-old accused in a June beating of another teen in Five Points will remain in juvenile court rather than be tried as an adult.

Family Court Judge Robert Armstrong said the case caused fear and anger among the public, including himself. But he said he was obligated by law to consider eight factors in deciding whether to move a juvenile case to adult court. The teen’s chances of being rehabilitated into a responsible adult are greater if the case is handled by the juvenile justice system, the judge said.

“When we fear, that fear turns to anger, and we want the people involved to be punished, to answer for the crimes. We want justice,” Armstrong said. “But to do that, to find justice, we must look to and be guided by the law. If we are guided by fear and our anger, there can be no justice.”

The boy awaits a juvenile court hearing to determine whether he is guilty of assault and battery by a mob, robbery and conspiracy. If found guilty, he faces a maximum of 36 months in S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice custody.

The 15-year-old is one of eight teens charged in the June 20 attack of Carter Strange, a recent Dreher High School graduate who was jogging through Five Points around midnight to meet his parents’ curfew. The beating tore an artery, causing a blood clot to form between Strange’s brain and skull, Linwood Smith, Strange’s neurosurgeon, told the judge.

The 15-year-old is one of two who prosecutors wanted to stand trial in adult court. A hearing is scheduled in March to determine whether the other boy, then 14, will be tried as an adult.

Two – Tyheem J. Henrey, now 20, and Yahquann J. Gantt, now 17 – are awaiting trial in general sessions court. Police say Henrey, Gantt, the 15-year-old and the 14-year-old chased after Strange and participated in the beating.

The four others waited by their cars, and they already have been punished in the juvenile justice system for failing to report the crime.

Testimony Wednesday came from two officers at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center’s juvenile wing who described the 15-year-old as a model inmate, who helped others learn to read and write, led prayers during Bible study and volunteered to clean offices and fold laundry.

A psychiatrist testified the boy has a good chance to be rehabilitated because he has a higher-than-average IQ [N.S.: that means, for a black], is not mentally ill, does not have a history of substance abuse and has a supportive family. She also noted that he does not have a prior juvenile record.

The boy’s mother told the judge her son had never caused problems at home. She said he helped with chores, including babysitting three younger siblings and feeding the family dog.

The boy had moved to Columbia from Long Island, N.Y., three days before the attack to live with his mother’s cousin. The mother agreed to let her son move back to South Carolina to play football, she said.

The judge scolded the boy for risking his future by allegedly participating in the beating.

“It makes me mad that you were willing to risk everything for what you did that night,” Armstrong said. “You stepped out of character. You were not strong
enough to run away from the people who did this crime.”

Several members of Strange’s family cried after the judge announced his decision, then quickly left the courtroom.

Reach Phillips at (803) 771-8307.

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I see that I made a mistake a few weeks ago, in speaking of “10 strikes, and you’re out” criminal justice for politically protected groups. (Actually, I spoke of “Florida justice,” but I was discussing the case of a black predator, who has left a trail of dead white women in his wake.) Said groups’ members get 10 strikes as juvenile offenders, and then the odometer gets rolled back to zero. Thus, the proper phrase would be, “20 strikes, and you’re out!”

Last June, newspaper reports predicted that “some” of the juveniles in the racist, black gang of eight Juvis would be “charged as adults.” Apparently, in the new justice math, some=one or none.

At the time, a reader left the following message:

MrsKC said...

Carter is actually the son of my husband's cousin, so I know this story completely. This boy is a good boy and was just on his way home from visiting a friend. He was walking home to make curfew. He wasn't there to get drugs or for any trouble....TRUST ME! He was minding his own business. These thugs jumped him while he stopped to reply to a text message from a friend. This wasn't a robbery, because they didn't take any money from his wallet. The only reason they took his phone was so he couldn't call for help. After being beaten horribly, he still tried to make it home. We are so very thankful to the people who found him 2 hours AFTER the attack. If it wasn't for him, he probably wouldn't be with us today. He is finally home and resting. Please keep Carter in your prayers. This was a hate crime and a gang related incident. We WILL not stop until justice is served!

SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2011 7:32:00 PM EDT

Unfortunately, justice will not be served in this case. It virtually never is, where black-on-white hate crimes are concerned, unless the victim is a homosexual.

 

On The Today Show, on June 28, Matt Lauer Made No Mention of Race, While Speaking of Carter Strange being Beaten Almost to Death by a “Fellow Group of Teens”

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Teen victim of mob beating: ‘I don’t know about forgiveness’
Family tells TODAY they won’t accept ‘excuses’ from attackers who nearly killed their son
By Scott Stump
TODAY.com
Updated on 6/28/2011, 5:02:11 p.m.

Jogging home from a friend’s house shortly after midnight on June 20, 18-year-old Carter Strange called his mother to let her know that he was right down the street and would be home in a few minutes.

He never made it.

The next thing he remembers, he woke up in a hospital bed with a disfigured face, a fractured skull that required 15 staples to repair and a sense of shock at a night gone horribly wrong in an instant.

The victim of a brutal and seemingly random attack that allegedly occurred at the hands of eight teenagers ranging in age from 13 to 19 years old, the Columbia, S.C., high school graduate had a face so disfigured that his own mother did not recognize him at first sight. Now he is left to make sense of the senseless.

“I don’t know about forgiveness,’’ Carter told TODAY’s Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview alongside his parents on Tuesday. “I don’t really think about it that much. I try not to let [the attackers] be on my mind too much because I don’t know why I would. There’s really no reason for me to think about them that much.’’

After seeing their son suffer extensive injuries that have required multiple surgeries, Strange’s parents’ terror has turned to anger.

“This is not like it was a group of kids that went out and just did some property damage,’’ said John Strange, Carter’s father. “They almost took someone’s life.’’

Four of the suspects, including 19-year-old Tyheem Henry, have been charged by local prosecutors with strong-arm robbery, second-degree assault, battery by a mob and criminal conspiracy for the beating. Four more suspects are charged with criminal conspiracy in the robbery, as Strange’s cellphone was stolen shortly after he finished the call to his mother that night.

“These eight, group of guys, were set out to do someone in our community harm, and that is exactly what cannot be tolerated,’’ Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott told NBC News.

A kid who rarely missed his midnight curfew by more than a few minutes, Carter placed the phone call to his mother at 12:07 a.m. that night to tell her he would be home shortly. She called back three minutes later with no answer. When he still wasn’t home at 12:30 a.m., his father looked up his son’s phone and text messaging records on the computer.

The phone activity had stopped at 12:16 a.m. and then mysteriously started again at 1:09 a.m. When his father called one of the numbers, the phone was answered by a young girl who hung up on him twice until he was able to get her mother on the phone on the third try. He was able to gather enough information to determine that someone else had Carter’s phone, and promptly had his wife call the police.

“When he just hadn’t shown up and the later it got, we got worried,’’ John Strange said. “Then when we started seeing phone calls and text messages to numbers that weren’t familiar, that we knew were not friends of his, that’s when we went into kind of a panic mode.’’

At 3:30 a.m., the police put out a notice to look for Carter and immediately were informed that he was in a local hospital. Waiting in the hallway, his mother, Vicki, couldn’t help staring at a badly beaten man on a nearby gurney.

“I saw how bad he looked and I felt really bad for him,” she said. “My first thought was, ‘That poor guy.’

“As I looked at him, I realized his hair looked like Carter’s. I couldn’t stop looking at the gentleman on the gurney and his hair. I literally walked up, bent over and looked at him, saw his hands and realized that was Carter. I didn’t recognize him. I just knew him from his hair and his hands.’’

Her horror at her bloodied and bruised son soon turned to the comfort of knowing he was alive after hours of fearing the worst.

“I was relieved because I finally found my son,’’ she said. “Despite the condition, I finally found him.’’

He has since undergone one surgery to alleviate a blood clot in his brain as well as reconstructive surgery on his nose. To complicate matters, John Strange has just started a new job and does not have health insurance that covers the family. For now, however, despite his bruised and battered face, Carter Strange indicated that he is feeling better than he looks.

“I’m just as amazed as you are,’’ he told Lauer. “I’m actually feeling amazing compared to how I probably should be feeling.’’

Surveillance video from earlier that night shows the suspects walking around the Five Points area in Columbia, a popular night spot with bars and shopping. They allegedly turned themselves in after the footage was aired on local television and have since made no comments or legal pleas regarding the incident. Police say the group had tried to rob four other people that same night before allegedly attacking Strange.

The incident has prompted city officials to impose an emergency curfew on young people in the Five Points area. The curfew requires anyone under 17 to be off the streets from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. in that area west of downtown and in two parks nearby.

While the parents of the suspects have insisted that they are good kids who made a bad mistake that night, the Stranges are not buying it.

“It sounds like they’re trying to make excuses and make light of the situation,’’ said John Strange. “I think at least several of them had already been in trouble before and were on probation. It’s not their first time. To say they’re good kids when they’ve already been in trouble, I just don’t understand how they can make excuses.’’

This report contains information from The Associated Press.

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Alleged ringleader Tyheem Henrey, 19, is one of two suspects, with Yahquann Gant, 16, whose names have been released. (The newspapers have apparently refused to publish pictures of Gant.) I can empathize with Mr. Henrey. I always weep and beseech the Lord in court, when I’ve been caught beaten trying to beat someone to death, based on the color of his skin. Most of the media have since sent Yahquann Gant’s name down the memory hole—google for it—and none of the other six gang members’ names has been released.
 

[A major difference in etiquette between many black southern racists and most of their northern and western counterparts, is that some southern black racists will at least go through the motions of showing contrition, while the others will either show no emotion, or be defiant, when they aren’t insisting on their innocence. I have concluded that Southern blacks’ greater politeness is a legacy of Jim Crow. By the way: If you’re apologizing to your victim, you’re not a “suspect,” you’re a perpetrator.]

 
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Suspect to 5Pts. Beating Victim: “I’m Sorry”
One of the eight suspects personally apologizes to Carter Strange
 

[Warning! The following video may induce vomiting, in those who still have a sense of justice!]


 

By Monique Williams
September 22, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. EST
Story Updated: September 22, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. EST
WOLO/ABC Columbia

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) -- In Richland County Family Court, two teenagers faced a judge for their role in the savage beating of a local teenager back in June and brought the courtroom to tears with a personal apology to the victim.

The two minors, a 16-year-old and 17-year-old, received house arrest, a community evaluation and will be subjected to random drug tests in connection with their part in the Father's Day assault on 17-year-old Carter Strange. Strange was beaten nearly to death, police say, by four of eight teens who are said to be involved. Two other teens were also sentenced to house arrest earlier this week. A 16-year-old and a 19-year-old are said to be the ringleaders and will face a jury trial. Meanwhile, two remaining teens are still behind bars until it is determined if they will be tried as adults.

Tears were shed in the courtroom Thursday as the 17-year-old hugged and tearfully apologized to each family member present and to the victim himself. Carter strange says he knew that particular teen 'didn't belong in that group' and that he should have been let go a long time ago. He says is he happy the closure process is beginning but that the four young people still being investigated should 'get justice.'

 

In court, an attacker’s mother and the victim’s mother embrace in what I call the white forgiveness ritual. These are usually staged by the media, on behalf of the racist black attackers. David in TN witnessed the attempt by black WVLT (now WLOS) "reporter" Mario Boone to stage such a forgiveness ritual. Boone tried to sucker the white parents of gang rape-torture-murder victim Channon Christian into granting absolution to the screamingly racist parents of one of Channon’s alleged killers, Vanessa Coleman, during the latter’s August, 2010 trial. The remorseless Coleman had celebrated the gang-rapes, torture, and murders of Channon and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, in her diary, and her parents not only were unapologetic, but insisted that their daughter was a victim, just like Channon, and tried to pin the crimes on a white girl, Daphne Sutton, who had had nothing to do with it. Fortunately, Channon’s father, Gary, refused to play Boone’s game.

 

Knoxville News Sentinel Reporter Jamie Satterfield’s Exposé on Knoxville Horror Judge Richard Baumgartner: Scandal Widens to Knox County Sheriff’s Office; Pulitzer Nom in the Offing?
By David in TN and Nicholas Stix

[See previously: The Knoxville Horror: Crime, Race, the Media and “Anti-Racism.”

The redacted TBI report on Richard Baumgartner released by Special Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood.

KNS: Join staff writer Jamie Satterfield from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Monday for a moderated chat on knoxnews.com regarding this story.
She covers courts for the News Sentinel and was first to report the TBI probe of Baumgartner.
She'll try to answer any questions on topic that you may have.]

Here is the full, 6,200-word story of disgraced alcoholic, drug-addicted, ex-Judge Richard Baumgartner by Jamie Satterfield. In addition to using local small-time criminals to fetch him the painkillers to which he was addicted, and carrying on an affair with a prostitute/drug defendant/thief, Baumgartner was coercing court officers into surrendering to him for his personal use, pain medication they desperately needed for themselves or family members.

It turns out Baumgartner asked for the Christian-Newsom case. He wanted to preside over what Nicholas Stix dubbed the Knoxvillle Horror.

The Baumgartner Affair just keeps getting worse, the more you learn. Stix’ tag of “Judge Mischief” still is somewhat accurate, because he did want the case and picked Nashville as the jury pool twice.

By the way, comments for the Knoxville News Sentinel article have been disabled, with at least 95 posted comments sent down the memory hole by the KNS’ house censors. The censorship has pc KNS editor Jack McElroy’s fingerprints all over it.

Jamie Satterfield should finally get the Pulitzer Prize nomination that she should have gotten for her coverage of the Knoxville Horror case.

There was a time when it was possible to win a Pulitzer for a story on a racist black atrocity, but you had to find an irrelevant, non-racial hook to hang the award on. For instance, the Virgin Islands Daily News’Melvin Claxton was given a Pulitzer in 1995 for a story on one of the bloodiest racially-motivated mass murders in U.S. history. That was the 1972 Fountain Valley Massacre, which was carried out in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, byIshmael Labeet and his gang of black supremacist terrorists, slaughtering eight people and wounding others, while screaming racist epithets. But the award was for writing on “gun control”! And Claxton cleansed everything racial from the story.

Not even cleansing the racial facts from a story about a black racial atrocity will do, nowadays. Blacks may not play the heavies, and in the Knoxville Horror, all of the heavies were black. But in Satterfield’s current report, the heavies are all heterosexual white men, especially the criminal mastermind of the piece.

The most important thing to keep in mind regarding Judge Baumgartner and the Knoxville Horror is that Special Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood has admitted that Baumgartner engaged in no misconduct in his running of the trials of the four suspects, yet Blackwood threw out all four convictions, and ordered retrials anyway.

And he has gone even beyond Baumgartner, in ruling that he will bus in a jury from out of the county (meaning one with blacker demographics than a Knox County panel would have) for the Lemaricus Davidson trial. In Davidson’s original trial, he insisted on being tried by a Knox County jury. That caused the trial to end not only with a guilty verdict, but with a death sentence. The chances of Davidson being sentenced to death this time ‘round are nil.

Having verdicts thrown out when judges or prosecutors engage in trial misconduct is understandable, but if their private lives also become fodder for appeals and reversals, then trials are a complete waste of taxpayers’ money and destructive of all justice. Defense attorneys will need merely to invade the privacy of various officers of the court (judges, prosecutors, even court officers), and either use their private peccadilloes to get convictions thrown out on appeal, or blackmail judges and prosecutors into giving them the results they seek.

Judge Blackwood’s decision was a blunder of historic proportions, in placing an impossible burden on the criminal justice system.

It ain’t over, ‘til the black felon wins.

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Court of secrecy:
How Richard Baumgartner, a drug-addicted judge, stayed on the bench despite warnings
By Jamie Satterfield
February 12, 2012 at 4 a.m.
Knoxville News Sentinel

It was a Thursday night in January 2010 when the phone rang at the Andersonville home of then-Knox County Sheriff's Office courtroom security officer Meredith Driskell.

"He said, 'I'm coming to get those pills.' He told me to put them in a brown paper bag. I told him no ... but he told me I was going to," she recalled when contacted by the News Sentinel. "So, I put them in a brown paper bag and handed it to him, my husband, who hadn't been in the room. I said, ‘Don't look inside. The judge is coming to get this.' "

"The judge" was former Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner. He wasn't officially her boss. Sheriff Jimmy "J.J." Jones was, but Baumgartner still held the power to have her fired. Driskell, a former state probation officer, worked in his courtroom. Jones was a regular visitor to the judge's chambers, and Driskell had missed work lately.

Her dad was in the hospital. She had undergone a hysterectomy - for which she had been prescribed the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin. Baumgartner, she knew, was keenly attuned to the medications prescribed to those who worked in his court and, she said, made no bones about demanding a share.

It would have done no good, she said, to seek help from the Knox County Sheriff's Office. She had reached out to her supervisors a few years before when, she said, Baumgartner was coming to work smelling of alcohol and displaying a nasty temper. They refused to transfer her.

Since then, Knoxville's most horrific murder case – the torture slayings of a young Knox County couple - had been assigned to Baumgartner's court, and, Driskell said, the shield around Baumgartner had grown even stronger.

"Judge Baumgartner compromised the sheriff's department," she said. "Everybody was trying to contain him at that point. (Sheriff Jones) knew. He just wanted those criminals put away. Law enforcement, all they wanted was those people fried."

A News Sentinel investigation showed that, despite ongoing warning signs and sounded alarms about Baumgartner's sobriety, he continued for at least three years to draw some of Knox County's most high-profile cases and made legal decisions still lauded by many to this day. Now, hundreds of cases could be at risk, and Knox County's judicial system is in a state of turmoil as a result….

Kevin Kless Hate Crime Murder in Philadelphia: Preliminary Hearing Set

 

[Murder victim Kevin Kless, 23

 

[Previously, on this case, at WEJB/NSU:

“White Man Beaten to Death in Philly on MLK Weekend—‘by 3 Middle-Eastern Men’?”;

“Update on Philly MLK Weekend Beating Murder of Kevin Kless: It Looks Like the Killers were Hispanics; $15,000 in Reward Money on the Table”; and

“Philadelphia: 2 Hispanics, 1 Black Arrested for Racist, MLK Weekend Murder of White Kevin Kless; Cops’ Cover Story Collapses.”]

 
By David in TN

A date of April 4 has been set for a preliminary hearing for the three suspects in the murder of recent Temple University graduate Kevin Kless. Defendants Steven Ferguson, Kenneth Santiago, and Felix Carrillo are being held without bail.

 


Suspect Felix Carillo, 23
 

Judge Teresa Carr Deni turned down a request for bail by Carrillo’s attorney, who noted that 15 relatives came to court to support the defendant, who was not present.

“This is hard for us, it’s hard to accept because that’s not him,” Carrillo’s father said after the hearing. “I’m just shocked.”

 

Suspect Kenneth Santiago, 19

 

Suspect Steven Ferguson, 20

 
[The WEJB/NSU Philly File:

“The Philadelphia Story: When the Cops are Crooks;

“Solving Philly Crime with an Eraser: The “Good Irishman” and the Race Man”;

“Sadism and Race”;

“Whistleblowing, Former DOJ Civil Rights Division Lawyer, J. Christian Adams, Fights Continuing Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice in AG Eric Holder’s DOJ in 2008 New Black Panther Party Philadelphia Voter Intimidation Case”;

“Powerline Blog's Republican Writers Finally ‘Report’ on New Black Panthers' White Disenfranchisement Campaign—Over One Year Later than NSU!”;

“More on the Justice Department Civil Rights Division's Conspiracy to Disenfranchise Whites, Violate Their Civil Rights, and to Obstruct Justice”;

“Diversity is Strength: It’s also a Black Serial Killer Raping and Strangling Raceless Women in Philadelphia’s Kensington Section”;

“Philly's Kensington Serial Killer Suspect Caught”;

“‘I Really Miss My Mom,’ Says 16-Year-Old Killadelphian Who Murdered His Mother”;

“Forty Raceless Philly Teenagers Organized ‘Flash Mob’ Ransacking of Upper Darby, PA, Sears Store via Social Media, Took El Train to Target”;

“In Story on Raceless, 40-Strong, Teenaged Philly Robbery Mob That Hit the Upper Darby PA Sears on June 23, Philly Daily News Killed … Even the Word, ‘Comments’!”;

“Hey, That’s Not Funny! In Yet Another Philly Mob Attack, 350 Raceless Youths Riot, and ‘30 to 40 Men’ Break Onion Editor's Leg; Police Cover-Up Aids and Abets Attackers”;

“Philadelphia: Don’t Mess with Penny Chapman! Ridin’ the Bus in Killy”;

“Before Troy Davis, There was (and Unfortunately, Still is!) Racist Black Cop-Killer Wesley Cook, Better Known as ‘Mumia Abu-Jamal’”;

“In Killy, a Game of ‘Get the Old Geezer,’ or ‘Get the Old White Geezer”?;

“Philly: Illegal Alien Held on $1 Million in Kensington Rape Spree”;

“Philadelphia: Black Racist Attack on White Man at Center City PATCO Station”;

“Two Arrested in Philly PATCO Racial Attack; Black Facebook Commenters Variously Celebrate Attack, and Deny Attackers are Black”; and

“Philadelphia Hate Crime: Mob of 5 Black, 1 Poss Hispanic 15-18 Year-Olds Suckerpunch White, 64-Year-Old, Disabled Vietnam Vet, Almost to Death; One Suspect Arrested.”]

 

“Knockout King” in Ann Arbor, MI: But Don't Worry about Racist, Black Gang Attacks; Media Cover-Up/Censorship is in Place, and Mayor Says Police Staffing Cuts Have Not Affected Patrol Coverage
By Nicholas Stix

Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I lived with a girl from Ann Arbor. Actually, she was born in Brooklyn, in the fall of 1967, at the beginning of the black supremacist “community control” takeover of the city’s public schools. About the time she turned one, her parents pulled up stakes, so they could maintain their liberal delusions, while living in safety. (I don’t mean to sound mean about them; I loved her parents.)

And I loved Ann Arbor, which we visited once or twice a year. It was so quiet. I slept poorly at our place in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, but on her parent’s secluded street, I slept like a baby. And safe.

Ann Arbor was one of the most politically correct university towns in America, but that didn’t affect me during our visits.


(After she left me, she married a communist academic, and they fled New York for the Pacific Northwest, so they could maintain their leftwing delusions, while living in safety.)

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Student attacked on East University taken to hospital after being knocked unconscious
By Ben Freed
Ann Arbor News
July 17, 2011
70 Comments [N.S.: 22 of which were deleted by the house censors.]

A student was taken to the University of Michigan hospital early Sunday after he was attacked by a group of five males, the U-M Department of Public Safety reported. [Actually, DPS reported that it was a group of five black males.]

The attack happened about 2:30 a.m. on East University Street near Hill Street, according to DPS.

Five men jumped out of a silver sedan and approached the student, who was walking with a companion. One of the men punched the student, who was knocked unconscious when he hit his head on the ground.

Ann Arbor police responded to the scene, and the student was hospitalized. As of Sunday afternoon, the victim had not yet been interviewed by police. No further description of the attackers was available.

Ben Freed is a summer intern at AnnArbor.com. You can reach him by email at benfreed@annarbor.com or by phone at (734)-623-4674. Follow him on Twitter @BFreedInA2