Black Men Attack in Queens Neighborhood (Howard Beach/Car Thieves)

[Hissyspit]

http://start.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20050629/42c21cc0_3ca6_1552620050629-1634538237

Black Men Attacked in Queens Neighborhood
June 29, 2005 11:16 PM EDT
NEW YORK - Three black men who ventured into a historically white neighborhood early Wednesday to steal a car were chased by a man with a baseball bat, police said. One man was beaten and suffered a fractured skull.

The attack happened several hours before dawn in the same section of the borough of Queens as an infamous 1986 beating of three black men whose car had broken down.

In Wednesday's attack, Nicholas Minucci, 21, was being charged with first-degree assault as a hate crime, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at a news conference.

The three blacks told investigators they had been looking for a car to steal when they entered the Howard Beach neighborhood. They told police a white man in an SUV passed them in the street, exchanged stares with them and then returned with two friends and a baseball bat before chasing them on foot.

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[DisassemblingHisLies]

1. Bizarre.

The guys in the SUV should have called the police if they had recognized the 3 guys were up to no good.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. They admit to going to Howard Beach to steal cars?

Are these brothers from another planet, or what?

[marlo]

3. They're just fucking stupid.

They get no sympathy from me.

FYI ths is coming from a black New Yorker.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. I am a white New Yorker, and I would not go to Howard Beach

for anything... especially after dark.

BTW, welcome to DU

[Born Free]

8. Very Odd

People protect their neighborhood from crime and are accused of hate crimes...it's a bit like being sued by a burglar that gets hurt on your property. It's stories like this that fuel the right wingers.

[geek tragedy]

9. Most likely, the black men would have gotten the same treatment

had they been walking down the street with some white girls from the neighborhood.

Unless the local boys have some psychic ability, what we have is Howard Beach boys hanging out late, packing baseball bats, and scrutinizing blacks.

[Up2Late]

4. That is just too stoooopid

Doh!

[NNN0LHI]

5. You left out the "ed" on "attack" from the original headline

Big difference too. Makes it sound like a bunch of black men were attacking a Queens neighborhood by reading the headline the way it is written. You still got plenty of time to fix it.

Don

[geek tragedy]

7. What the white guys did was a crime and horrible, but how goddamn dumb

are the guys who decided to go to HOWARD BEACH to boost a car?

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