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| Dundalk Man Violently Beaten By Group Of Teens |
| 2015-05-12 |
| A Dundalk man continues to recover after being violently beaten by a group of teenagers. Now a 17-year-old is facing attempted murder charges, a 15-year-old is charged with assault and more arrests are expected. Dundalk is a working class suburb of Baltimore. The neighborhood the festivities occurred in is residential. Richard Fletcher is out of the hospital, but he suffered extensive injuries. We want to warn you: some of the video and images you are about to see are very disturbing. Video is at the link. Horrifying cell phone video shows a group of teens surrounding 61-year-old Richard Fletcher, kicking and hitting him again and again until he drops to the ground. Mr. Fletcher is white, which means he's a racist, of course. He suffered broken eye sockets, a broken nose, broken ribs and a brain bleed. "He was brutally attacked," said Cpl. John Wachter, Baltimore County Police Department. No! Really? Investigators say Fletcher saw two girls fighting on top of his car. When he went outside to ask them to stop, dozens of teens turned on him. The feral children didn't quite kill him, which is probably why they didn't eat him. "He wasn't trying to intervene in their disagreement. He just wanted them to stop fighting and move away from his car," said Cpl. Wachter. Which resulted in him being brought down by a pack of wild animals. Now 17-year-old Antoine Lawson is charged as an adult with attempted murder. A 15-year-old girl also faces assault charges, and more arrests are expected. The color difference is as one would expect, which is why Mr. Fletcher is racist by definition. Neighbors say the teens go to nearby Baltimore Community High School. I'l bet they don't go very often. "The community in all, we're really disgusted with the actions of the students," said Georgia Bartrum, Harbor View Neighborhood Association. Are you really? They're just kids being kids. Check yer privilege, Georgia. Bartrum says the attack is causing fear amongst homeowners. Well, yes. Packs of feral yoots roaming your streets and half murdering residents at random might cause a bit of unease. "I had one lady who said she had found them in her vehicle and didn't realize they were in there--her door was open--and approached them, and she said, 'They could have done that to me,'" said Bartrum. If you leave your car unlocked (which often appens in quiet neighborhoods) you're occasionally going to find them occupied by ferals, either yo boyz or billies. Usually they don't do much but smoke weed or shoot up, though they'll make off with GPS devices and car stereo systems if they can figure how to remove them. Our 'burb is south of Baltimore, so we get the dregs from Brooklyn coming to prey on us now and then. I shooed some out of my truck a couple years ago. We've been thinking of getting a gate. Flyers are now being put up across the community to try and raise money for Fletcher's medical expenses. "He's got a lot of doctors visits," said Bartrum. "So he's going to have a long road to recovery." Seems like in a reasonable world the county or the state should pick up the tab for injuries caused by feral children. It would be a drain on the taxpayer but they could probably divert the money that goes to "community centers" where the community organizers do whatever it is they do. Having to pay when a citizen gets maimed or killed would give the local government an incentive to keep the crime rate down, at least until a 22-year-old state's attorney had a half dozen or so cops arrested. Now neighbors want more people in the video to face charges. Cell phones make pretty good witnesses, don't they? Police say they are actively looking for more suspects and that they do expect more arrests. We have a county police system here in Maryland, rather than township or borough police like they have in Pennsylvania or Virginia (I think). Baltimore city police has a harder time recruiting (which recently got even harder) than Baltimore County, which is a separate enity. Their jurisdiction includes the sometimes seedy 'burbs east of the city, the more pleasant 'burbs to the west and north, and the rural area up to the Pennsylvania line. Most of them I've met have been pretty nice fellows. That might be because I've never given them occasion to thump knobs on my head. Multiple fundraisers are now being planned for Fletcher, and more than $7,000 has been raised through a "GoFundMe" page. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 So is Bertha's safe, Fred? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-05-12 10:51 |
| #1 Mr. Smith, meet Mr. Wesson. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-05-12 08:04 |