PilotOnline: A beating at Church and Brambleton

[Patricia M. McBride]

This is the 3rd or 4th similiar story of attacks on white people who were simply going about their business and doing nothing threatening or out of the way in the last couple of weeks with one young man ending up seriously injured and in the hospital solely based on the color of their skin.  Those attacked all happened to be white and the perpetrators of the attacks were all black.  I wonder if our president is proud of his accomplishments?  He has taken our country away from all of us just being Americans to dividing us based on the color of everyone's skin ............. it is shameful.

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By Michelle Washington The Virginian-Pilot © May 1, 2012

Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.

The victim's friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location.

Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton. Church and Brambleton.

It happened four blocks from where they work, here at The Virginian-Pilot.

Two weeks have passed since reporters Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami - friends to me and many others at the newspaper - were attacked on a Saturday night as they drove home from a show at the Attucks Theatre. They had stopped at a red light, in a crowd of at least 100 young people walking on the sidewalk. Rostami locked her car door. Someone threw a rock at her window. Forster got out to confront the rock-thrower, and that's when the beating began.

Neither suffered grave injuries, but both were out of work for a week. Forster's torso ached from blows to his ribs, and he retained a thumb-sized bump on his head. Rostami fears to be alone in her home. Forster wishes he'd stayed in the car.

Read more here:  http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2012/05/beating-church-and-brambleton