“The level of violence finally forced the local paper to do what the local police would not: Talk to the victims. Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
“In Chicago, two days later, two black people beat and robbed a “white boy” in revenge for Trayvon. Eighteen-year-old Alton Hayes III and his fifteen-year-old accomplice walked up behind their nineteen-year-old victim and said “Empty your pockets, white boy.” They then “threw him to the ground and punched him ‘numerous times’ in the head and back before running away,” police… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share
Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories. — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
“What is it with Florida? In Pensacola, Jack Crawford answered his door only to get cracked on the head with a bat. “About 8:45 p.m., three teenage males knocked on the door.” As soon as Crawford opened the door, “Wham! Split my head open,” Crawford said. “So I shot him and another guy.” Of the three intruders, one was white.… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share
“Almost as sensational as the black mob beating up a pregnant teenager is the case of the Seattle teenager, who in 2011 was assaulted and tortured for several hours because he was white. And “they started bringing up the past—like slavery—being like, white people did this,” said the victim. “They started bringing up the past - like slavery - being… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share
“The Chicago Sun-Times is a national leader in two areas: 1) Denying that racial mob violence exists, and 2) Explaining why it does. When a mob of five hundred people stormed through downtown Chicago, beating and threatening and destroying property, do you know what the excuse was? 1) Warm weather” — Colin Flaherty Copy Share
“CONFESSIONS OF A GANGSTER A former gang member talks about racial violence from way back in the eighties. “It started out innocently,” Jones, 39, tells me at a Starbucks on Chestnut Street near the group’s old stomping grounds. The posse walked to South Street seeking action. “They had a term, ‘clocking wigs,’ that meant hitting someone in the head,” he… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share
“In Detroit in 2011 “a Detroit pizza delivery man turned the tables on three would be crooks.” The black men ambushed the driver. He killed one. Police caught the others. The delivery man had a permit to carry a concealed weapon. “The manager at the pizza shop told Action News … many of his other drivers” have permits too. Every… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share
“mob violence is what the prison psychologist calls “infantile omnipotence.” This is the feeling that because something has not happened to you directly, you can ignore it. Like an infant who thinks it is not vulnerable to any danger, because all it has ever known is the safety of the womb or the crib. This is what accounts for widespread… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share
“Just a few days before the attack on Burke, Parenting magazine named Wilmington the most “dangerous city in America.” — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
“Murphy’s grandfather, Paul Furst, told KSDK that Murphy was mentally challenged and did not deserve to die:4 I believe this is another one of the Trayvon Martin stories where people are getting so gun happy they shoot just on impulse now. I could understand if he was a threat. But on the property, he was not a threat. Murphy was… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share
“Here is your law enforcement and media question of the day: Was the TV show COPS real or BS? It might have been real… — Colin Flaherty Copy Share Image
