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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Feb 2012
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Lock your car doors when passing through Maryland...
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:48:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
... or just avoid it altogether.
"BALTIMORE (AP) - Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager
while pa=
trolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial
Monday in a=
case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense,
saying t=
he teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights
activists hope=
the Martin case will draw more attention to what they believe was
racial p=
rofiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes.
Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim are accused of beating a 15-year-old boy
who was=
walking through a Baltimore neighborhood in November 2010. The
brothers pu=
lled up next to the teen in a vehicle, then got out and "surrounded
him," a=
ccording to charging documents. The passenger threw the teen to the
ground =
and the driver hit him in the head with a hand-held radio and
patted him do=
wn.
The teen remembered the driver yelling, "You wanna (mess) with us,
you don'=
t belong around here, get outta here!" according to court
documents, which =
do not identify which brother was driving."
My, my, my... racism is alive and well in yankee-land! You mean
it's not j=
ust rednecks? Say it ain't so!
Maryland is south of the M/D line. Lots of rednecks there. Even white
collar ones. You don't have to go far to get a glimse of one.
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