Invoked the name of Martin Luther King and screamed "Black Power" as
they
taunted girls as "white crackers" then beat them.
Cops say this is NOT a "Bias Crime." New York giant news media (ABC,
NBC,
CBS, FOX, NY Daily News, NY Post, NY Times etc.) totally silent about
this
attack. Not a peep from the "main stream media." Let me ask you, if
the
situation were reversed with white attackers and black victims, do you
think you'd hear about it? Darn right you would! It would make
national
headlines and the cops would definitely view it as a Bias Crime.

By Marianna Hernandez

Invoking the name ?Martin Luther King? and screaming ?Black Power!? a
gang
of up to 30 black teens attacked four white girls in Marine Park in
what
police are saying is not a bias crime.

The March 30 attack was a hot topic at state Senator Marty Golden?s
recent
public safety forum.

According to witnesses and parents of the victims, four young girls
from St.
Edmund?s had the day off from school due to Easter recess. They were
playing basketball during dismissal from nearby Marine Park Junior
High
School, when several Marine Park students demanded to use the court.

After adults intervened and asked them to wait their turn, the teens
left -
but returned in a pack of up to 30, both boys and girls, and stormed
into
the park.

Witnesses say the attackers were all black and called their victims
?white
crackers? during the bloody melee, which raged for almost 20 minutes.

?This is not being looked at as a bias crime,? NYPD Deputy Inspector
Kevin
McGinn said at the meeting.

?When I pulled my car up to the park, I witnessed a pandemonium I?ve
never
seen in my life,? said Debbie, a mother of one victim who asked to
remain
anonymous for safety reasons.

Her daughter ran to the car, screaming, ?They?re going to kill us,?
Debbie
recalled. My daughter was so scared and kids were running around like
crazy.

Pursued by dozens of teens, some of the girls were ?literally running
into
traffic to save their lives,? she said.

One girl made it as far as a nearby house, but was dragged by her hair
back
into the playground by a ?wolf pack of children,? Debbie said.

The St. Edmund girls were bleeding and beaten to the point where they
had
cuts, scrapes, footprints and dirt all over them - and the attackers
surrounded her car and started pounding on the windows as Debbie tried
to
herd the terrified children into her vehicle.

Two girls were hospitalized - one with a broken nose and one with a
head
injury, according to Edith, the mother of another girl.

According to Lt. Mark Molinari, from the 63rd Precinct, five of the
assailants, who attend Marine Park Junior High School, were arrested
and
charged with misdemeanor assault. But since the attackers are all
under the
age of 16, they are facing charges in Family Court, and were arraigned
last
Friday.

?I always felt safe in the area and after hearing about such an
incident,
you start thinking what else could happen. These situations should not
be
happening, not in Marine Park, or anywhere else, and the safety of our
kids
should be of most importance,? said Denise Williams, a parent from
Gerritsen Beach.

?It?s getting progressively worse in the community - these types of
gangs
are not only taking away our parks, they?re ruining our
neighborhoods,?
said parent Cathy Miller.

?Nobody expects their child to go to a park and get beaten, with
footprints
on her head and arm, everyone just wants their child to be safe,? said
Edith. ?Everyone should have the right to be safe from teens, to small
kids, to seniors, to mothers with strollers, no one should fear of
being
beaten while enjoying a day in the park.

http://www.brooklynskyline.com/news_article.asp?c=ne&na=1486
--
In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act. -
George Orwell, 1984

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