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As I reported yesterday, the Mobile Police Department is ludicrously claiming that it is likely that no more than three people will be arrested for the now-infamous mob beating of a man in Mobile because the other 17 or so people were supposedly just “onlookers.” Leaving aside the fact that this hardly squares with the manifold reports to the contrary, let’s assume that only three people actually landed blows. To call the others mere “onlookers” when they were almost all engaged in mob action, yelling, cheering, or whatever, is outrageous. Last I checked, incitement to violence is itself a crime. Frankly, I think the circumstances merit numerous arrests based on Alabama criminal code law 13A-11-4: Inciting to Riot. Even 14 year-olds have been charged under this statute, for instigating multi-person fights.
ANYBODY who provides encouragement to the commission of a crime is an accessory thereto, which is a criminal offense usually treated as if it represents the same degree of culpability as the actual attacker.
If the Mobile police end up arresting only three people, it will be almost certainly be a monumental injustice, and amount to sweeping a crime under the rug.
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Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 2:25PM
Quin, I here you and agree with you completely, but if they arrest the twenty est, can they convict them? Or do they even have the EVIDENCE to arrest them? From what you've indicated, the only witnesses were not directly involved in the fracus, so can they legally testify factually as to what actually happened? If so, then great, but were they inside their own houses when it occurred or were they with reasonal visual distances in order to accurately describe the events? I think that the only witnesses were INVOLVED themselves in the fracus, and if so they they will not testify against their fellow rioters [partners in crime], since in doing so will result in their own demise legally. Again, I think if they can sweat the three or a few more and make an example of them, maybe that will send a message to DC, to Sanford and to the nation HOPEFULLY!!!!!!!!!!
Quin| 4.26.12 @ 2:35PM
Witnesses could only ID about three of the attackers specifically, but police seem to know who a lot of the others were. But police say they were just "onlookers." That's BS, and the police know it.
Matty| 4.27.12 @ 2:51AM
If the local cops aren't going to do their job, shouldn't the state police investigate?
Jerry Kane | 4.26.12 @ 3:54PM
Keep up the great work, Quin. If enough of us write about what's going in in Mobile and Phoenix, justice will prevail and the voters will know what to do this November.
albert constantine jr.| 4.26.12 @ 4:36PM
Beyond “Inciting to Riot”, which the link indicates is a Class A misdemeanor in Alabama, the statute before is the actual “Riot” statute, which states:
Section 13A-11-3 - Riot.
(a) A person commits the crime of riot if, with five or more other persons, he wrongfully engages in tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby intentionally or recklessly causes or creates a grave risk of public terror or alarm.
Of course, it too is only a Class A misdemeanor, and the elements of public terror or alarm would have to be proven through witnesses (as opposed to the private terror of Mr. Owens, that is.
The Delaware statute for Riot is three or more people gathered for the purpose or engaging in Disorderly Conduct, and is a Class F Felony. It bears mentioning, though, that since Biden’s son is AG, a prosecution under this statute under the circumstances would be quite unlikely.
aware| 4.26.12 @ 4:38PM
The stew ought to be cooked up nice by late summer and especially going into November, don't you think?
Sean| 4.26.12 @ 4:44PM
This is common behavior by minorities. Only a few of the mob actually beat him, but let me tell you if he laid out the first couple attackers the 17 other members of the mob would have been joining in on the beating.
Simon Templar| 4.26.12 @ 5:18PM
Has anyone seen the latest breaking news on Zimmerman? Absolutely incredible!
He was asked by a black woman in the neighborhood to form a neighborhood watch group!!!! He grew up in an integrated household. The guy has a black ancestor! He starts a business with a black partner! He purchased the gun at the direction of police to defend himself from a pit bull! And the biggest one of all....he refuses to follow a previous suspect for fear of confrontation after police encourage him to keep watching in another incident months before when a young black man is seen looking in windows! The best of all...a black woman in the neighborhood who wants to remain anonymous because of fear of violence backs him up as to the rash of burglaries by young blacks in the area for the last two years.
Man, you can not make this stuff up!
This is a perfect opportunity to finally expose the race hustlers, political correctness, media corruption, and liberal hypocrisy that this nation has suffered under for decades.
Do you think conservatives or should I say republicans will have the brains to expose it?
Simon Templar| 4.26.12 @ 5:31PM
Check this out, Quin....
http://www.reuters.com/article.....8H20120425
Quin| 4.26.12 @ 9:58PM
What a terrible tragedy. And what a wonderful, nuanced story! Thanks, Simon.
Quin| 4.26.12 @ 9:58PM
What a terrible tragedy. And what a wonderful, nuanced story! Thanks, Simon.
Jim| 4.27.12 @ 3:10PM
It really is simple - the race baiters are giving blacks a free pass. All this will do is incite hatred toward blacks, causing a self-fulfilling prophecy when white people get sick of it and lash out. And the race baiters, Obama, Holder, Sharpton and the other idiots will be to blame. This is no accident, they are not stupid. They just thought it would be pay back, but instead they are killing all the racial progress that has been made. White guilt has been used up.
matt hill| 5.1.12 @ 12:39PM
Who the hell cares if it is a "monumental injustice" when the victim is a white guy getting bashed... Go all the way back to Reginald Denny when those high melanin content folks bashed his head with a cement brick -- on camera.. and weren't tried with "hate crime".. You white folk just gotta just learn to not commit those "thought crimes" because that law ONLY applies to you.. (or maybe if yer hispanic and white and "look" white too). For blacks.. hey anything goes.