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Ashley Parker, the sister of beaten man Matthew Owens, called to politely correct the record on some things I reported yesterday. Note that these are all in the “he said/she said” category, meaning I was careful not to report these things as facts in the first place, but as the reports from several witnesses. That said, Ms. Parker said that the incident reported by one neighbor, a supposedly racially charged confrontation two days before the beating, did not involve her brother but instead involved a neighbor. She also said, despite some speculation to the contrary, that her brother had not been drinking that day, had not drunk anything in quite some time, and had no alcohol in his blood when he was taken to the hospital after the beating.
The good news is that Mr. Owens, while still not feeling great, is feeling far better than he felt when he was readmitted to the hospital yesterday.
The police continue to diligently re-interview people to try to get a better sense of what happened. I need to make another thing clear: I do not think the police are failing to take this case seriously. I said I suspect “a bit of a cover-up” because of the repeated official statements that race played no role in the incident. In other words, the part being covered up is the nature of the attack — one which is neither entirely racial (by any means) nor completely devoid of racial animus. The important thing is not to over-emphasize the racial part of this, but to put the whole thing in context, learn from it — and help figure out who did what and by what motives, which is always a consideration in deciding whether to press charges for a crime.
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Ironman| 5.1.12 @ 7:43PM
Not to distract from your reporting, Mr. H., but the whole appalling scene would be much bettered if everyone sat down and read William Faulkner's Light in August -- or for that matter, anything by William Faulkner. Barring that - does anyone know how to read today, even you, Quin Hillyer? -- , you could encourage your neighbors in Mobile to at least view the original In the Heat of the Night with S. Poitier.
Bob Grant| 5.1.12 @ 8:35PM
Yes,
If I'm ever in the process of having my head bashed in by several dozen feral thugs while leaving some downtown festival, I'll gently toss them a DVD of In the Heat of the Night.
Is that like using smoke on bees?
Crassus| 5.1.12 @ 9:54PM
Better make it Erskine Caldwell, Ironman.
alyans | 5.1.12 @ 7:45PM
alyans
C Bowen | 5.1.12 @ 7:51PM
Is Quin walking back?
A guy who backed multiple trillion dollar debt financed wars based on 'they hate us for our freedoms' is walking this back?
C Bowen | 5.1.12 @ 8:17PM
Here is another story:
http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.n.....brambleton
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 5.2.12 @ 7:32AM
Get a gun .
JohnD| 5.2.12 @ 8:13AM
Way ahead of you
All American American| 5.2.12 @ 8:08AM
The po-po are "re-interviewing" witnesses huh? And tomorrow they'll re-re-interview more folks, then the day after that they'll re-re-re-interview folks.
This is the classic gubmint response of when you need to "do something" but you don't want to do what needs to be done, you just keep shuffling papers, so to speak, to look busy and/or like you care. They'll keep re-re-re-re-re-re-re-interviewing the same people over and over until the media just finally drops the whole thing. And since apparently Hillyer's the only "media" in America who seems to half-way care, it prolly won't take that long.
Mike W| 5.2.12 @ 11:02AM
Perhaps this blogger is walking his story back. After all, this is supposedly a leading conservative website, but it let the liberal main stream media spew lies about Zimmerman/Martin for weeks before any blogger even mentioned this affair.
As another poster has stated, check out the Norfolk atrocity and the media cover-up.
Oldefarte| 5.2.12 @ 12:10PM
First, let me state that I hope that THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR POLICE do not issue warrants for my arrest of NOT PARAGRAPHING this comment [as the political correctness of same in comparison to the mindless BS commentary that is sometime evident here is asinine and ludicrous indeed]. That said, this situation is definately of the 'HE SAID' variety, since again the only reliable witnesses [not directly involved in this beatdown] either were not in a visable position to accurately describe events to police or are too afraid to RAT-OUT the neighborhood thugs. The police are in an awkard position thus, and obviously can't charge anyone without same. Again, it is and should be up to any/all neighbor-witnesses in this situation with adequate guts-courage to step forward and do the right thing. These people KNOW who/what/where/how events transpired and should describe same to the police [anomously if possible]. Again, this is ANIMALISM 101 [not unrelated to the five Colorado OWS hoodlums arrested for plotting to blow up a bridge]. Same church....different pew [uh ph, gotta run....TAS police are knocking at my door]!!!!!!!!!
FeFe| 5.2.12 @ 1:21PM
The Daily Caller interview with the sister made it sound like a slow moving "flash mob" confronted with a shoo. The footpath traffic and access patterns for the street are limited. Which direction were the youth moving and which direction did they disperse to? Can you walk the creek? At that time of night, one would think the youths were returning from a group activity. Ambling path from the bus stop or local hangout at the strip mall? (Any pattern to local crime at the surrounding auto lots, motel or tool shops?)
And 3-4 cars... I wonder if the home the one arrested attacker was residing in with the woman who defamed the victim on camera has established a rental residence in her backyard, or a close neighbor.
Don't get me twisted but it brings me back to compound patrols in Iraq.
Jerry Kane | 5.4.12 @ 9:03AM
Man up, Quin. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.--Winston Churchill