Anybody Wanna Tell Me WHY
…this…
Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child.
Investigators were struggling to piece together what happened Tuesday when David Rivas Morales died defending the driver from members of a crowd. There could have been anywhere from two to 20 attackers, Austin Police Commander Harold Piatt said.
The car in which Morales, 40, was a passenger had entered an apartment complex’s parking lot when it struck a 2-year-old boy, Piatt said. The boy was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver got out of the car to check on the child and was confronted by several people, Piatt said. When they attacked the driver, Morales got out of the car to protect the driver and was attacked as well. Police said no guns or knives were used.
…didn’t make either ABC’s World News Tonight or NewsHour last night?
I can guess why, but, being blonde and all, I need positive reinforcement.
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June 21, 2007 11:16 am
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Because no blondes were involved?
Precisely!
It’s not an opportunity to speak Truth to Power. As such, why would anybody want to know about it?
Two thoughts:
Because everything is “for the children,” maybe there are those who feel the guy got what he deserved, for bumping a “baby” with his car. Even though it was apparently an accident. (I think that is unlikely, what is more likely is…)
if it was a skinhead group that killed some motorist for bumping a skinhead baby – or even if it was, say, the Scandinavian-American League in Minnesota involved in this – it’d be all over the news.
People look for proof of what they want to believe, promote those stories, and disregard the rest.
where was the baby’s mother while a 2 year old baby was wandering the streets?
People will be unwilling to come forward for the same reason that these individuals think it is ok to take someones life. This very same thing happened in Chicago. The only difference is that someone did come forward. Don’t loose faith in our law enforcement agencies they have ways of not totally telling everything they already know. I have faith that out of all the individuals that witnessed this crime someone will have a have the courage to stand up and say hey this is wrong.
And did they beat the person who was supposed to be watching that child. Why was that child in the street. Why beat the passenger to death, this is very weird. Not a neighborhood I want anything to do with.
Believe me ricki, as a member of the German-Irish-Italian-American League in Minnesota, if it had been those damned Scandinavians I’d be all over this.
Kidding aside, I’d like to know a few more things. The article says they are trying to track down members of an angry mob, then it says a witness says 3 or 4 people attacked him. Not that it matters to the victim, but there’s a difference between a lynch mob and 3 or 4 dumbasses.
Dee, it doesn’t matter whether it was 3 or 4 dumbasses or a mob. What matters is that an accident happened because who ever was tending to the child wasn’t watching very well. As for the driver he also was careless for not keeping an eye out for children who may have been playing. But unlike so many people where I live (we’ve had 4 hit and run accidents in which the victim was left dying in the roadway in just over 3 weeks) this driver stopped to check on the child, when he was attacked his passenger came to his rescue only to have the attackers turn on him and then the cowardly driver runs and leaves him..What I want to know is what is happening to our society? Where is our compassion for others. Why does it seem so many are willing beat the shit out of someone for any reason. Road rage is a perfect example of people getting hurt. So if ANYONE out there can tell me why our society is rapidly going to hell I would love to hear from them.
I have severasl problems/observations with what occured.
1) As mentioned before, where was the childs mother and/or father? Parents need to take responsibility for the safety of their children, espically in a public setting.
2) If there were a group of about 20 and only 3 or 4 were doing the beating, why wasn’t any assistants given to David by the onlookers? Have we come this far from doing the right thing?
3) It would make no difference to me what ethnic back ground a person comes from, but if I were a police officer, I would not been worried so much about crowd control as I would have about someone who was injured. I would never delay the medical personel from reaching this man because of the crowd.
Just my opinion.
I personally think that the person(s) “caring” for the child should have been knocked upside the head – circumstances are unknown and the kid could have run out into the road into/in front of the car. It would be hard to see a two foot (or less) tall person over the dash and hood.
As for what’s wrong with our society, it’s sad but simple. Most people are only out for themselves and don’t care about anyone else outside of their own little bubble. There are very few people left in the world who care beyond themselves and their bubble. Parents, raise your kids with some morals and goodness.
uh maybe I’m jumping to conclusions when a black mob beats a latino man to death. Surely race had nothing to with it right?
Hum…….being a foster parent, where the world were the parents of this child!!!!!! HOW is it a man is beat to death, when PARENTS are clearly at fault! Had the parents been responsible, that child would have NEVER been there and the accident would not of happened! I don’t get the lesson is this one, that a man had to be KILLED to get the attention of the irresponsible parents! Let’s see, what is going to happen with the parents? What is their long term consequence ???
I think it is time that mexicans and latinos
should unite to be as strong as others.
The parents of the two year were probably smoking crack and probably had a habit of leaving their child unattended. Now that David is dead their will be no one to watch over the other children who play in the parking lot. If now after what happened the parking lot should be off limits to other children to play in.
Thank you all for your comments and a warm Swill welcome to you! You’re all so right on many accounts. For SURE there is no way a 2 year old should be careening around a parking lot unattended ~ which, by it’s very name, implies CARS moving in and out to PARK. But, not knowing any better, let’s say the little guy shot out from a grassy area or screen door. (Little guys are like greased eels ~ they’ll slip out before you can blink.) ACCIDENTS like that happen and usually end far more tragically. To his credit, this driver stopped immediately and THERE’S where the truly unforgivable thing happened. He wasn’t running. No one had to throw their body in front of his vehicle to prevent him fleeing the scene. He did the responsible thing and was attacked. His friend did the responsible thing attempting to help and paid for it with his life.
Accidents happen in the best of circumstances. No one should expect to die if they then respond in the appropriate and responsible fashion. And someone should have the courage to come forward and nail these murderous bastards ~ black, green, purple, red, white, whatEVER color doesn’t matter ~ to the wall for what they did.
Let me guess….this happened in a black neighborhood?
Ok,I heard clairifaction from an Austin policman, after CBS and assorted networks tried to connect this incident with Junteenth holiday. The Austin officer said the incident and junteenth weren’t related, I resent, for any reason, media covering this as if Junteenth was a contributing factor to this crime. A child was struck by a car, a man was assaulted and killed, by multiple assailents.This is the tragic crime. We have no more imformation. My family and I enjoyed a wonderful Junteenth 3 day festival. The majority of Americans don’t even know what Junteenth represents and for me it’s more of a holiday then the 4th of July. Let’s not miseducate the public by connecting murder and Junteenth. No one need sthis fear spreading/hate mongering kind of reporting.
Was he (Martinez) legal or illegal resident of this country (USA)?
Sorry. I meant Morales.
To nebraskalady, and anyone else wondering the same thing about the secure scene, the officers were not worried about crowd control by keeping the EMS away, they were worried about the safety of the EMT’s. Being an EMT myself, I cannot tell you the number of times I have been attacked, and shot at having responded to a scene that is not secured. It was a necessary move for the safety of the rescuers. It sucks, but unfortunately it is the society we live in. The man that died was just coming to help, and they attacked him, what is to say they wouldn’t attack anyone else.
This just blows my mind that this kind of crap still goes on. And the media doesn’t really cover this story because they don’t want to send the wrong message. We need to stop being so PC about everything and tell it how it is. I’m sure the Jackass Duo Sharpton and Jackson will down there soon enough saying the black Americans are being picked on, blah blah blah. Bunch of cry babies, I wish the BLACK AMERICANS would finally get their shit together and stop using everything past and present as a crutch!!!!
Just more proof you can take the savage out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the savage! Also, don’t forget about the savsges in Tennesse! Something is wrong with this country, I do not want to point any fingers (maybe one), but we all know what it is.
If, by savages in TN, you mean the suspects in these murders, there’s been an awful lot of horrific MISinformation being spreadas gospel about these brutal murders. (I link to that article to correct some of what you’ve probably heard.) Yes, the suspects are black and the crime unimaginable even in their truncated version. But here in Pensacola, we have lily white savages and THIS version of the crime is from the Florida Supreme Court’s ANSWER BRIEF OF APPELLEE.
There’s no need to sling racist ‘jungle’ analogies around. Evil doesn’t know color.
And they’ve just given Rodgers the death penalty…again