It was three days after their third wedding anniversary, and TC was walking home alone from an evening with friends. They had attended a Nationals game and gathered afterward for drinks at Tune Inn, a Capitol Hill bar.
As he crossed a park near Eastern Market just after midnight, three men approached him and demanded money. He handed over his iPhone and bank card, but as he did so, one of the men came up from behind with an aluminum bat.
Tommy Branch, 23, of Fort Washington called the bat his “Barry Bonds,” according to detectives. With a two-fisted grip, Branch wound up and swung so hard that TC’s skull shattered, an optic nerve was severed and he was left with a dent across the left side of his head.He was found eight hours later on a front porch a few blocks from home, unconscious and bleeding internally where pieces of his skull had sliced into his brain.
The gray beyond: A family copes after tragedy – The Washington Post
Obama’s primary concern is that Tommy doesn’t get discriminated against looking for a job when he gets out of jail. Obama believes that it is unfair that blacks get arrested more than whites. Obama also believes that it is a good thing that Maslin didn’t have a gun, because otherwise a black person might have gotten shot.
Eric Holder forgot to file hate crime charges, because the victim was white.
And NBC forgot to cover it at all, because they couldn’t figure out any way to cut and paste the evidence to make Maslin look like a racist.
I’ll bet there are another 20-50 stories like this one in just the last year
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This is terrible what happened to this man but it’s something that’s repeated hundreds if not thousands of times every day to a person of NON african descent by a member of the black community. obama is only for the blacks..not the rest of us. i think he’s going to do anything he can to further the divide between the races with the remainder of his time in office. George W.Bush was better than him..
“George W.Bush was better than him..”
I get the impression this was a painful admission.
There’s a hell of a lot more than 50 stories like this one in the last year. Read “White Girl Bleed A Lot” by Colin Flaherty.
You’re lying, Steve. Wharton grads don’t pull these kind of stunts. They’re civilized!http://www.cashill.com/index.htm
One more reason to stay out of the city. I was speaking with a neighbor of mine who was born and raised in the small town nearby. In the past 11 years that I have lived in this county, there has been ONE murder, a mentally ill son killed his father.
That’s it! One murder in over a decade. But twenty miles, as the crow flies, from here there are multiple murders every single day. Can you figure out the demographics?
How many guesses do we get?
Nevermind, after reading this: http://www.ronunz.org/2013/07/20/race-and-crime-in-america/
I don’t need to guess.
Are you telling me that this innocent man went to prison for confiscating an iAssault iPhone?
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NBC did cover this incident. Perhaps you meant MSNBC?
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Police-Seeking-Help-Identifying-Car-Involved-in-Beating-167710105.html
Note all the detail in that local affiliate NBC story about the race of the victim and perps. Why, it’s identical to NBC coverage of the Martin/Zimmerman matter!!! Steve’s obviously way off base here, Gina.
Yeah, they’re totally hiding the race of the victims and perps
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Attacker-Convicted-in-Capitol-Hill-Beating-Trial-205653651.html
I’m still missing the discussion of and emphasis on race here. Did you see a mention of race in the article? Has the story gone national and been used by Mr. Holder and Mr. Obama to start a national dialog on race? You show two clips from a local affiliate, one at the time of the crime and one at the trial and find equivalence to the coverage of the Martin case?
Yes Gina, Obama is organizing a massive march for Maslin justice today!
Disgraceful. Well done Steve for digging this stuff up. So true. So tragic. Needs to be circulated, recognised, discussed and remedied. Cheers
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Disgraceful. Well done Steve for digging this stuff up. So true. So tragic. Needs to be circulated, recognised, discussed and remedied. Cheers
A work colleague here in London was mugged near Waterloo where Kevin Spacey has something to do with the old/Young Vic anyhow the assailant (usual suspect) for no reason after robbing her punced her in the face bare fisted causing permanent damage to her sinuses. This people are bestial at best, their omly mantra seems to be aggression, crime and pure self gratification and I’m talking white and black the difference is the minority of the black community only witters on about racists crime where the bulk white community is concerned with all crimes and all victims.
Personally here in the UK you could take a couple of old super tankers fill them with at least a hundred thousand scum and shite and then sink them in the north Atlantic . Once there they can give something back to the community bro ..yeah as fish and crab food.
Meanwhile back in old Blighty people will be walking around trying to put their finger on why life is so much better and why they pay less taxes.
What did old Louis sing…? Ah ..yes.
What a Wonderfull World……Oh Yeah
If you don’t carry a gun, at least in your vehicle….you’re a fool.