Texas crowd kills man after car hit girl

[LiberalNation]

Now here's a way to over-react.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/...BH3pJwIrBvzwcF

AUSTIN, Texas - An angry crowd beat a man to death after a vehicle he was riding in struck and injured a young girl, police said Wednesday.

Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night.

The driver had stopped to check on the little girl at the entrance to an apartment complex when a group of men attacked him, authorities said. The passenger, David Rivas Morales, 40, got out to try to help the driver, but the crowd turned on him, said police Commander Harold Piatt.

Morales was beaten to death by as many as 20 men and left lying in a parking lot, Piatt said. A preliminary autopsy listed blunt force trauma as the cause of death.

The little girl, 3 or 4 years old, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The driver, who got away from the crowd, is cooperating with investigators, police said.

Piatt did not know how many witnesses had been identified, but thousands of people had been in the area for the daylong festival. He said no guns or knives appeared to have used in the fatal attack.

Juneteenth marks the day Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in 1865 to share news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863.

[-Cp]

Well that's what you get for hurting a kid in Texas! I love it

[LiberalNation]

It was an accident, the guy wasn't even responsible. He was in the passengers seat, they had no justification for killing him.

[Guernicaa]

Niiiiiiccccceeeee...

We can only expect this heinous act from fucking retarded/uneducated/right wing southern trash.

...and they try and call Islam bad.

[darin]

Niiiiiiccccceeeee...

We can only expect this heinous act from fucking retarded/uneducated/right wing southern trash.

...and they try and call Islam bad.

2000 killing 1 person vs. 12 killing 3000.

Your comparisons are fucking retarded and uneducated.

[Rahul]

Now here's a way to over-react.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/...BH3pJwIrBvzwcF

Overreacting is right. This is just plain stupid. Reminds me of villages in the Third World (and, some of the cities where people have the 'village mentality'); when someone is spotted stealing, for instance, the person who catches the thief decides not to notify the police. Instead, a crowd gathers on the spot and starts to beat the thief up. . .

And this is Austin,TX we are referring to in this case; hardly what one would consider to be a village. . .

[Dilloduck]

Overreacting is right. This is just plain stupid. Reminds me of villages in the Third World (and, some of the cities where people have the 'village mentality'); when someone is spotted stealing, for instance, the person who catches the thief decides not to notify the police. Instead, a crowd gathers on the spot and starts to beat the thief up. . .

And this is Austin,TX we are referring to in this case; hardly what one would consider to be a village. . .

You ain't seen nothin yet--wait until the real social wars begin.

[Hagbard Celine]

You ain't seen nothin yet--wait until the real social wars begin.

I'll fly a blue flag right under this one

[darin]

seeing OTHER Juneteenth "Celebrations" on the news, I wonder if this too was a case of a 'race' of people rioting for no good reason?

[Black Lance]

You ain't seen nothin yet--wait until the real social wars begin.

Social wars between whom?

I hope that whoever did this is held responsible and prosecuted. I am willing to give a wide berth to a citizens right to self-defense, but there was no self-defense involved here. There was just anger over an accident happening, and anger alone can't be considered a justification for crime.

[nevadamedic]

Well that's what you get for hurting a kid in Texas! I love it

They guys were probably illegal anyways.

[nevadamedic]

It was an accident, the guy wasn't even responsible. He was in the passengers seat, they had no justification for killing him.

It said the passenger got out to try and help the driver which probably means he got out trying to act like a tough guy and got schooled plain and simple.

[Hagbard Celine]

It said the passenger got out to try and help the driver which probably means he got out trying to act like a tough guy and got schooled plain and simple.

Bottom line: They didn't deserve to die and the murderers who murdered them should be tried and sent to prison for manslaughter.

[Abbey Marie]

Niiiiiiccccceeeee...

We can only expect this heinous act from fucking retarded/uneducated/right wing southern trash.

...and they try and call Islam bad.

Wow. Posts like this make you sound extremely bigoted. Juneteenth, the celebration where this occured, is an African American celebration. I'm anxious to see if you want to call the black folks right wing southern trash.
I'll wait...

[Abbey Marie]

Well that's what you get for hurting a kid in Texas! I love it

You're joking, right?