Study: Blacks Commit 90 Percent of Interracial Crime Report to be released at press conference
When: Wednesday, June 2, 10 a.m.
Where: National Press Club, 14th and F streets, N.W. 13th Floor, West Room Washington, D.C.
Details: African-Americans commit 90 percent of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial crimes of violence that occur every year in the United States, and are more than 50 times more likely to commit violent crime against whites than vice versa.
Blacks are so much more likely than Americans of other races to commit crimes that police may be justified in stopping and questioning them more frequently -- just as they stop men more often than women and young people more often than old people.
These are some of the controversial findings of a new think tank report based on extensive cross-analysis of government crime statistics. The report will be released at a news conference on Wednesday, June 2.
The report finds that Asians consistently commit the smallest number of crimes, followed by whites, Hispanics commit violent crime at approximately three times the white rate, and blacks are five to eight times more violent.
In one of its most startling conclusions, the report finds that blacks are as much more likely to commit violent crimes than whites as men are more likely to commit violent crimes than women. This leads to the widely criticized practice of "racial profiling," in which police question blacks more frequently than whites.
The study also finds there is more black-on-white than black-on- black crime. When blacks commit violent crime, they target whites slightly more than half the time. When whites commit violence they target blacks 2 to 3 percent of the time.
Blacks are also twice as likely as whites to commit hate crimes.
Jared Taylor, author of the report, is an internationally- trained economist and crime expert. He will present the report at the press conference.
New Century Foundation, which sponsored the report, is a non-profit organization based in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Oakton, Va.
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The Race War of Black Against White
by Paul Sheehan from the Sydney Morning Herald May 20, 1995
The longest war America has ever fought is the Dirty War, and it is not over. It has lasted 30 years so far and claimed more than 25 million victims. It has cost almost as many lives as the Vietnam War. It determined the result of last year’s congressional election. Yet the American news media do not want to talk about the Dirty War, which remains between the lines and unreported. In fact, to even suggest that the war exists is to be discredited. So let’s start suggesting, immediately.
No matter how the crime figures are massaged by those who want to acknowledge or dispute the existence of a Dirty War, there is nothing ambiguous about what the official statistics portray: for the past 30 years a large segment of black America has waged a war of violent retribution against white America. And the problem is getting worse, not better. In the past 20 years, violent crime has increased more than four times faster than the population. Young blacks (under 18) are more violent than previous generations and are 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than young whites. Nearly all the following figures, which speak for themselves, have not been reported in America:
* According to the latest US Department of Justice survey of crime victims, more than 6.6 million violent crimes (murder, rape, assault and robbery) are committed in the US each year, of which about 20 per cent, or 1.3 million, are inter-racial crimes.
* Most victims of race crime - about 90 per cent - are white, according to the survey "Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims", published in 1993.
* Almost 1 million white Americans were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by black Americans in 1992, compared with about 132,000 blacks who were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by whites, according to the same survey.
* Blacks thus committed 7.5 times more violent inter-racial crimes than whites even though the black population is only one-seventh the size of the white population. When these figures are adjusted on a per capita basis, they reveal an extraordinary disparity: blacks are committing more than 50 times the number of violent racial crimes of whites.
* According to the latest annual report on murder by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, most inter-racial murders involve black assailants and white victims, with blacks murdering whites at 18 times the rate that whites murder blacks.
These breathtaking disparities began to emerge in the mid-1960’s, when there was a sharp increase in black crime against whites, an upsurge which, not coincidentally, corresponds exactly with the beginning of the modern civil rights movement. Over time, the cumulative effect has been staggering. Justice Department and FBI statistics indicate that between 1964 and 1994 more than 25 million violent inter-racial crimes were committed, overwhelmingly involving black offenders and white victims, and more than 45,000 people were killed in inter-racial murders. By comparisons 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam, and 34,000 were killed in the Korean war.When non-violent crimes (burglary, larceny, car theft and personal theft) are included, the cumulative totals become prodigious. The Bureau of Justice Statistics says 27 million non-violent crimes were committed in the US in 1992, and the survey found that 31 per cent of the robberies involved black offenders and white victims (while only 2 per cent in the reverse).
When all the crime figures are calculated, it appears that black Americans have committed at least 170 million crimes against white Americans in the past 30 years. It is the great defining disaster of American life and American ideals since World War II. All these are facts, yet by simply writing this story, by assembling the facts in this way, I would be deemed a racist by the American news media. It prefers to maintain a paternalistic double-standard in its coverage of black America, a lower standard.
Next: A Glossary of Black on White Crime: Racially Motivated Crimes Committed by Blacks
Compiled by James P. Lubinskas
Everyone has heard of the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas. The following crimes, committed by blacks, are considerably less well known.
Caffey, Fedell; Ward, Levern; and Williams, Jacqueline –Three blacks from the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg killed a white woman, Debra Evans, who was pregnant with a mulatto child, because Miss Williams wanted a “light-skinned” baby. They cut open Miss Evans and took the baby, who lived. They then killed two of Miss Evans’ other children, Samantha, 10 and Joshua, 7, who were white. (Dan Rozek, “DuPage Jury Told of Murder Plot,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 12, 1998, p.8.)
Esau, Eli Clean – He was one of five black men charged with raping a white teenager in a Pulaski County (Arkansas) Jail. The five blindfolded the victim and forced him to perform oral sex on them. At least one of them raped him anally. A prosecutor noted that the blacks were “bragging that they were pimping this white guy.” (Elizabeth Caldwell, “LR Teen Pleads Guilty to Jail Rape,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, August 19, 1993.)
Evans, Edward –This black man shot and killed an aide to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) in 1992 on the streets of Washington DC. One of Mr. Evan’s friends said he “bore a grudge” against white people and had vowed to kill one. Despite overwhelming evidence a lone black juror refused to vote for conviction, resulting in a hung jury. (“Race-Conscious Juries Free Killers,” Middle American News, February 1996.)
Fareed, Maurice –On May 24, 1996, Maurice Fareed, 24, killed a white delivery man and a white policeman in Dayton, Ohio because of his anger at whites. According to his mother, “. . . the last couple of days he said there wasn’t no hope and that white people were going to keep black people in slavery.” Police killed Mr. Fareed in a shoot-out. (Reuters, May 24, 1996)
Ferguson, Colin – This 35-year-old immigrant from Jamaica shot and killed six people–all white or Asian–on a Long island commuter train in December, 1993. Mr. Ferguson left notes blaming whites and Asians for his problems. (James Barron, “Portrait of Suspect Emerges in Shooting on L.I. Train,” New York Times, December 9, 1993, p. A1.)
Gang of Blacks–A dozen black teenagers went looking for a fight with whites in the Tampa area in May 1990. They found a fight and were trounced by the whites. They later returned with reinforcements and found a few of their opponents in a parking lot. They beat the unarmed whites with clubs. Most escaped but the blacks cornered one white and beat him to death with a two-by-four. A witness told police the blacks were yelling with each blow: “Don’t ever fuck with us again!” (Rex Henderson, “Beating Death of White Raises Racial Tension,” Tampa Tribune, May 20, 1990, p. B1.)
Gilmore, Danny–A 23-year-old white man got lost driving in a black neighborhood in Cleveland. He got into a minor traffic accident and a gang of blacks attacked him while he was waiting for the police. One beat him with a beer bottle and he collapsed in the street. A black got into Mr. Gilmore’s truck and repeatedly ran it over his body. Mr. Gilmore was with two friends who were black, who both escaped unharmed. According to a Cleveland homicide detective, “The mayor’s office does not want us to have racial killings in this town, so Danny Gilmore’s death wasn’t a racial crime. And I’m the tooth fairy.” (Ted Joy, “Danny Gilmore, RIP,” The Quill, May 1989, pp. 21-27.)
Harris, Joseph – A black postal worker in New Jersey who had been fired, shot and killed three whites and slashed another to get revenge against the “white-dominated postal hierarchy.” He was convicted of murder. (Thomas Zambito, “Guilty: Former Postal Worker Was Sane When He Murdered Four, Jury Finds,” The Record (Bergen, New Jersey), December 8, 1995, p. A1.)
Herbert, Robert –In January, 1991, Robert Herbert and three other black men made a pact to kill the first white person they saw walking down their street in Boston. Mark Belmore, a white student at Northeastern University was the unlucky man. The three blacks stabbed him to death. (Mike Barnacle, “A Double Standard For Race Crimes?”
Knapp, Troy – A dozen black high school students beat this 35-year-old white man into a coma in late 1999. The blacks were on their way home from a high school dance at North Charleston (SC) High School when one was heard saying, “Yeah, we’re going to get us a white boy.” Police arrested seven people and charged them with second-degree lynching. (Herb Frazier, “Police Charge Seven Suspects in North Charleston Beating,” Post and Courier (Charleston), October 19, 1999.)
McCray, Terrence, and Lawrence, Ledell – These two black men decided to attack the next white they saw walking down their street in Jacksonville, Florida. Gregory Griffith, a retarded man, was the hapless victim. The two beat and stomped him unconscious; he died ten days later. (“Police: Murder of Handicapped White Man Racially Motivated,” Tampa Tribune, September 4, 1999.)
Asbury Park Press, March 7, 1991, p. A21.)
McCree, Clifford –A 41-year-old black man who had just lost his job, shot and killed five whites and himself in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A suicide note blamed whites for “economic lynching” and said, “I also wanted to punish some of the cowardly, racist devils . . . .” Mr. McCree had been fired because he kept failing drug tests and threatening co-workers. (Paul Carson, “Florida Gunman Wanted to Punish ‘Racist Devils’,” Reuters, February 10, 1996.)
McLauchlin, Melissa –A group of Charleston, South Carolina blacks abducted, gang-raped, tortured, and shot 25-year-old Miss McLauchlin and left her to die. They said they wanted to “get a white girl” in revenge for “four hundred years of oppression.” Miss McLauchlin was found still alive along a rural highway but died from her wounds. (G.J. Krupey, “Black Hate Crimes,” Heterodoxy, February 1996, p.1.)
Riddick, Gregory –Blacks in Kenosha, Wisconsin who had just seen the 1989 film Mississippi Burning about KKK atrocities attacked and beat 14-year-old Gregory Riddick. The group’s leaders, Todd Mitchell, told police they were “hyped up” after the film and wanted to “get some white people.” Mr. Mitchell received a four-year jail sentence. Mr. Riddick was left with permanent brain damage. (G.J. Krupey, “Black Hate Crimes,” Heterodoxy, February 1996, p.1.)
Rosenbaum, Yankel – About 20 blacks surrounded a Rabbinical student and stabbed him to death as they chanted “Kill the Jew.” The murder took place during the Crown Heights, New York, Riots of 1991. Blacks attacked and beat many other whites, including journalist Jimmy Breslin. (Jimmy Breslin, “It’s Not Simply Blacks vs. Jews,” Newsday (New York) September 3, 1991, p. 2.)
Twenty-five-year old white woman–A black man held a gun on a white New York City television producer and raped, beat, and sodomized her. During the attack the man shouted racial curses at her. Police did not classify the attack as a bias crime. (Murray Weiss, Don Kaplan, Paula Doneman, and Cathy Burke, “Cops Fume Over Lousy Video Of 6th Street Ave. Rapist,” New York Post, December 22, 1999.)
Wagner, Jerry – This 21-year-old black was charged for stabbing five whites in Chicago. He used a steak knife and an ice pick to attack five whites at random. He said he heard a voice that told him to kill white people and he yelled racial profanities as he stabbed his victims. (Phillip O’Connor, “Man is Charged in 5 Stabbing; Cops Say Incidents ‘Hate-Related’,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 17, 1997, p. 16.)
Westerman, Michael –On January 14, 1995, a carload of blacks shot and killed this 19-year-old from Guthrie, Kentucky, because he was flying a Confederate flag from his pickup truck. Two 18-year-old blacks were sentenced to life in prison for the murder. Mr. Westerman and his wife were on their way to celebrate the birth of their son. (G.J. Krupey, “Black Hate Crimes,” Heterodoxy, February 1996, p.1.)
Whitener, Michael – This 19-year-old black man admitted to shooting “the first whites to show up in the area,” in retaliation for an earlier shooting of a black man by a white policeman in Goshen, Indiana. He shot and killed Mark Elkins as he was sitting in a parked car. He shot and wounded another white man, who survived. (“105 Years Imposed in Murder,” Elkhart Truth (Indiana), April 18, 1996.)
White teacher–In 1997, a six-foot-tall black eighth grader attacked a white school teacher in her mid-40s with a claw hammer. He shouted “white bitch” as he shattered her eye socket and cheek bone. He was angry because she had threatened him with suspension for misbehavior. Some of her other black students knew about the planned attack but did not warn her. (John Kass, “Violent Kid Ends Teachers Dream–But He Had Help,” Chicago Tribune, July 22, 1997.)
Will, Richard – Black gang members beat and burned to death this 32-year-old white man in Chicago. Two black police officers had stopped him because of a broken tail light. When they discovered he had no license they towed his car. Mr. Will pleaded with the officers for a ride away from what he knew was a dangerous neighborhood but they refused. Wardell McClain and Michael Armstrong found him and burned him to death. (Michelle Campbell and Phillip O’Connor, “Friend Says Slain Man Had Begged For a Ride,” Chicago Sun-Times, October 28, 1995, p. 3.)
Yahweh Cult–Hulon Mitchell of the Miami-based Yahweh-ben-Yahweh cult ordered the murder of at least seven whites from 1986 to 1990. Mr. Mitchell taught his followers that whites were literally “The Devil.” He showed them videos of white women having sex with blacks and animals to “prove the lustful nature of whites.” Members had to bring back the fingers or ears of whites they had murdered to get credit with a kill.(Donna Gehrke, “ ‘I Felt Power’ While Slaying 6 People, Former Yahweh ‘Death Angel’ Testifies,” Miami Herald, January 30, 1992, p. 1A.)
"Zebra" Killings”–The worst racially-motivated serial killings in American history occurred from 1973 to1975 in the San Francisco Bay area. At least seven members of the Nation of Islam killed at least 78 whites. Some of the murderers have still not been caught. (Clark Howard, Zebra, Richard Marek Publishers, 1979.)
Zeleke, Negusse – In 1999, an Ethiopian immigrant went on a shooting spree at the Kansas City airport, killing two white co-workers and himself. Mr. Zeleke left a suicide note blaming “black blood sucker supreme white people,” for his problems. (“Mo. Killer Complained of Racism,” AP, Nov. 22, 1999.)
Next:(From Horowitz's FRONT PAGE magazine, Justice Dept. figures) Regarding the "profiling issue", I think if the full facts of inter-racial crime was known to the general public, people would be clamoring for it, not against it. In response to a white-on-black killing in Brooklyn a few years ago, an infuriated Al Sharpton instantly took to the airwaves and proclaimed that such attacks constituted "a national epidemic."
At the 1996 Million Man March, an impassioned Jesse Jackson thundered to his huge black audience, "We're despised. . . . We're attacked for sport."
The Reverend Herbert Daughtry of New York asserts that white violence against blacks has rendered the latter "a hunted and endangered species."
Mary Frances Berry, who chairs the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, attributes white-on-black violence to white people's persistent "belief in the inferiority of blacks."
Ivy League professor and activist Cornel West calls African Americans our country's "exemplary targets of racial hatred."
Given their outspokenness on the subject of interracial crime, it is indeed noteworthy that none of the aforementioned individuals, nor any other prominent civil rights spokesman in the country, for that matter, has had even a word to say about the recent Fat Tuesday riot that erupted in Seattle. In the mayhem that occurred there, three-fourths of the rioters were black, and many of them deliberately targeted white victims for purely racial reasons. One witness, for instance, said she observed several incidents where groups of black men singled out and assaulted whites, in one case punctuating their attack with shouts of "That's what you stupid white people get."
In the most notorious attack, a twenty-year-old white man named Kristopher Kime was clubbed in the back of the head as he tried to help an injured female victim who was lying on the road. The force of the blow to Kime's head sent him tumbling onto the pavement, where he was kicked and stomped to death by several black men. Notwithstanding the brutal nature of this attack and others, we have heard not even a whisper of protest from our purported guardians of "civil rights."
We have heard them utter not even a syllable lamenting the tragic fact that innocent people were set upon for no reason other than their skin color. Presumably, these watchdogs of racism are all busy attending to matters more pressing. Sharpton, for one, is in Florida fighting to protect the civil rights of a black youngster who was recently sentenced to life-in-prison for the unspeakably barbaric murder and mutilation of a six-year-old girl. If the awful fate that befell Kristopher Kime were rare, perhaps the subsequent silence of our self-anointed civil rights defenders could be excused. After all, rational people understand that busy social critics are under no obligation to publicly denounce every misguided, bigoted lunatic who happens to do something wicked. Yet such attacks are by no means rare, but in fact are alarmingly commonplace.
Each year, some 1.2 million violent crimes involving blacks and whites occur nationwide. In fully 90 percent of those cases, according to U.S. Justice Department figures, the perpetrators are black and the victims are white. Violent white felons choose black victims for fewer than 3 percent of their attacks, whereas violent black felons choose white victims about 56 percent of the time. Statistically, the "average" African American is an astonishing 56 times more likely to attack a white than vice versa. In one recent year, approximately 100 black women were raped by white men; the corresponding number of white women raped by black men was over 20,000, according to Dinesh D’Souza in The End of Racism.
These numbers are staggering. If America were teeming with white racism, surely the perpetrators of interracial crime would be disproportionately white. Clearly, however, that is not at all the case.
Though contemporary civil rights leaders strive to portray white-on-black crime as commonplace, their rhetoric rings pathetically hollow. With tortured faces and ostensibly anguished hearts, they will seek out any microphone or news reporter willing to publicize their lamentations about even the rarest instances of white racism in action. Meanwhile, they turn a deaf ear to the desperate screams of the thousands of white, and black, victims who fall prey to black assailants each year.
Consequently unfortunate individuals like Kristopher Kime die in anonymity, their names fading from public memory as quickly as their graves are refilled with earth. Is it not time that the truth of interracial crime was finally, fearlessly told? Do not all Americans, black and white alike, have a right to be freed from the intellectual shackles of our country's quintessential frauds, commonly known as "civil rights crusaders"?
Next:
Fat Tuesday Riot
Three-fourths of Fat Tuesday crime suspects are black, police say Some say racial hatred was evident in riot, but others aren't so sure.
from The Seattle Post Intelligencer
March 16th 2001 Friday, March 16, 2001 By LEWIS KAMB SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Three-quarters of the more than 100 people identified so far as suspects in crimes committed during the Fat Tuesday riot are black, Seattle police sources say.
Many victims say some of the random beatings in Pioneer Square were clearly tinged with racial hatred. And in at least two Mardi Gras incidents under investigation, African American attackers were heard yelling racial slurs at white victims, police said.
In another instance, a woman witnessing the beating of two white men by a group of blacks heard one of the attackers say, "That's what you stupid white people get."
Police officials say they're not actively investigating any hate crimes, but they are no longer insisting there is no evidence of underlying racism or an apparent prevalence of black-on-white violence.
"If our investigation shows that there is reason or need to investigate these crimes, any crime, based on ethnic groups as an element of the crime, we will do that," police spokesman Sean O'Donnell said this week.
Sources close to the task force investigating the Mardi Gras mayhem say blacks make up about 75 percent of the 103 suspects who have been identified to date with the help of videotape, photographs and eyewitnesses. Many of the suspects have criminal records, and some of those are known Seattle-area gang members, one officer said.
Police continue to say that random criminal behavior -- not race -- remains the focus of their investigations into the scores of savage beatings, rioting and other crimes that led to one death, more than 70 injuries and rampant property damage.
"Most of these suspects are people who aren't strangers to criminal activity," said Sgt. Gary Nelson, a task force commander.
In the most notorious beating, 20-year-old Kristopher Kime was helping pick a woman up from the pavement when he was clubbed over the head from behind. The force of the blow sent him tumbling headfirst into the pavement. He was then kicked and stomped by several other men.
Kime died later that night of a brain injury. None of his attackers has been arrested, but investigators say all are black. The victim was white.
Kimberly Kime-Parks has refused to dwell on the racial aspects of her son's death. "It's this senseless violence, not necessarily the people," she said last week. "There's just got to be an end."
The Police Department has declined to release information about the ethnicity of the suspects, saying that doing so could compromise investigations.
Of the first 20 people booked the night of the riot, 12 were white, seven black and one Asian, according to jail records.
Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said shortly after the riot that there was no evidence indicating that any of the crimes were racially motivated. People of all backgrounds were involved in the melee, he said.
The chief declined to comment this week on race-related issues stemming from the Fat Tuesday investigations.
O'Donnell, however, said Wednesday that Kerlikowske's initial statements regarding racial motivations "must be taken into the context of when they were made."
The task force has since made 10 arrests. Nearly all of those suspects are African American, investigators say. Twelve other suspects have been identified by name but still remain at large, and another 86 unnamed suspects who investigators have identified by face or other physical characteristics.
Meanwhile, two men were charged yesterday with indecent liberties during the Mardi Gras riot. They are the first to be accused of sex crimes during the melee in the Pioneer Square district. The men, ages 20 and 17, allegedly fondled a woman.
Investigators confirmed this week that a number of black suspects are known gang members. One officer said he immediately identified at least six suspects from prior gang activity after viewing some of the Fat Tuesday videos.
A 23-year-old white woman who witnessed the riot said she observed several incidents of groups of black men singling out white victims.
During one attack inside a parking garage, five young black men kicked and beat two white men, said Rachel, who asked that her last name not be published.
"After they jumped them, I heard one say, 'That's what you stupid white people get.' That's exactly what he said."
Hate crimes or slurs? But were incidents like that hate crimes or just slurs uttered in the heat of combat? And when a group of minorities beats a white person, does that mean the crime is racially motivated?
Even victims and witnesses of the same attacks aren't sure.
About midnight during the Fat Tuesday street party, Brian Conrad, 23, a Renton air conditioning repairman, was viciously assaulted by a group of five Hispanic men.
Conrad, who suffered a broken jaw, now has titanium plates and screws permanently affixed to his skull. His jaw will remained wired shut for the next six weeks.
"I'm not a racial person at all, but to me, a lot of minorities were down there hunting white people," he said. "They weren't beating up other minorities, and you didn't see packs of 10 or 12 white guys running around attacking minorities.
"I don't know if these guys feel they've been beat down by the white man, and they were out to get revenge, or what. But they were out there, in packs, hunting. It was premeditated. So, yeah, I think there's some racism there."
Susan Conrad, 22, a Kent apartment manager, said she heard no racial slurs when she watched her brother's attackers beat and stomp him at the corner of First Avenue and Yesler Way.
"I think there was some underlying racial stuff going on there," she said, "but whether or not it played into the attack on my brother, I just don't know."
Steve Hyland, 22, of Sumner, who was attacked outside Doc Maynard's by a group of 10 black males, said it doesn't surprise him most of the suspects identified by police are black.
"They were obviously targeting white people," said Hyland, who was left with a broken cheekbone. "There's no question it was racially motivated."
Ralph Radford, 38, a free-lance photographer covering the riot for The Associated Press, was beaten, kicked and possibly robbed by six black men. He didn't want to speculate on whether they attacked him because he is white.
"I don't think the issue of whether it was racially motivated should be disregarded, but it's not for me to say," Radford said. "That should be left up to the police."
Radford was attacked after he shot photographs of the same group of men singling out and attacking two different white men. When the attackers turned on him, he said one shouted, "Don't take any photos!"
A fuzzy picture of the main perpetrator that Radford later retrieved from his broken camera helped police make an arrest. King County prosecutors yesterday charged an 18-year-old Seattle resident with rioting and assault.
'Unfortunate disparity' Last week, Urban League President James Kelly stood among area black leaders to condemn the Fat Tuesday riot and blast the news media for unfairly portraying blacks as the instigators.
"It's unfortunate that a disparity of those suspects are African American, but regardless of color, the perpetrators of this senseless violence need to be brought to justice," Kelly said Wednesday.
Kelly hopes the public "will not draw broad stereotypes" based on the race of those arrested. People should realize Fat Tuesday perpetrators do not reflect the majority of African Americans, or even those who attended the Mardi Gras celebration, he said.
O'Donnell, the police spokesman, cautioned against making "premature assessments," since the number of arrests and suspects is changing daily.
Identifying hate crimes can be as difficult as trying to read someone's mind, said Seattle police Detective Christie-Lynn Bonner, who investigates bias crimes.
Investigators must look at "the totality of the situation" before determining whether a hate crime occurred -- looking at the setting of the attack, what was done or said, and other factors, Bonner said.
"Racial slurs do not necessarily mean a hate crime has been committed," she said, not referring to Fat Tuesday. "It depends on the context they're used in."
City leaders have largely left sensitive race-relations issues unaddressed in the wake of the riot.
When Kerlikowske and Assistant Chief Dan Bryant briefed the City Council recently, only Councilwoman Judy Nicastro acknowledged the possibility of racial tension.
Nicastro said some of the responsibility for the Fat Tuesday violence may fall on white youngsters who were reportedly taunting blacks. Even if the bulk of the attacks prove not to be racially motivated, there's a strong public perception that they are, said Jesse Smith, night manager of Merchant's Café in Pioneer Square.
When the riot erupted, Smith said, "it was the first time I ever feared for my life." He locked himself and several patrons inside the café, then watched the violence unfold through the windows. 'There's no doubt that the majority of people involved in the attacks were black street kids," he said. "The city and the cops don't want to say that, because if it's the truth, they have a powder keg on their hands."
P-I reporter Lewis Kamb can be reached at 206-615-1246 or lewiskamb@seattle-pi.com
I could go on, and on, of course, but the point is, black's are prone to violent crimes, against themselves, and whites. It is a fact. That makes me a "racist". So be it.
This can be explained by two facts. The first is that black men have, on average, 11% higher testosterone count than white men, giveing rise to a quicker and more violent response to any given situation. Ask any cop.
Next is IQ. Prof. M. Levin of CCNY wrote a Manum Opus on this subject, called WHY RACE MATTERS: http://home.att.net/~dysgenics/lev.htm Blacks average an IQ of 85, whites 100. Furthermore, only 11% of blacks attain the 100 figure, whereas 50% of them fall below the 85 level.
Blacks are THE criminal element in the USA today. If the people in Holmdel don't want them, so be it, neither do I and most whites. It's natural. Live with it. That's why Camden, Patterson, Newark, etc. have been turned into the pestholes they are today, compared to the great cities they were when they had a white population.
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