01-15-2007, 03:35 PM
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#14 (permalink)
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"Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:12qnr8i94qr3qe1@news.supernews.com...
> Ken C. M. wrote:
> :: Gooserider wrote:
> ::: Wow. And that's a bike friendly city. I hope the assailants are
> ::: caught and sent to prison.
> :::
> ::: http://www.katu.com/news/5184291.html
> :::
> ::: PORTLAND, Ore. - Two cyclists said they were attacked by three
> ::: teenagers near a north Portland bus stop on Wednesday.
> :::
> ::: The women, Ashley Gorman and her co-worker Heather Moles, were
> ::: riding their bikes home from work when the attack occurred near
> ::: Legacy Emanuel Hospital.
> :::
> ::: The cyclists said the teen girls were standing in the bike lane
> ::: waiting for the bus and they had to steer their bikes around the
> ::: group. The teens may have thought the cyclists rode too closely.
> :::
> ::: The next thing she knew, one of the teens kicked out Moles' tire,
> ::: causing her to fall.
> :::
> ::: "I felt the thud, and then the tire went, and I went skidding into
> ::: the road," Moles said.
> :::
> ::: That's when the beating began. Three teens punched both cyclists in
> ::: the head and dislocated Moles' shoulder.
> :::
> ::: Jonathan Corey was passing by and helped break up the fight,
> ::: pulling the teens off the cyclists.
> :::
> ::: "It became obvious who was the aggressor in the whole equation," he
> ::: said.
> :::
> ::: Corey added that the assailants were ruthless.
> :::
> ::: "I felt like I almost didn't use enough force in retrospect as I
> ::: might have wanted to to make the thing stop," he said.
> :::
> ::: One witness heard a racial slur aimed at the cyclists, who said
> ::: they didn't hear it. The teens were black while the cyclists were
> ::: white.
> :::
> ::: The cyclists wonder whether race had anything to do with the
> ::: attack. They can't understand what caused it.
> :::
> ::: "I could imagine if we had said something but nothing was said,"
> ::: Gorman said.
> :::
> ::: Gorman suffered the worst beating. She went to the emergency room
> ::: but has no insurance to pay for it.
> :::
> ::: "I got bruised up pretty good," Gorman said. "I got my behind
> ::: handed to me."
> :::
> ::: A fourth teenager with the group apparently stood by during the
> ::: attack but then apologized afterward just before everybody
> ::: scattered and police arrived.
> :::
> :::
> ::
> :: And I thought Portland was generally regarded as very cyclist
> :: friendly! If thats friendly I would hate to see hostile.
>
> Surely you don't judge an entire city by the acts of a few stupid
> teens....
>
> Strange (or
> :: maybe not) that race was mentioned in the article. I wonder if it
> :: was a predominately black (African American or whatever) part of
> :: town.
>
> Maybe it was just a random occurence. Who knows. Geez, people.
>
>
And MAYBE the black girls attacked two white women because they were white,
and did so while calling them racial slurs. Geez, Roger.
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