01-16-2007, 01:46 AM
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#24 (permalink)
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"Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:12qp184jj457i66@news.supernews.com...
> Gooserider wrote:
> :: "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.
>
> Given that you nor I were there, we'll never know. For all you know, one
> of the women on bike could have said something to incite them.
Nothing they could have said(and they insist they said nothing) justifies a
BEATING. What kind of bull is that, Roger? Even if the two cyclists were
n-word spouting skinheads, no words justify a beating. Why are you so
unwilling to believe this is what it obviously is---a racial attack?
Unbelievable.
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