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gollygee

(22,336 posts)
Thu May 17, 2018, 07:32 PM May 2018

A mother and son driven off the road, attacked and called racial slurs

The people who did this admitted to it, and at the end it says this mom wants these people arrested. They weren't arrested??? Let's do a thought experiment: imagine a group of black people chased down a truck with a white mom and teenage son in it and did this. Would they have been arrested? This is crazy.

http://wnyt.com/news/mother-and-son-driven-off-the-road-attacked-and-called-racial-slurs/4909365/#.WvxL47t-WdE.facebook

Shim and her 17-year-old son were on their way to Latham Farms last Thursday afternoon to fill out job applications for the soon-to-be high school graduate when all of a sudden, she says, a green truck with lights on top of it rammed her car into the shoulder.

"All he kept saying was, 'Mommy, they're going to kill us, they're going to kill us,' and I'm just sitting there like, 'Just go,' and I'm ducking down in the seat," Shim explained.

She says the truck cut them off at the exit ramp to Latham.

Then at least three men and two women -- one older and one younger -- got out and began destroying her mirrors, hitting the car with bats and smashing in a window, she later learned from witnesses, with a frying pan. This all while shouting obscenities and racial slurs.

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A mother and son driven off the road, attacked and called racial slurs (Original Post) gollygee May 2018 OP
Holy Shit cyclonefence May 2018 #1
It seems like gollygee May 2018 #2
I'm sure part of it is the fact that every story like this cyclonefence May 2018 #4
well how else are they going mercuryblues May 2018 #5
trumplandia... dhill926 May 2018 #3
My God... Freedomofspeech May 2018 #6
What the...frigging laserhaas May 2018 #7

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
2. It seems like
Thu May 17, 2018, 07:40 PM
May 2018

when people of color are accused of a crime, they are immediately arrested and jailed during investigations, but when white people are accused, there are lengthy investigations and they're free during them.

cyclonefence

(4,873 posts)
4. I'm sure part of it is the fact that every story like this
Thu May 17, 2018, 07:44 PM
May 2018

anyone can find gets posted here--for which I'm grateful--but my god, is there no end to this horrible white-people behavior? I sometimes wonder how we have existed for so long with such hatred in our hearts.

mercuryblues

(15,102 posts)
5. well how else are they going
Thu May 17, 2018, 07:55 PM
May 2018

to be able to drive by her house, further intimidating her + her kids? If they were in jail, she could get a restrainer order against them at their bond hearing.

A week later enough witnesses, they admitted it and they are still not arrested.

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