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I remember this case. Some kid skipping school caught looking through windows of homes is confronted by some neighborhood Jewish patrol. Kid's wrist is broken, the Jewish patrol is arrested claims self-defense.
Baltimore neighborhood watch beating trial to begin amid fury over Trayvon Martin killing - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/baltimore-neighborhood-watch-beating-trial-to-begin-amid-fury-over-trayvon-martin-killing/2012/04/22/gIQAFrHqZT_story.html?hpid=z3 - broken link)
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Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights activists hope the Martin case will draw more attention to what they believe was racial profiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes.
Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim are accused of beating a 15-year-old boy who was walking through a Baltimore neighborhood in November 2010. The brothers pulled up next to the teen in a vehicle, then got out and “surrounded him,” according to charging documents. The passenger threw the teen to the ground and the driver hit him in the head with a hand-held radio and patted him down.
The teen remembered the driver yelling, “You wanna (mess) with us, you don’t belong around here, get outta here!” according to court documents, which do not identify which brother was driving.
Where in the article does it say that the kid who was beaten was looking through windows of homes?
Frankly, this is what people need to remember. Community watch does not equal police.
"Law enforcement officials emphasize that neighborhood watchers’ responsibility is to report crime, and leave interventions to police. 'We owe a lot of our success to communities that have stepped up and partnered with police. They help us out,' Guglielmi said. 'But when they step too far, we have to hold people accountable.'"
Where in the article does it say that the kid who was beaten was looking through windows of homes?
Frankly, this is what people need to remember. Community watch does not equal police.
"Law enforcement officials emphasize that neighborhood watchers’ responsibility is to report crime, and leave interventions to police. 'We owe a lot of our success to communities that have stepped up and partnered with police. They help us out,' Guglielmi said. 'But when they step too far, we have to hold people accountable.'"
This holding people acountable is BS. Its like a garbage man complaining because you brought your own trash to the dump. Was a time not so long ago when people were applauded for stoping a crime & holding a bad guy for the police. Now we are told to stop & wait, which usually means the bad guy gets away so the police get to do some detective work. We could save alot of money by letting people police their own neighborhoods if they choose.
That said this case is obviously racially motivated and is exactly what alot of racists WISH the Zimmerman case was.
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