Undergunned
Let me relate a story that hit my hometown on 15th of July this summer, though the incident occured on the 4th of July. The politics that followed up was that all these teens were "Repressed Troubled Youths" and didn't know better. Hmm, let's see - it's about $30+ to get into Valley Fair, and one called all the others on cell phones. Sounds repressed to me. There were other articles that called it a white on black hate crime: Let me share this link with you from the last story in a nearby small paper. The other think is that the fact that the family involved was also black. The Minneapolis/St. Paul papers NEVER reported on that.
http://www.jordannews.com/news/next-door/valleyfair-assault-brings-flood-race-assumptions-8443
Father Badly Beaten By 8 At Valleyfair
SHAKOPEE, Minn. (WCCO) ― Six men and a teenager are facing felony assault charges after they seriously injured the father of a 12-year-old girl at Valleyfair Amusement Park, according to Shakopee Police.
The report states just after midnight the evening of July 4, police were dispatched to Valleyfair to assist an officer with the detention of the men and to help provide medical attention to the unconscious victim. When officers arrived, Valleyfair security and one officer already had the men detained in the main parking lot.
Witnesses told police that the fight began when one of the men slapped the girl on her buttocks. The father responded by yelling at him. The man then used his cell phone to call his seven friends over to "get these bitches," according to the mother of the girl.
In the fight that followed, the father received a broken right orbital (the facial bones around the eye), cuts to his face and arms, and possible subdural bleeding between his skull and brain, according to police.
The first officer at the scene was directed by Valleyfair Security to the group of eight men, and he ordered them to the ground. Seven of them did so, but one tried to run and was later apprehended.
Though the victim was unconscious, his wife was able to inform police about what happened and identify the suspects. She said that the eight men took turns stomping on her husband's face as he was on the ground.
All of the suspects were arrested and taken to Scott County Jail.
The six men who have been charged were identified by the Scott County District Court as 22-year-old Terry Laron Arnold, 19-year-old Andrew Demarkis Shannon, 18-year-old Devondre Evans-Lewis, 19-year-old Derry Darnell Evans, 20-year-old Darris Devon Evans, 20-year-old Anthony Cornandance Gildersleeve. A seventh teen was also charged, but his name was not released because he is a minor.