Posted on Sep 28, 2015
"Army Captain Nearly Beaten To Death By Eight Men"
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From: Inquisitr
A U.S. Army captain suffered critical injuries after he was repeatedly punched and kicked by a gang of eight men in an upscale shopping/entertainment district of Kansas City, Missouri.
The brutal beating reportedly occurred outside a restaurant in the Country Club Plaza area of the city.
The dispute apparently got started when the soldier, who is stationed at Fort Leavenworth, accidentally bumped into a another man in the restaurant, who became hostile despite receiving an apology. The manager asked that man to leave the premises.
When the army captain, who is a Purple Heart recipient, and his friends left the restaurant, eight suspects — including the man kicked out of the restaurant — jumped him. After the melee, the attackers fled the scene in a white vehicle before cops arrived.
“The 37-year-old soldier suffered a significant loss of blood after he suffered numerous broken bones in his face, possible optic nerve damage to one of his eyes, and a skull fracture. The man’s injuries were serious, but he is expected to survive, according to a Kansas City police report,” KCTV, Channel 5 in Kansas City, reported.
The solider’s friends also were attacked and injured by the mob after coming to his defense. EMTs treated them at the scene.
The G.I.’s brother described what happened to Fox 4, WDAF-TV, in Kansas City.
“They were repeatedly kicking and punching him, there’s no other intent but to kill. It’s horrible…It really is a miracle that my brother survived that attack. He now has more than two dozen metal plates in his face and forehead, and I have no doubt he could’ve died and they didn’t care.”
Cops have to yet make any arrests even though one of the suspects left a debit car behind in the restaurant bar. The venue apparently has no security cameras. Authorities have requested the public’s help in identifying the assailants.
The hospital has subsequently upgraded the captain’s status to good condition.
“The brutal attack has stirred outrage on social media in part because the victim and his friends are white while the attackers were young black men in their mid to late 20s.” KCTV added.
Reacting to the attack on the active duty solider, a blog called Tony’s Kansas City claims that the criminal activity in the Country Club Plaza district, where the Plaza Art Fair took place this weekend, is a recurring problem, and visitors there should practice situational awareness.
“This incident is just one of many crimes which are more pervasive than people think on the Country Club Plaza. For years the upscale district is home to robberies, car thefts and violent confrontation up to and including violent teen flash mobs.”
The blog posting noted that beefed-up police patrols in the past two years have prevented “teens from taking over the Plaza.”
http://www.inquisitr.com/2453196/army-captain-nearly-beaten-to-death-by-eight-men/#Kf473ehHKt89Svgb.99
A U.S. Army captain suffered critical injuries after he was repeatedly punched and kicked by a gang of eight men in an upscale shopping/entertainment district of Kansas City, Missouri.
The brutal beating reportedly occurred outside a restaurant in the Country Club Plaza area of the city.
The dispute apparently got started when the soldier, who is stationed at Fort Leavenworth, accidentally bumped into a another man in the restaurant, who became hostile despite receiving an apology. The manager asked that man to leave the premises.
When the army captain, who is a Purple Heart recipient, and his friends left the restaurant, eight suspects — including the man kicked out of the restaurant — jumped him. After the melee, the attackers fled the scene in a white vehicle before cops arrived.
“The 37-year-old soldier suffered a significant loss of blood after he suffered numerous broken bones in his face, possible optic nerve damage to one of his eyes, and a skull fracture. The man’s injuries were serious, but he is expected to survive, according to a Kansas City police report,” KCTV, Channel 5 in Kansas City, reported.
The solider’s friends also were attacked and injured by the mob after coming to his defense. EMTs treated them at the scene.
The G.I.’s brother described what happened to Fox 4, WDAF-TV, in Kansas City.
“They were repeatedly kicking and punching him, there’s no other intent but to kill. It’s horrible…It really is a miracle that my brother survived that attack. He now has more than two dozen metal plates in his face and forehead, and I have no doubt he could’ve died and they didn’t care.”
Cops have to yet make any arrests even though one of the suspects left a debit car behind in the restaurant bar. The venue apparently has no security cameras. Authorities have requested the public’s help in identifying the assailants.
The hospital has subsequently upgraded the captain’s status to good condition.
“The brutal attack has stirred outrage on social media in part because the victim and his friends are white while the attackers were young black men in their mid to late 20s.” KCTV added.
Reacting to the attack on the active duty solider, a blog called Tony’s Kansas City claims that the criminal activity in the Country Club Plaza district, where the Plaza Art Fair took place this weekend, is a recurring problem, and visitors there should practice situational awareness.
“This incident is just one of many crimes which are more pervasive than people think on the Country Club Plaza. For years the upscale district is home to robberies, car thefts and violent confrontation up to and including violent teen flash mobs.”
The blog posting noted that beefed-up police patrols in the past two years have prevented “teens from taking over the Plaza.”
http://www.inquisitr.com/2453196/army-captain-nearly-beaten-to-death-by-eight-men/#Kf473ehHKt89Svgb.99
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What the hell is wrong with our society today. I mean, WTF-Over! This is terrible!
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Why?! You're going to beat the living daylights out of someone for bumping into you in a restaraunt? Even after an appology has been given? Where are the basic social graces that seperate us from barbarians? Have parents stopped teaching these basic and fundamental decencies? Are we as a society becoming totally desensitized to violence from the video games like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty and Movies like The Boondock Saints, Kill Bill, and Pulp Fiction? Or are these just scape goats and excuses for the escalating violence in today’s American Culture?
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SrA Scott Harris
Scapegoats. I grew up on violent video games, yet don't commit violent acts.
We all have free choice, regardless of how we were raised and what we were exposed to.
Blame the criminal.
We all have free choice, regardless of how we were raised and what we were exposed to.
Blame the criminal.
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SSG Jason Penn, I can concur with your assessment about not being disciplined properly while growing up as possibly being one contributing factor. I too was spanked. My father used to the belt from around his waist and sometimes he’d make me go into the woods and cut a Hickory switch and if it wasn’t sufficient he’d sent me back out and when I came back I’d get it twice as bad for not cutting a good limb to begin with. My mom on the other hand used her hand when I was younger and a metal Fly Swatter as I got older. If I talked back it was often the bar of soap that I got. However, you do not see any correlation between the violence perpetuated on the big screen and video games as contributing factor? What of the increased number of single parent homes, where usually it's a working mother?
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SGT Jerrold Pesz, I agree that they would have hurt anyone, but I do not think this was racially motivated, but instead just bad upbringing.
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SrA Scott Harris, Possibly, but do we know for sure that they were criminals, no arrest have been made.
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"Cops have to yet make any arrests even though one of the suspects left a debit car behind in the restaurant bar"...fellas I seriously think you have a STRONG lead right there. Now no video cameras...really? And being that everyone records the most ignorant sh*t and posts it online, no one has checked WorldstarHipHop yet? It's not even a Hip Hop site anymore, it just has tons of videos of clowns who taped fights and posted them. Something like this WAS taped by someone. Hope the CPT recovers fully.
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SSG Jason Penn
SSG Swan,
If these guys beat the hell out of someone for literally no reason, why is it out of reason that that debit card could possibly be stolen? Who's to say that these morons didn't mug someone earlier? That is what is called an investigation, they have to rule out any possibility of the innocence of the card owner before they can make an arrest, otherwise, if the card owner is innocent, then he/she would have grounds to sue for wrongful arrest.
If these guys beat the hell out of someone for literally no reason, why is it out of reason that that debit card could possibly be stolen? Who's to say that these morons didn't mug someone earlier? That is what is called an investigation, they have to rule out any possibility of the innocence of the card owner before they can make an arrest, otherwise, if the card owner is innocent, then he/she would have grounds to sue for wrongful arrest.
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SSG Warren Swan
"Cops have to yet make any arrests even though one of the suspects left a debit car behind in the restaurant bar". Based off that, it sounds like the restaurant made a positive ID of the card and possibly who had it with correlation of data from other witnesses descriptions of the suspects, and the police are taking action on it. Could it be stolen yes, but again, someone had to make an ID off it somehow. Also the story isn't complete, and it shouldn't be. Certain details won't be made public until arrests are made/not made. And I know very well what an investigation is. But with the card like I said, it does make for a strong lead. Now where it goes is on the shoulders of the police force there.
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