The odds are probably 90 percentthat the victims are white. Yet there’s no mention of race.
Robert Curran writes from St. Louis:
Regarding your post about the black mob chasing a white in a Minnesota park, St. Louis has recently been experiencing its own version of this, as reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Of course, it never says so in the reporting, but anyone familiar withSt. Louis will immediately understand that the groups of “youths” areblacks, coming from the solidly black half of the city, the southernedge of which abuts the north border of the popular Loop entertainmentdistrict. (MetroLink is the local light rail system)
The story below includes an account of a wilding attack by a mob oftwenty on a family of five returning on MetroLink from a vacation.There is no mention of the race of the attackers or the victims. Theodds are 99.99 percent that the attackers are black. (Correction: giventhat one of the attackers’ name is Jermaine, it is a 100 percentcertainty that the mob was black.) The odds are probably 90 percentthat the victims are white. Yet there’s no mention of race. Here is thearticle:
Attacks near trains spur tighter security
By Ken Leiser
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
08/07/2008
ST. LOUIS–Police plan to step up patrols this weekend aroundtwo MetroLink stations and part of the Delmar Loop after a series ofviolent attacks linked to roaming groups of teens and young adults whogather in the Loop.
There have been at least three attacks–including an assault by a groupof at least 20 on a family near the Forest Park MetroLink station.
St. Louis Alderman Lyda Krewson, whose 28th Ward includes the ForestPark station, said St. Louis and University City police and Metrosecurity were responding to the attacks.
“I just want to say that this is pretty unusual, which is why everybodyis on it,” Krewson said. “What we have here are three or four incidentsthat all happened within a couple of weeks of one another that doappear to have some similarities. They are obviously completelyunacceptable.”
Capt. Jim Moran, commander of the St. Louis Police Department’s SeventhDistrict, said groups of young people appear to be meeting in theUniversity City part of the Delmar Loop, and then walking east to theSt. Louis side. By some estimates, the groups have reached about 100people.