In Lynchburg, Virginia, Still Another “Random” Act

 
George Leroy Baker, III
 
By Nicholas Stix

“If I were to die tonight, I’d die a happy man.”

Eighty-one-year-old George Leroy Baker III last Sunday to his son Greg, at the wedding reception for Greg’s daughter, now named Leslie Baker Gahagan. The elder Baker would be murdered a few hours later that very night.

Last night, my reader-researcher David in TN wrote me,

You know something? You just get tired of these stories. Literally.

George Leroy Baker III, an 81-year old Arizona man, is in Lynchburg, VA for his granddaughter’s wedding. A group of “teens” beat and kick him to death. Guess what the police say?

“This seems to be an unprovoked, random violent act. What a tragic event.”

This story was just on HLN (Headline News). It must have been because a family member came on to say he wants to forgive his grandfather’s killers.

All George Leroy Baker III wanted to do was walk down Main Street, from the hotel where his granddaughter’s wedding reception had just been held, to a restaurant for dinner. It was only 10 p.m.
 

George Leroy Baker III, with his granddaughter, Leslie Baker Gahagan, at her wedding reception, only hours before he would be murdered.
 

Baker, who had been widowed six years earlier, is survived by three children, seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Presently in custody, at the Lynchburg Juvenile Detention Center, are three blacks: 16-year-old Kenneth Davis, who reportedly initiated the attack, 16-year-old Vernon Jackson, and an unnamed 13-year-old boy. The 16-year-olds have been charged with first-degree murder and, as per Virginia state law, are presently set to be tried as adults, with the U.S. Supreme Court having taken the death penalty off the table, due to their age.

We’ll have to see if prosecutors hang tough against the inevitable mau-mauing from racist black activists and preachers, who will demand that the 16-year-olds be tried as juveniles. The 13-year-old, who has not been named, will be tried as a juvenile, likely meaning that if convicted, he will spend time in a “treatment center” (reformatory) until he turns 21, at the latest, but probably for a lot less than that.

The three defendants were so well known to police that the 16-year-olds were picked out by witnesses out of a photo lineup.

Although Jackson reportedly confessed, i.e., can be referred to simply as a “murderer,” rather than as an “alleged murderer,” he’s bound to recant his confession, and plead not guilty. Nowadays, violent black felons frequently confess to their crimes, but almost always recant them, and then plead innocent. Many then even claim that they are the real victims, as the confessed attackers in the Central Park Jogger case later did (see my exposés here, here, and here).

Although Vernon Jackson’s minister, Pastor Annita Hogue is old school, it is considered immoral in black society today for a black to confess to committing a crime against a white and take his punishment, and Jackson’s relatives have already rolled out the black “honor student defense.” As WDBJ News reported, “family members tell a different story about Vernon Jackson, saying he is a good kid who attended church regularly and was well liked by his classmates at Heritage High School.”

However, according to ABC affiliate, WSET, “Family members of one of the suspects tell ABC 13 that all three boys are admitting to kicking 81-year-old George Baker III.”

Although the murder was committed four days ago, Google News’ highest estimate for stories across the entire Internet about the murder of George Baker is only 62, and I was able to find only 18 actual stories, so far. Had a white been charged with beating an old black man to death, there would by now be thousands of stories about “hate,” including the requisite quotes from “experts” like my good friend, SPLC (“$PLC,” at VDARE) hate crime hoaxer Mark Potok.

David wrote me several days ago, to report that when HLN “reported” on the August 31, Vancouver, Washington racist acid attack on Bethany Storro, it censored the fact that the woman who attacked Storro was black. HLN was an accessory after the fact to the attacker, who has yet to be caught. Maybe it’ll get some sort of journalism prize for that. (See my report, “The Bethany Storro Case: Another Raceless Attacker Strikes.”)

“Three teens arrested in downtown beating death; Man was found unconscious Sunday night on Main Street, died at hospital,” by Matt Busse and Chris Dumond, Lynchburg News & Advance:

An act of teenage male bravado on the part of at least one boy may have led to Sunday’s beating death of an 81-year-old man visiting Lynchburg for his granddaughter’s wedding, police said.

Two 16-year-olds and a 13-year-old were arrested Tuesday and charged with the murder of George Leroy Baker III, of Tempe, Ariz.

Police found Baker unconscious on the 1100 block of Main Street about 11 p.m. Sunday. Baker suffered “significant head injuries,” Lynchburg Police Capt. Todd Swisher said.

He was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he died Monday, Swisher said.

“This seems to be an unprovoked, random violent act,” he said. “What a tragic event.”
Though police have said they are prohibited by law from naming juveniles, a search warrant filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court on Tuesday identified Kenneth Davis as the person who ran up to Baker “in an aggressive manner” before witnesses heard what sounded like a blow to Baker’s body and saw Davis running away.

Witnesses told police they heard Davis say he would hit the first person he saw in order to impress girls he was with, the affidavit from Lynchburg Det. Todd Rodes states.

“A witness dining at the Hash House saw a young black male kick the victim in the face after he had already been knocked to the ground,” the affidavit states. “The victim was unconscious upon bystanders coming to his aide.”

The affidavit states witnesses identified Davis by name and in a photo lineup as participating in the beating.

Investigators took a red and black “Miami” jersey, two pairs of shoes and several pairs of pants and shorts from a unit at the Lynchburg High Apartments on Park Avenue listed as Davis’ home, according to the search warrant....

There’s good news and bad news, regarding Matt Busse and Chris Dumond’s story in Lynchburg’s News & Advance. The good news is that it named Kenneth Davis by name and by race. That saves me from having to make some fruitless phone calls. The basis for the identification is the police affidavit that resulted in a judge issuing a search warrant for Davis’ family’s apartment; thus, the Lynchburg police have not been completely corrupted. (Fruitless, because if the police had not named and racially identified Davis in the affidavit, they would have refused to provide me said information, due to his age.)

The bad news is the lede:

“An act of teenage male bravado on the part of at least one boy may have led to Sunday’s beating death of an 81-year-old man visiting Lynchburg for his granddaughter’s wedding, police said.”

The first web definition I found of “bravado” conformed with my understanding:

“A swaggering show of courage.”

How is it “a swaggering show of courage” for a 16-year-old to stomp an 81-year-old man to death? Had the thug been alone, and gotten in the face of a young John Wayne type (e.g., 6’4 ½”), that could be construed as “a swaggering show of courage.”

Some media outlets, such as CNN, Phoenix’ CBS affiliate, KPHO, the Washington Post, the East Valley Tribune and, of course, HLN, were much worse, refusing to report the names of the defendants, or their race.

There’s also some bad news regarding the Lynchburg PD: This wasn’t a “random violent act” at all, and I doubt the veracity of one police affidavit’s statement that the killer had said he was going to attack “the next person” he saw, or another police affidavit’s statement that the motive was merely “to show off for some girls.” George Leroy Baker III’s killer targeted him because he was white, and had likely said he would brutalize “the next white person,” or an equivalent racist epithet for white—he saw.

Once upon a time, the police quoted this stuff honestly.

The defendants were arraigned on September 8, and will have their preliminary hearing on September 28.

Stomping whites to death with one’s sneakers is one of the most popular forms of black racist murder. The apologists for such attacks laugh about them.

When racist, black, persistent felony offender Mychal Bell led a mob of seven-to-nine other racist black thug-athletes in suckerpunching white classmate Justin Barker unconscious from behind, and then attempting to stomp him to death, in the Jena, Louisiana, high school, Al Sharpton turned the attack into a joke, as part of the Jena Hoax. Sharpton gave a speech to thousands of black racist Jena Hoax marchers, in which he held up a sneaker, mocked the idea that it could be a deadly weapon, and the crowd roared with laughter.

The other thing that black racists do when a white gets suckerpunched and attacked by other racist, cowardly blacks is say, “He deserved it.”

I speak from first-hand experience.

Frequently, the black attackers will lie and say, “He called me a n----r,” as many of the apologists for the attempted murder on Barker asserted, but sometimes they feel no need even for that particular lie. All one need do to “deserve it” is to commit the crime of breathing while white.

Conversely, if whites killed every black who ever really did call them a racial epithet, the black population would decrease by at least half.