War crime victim Ray Widstrand
Mug shot of war crime suspect Isaac Maiden
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Thanks to reader-researcher AL, who writes,
Only a month ago I was in St. Paul and did see a lot of minority. Young surly negro men hanging around with their white girlfriends. Each girlfriend having a little mulatto baby in her arms.
And of course you know perfectly well in advance the races of the perpetrators and the victim.
Shoes were taken as evidence.
Like in the case in Jena, LA, where Al Sharpton held the shoes up and said jokingly that these were "weapons."
AL then wrote back, quoting and commenting on Colin Flaherty,
"a black mob beat him, stripped his clothes off and left him for dead."
At least they didn't crucify him. I had better not give them any ideas.
N.S. If he dies, they did crucify him.
Following the article, I posted the early comments from Free Republic, where readers already did the necessary decoding work.
Note that the authorities wrote up a criminal complaint, even though the victim was in a coma, and couldn't identify his attackers. In a story I posted earlier today from June 26, Seattle police asserted that they couldn't make any arrests in a different Obama attack, because they didn't have the victim (who was apparently homeless) to ID her attackers, even though they had a video, and knew the identities and addresses of the attackers.
St. Paul: Bystander brutally beaten after wandering into apparent gang fight
By Andy Greder and Tad Vezner
Pioneer Press
Posted: 08/10/2013 12:01:00 AM CDT
Updated: 08/10/2013 12:20:56 PM CDT
Ray Widstrand's parents, Linda and Peter Widstrand, and sister, Alice Widstrand, right, speak during an emotional press conference in St. Paul on Friday evening. (Pioneer Press: Tad Vezner)
Four young males have been arrested after the senseless, brutal beating of a man on a late-night walk Sunday on St. Paul's East Side, police said Friday.
The victim, Ray Widstrand, 26, of St. Paul, reportedly was in critical condition at Regions Hospital with potentially fatal brain swelling.
Police found Widstrand lying on the ground, bleeding from his nose and mouth, his pants removed and shirt torn, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Ramsey County attorney's office.
"He's in the most difficult time right now, as far as swelling and cranial pressure. We're in that critical time," his father, Peter Widstrand, said.
According to the complaint, Widstrand was attacked when he tried to walk through a group of
30 to 50 juveniles and young adults fighting near Payne and Minnehaha avenues in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood about 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
His family said he had been living in a nearby apartment for about two months.
"An innocent man was walking down the street and brutally attacked by a group of youth," said Sgt. Paul Paulos, a police spokesman. "He was out for a walk and decided to go through this group and was assaulted and knocked unconscious."
On Friday, Ramsey County prosecutors charged Issac Maiden, 19, of St. Paul with first-degree assault, first-degree aggravated robbery and crime committed for the benefit of a gang.
Maiden, who was arrested Wednesday, was being held in the Ramsey County Jail with bail set at $150,000. A preliminary court hearing was scheduled for Aug. 23.
Meanwhile, three juvenile males were arrested Friday, authorities said.
A neighbor who saw Sunday's fight from her window said the brawl erupted in the middle of Preble Street just south of Minnehaha Avenue.
She said dozens of people appeared to be attacking each other in groups. She said the crowd dispersed at the sound of police sirens.
Afterward, she said, she saw a person lying on the corner of Preble and Minnehaha.
The
county attorney's office said many of the fight's participants were believed to be members of the East Side Boys gang or its younger affiliate, Ham Crazy.
County Attorney John Choi vowed in a statement to prosecute anyone accused of taking part in the fight.
Widstrand works as a producer for Suburban Community Channels, a White Bear Lake-based provider of community TV in Ramsey and Washington counties. He grew up in New Brighton and graduated from Irondale High School, his family said.
His father said Widstrand had never "expressed any concerns" about the area where he lived.
"He loved where he found his apartment. He was excited about it. He was excited to have his own place," his sister, Alice Widstrand, said during a news conference Friday evening at police headquarters.
"I can't imagine why someone would do this to another person. Hopefully they'll ... at least answer to that," Peter Widstrand added.
"It's a tragic thing, and we are hoping and praying for his survival and recovery," said Ted Arbeiter, director of operations at Suburban Community Channels.
According to the complaint, the chaos began with a fight outside a party at a residence on Prebele Street.
"It was an incident that spilled into the street," Paulos said."
A witness said someone struck Widstrand in the head and knocked him to the ground; she said she saw blood coming from his head.
The witness said a second man then hit and stomped on Widstrand. A third man removed his pants.
The witness said the man was hit and beaten for no reason.
A second witness said Widstrand was assaulted when he walked into the area. When Widstrand went down, a "whole bunch of little East Side Boys" began to kick him, the complaint said.
When his pants were removed, they went through his pockets.
The second witness said the first person to hit Widstrand did it with a can in a sock. She tried to protect the man from people kicking and stomping him, while another witness said someone at the scene tried to use Mace to stop the attack, the complaint said.
A third witness identified Maiden as a man who stomped on Widstrand, based on a photo taken at the scene, the complaint said.
According to the complaint, Maiden told police that he was at the party on Preble Street but left when someone Maced him.
Maiden denied that he assaulted Widstrand.
During the investigation, the shoes of several suspects were taken to be processed for evidence.
The scene was within blocks of the police department's Eastern District office at 722 Payne Ave. Paulos said police plan extra patrols and other measures in the area.
"We are taking all resources necessary to make sure it doesn't happen again," he said.
Freepers Speak
While this was going on Benjamin Crump was in the crime capitol of St Louis holding a rally against profiling black youths and the right of self defense, leading the crowd with cheers of:
"We Are Trayvon Martin"
1posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 8:32:05 AMby Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
Poor guy wandered into a Trayvon Martin convention.
2posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 8:39:39 AMby Steely Tom(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Uncle Chip
This was an obviously racial crime yet not word mentioning the race of the criminals.
3posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 8:47:24 AMby RoosterRedux(Liberals' first line of defense is emotion...the fall back position is specious reasoning.)
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"It's a tragic thing ...." said Ted Arbeiter, director of operations at Suburban Community Channels.
It's not a vicious criminal assault by feral thugs, it's a politically correct "tragic thing" like a car accident or house fire that just happens.
4posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 8:47:57 AMby Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
"Apparent gang fight", yet he is the only one beaten to a pulp.
In this huge gang fight, how many others went to the hospital?
The Russian people used to have to decode Pravda by what wasn't said, now we are doing the same.
5posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 8:49:08 AMby SampleMan(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Uncle Chip
Please... don't EVER wander near a pack of wild animals. They'll turn their attention — and their claws and fangs — on you!
6posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 8:54:15 AMby ScottinVA(If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: ScottinVA
Please... don't EVER wander near a pack of wild animals.
Are you saying that he should have "profiled" them and walked the other way???
7posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 8:56:25 AMby Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
Great.
St. Lunatics need no encouragement from that d-bag, the Knockout Game was coined here.
8posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 9:02:28 AMby Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Uncle Chip; All
So if there were 51 people in the street and only the white guy gets beaten, that is profiling, is it not?
Where is obama? Where is Eric Holder?
9posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 9:26:38 AMby Red in Blue PA(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Uncle Chip
He wandered into the group WHILE they were fighting? How stupid is he?
10posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 9:29:39 AMby Blood of Tyrants(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; All
He wandered into the group WHILE they were fighting? How stupid is he?
Doubt it. Does not pass the smell test.
TRANSLATION FROM THE MSM: He had it coming to him.
11posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 9:32:02 AMby Red in Blue PA(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ScottinVA
"Please... don't EVER wander near a pack of wild animals. They'll turn their attention — and their claws and fangs — on you!"
I am in full agreement with you. I am so indcredibly sorry for this guy. I hope that he does recover fully.
But I have to think that he maybe didn't use the best judgement by walking thru this fight. He could have backtracked or even attempted to walk around it. By showing up in the middle of the fight (IOW, a white guy amidst a bunch of urban Amish), it was like waving a red flag in front of a bull.
Just to be clear to those of you out there who are reading my post...in no way, shape or form am I saying this kid deserved to be beaten. He didn't.
But by not removing himself from a potantially bad situation, he dramatically increased the odds of something happening to him.
12posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 9:35:14 AMby MplsSteve
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To: RoosterRedux
It was 31 Lutheran Johanssons fighting with 27 Catholic Svenssons! And the poor assaulted man reflected very little light.
You know without looking that up there in Minnesota that race crimes like this are beatings of black folks by white skinhead gangs.
0bambi tells us so.
13posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 9:47:46 AMby Uncle Miltie(Where's my pressure cooker backpack wmd ricin laced al qaeda terrorist BASSELOPE?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Stupid enough to move into an all black neighborhood and thinking things were just peachy.
This is a sad, sad case of "stupid white liberal meets reality."
Too bad it probably cost him everything to learn that lesson.
14posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 10:21:50 AMby ConradofMontferrat( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
I'm sure Holder's Justice department is looking into whether this young man's civil rights were violated ......
crickets
Demonstrations by civil rights leaders?
More crickets
Angry editorials by civil rights edop writers like Leo Pitts and Charles Blow?
Even more crickets
The matter will be down the ol' memory hole by the end of the day:
the victim is white and the perps are black.
Thanks for bringing us together Barry. You POS.
15posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 10:55:05 AMby tumblindice(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Uncle Chip
This shows what a mistake it was for our grandfathers to give up the right to automatic weapons. In a better world the article would be about 50 "youth" bodies left in the street after attacking an old man.
16posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 11:13:32 AMby RightOnTheBorder
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To: ConradofMontferrat
I looked at a demographic map and that area is not majority black, maybe about 25-30% at most. It is actually very evenly divided between white, black, and Asian. The majority black areas are to the west of downtown. Still, there are enough to cause a problem. After all, in Portland and Seattle, whites are over 60% of the population and blacks are less than 10%. Yet black-on-white attacks are quite frequent in both places.
17posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 1:33:57 PMby hout8475
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I didn't know there were race realists at free republic; this is good. Widstrand should have read Derbyshire but then there wouldnt be a need to if we lived in a sane societty with honest cops and reporters.
ReplyDeleteHis family are just as clueless too: "I can't imagine why someone would do this to another person."
I'd be curious as to what "he decided to walk through the fight" really means. It is certainly within the realm of possibility he believed the fight didn't involve him (as a white guy) so no one would attack him, certainly whites with that monumental level of naivete exist, we hear about them all the time. Still, most of the time even the most ardent white black crime apologists would turn and run from a gang fight like that.
ReplyDeleteDid he turn a corner and suddenly find himself in a situation he couldn't get away from?
Did the fight suddenly break out as he was going by?
Was it a racist violent assault that turned into a gang fight to cover up the crime?
Who says he was trying to go by the fight anyways? He's hurt to badly to give any answers, were there other witnesses?
Is this the word of the gangbangers themselves? If so, sounds like they might be making something up to try to mitigate their crime, you know, they were just fighting and he happened to be in the way, wasn't racial you understand, kinda accidental. Blacks are fully aware police and media are willing to latch on to any rationalization designed to shift away from black racist violence.
Something is fishy about this story. I'd be curious to know more.