Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this article.
I can’t recall ever seeing something in The Detroit News, or any other MSM venue, insinuating that a black who charged whites with a hate crime was a hoaxer, and they promote black race hoaxes all the time. This case is a black eye for Nathanial Szczerbinski… and The Detroit News.
Motorist claims he was beaten after accident on Detroit's east side
By George Hunter
June 9, 2014 at 2:46 p.m.
The Detroit News
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Detroit — Police are investigating the beating of a white motorist who claims three black men pummeled him while using racial epithets after he caused a traffic accident over the weekend on the city’s east side.
The incident Saturday, as described by the victim, shares some similarities to the April beating of Steve Utash, whose assault by an angry mob following an accident made national headlines two months ago.
Nathanial Szczerbinski, 34, of Grosse Pointe Park, said the incident happened near Vernor and Chalmers at about 4:15 p.m. Saturday. He said he was returning home from the Texas Bar, where he said he drank one beer.
“I was heading the wrong way down a one-way street, and a car came out of nowhere,” said Szczerbinski, who was interviewed by The News on Monday as he prepared to undergo surgery for an eye socket fracture sustained in the beating.
“I got out to check on what happened, and three guys (from the other vehicle) got mad and started kicking my (expletive),” Szczerbinski said. “They were hollering, ‘White (expletive)’ while they were hitting me.”
Szczerbinski said his attackers kicked, hit and spit on him, and that one of his attackers said he was angry because his fist was swollen from hitting him.
One of the alleged attackers, a 20-year-old black man, was arrested, and police are seeking the other two, Detroit Police Officer Keisha Beasley-Dorsey said.
[Why keep the black suspect’s name a secret, while publishing the white vic’s name and face?]
“The victim said there were some ethnic slurs made,” Beasley-Dorsey said. “We’ll do our investigation, and it’ll be up to prosecutors whether to file ethnic intimidation charges.”
Police did not administer a sobriety test because Szczerbinski did not appear drunk, Officer Adam Madera said.
Szczerbinski, a 1999 graduate of Harper Woods Secondary School, is a landscaper with a 5-month-old daughter. The girl’s mother, Sarah Hines, is Szczerbinski‘s girlfriend. Hines was at the hospital with him Monday.
“That was our only car, and it was totaled,” Hines said. “It had our stroller in it and our car seat. It could have been a lot worse.”
Police Chief James Craig said assaults, no matter what the motivation, won’t be tolerated.
“I take a dim view on any assaults, whether they’re racially motivated, motivated by sexual preference, or whatever,” he said. “There’s just no room for that kind of behavior.”
On April 2, Utash, a 54-year-old tree-trimmer was severely beaten by a mob after he hit a 10-year-old boy who’d ran into the path of his truck. The assault left him in a coma for weeks.
Four men and a 16-year-old were charged in the case. The men are awaiting trial on assault with intent to commit murder, while the 16-year-old was charged as a juvenile with assault and ethnic intimidation.
Utash is now recovering in his Clinton Township home.
His beating prompted civic and religious leaders to hold a rally calling for racial healing in the city.
ghunter@detroitnews.com
(313) 222-2134
Odd indeed that our claimed victim claims to have been assaulted and the police claim to have arrested one of the claimed assailants. Not only is the hate crime "claimed" but the assault itself is "claimed" in the News story. Plus it's buried in the paper (website) after just a brief flash of time on the home page.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just that this is a "dog bites man" story in Detroit?