'That's justice for Trayvon': Angry mob beats man for telling them to stop playing basketball

[Jazzy]

An angry mob of youngsters brutally battered a man who told them to stop playing basketball outside his home - and allegedly then told him 'that's justice for Trayvon'.



Matthew Owens was hit with bricks, chairs, pipes and paint cans on his own Mobile, Alabama, front porch by 20 people on Saturday night after complaining about the noise.



Owens' sister, Ashley Parker, claimed the group attacking her white brother were all African-American as she told wkrg.com: 'It was the scariest thing I have ever witnessed.'



And she alleged that, as they walked away leaving him badly bruised and bleeding on the ground, one of them then said: 'Now that's justice for Trayvon'.

The slur was, she said, in reference to the unarmed black 17-year-old allegedly gunned down in February by white neighbourhood watch captain George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida.



The killing has left America on a racial knife-edge.



Read more (includes pictures and video): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...revenge-attack-gunned-teen.html#ixzz1syTMfeoS

 

[Sinon]

People need to learn that race doesn't mean a thing, and that taking offense because something happens to someone who is the same skin colour as you is not a legitimate reason to act in an unruly, violent, or criminal manner. Black, white, Asian, whatever. There are idiots in every race, and acting the way those thugs in the article do just add to the stigma levied towards the race on the whole.



There's already enough stereotyping regarding thugs being black. It's absolutely disgraceful to think anyone could imagine that a way to complain about a racist event would involve enacting a race crime in some deranged bout of revenge.

 

[Katatonia]

Can't put out fire with more fire.

 

[Evil Eye]

Can't put out fire with more fire.

Actually, you can. At some point there won't be anything left to burn.

Erhm, but sticking with the metaphor, that'd be pretty bad.