Family beaten for "being in the wrong neighborhood" - I warn your jimmies

[bobbydigitaloa]

http://www.wafb.com/story/22240991/f...g-neighborhood

He was in the "wrong neighborhood" is just one reason a man gave as to why he was punched in the face. His wife and daughter were also hit.

Police arrested one man and ticketed two others. They are all accused of punching the family.

At the corner of Plank Road and Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge sits a Chevron gas station. It's off I-110 near Memorial Stadium. A family stopped there to get gas Sunday around 10 p.m.

"Upon our arrival, we located three victims who were attacked in the parking lot," said Cpl. Tommy Stubbs, spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Police Department.

The owners of the gas station did not want to comment on camera, but said there's a wide variety of customers in and out of the store in the daytime. At night, though, it's not the safest of places, especially with the area having some of the highest crime in the city.

"It was a small scene but it got to be a big scene after the fight broke out and it was a big scene when the police came," said Keisha Henderson, a witness.

Stubbs said a man wearing a pink shirt was in line trying to pay for gas when Donald Dickerson, 41, started making fun of him, leading to an argument.

"The defendant (Dickerson) approached the white male victim," the police report stated.

It went on to read, "the defendant told him he was in the wrong neighborhood and he was not going to make it out." The victim said that's when he "was punched and knocked to the ground."

At this time, his wife got out of the car and ran to help her husband. The victim said, "he continued to struggle with the defendant and was eventually knocked unconscious, which later he awoke in the hospital."

His wife told police, "after running to help her husband, she remembers falling to the ground and (being) knocked unconscious."

According to a close family friend, that's when the couple's teenage daughter got out of the car to check on her parents and, "observed a female punch her mother in the face, when her mother then fell to the concrete, hitting her head on the surface."

The daughter was also punched in the face.

"There were only three suspects but there were multiple people in the parking lot," said Stubbs.

Of those three, Dickerson was arrested and charged with second-degree battery. The other two suspects, Devin Bessye, 24, and Ashley Simmons, 22, were released on site after police wrote them each a summons for simple battery.

When police were questioned about why all three defendants were not charged with felony second degree battery, Stubbs responded, "Because you have to have disfigurement for a second-degree battery charge, and only one victim had disfigurement and he was attacked by the one suspect that we booked."

However, Louisiana law defines second-degree battery as "bodily injury which involves unconsciousness, extreme physical pain or protracted and obvious disfigurement."

The victim suffered "a broken eye socket, broken nose, and several lacerations to the face," and his wife was knocked unconscious.

"I feel that's racist," said Henderson.

As to why officers only charged one suspect with second-degree battery, police said under former Police Chief Dewayne White, officers were told to take all offenders to prison. Towards the end of his term, the policy changed and officers were told to use discretion. That's the policy in place now.

As to whether this falls under a hate crime, police said early reports show it does not meet the statute but remains under investigation.

All three defendants, Dickerson, Bessye and Simmons, have had run-ins with the law prior to Sunday's incident.

Where are the media vultures on this one? Mom, dad and 14 year old daughter ko'd at a gas station for being white apparently...

[Tune5k]

thugs of peace

[BeastlyChange]

If only this alpha mofo was real.

[GrambleBoy]

Black on white crime.
No need for media attention in the US.

[Dan916]

That'd be racist to cover such a story.

#Progress
#Change
#Obama

[swks26]

[img]http://qikr.co/files/pics/r/reverse59159.gif[/img

thugs of peace

WTF. Please explain.

[GrinDaddy]

Cause all they care about is football in SEC country.

MIZ

[SpartacusNYC]

[scotyg]

It's only racist if white people do it

[SpartacusNYC]

WTF. Please explain.

Reverse, buddy

[CurrenSy]

WTF. Please explain.

gif is backwards bro, pay attention to it

[Sprink1es]

How is it not a hate crime? Because they didn't report the use of a racial slur?

[TexasBarbell]

WTF. Please explain.

dude was a thug and caused a accident so those people threw him under the car to burn (srs) now everyone there are awaiting a trial for murder

[fsuboy1411]

Black on white crime.
No need for media attention in the US.

lol so much this.

[SiccBrah]

Jimmies were not rustled(serious)




Inb4 red

[tylertheliger]

[Socalstylz88]

Could only imagine if a colored family got beat up at the gas station for "being in the wrong neighborhood. BRB National media coverage and multiple lawsuits.

Backwards ass society we live in.

[Howiester]

I made a few wrong turns driving through Los Angeles today, and before I knew it, I ended up in a German-American neighborhood. I knew I was in trouble when house after house had metal bars over the windows, and every other corner had a gang banger standing on it selling illicit narcotics. At one point, I made eye contact with the wrong person, who shouted at me, "Are you Anglo-Irish? What are you looking at?! You don't belong here!" Before I fully knew what was happening, I was being dragged from my car and kicked with jack boots to the tune of Deutschland Uber Alles playing from somebody's boombox.

Luckily, before not long, a couple of Hispanic police officers happened to stumble on the scene and scare the German-American gangsters away.

Whew; I'm lucky to be alive! Well, that just goes to show that gangsters come in all types.

[MattySinz]

Yet the females still wanna fuk em.
Fuk this gay earth

[stealth_swimmer]

Well it says the white guy got into an argument. Maybe he said something racist. Of course, that doesn't mean his wife and daughter deserved being hit.

We don't have the whole story.


That being said, it sounds like some racist BS and also sounds like part of the reason I'd want a gun and tazer if I were travelling.


As for hate crimes - I don't think anything should be considered a hate crime. You shouldn't be punished more just because you don't like someone.

[supescrawnydude]

thugs of peace

lol'd. repped for the laffs.

[bobbydigitaloa]

In my mind I just don't see the mentality of such savagery. I understand gang activity and so on but the level of hate this takes yet zero outrage...

[LashGordon]

Well it says the white guy got into an argument. Maybe he said something racist. Of course, that doesn't mean his wife and daughter deserved being hit.

We don't have the whole story.


That being said, it sounds like some racist BS and also sounds like part of the reason I'd want a gun and tazer if I were travelling.


As for hate crimes - I don't think anything should be considered a hate crime. You shouldn't be punished more just because you don't like someone.

You fukking wot?

What are you basing that on?

If we're just going to play the maybe game, maybe the man who assaulted the victim also was planning to rape the wife and child but then the police arrived... maybe, I don't know, but maybe.

Fukking idiot.

[Reefy]

Black on white crime.
No need for media attention in the US.

Where did it say the guys were black? Could have been any other race. Just saying. Still a phucked up situation

[LashGordon]

Where did it say the guys were black? Could have been any other race. Just saying. Still a phucked up situation

You're right... let's not read into it, I bet he's asian or something.

Statistically speaking they're most likely to commit a crime right?

Asians?

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The defendant

[bobbydigitaloa]

Where did it say the guys were black? Could have been any other race. Just saying. Still a phucked up situation

I think that is part of the media's issue...they were black and it was not mentioned. This happens a lot. Because of people getting fired for even mentioning race.

[Reefy]

You're right... let's not read into it, I bet he's asian or something.

Statistically speaking they're most likely to commit a crime right?

Asians?

The defendant

[img]http://www.wbrz.com/images/news/2013-05/DonaldDickersonEBRSO.jpg[/g]

lol relax, all I read was what OP posted. didn't check the link. everythings gonna be all right

[je1ani]

anytime you hear "where is the media?" you know it's some racist right wing ******* bull**** in disguise.

[LashGordon]

I think that is part of the media's issue...they were black and it was not mentioned. This happens a lot. Because of people getting fired for even mentioning race.

Any Black on white crime is just listed as "the defendant, a 41 year old male"

whereas, other way round (as rare as it is), "known white supremacist John Smith..."

Mainstream media... not even once

[E-Tank]

been watching this for the past 5 min loling hard