'Don't Make the Black Kids Angry': The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it.

by Colin Flaherty

  Memorial Day 2013

  No one cares about a bunch of dead soldiers anyway.

  While locals fled Miami Beach in anticipation of the annual celebration of violence and chaos during Black Beach Week over the 2013 Memorial Day weekend, large- scale black mob violence erupted in Rochester, West Bloomfield, Baltimore and Fort Lauderdale.

  A lot of it on video.

  Some of those who wanted to party in Miami Beach but who found the local gendarme too stifling found a more conducive atmosphere for violence and destruction just a few miles away: Fort Lauderdale.

  When it was over, the black mob violence at Fort Lauderdale was nothing much, said the chief of police, local media and business boosters.

  And the chief knows that because very few people were arrested, he said.[634]

  If nothing happened, no one gets arrested. And if no one gets arrested, nothing happened. Are we clear?

  But if nothing happened in Fort Lauderdale over the Memorial Day weekend, then even less happened a few miles away earlier that week at the Lauderhill Mall, where a mob of 200 to 300 black people were fighting, destroying property, rampaging past the stores, taunting police and creating chaos. So let’s start there.

  The Miami Herald picked up the beat: “A small fight,” said the local paper of record. “A teens’ gathering.”[635]

  Which would have been news to the dozens of extra police from three neighboring areas, along with a SWAT Team, police dogs, high-powered rifles, a helicopter, and other crowd control measures that were required to get the mob under control and out of the mall.[636]

  The mall closed for several hours. No one was arrested. But lots of people saw what happened. And their account is different from the antiseptic ‘nothing to see here folks’ version that appeared in the local press.

  News of the fighting spread on Twitter long before police showed up. Dozens of black people tweeted and retweeted about meeting for a fight across the street from the mall at Lauderhill Park.

  Nikeman Roger tweeted: “I hear Lauderdale gonna be crazy today.”

  Another who calls himself Don’t Kill My Vibe tweeted: “Today is a big day JUNE THE 25 bitches & niggas going crazy in ft.lauderdale (Lauderhill) they fighting to day.”

  Rod El Jefe tweeted: “I’m sliding to that lil fight in lauderhill tomorrow.” And several people passed that around with re-tweets.

  Tyanna @insantiyDope said “Everyone On My News feed Talking Bout This Fight At Lauderhill Park Tomorrow.”

  As the mall filled up, so did Twitter: “Lauderhill Mall was so damn pack so many kids, police them kids crazy about to fight,” said @BabyyFaceSara.

  “It Just was A Big Ass Haitian Riot At Lauderhill Mall!,” said @MyThing2Fat4Em.

  “Lauderhill Mall Deep Asf! Niggas & Cops All Over pic.twitter.com/nB5IhZ8Lkr,” said @jsuedee.

  There was fighting in the mall and out of the mall at the nearby park. No one is reporting anyone attacked police or threw bottles or brandished weapons. Unless you call beating someone with a traffic cone a weapon.

  Some said the fighters were talking about the trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin.[637] Another popular topic on Twitter:

  “If they free Zimmerman, Ima get that crowd dat was at Lauderill mall yesterday (for) his ass…,” said @RudeAhtip.

  The fight attracted so much attention that it trended as the 5th most popular topic on Twitter.

  None of the stories mentioned the mob was black. Or that it was part of pattern of black mob violence.

  But the videos and Tweets made that clear. That also got a lot of attention from the commenters at local news sites: Said Spuy767 at the local CBS.com site:[638]

  I love that these stories always neglect to mention the fact that this mob was mostly, if not all, black.

  It really is shameful that the media has this much power to control information. All they have to do is refuse to report something, or leave off an important detail when it suits their agenda, and the narrative is changed.

  Another person reported that damage from this kind of mob action is deeper and longer lasting than most people think about, said one poster who called himself Truth that the Media Ignores:

  black people, if you ever wonder why whites move out when you move in, if you ever wonder why once-prosperous malls filled with white shoppers decline into nasty rundown cr@p-holes, understand this: we may be publicly muzzled from speaking out by the PC thought police, but we are not blind.

  We see how you act. This video just shows expected behavior. Once a mall goes black, white people don't come back.

  The mall’s reputation for “ghetto” behavior was also a popular topic of conversation on Twitter.

  But that was just the warm up for the “nothing happened” crowd a few days later at the Fort Lauderdale boardwalk, where hundreds of black people fought and destroyed property.[639]

  Many of those involved were there after leaving the intense-security of Black Beach Week at nearby Miami Beach.[640]

  Much like the fracas at Lauderhill, local police and business boosters tried to minimize the violence and deny that it was racial at all. The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel mentioned the term “race riot,” if only to dismiss it as a rumor.[641]

  A fight or two. A little alcohol-fueled friskiness. A bit of spillover from the traditional chaos and lawlessness of Black Beach Week over at Miami Beach. Other than that, not much.

  "If there were a riot on the beach, I think we would have had more people going to jail…We had the situation under control,” Chief Frank Adderall told the Sun-Sentinel.

  Then someone named Jilly Tracy — a local entertainment reporter — said she did not expect the situation to ever repeat because “Las Vegas is rapidly becoming the new destination for the Memorial Day gathering of young black professionals.”

  At this point in the article, we still had no idea of what exactly would not repeat because the paper did not report what happened in the first place. Other than nothing.

  Finally Jilly the entertainment reporter broke it down for us. What really happened:

  “You have that many young black people together at any one time, it frightens white people.”

  Black mob violence? No problem.

  Scared white people? Big problem.

  This is what passes for reporting in sunny Lauderdale.

  Finally the Broward Bulldog got around to talking about what actually did happen. “Fort Lauderdale police used tear gas during beach disturbance later downplayed by chief.”[642]

  So if we are to believe the chief, his officers were using tear gas on black people at Fort Lauderdale during Memorial Day For No Reason What So Ever.

  That would be a great title for Oprah’s next movie. A movie to fit in the Netflix file of the other recent classics of constant racial victimization. You know the ones I’m talking about: Django Unchained, Fruitvale Station, The Butler, Selma. And next: For No Reason What So Ever.

  You are welcome.

  Back to Lauderdale: We learned about widespread violence, pepper gas, people trapped in boardwalk businesses, other businesses closing down, hundreds of phone calls to local officials, along with some video.

  So much so that one of the local elected officials had to fess up: “Everybody wants to downplay it…We were caught by surprise. We haven’t seen things like this for decades,” said Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Dean Trantallis.

  The Bulldog reported that several people commented on the original story in the Sun-Sentinel to set them straight:

  “Joedavotta” posted on the newspaper’s Web site, “I was there and it was dangerous…About 10-15 police units besieged the place…SWAT arrived. Pepper spray fill[ed] the air. A1A was jammed with traffic … Debris was strewn across the beach.

  “VictoriaHoliday” posted on the Web site, “Many, many, many in the…crowd demonstrate[d] classless behavior…They [were] aggressive…and unpleasant…If you tell me the event does not attract thugs – you are lying.”

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bsp; Curiously, the comments at the Sun-Sentinel’s article are no longer available on-line. More from the Bulldog:

  “Several hundred subjects surrounded the fight making it nearly impossible for officers to break up the fight safely,’’ Police Officer Zack Baro said in a report. The fight spilled into A1A, blocking traffic. “More onlookers came out of Beach Place and continued to agitate the crowd . . .,” according to Baro.

  Police Capt. Jonathan Appel reported that several hundred people “cheered [the fighters] on.” After Appel ordered the crowd to disperse, bottles and debris were thrown at the officers. A water bottle struck Baro’s head, Appel said.

  “I’ve been inundated,’’ Trantalis told his fellow commissioners. “I’m sure all of you have been inundated with people who live and visit the area who feel extremely threatened.”

  But black mob violence? That had nothing to do with anything said the Mayor Seiler:

  “Seiler disagreed with several people who wrote him blaming the disturbance on blacks.

  “This isn’t about race,” the mayor told the commission.“We have had a tremendous diversity on Fort Lauderdale beach…It was just a raucous party crowd that was attracted regardless of race and economic background.”

  Isn’t that a nice lie.

  The Mayor may be the only who believes the mob was straight out of a Benetton ad for racial diversity. The mob was black. You can deny the significance of that. But not the reality.

  City Commissioner Romney Rogers said his secretary visited the beach at 2 p.m. on Memorial Day. She found the crowd “the rowdiest she has ever seen.”

  Residents and business owners are having a meeting Thursday night to discuss what did -- or did not -- happen. Let us know how it turns out.

  Postscript: Nothing happened at the meeting.

  As we saw in this story, some of the rioters were anticipating if anything went wrong, they could just blame it on justice for St. Trayvon.

  In the meantime, if you live in Fort Lauderdale, and the mayor, the police chief and chamber of commerce tell you the sun is coming up tomorrow, a few words of advice: Check it out.

  On the other end of the state that same weekend, the Jacksonville Beach riot started much like the other examples black mob violence documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot.

  When initial reports came in that police closed a section of the shore at Jacksonville Beach, police assured the media that it wasn’t much: Just a few fights and, after all, no one was arrested.

  And no one said anything about black mob violence.

  Then came the videos and eyewitness reports: Hundreds of black people were fighting, destroying property and creating mayhem on an epic scale. Both at the beach and in surrounding neighborhoods. The videos show the violence and people screaming and fleeing, while the people making the video laughed.[643]

  The day after the riot, anchors at the local Fox News affiliate said residents were demanding answers, but police were “still investigating.”[644]

  They should have read the comments on their own web site: Their viewers had no trouble describing what police and reporters could not. Or would not.

  “Kinda hard not to be racist when it was all black people. 30 plus black people !!!Looks like the northside invaded jax beach to me,” said BeachGirl25.

  “The local rag paper & website, reported on ONE intersection being closed for a vegetable oil spill, but did NOT cover this event, which closed MANY streets in the Jax Bch area,” said one resident self-identified as TheTruth. “Very sad how they...the media...is afraid to report the truth, lest the NAACP and Jesse Jackson start yelling & wailing "racism."”

  One resident told a local news site the rolling riot made a stop at his house near the beach. “A couple of these animals tried to break into some cars in front of my house in Neptune Beach after the fight was broken up,” said CubsFanJoe. “They nearly shat their pants when I walked out onto my porch with my AR-15.”

  A popular talk show host said residents are used to the fact that the local newspaper ignores and downplays the violence.

  “During the three-day holiday weekends, residents and business owners know that racial violence is a regular and unwelcome occurrence,” said Chuck White, of AM1600 WZNZ. “Business owners are asking for help from police before their businesses are ruined.”

  One of the competing news outlets, WOKV, shut down the comments on its web site rather than have people who were there describe what really happened: “We have disabled the ability to comment on this story. Some of the commentary posted to the comments section were determined by WOKV management to be inappropriate.”

  Jacksonville is no stranger to racial violence and lawlessness. People still remember the 2012 video of 300 black people rampaging through a Wal-Mart which went viral. The violence started at a party, and moved to the Wal-Mart parking lot. At least one gunshot was fired before the crowd moved inside, destroying property, assaulting people and creating mayhem.[645]

  In a wealthy suburb of Detroit, Orchard Lake, the St. Mary’s Polish Country Fair has grown into two things: One, the largest fair in Michigan. Two, the site of large-scale black mob violence that in 2013 even featured an arrest for terrorist threatening on Twitter and Instagram.

  Kristy Gursky describes the action to ClickonDetroit.com: “It was like mayhem. Everywhere we looked there were fights breaking out and mobs of 100 or 200 people would go running to witness the fights,” she said.[646]

  The video adds the flavor: Fighting. Screaming. Panic. Fear.

  But it could have been worse. Much worse: The FBI arrested a black man for allegedly posting violent threats on Twitter and Instagram; featuring pictures of hand guns, rifles, several fully-loaded high capacity magazines, and promises to show up at the fair, said The Oakland Press.[647]

  “We not playin wit nobody at the fair #StMarysFair I swear,” the man allegedly said in the week prior to the Fair on Instagram, said the Press. “We can’t wait till St. Mary’s Fair,” read another caption beneath a man holding a gun.[648]

  But here’s the twist: The threats were made a week before the fair. But police did not release news of the arrest or threats until the day after. At least one local resident thinks police put people in danger by not telling them of the danger:

  “What made me unhappy is the quote from the sheriff saying the threat wasn't made public because this one person from Detroit was arrested and extra security was put in place,” said Detroit resident and fair-goer Rory Kasel.“This wasn't even the only person making threats either.

  “That sheriff is responsible for all the attacks there on unsuspecting people. I guarantee many would have avoided the place altogether had they been warned that Detroit gangs were threatening violence. And why didn't the extra security involve vans to transport prisoners rather than just kindly sending the criminals on their way?”

  After the initial night of violence on Saturday, fair officials tamped down on the mayhem, said ClickOnDetroit.com: “Headmaster Jim Glowacki said he had to make a tough security decision about a curfew. “In the evenings, you can’t even get onto the midway unless you have ID, you are over 18 or you have a parent or guardian,” he said.”[649]

  Profiling?

  Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

  Over in Rochester, New York, the annual Lilac Festival the week before Memorial Day was also the site of black mob violence in and around the event. By the time it was over, 20 people were arrested and four people were stabbed. A man with a shotgun escaped and two police officers were hurt.

  At first city officials downplayed the chaos, saying there was no violence inside the fair itself. That fiction did not last long as person after person came forward to tell their story in the comments section of the Democrat and Chronicle. Rob Sands was just one of several to contradict official attempts to downplay the violence: “The Monroe County parks director said no fights occurred within the festival site itself. That is a straight up lie.”

  Local reporters do not -- or will not -- report what many rea
ders know: “Let's face it, this is a racial problem,” said Ann Marie Cummings in the comment section of the Democrat and Chronicle. Whether it is the Puerto Rican fest, last year at the rib fest, or problems at sea breeze with gangs. It's obvious these street thugs pick arenas...large amount of people attending.”[650]

  The newspapers tell one story, and the video tells another. [651]

  In Baltimore, a large group of black people were fighting in downtown Baltimore. One cop was hurt. “Several” people arrested. The Baltimore Sun did make a grudging acknowledgement this was part of a pattern of violence in the upscale tourist area. Even if it kept to a long-standing practice of not identifying the violent mob as black.

  “Large fights between teenagers in the heart of the city's business district have drawn negative attention and various redeployment strategies in the past. In one incident last year, hundreds of teens converged on downtown the night of St. Patrick's Day, with multiple brawls that ended in two stabbings and the beating of a tourist from Northern Virginia.”[652]

  Back to Miami Beach: What city officials called a “war zone” two years ago turned into what the Miami Herald said was a “police state” this year.[653] After four days and more than 200,000 people, police pronounced Black Beach Week a resounding success because they only arrested 413 people, including 71 for felonies.[654]

  That is down from 1000 people arrested during earlier celebrations there.

  Some people insist that anyone who notices -- let along objects to -- this outbreak of black mob violence and mayhem is a racist. Among them Daniel Rivero, a writer at the NPR affiliate in Miami. Rivero says Black Beach Week is a lot of fun and no one is ever in danger. At least that is what he learned this year.[655]

  “If you find yourself up in arms over a predominantly black weekend that comes once a year, you will need to come to terms with the fact that the problem might not be with the crowd.”

  Meanwhile, more than 300,000mostly non-black racing fans gathered over the holiday weekend for the Indianapolis 500. According to the local Fox news station, 23 were arrested: 15 for drunk in public; 1 for Disorderly conduct; 2 for a minor in possession of alcohol; 1 for drunk driving; 1 for invasion of privacy; 2 for theft. And 1 for an outstanding warrant.[656]