Here’s a Fox News snatch on a “brutal beating” in Norfolk, Virginia. As you’ll see – and hear – a group of black teenagers beat up a white peer. Once hunky Bill Hemmer wonders, “Why would these kids do that to him?”
Obviously Hemmer didn’t read the Fox News brief:
Police in Norfolk, Va., are investigating whether an alleged attack against a 13-year-old boy that witnesses caught on tape Saturday was racially motivated, WAVY-TV reported Monday.
The tape shows the victim, Damien O’Rourke, who is white, being violently beaten by a group of African American teenagers. According to the report, Damien and his mother, Reesha Price, said the fight was unprovoked and believe Damien was attacked because he is white.
Hmm, we’d like to hear more evidence, if possible.
Here’s Hemmer’s take:
Here’s the problem in all that stuff: when you put it on video tape and you post it online, something like that gets out, police are going to track you down in minutes… It’s happened time and time again and it will happen again in this one.
That’s the problem? Police involvement?
WWH
Aw, c’mon. Hemmer’s still hunky. The fact that he’s dumb is adorable and makes him hunkier.
WWH
How is this gay news, other than that Hemmer is probably a big old fag?
jbran
What exactly are you trying to say? That the beating wasn’t brutal? Do you always express doubt in whether violence such as this is racially motivated — or is it just because it was on Fox? It just seems kind of knee-jerk to be so incredulous when the footage is pretty brutal.
hisurfer
I got jumped by a gang when I was 19. Similar story: white boy, wrong neighborhood. I got away (obviously … I’m still here!). It wasn’t national news. It wasn’t even local news. It wasn’t even the talk of the neighborhood – DC in 1986 was just like that.
Ah, but if FOX had been around then I could’ve made a name for myself. I could’ve been the poster boy for “reverse discrimination,” the conservative counter-punch to all those stories of racial beatings in New York and New Jersey that summer.
And there’s my problem with this story: it feels like similar exploitation. It feels like FOX wants to neutralize the Jena story, and is going to trump up a story on how poor white people are victims too. They’re trying to swift-boat the truth. This fight is hardly national news. Given the size of our country, I’m sure we could find a fight-video to fit any viewpoint.
Bloggernista
Yeah, Fox Noise is using this story as a counterpoint to the story of the Jena 6, but that still doesn’t make this kind of crap okay. The events surrounding the Jena 6 were all kinds of wrong and beating the crap out of a kid for being white is wrong.
These events and the many others that are not reported show just how much racism continues to infect our society.
afrolito
1. This isn’t gay news
2. Bill Hemmer is still hot
3. Fox is clearly trying to neutralize the Jena 6
4. Who tapes their own beating and youtubes it?
Dawster
FOX is hardly the issue here (as FOX has it’s own issues… god… remember when they killed the pope off 12 hours before he actually died?).
the issue is that escalation will be starting soon as some white redneck will see this and react, back and forth JUST like the town of Jena did… until someone actually gets killed.
(Al Sharpton said he would help the white family in the video if they reached out to him. chances are he’s not answering his phone.)
i still feel that you shouldn’t blame the kids as much as you should blame the parents.
kiveon
So what are you insinuating-that Black’s cannot committ a hate crime? Come on! We should all know that haters comes in all colors.
Redd
Hemmer lost whatever minor appeal he had for me when he crossed over to the dark side, aka, Faux News.
hisurfer
I don’t see anyone here saying that, kiveon. My concern is more that FOX is taking an insignificant fight and exploiting it for nefarious purposes. Which they do daily on the hour, so no news here.
– Is it gay? no. But FOX uses the same tactics against us, so I’d say talking about FOX is relevant.
SeaFlood
Without adding to the… well, it might or might not… I think folks should check this out, too, and allow it to “mean” within this issue, too.
http://kenyonfarrow.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/black-west-virginian-woman-raped-and-tortured-by-white-mob/#comments
MinnChick
Of Course False News is spinning this story, but the other networks are not. CNN had the mother and the kid who got beat up on the Morning Show about 2 days ago. The CNN anchor asked the kid just how it was this got vdeotaped and he said his friend was there specifically to tape the fight which was planned. Hummm, wonder if the white kid set it all up? I am white myself, but this kid sounded as false in his story as anything I have ever heard.