A Lynching Lacking a Rope: The Media, Black Savagery and White Victims
[Over the summer, Americans were again treated to the grim spectacle of savage assaults by black mobs and black assailants against white people; in Cincinnati, where video captured a lengthy street attack, and in Washington D.C., where still photographs emerged of a bloodied Edward Coristine, a white former federal government employee who was brutally beaten by a mob of blacks during an attempted carjacking.
Then on August 22, a career black criminal targeted a lone white woman sitting in a rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, slamming a knife blade into her neck, brutally killing her before walking away, his knife dripping blood, as he bragged aloud: “I got the white girl. I got the white girl.”
As the legacy media swiftly deflected and disappeared the obvious racial dynamic of the mob assaults and targeted slaughter, denouncing all who dared to notice, I was reminded of a vicious 2019 assault by black mob against a lone white man that was captured on camera in Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis attack unfolded as a group of black men that were standing casually around the lone white man, who was sitting down, suddenly launched what’s known as a ‘blitz’ assault on him. The white victim was pummeled, kicked, stomped, smashed with what appeared to be a potted plant and run over by a black attacker riding a bicycle. Several of his attackers then stripped him of his clothing.
By any account, it was an attempted murder by a mob captured on camera.
The footage revealed that some of the attackers—who at one point numbered at least a dozen black men—appeared to have been passing by the attack as it unfolded and promptly joined in, apparently for the fun of it. Some of his attackers danced as the attempted murder unfolded.
As has been the case with the Cincinnati and D.C. black mob assaults against whites this summer and the slaughter of Iryna Zarutska by a black criminal, the media sprang into action in an all-hands effort to ensure that the racial dynamic be diluted, defused and disposed of and the story then buried for its counter-narrative deformities.
Below is an email that I sent to reporter Lou Raguse, the ‘journalist’ who covered the black mob’s assault on a lone white victim for the KARE11 NBC affiliate in Minneapolis, asking him some questions about his reporting on the story and inquiring why the racial dynamic was completely omitted.
Raguse, the station and NBC never responded to my query.]
From: Mark Cromer
To: Lou Raguse <XXXXX@kare11.com>
Subject: An Old Reporter With Some Questions Regarding Your ‘Mob Beatdown’ Story
Date: Sat, Sep 14, 2019 12:00 pm
Hi Lou,
Just a question or two from an old journalist in Los Angeles regarding your story on KARE 11’s website that was published Thursday and then updated on Friday, starting with: Why was the element of race—of the attackers and the victim—not addressed whatsoever in your story?
When more than a dozen black men brutally beat a lone white man in a public square, well, it would seem just as a matter of standard journalistic protocol that if race was not a factor in the gruesome attack that it should have been addressed at least to that extent; i.e. with a quote from a law enforcement official explaining why police have ruled out a racial motivation to the crime.
And consider for a moment the horrifying nature of the crime, which you describe as simply a “beatdown.”
As a former crime reporter that worked Greater Los Angeles County from the late 1980s through the early 2000s for a variety of dailies and weeklies, I have seen a lot of human carnage and mayhem in my day, but there was something clearly visible in this prolonged attack that you reported on that sets it far apart from a “beatdown.”
There is a jubilant savagery clearly evident among the attackers, who literally take turns horrifically assaulting a victim that is quickly incapacitated and left helpless—with no one coming his aid.
Some of his attackers’ dance and strike celebratory poses during the assault, reminiscent of the vicious and near-fatal attack on Reginald Denny during the outbreak of the 1992 LA riots.
Other assailants rush into the camera’s view to participate in the attack and, as your report noted, the victim was stripped as he lay on the ground as some of his assailants smashed him with items like potted plants and rode a bicycle over him.
This was not a “beatdown,” Lou, this was by any reasonable estimation an attempted murder. It was a lynching lacking a rope. And the lynch mob was black and the victim was white.
And yet somehow, for some reason, your report failed to even mention it in passing.
In fact, your report’s headline and subsequent narrative thread turns what appears to be at face-value a racially-motivated attempted lynching into a story about police staffing levels and community policing protocols in downtown Minneapolis. Would that have been the news peg had the race of attackers and victim been reversed?
I also couldn’t help but notice that you did not post your report and the closed-circuit video of the horrific assault on your Twitter account, which like most journalists you use as a helpful utility to promote your work for NBC and Gannett. Yet on Thursday and Friday, for some reason, you did not. Instead, you posted a video ‘flashback’ from the television sitcom Saved By The Bell that featured a detailed analysis of a ‘fight’ between characters ‘Zack’ and ‘Slater.’
You’ll recall you Tweeted: “This is so funny.”
Don’t you think your breaking news report that features a savage attempted murder that was captured on camera on the streets of downtown Minneapolis might be of more pertinent interest to your Twitter account followers than an ‘analysis’ of a staged fight from a Hollywood sitcom that aired three decades ago?
Lou, a man was nearly murdered by a mob on the streets of a city you cover as a journalist and you appear to have rather diligently ensured that a visibly glaring fact of the crime—the racial makeup of the assailants and the victim—was left dutifully unaddressed. And there’s nothing funny about that.
So, I’m just curious if you could shed some light on your journalistic approach to this story.
With Best Regards,
~ Mark Cromer
Los Angeles
