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Title: Gainesville man beaten after men shout "Trayvon"
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URL Source: http://www.news4jax.com/news/Gaines ... /-/475880/10396944/-/wk1c9z/-/
Published: Apr 10, 2012
Author: News4Jax.com
Post Date: 2012-04-10 09:25:10 by A K A Stone
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Gainesville police are investigating the beating of a 27-year-old man that they believe to have been "racially motivated". The man was walking home from midtown bars in Gainesville Tuesday morning when he said he was jumped by five to eight men who yelled "Trayvon" before the attack. The shouting sounds to be a reference to Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Miami native who was shot and killed in February in Sanford while walking back to his father's girlfriend's house. George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin, has not been charged. Martin's case has stirred controversy around the nation. He was an unarmed black teenager who was killed by Zimmerman, who was a Hispanic crime-watch volunteer. Gainesville investigators told The Gainesville Sun that they believe Tuesday morning's attack stemmed from the Martin case. "We do believe that the crime was racially motivated," Gainesville Police Department spokeswoman Cpl. Angelina Valuri said. Valuri said the victim was white and the attackers were black. Police said the victim had been drinking, so the only description he had of the attackers or their vehicle was that is was a mid-size vehicle. But Valuri did say that the victim's injuries were consistent with being jumped by a group. The victim told police that he was beaten for five minutes. He had injuries to his left eye, abrasions to his palms and a cut on his right knee cap. Valuri said he would likely have permanent damage to the left side of his face. He was taken to Shands Gainesville for treatment. The attack happened around 2:45 Tuesday morning on Southwest 23rd Terrace, when the victim said a vehicle approached him and stopped. A group of men got out and told him he was talking too slowly. The victim said they then proceeded to shout "trayvon", then beat him. http://http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120409/ARTICLES/120409617/1182?Title=Man-tells-police-group-yelled-8216-Trayvon-then-beat-him
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Nope, no racism here. Move along. We'll prosecute you if you so much as say the words "hate crime".
Maybe it happened that way, and maybe the drunk victim mis-remembers through an alcohol induced haze.
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
Maybe he should have pulled out a Zimmerman and offed the niggers.
Too bad the pedestrian wasn't strapped.
A racist exposes himself by what he is willing to believe before all the facts are known.
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
They were trying to say kill whitey, but they were so drunk that it came out as trayvon.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Are you saying you are a nigger racist because you took the savage Travon Martins Side? I guess in your hollow mind it is ok to beat up a white guy. If the white guy fights back it is he that is bad. You have a very sick mind.
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
A group of men got out and told him he was talking too slowly. The victim said they then proceeded to shout "trayvon", then beat him.
#3. To: lucysmom (#2)
#4. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#3)
Maybe he should have pulled out a Zimmerman and offed the niggers.
#6. To: lucysmom (#2)
through an alcohol induced haze
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#7. To: lucysmom (#5)
A racist exposes himself by what he is willing to believe before all the facts are known.
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