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Title: Source: Group Beaten At Tinley Park Restaurant Were White Supremacists
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chicago sun times
URL Source: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/ ... t-were-white-supremacists.html
Published: May 20, 2012
Author: JANET LUNDQUIST, NATASHA KORECKI AND MAT
Post Date: 2012-05-20 20:27:43 by Brian S
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A law enforcement source Sunday said the group beaten at a Tinley Park restaurant Saturday was made up of white supremacists, and those who assaulted them were protesters attacking their beliefs. Police had five people in custody after the attack, which occurred at The Ashford House, 7959 W. 159th St. around noon. No charges had been filed yet, and the suspects did not appear in bond court Sunday. Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki on Sunday said police do not know if the protesters had any connection to the NATO Summit in downtown Chicago. He said police still have 35 to 40 people to interview, and charges could come Monday. “The guys we have in the lockup are still not talking, at least not this morning,” Zabrocki said. Mike Winston, who owns the restaurant, is facing $10,000 to $15,000 in damage to his business, as well as a loss of revenue as customers keep their distance. A party of 60 people for a banquet cancelled Sunday morning, he said. “I’m down about 80 tables this morning. People think we’re closed,” he said. Undaunted by the violence of Saturday afternoon, his staff all showed up for work Sunday morning. “I was very proud of them,” Winston said. “Everybody got here at five this morning, we cleaned up everything we could.” On Sunday afternoon, the dining room showed little evidence of Saturday’s attack. But there were still indications that the incident had left a mark on the restaurant. Several customers could be overheard discussing the attacks, some calling the ordeal, “creepy.” Winston said it wasn’t the cost of the damages that concerned him the most, but the drop in patronage. “It’ the loss of business that’s the killer,” he said. Police shut down the restaurant at 1 p.m. on Saturday, and investigators were there until about 8 p.m. They didn’t open back up until Sunday morning, so Winston lost all business Saturday afternoon and night. “Why would they do that here? I’m not thinking about the money right now. I just hope they all go to jail.” Winston lashed out at both groups over the chaos. “I have no f-ing idea who the hell these people are,” Winston said. “When they made this reservation, they were some Irish heritage whatever. We get reservations every day for parties of 20, 30, 40 — we don’t ask what their political affiliation is.” Winston, who chased one of the attackers out of the restaurant and was attacked himself behind the building, said he hasn’t been accused of being on one side or the other. “Bottom line is, I don’t know anything about why they came here,” Winston said. “Both groups are a bunch of a------s if you ask me.” Winston said he was working in the kitchen the restaurant during the lunch rush when a waitress screamed that a fight had broken out in the dining room. Tinley Park police said in a press release that approximately 15 people dressed in black walked into the restaurant about 12:45 p.m. Saturday and started a fight with a group of people eating there. Ten people were injured, three were taken to the hospital. When police arrived, the attackers fled in three vehicles. Police stopped one vehicle near 159th Street and Harlem Avenue. Five men, all white, were arrested. Winston said the mob was wielding metal batons and hammers, wearing hooded jackets and obscuring their faces with scarves and other coverings. “They came running in the door single file,” Winston said. The attack wasn’t a random act of violence, police said. But the attack apparently spilled over to others in the restaurant. “Once they attacked the table, they went and started hitting random people,” Winston said. “Four or five people got knocked over the head pretty good, enough to require stitches,” he said. He chased after one of the attackers “and had him on the ground, then five guys got out of a car and started kicking the (crap) out of me,” Winston said. Winston said he was kicked in the back of the head and suffered several bruises, but he was the only restaurant employee who was hurt. “They did a whole lot of damage,” he said. “They flipped over tables, they broke half the dishes.” On Sunday, Orland Park resident Edward Hiller was eating at another Tinley Park restaurant. “To walk into a restaurant at 1 in the afternoon and start attacking people like that with bats and hammers, that’s intent to kill,” said Hiller, who lives across the street from the Ashford House. That’s definitely a scary thing.” Surveillance cameras inside the restaurant captured the attack and footage was turned over to Tinley Park police, Winston said. Winston said that during the attack most of the men’s face coverings were torn off. “Most of these kids were white, and they all looked like they were between 18 and 25,” he said. “This stuff doesn’t happen in Tinley Park. We don’t have racism or white supremacy in Tinley Park,” he said. “I wish they had just stayed where they were.” In a news release, police tried to assure residents the attack was “an isolated incident” and that “there is no immediate threat to the community.” Tinley police said they were being assisted in the investigation by the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force.
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#3. To: Brian S (#0)
Still waiting for any evidence that the group attacked were white supremacists.
The attackers are lucky it was not a real Irish heritage gathering. They would have had their collective 4th points of contact beat real bad.
You must be airborne qualified.
Yes quite a few "moons ago":) 1987 to be precise. Young and crazy back then:)
Now, you're just old and stupid. Some things change. Some don't.
I see you like to make new friends each day:)
I just call them as I see them.
Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane is fun:)
Eric considers me line dog trash because I was just a 'mere' helicopter mechanic on flight status as a crew chief in the 82nd. And he seems to doubt I was in a Special Forces Guard unit spending time attached to an active duty group and that I've gone to the SFQC for 18E. So he's not necessarily picking on you; he's an equal opportunity fuss budget. ;-D
Another lie. How surprising. < /sarc > You were a washed-out helicopter mechanic, making a variety of excuses for why you were busted. The bottom-line, though, is that you're a liberal idiot who can't keep his mouth shut. And that's a REALLY stupid thing to be, when you're in the military. LOL. Now you WERE Special Forces, eh? Before, it was just "oh, I knew some guys..." Which, of course, means diddley-shit. A LOT of us knew spec-ops people, big deal, right? You throw shit out like that, to make yourself out to be some kind of "authority" on whatever bullshit you happen to be posting... and a lot of the time, your statements (right after presenting your C.V.) is so bogus, that it's obvious that you're just a wannabe. Thanks for demonstrating my point. I love to expose the liars, thieves and frauds. I find it particularly ironic that all your high-fallutin' psychobabble talk, is being spouted by... a janitor. So, redleg, the fact is that this guy who has seen and done everything, and who claims expertise on any subject you can think of... is a friggin' janitor. Now, if that isn't funny shit, you tell me what IS. ;^) Oh, and for the record, I was a navy nuke, served on a stretched-637 spook boat. Later worked for a development squadron, doing expiremental stuff for what we now call "stealth" technology... of course it was in its infancy back then, but it was a lot of fun... I got out 20+ years ago, so it's old news. It rarely comes up in conversations, because it's not relevant to todays issues...
Shows how you never listen to anyone but yourself. I'm very sure I have talked about people in SF in a vague sense, but I have been forthcoming my entire posting life from 1995 on about my experiences and background. Now, you of course are very welcome not to care of believe. it is not requisite you do, and I have no ego tied up in what I have done in the past in any job. Including the military. I was in a National Guard group, and I did phase one of the SFQC twice. Ite firt time was a three week Gaurd version complete with correspondence coursework I needed to do, and the second time was when I took a slot to go to the RA SFQC. I learned a lot, and it was a fun billet to be in.
Only made it through three sentences, before you lied. You're doing better than I expected, but I expect little from you. You brag about the shit you supposedly accomplished, on a regular basis, and use it to justify untenable positions on damn-near every subject under the sun. Recent example is the Trayvon Martin death: Oh, I'm an expert shot, I'm trained in concealed-carry, I'm this, I'm that, so he was murdered, and Z-man should be in prison... Were I so inclined, I'd go back and find the quotes, but basically, you're not worthy of such effort. Like the typical socialist, you actually think you know enough about everything in life, to pass judgement on others. How typically arrogant, and at the same time, so disgustingly ignorant. The truth is, you don't know how much you don't know. Most fools understand their limitations; you think you have no limitations. Back to pushing how bad-ass you are, eh? You WISH. Get a haircut, get a real job, you rainbowed hippie gay-blade Ferret- Face:
Actually, I do. It is often am experience everyone who does challenging coursework in school, to be put face to face with the huge amount of information in the world there is to learn compared to what human limits will allow someone to absorb. I don't wear rose colored sunglasses in that regard for a minute.
#66. To: Ferret Mike (#65)
rat-boy: Actually, I do. Were that true, you'd keep your fucking yap shut. For once, you said the truth. Who'd have guessed? Now, get your fucking Doctorate, and then get back to me, rat-boy. Because where intellectual muscles are concerned, you couldn't carry my bronzed jock. And THIS is what bugs you; you fancy yourself to be an intellectual, and highly educated. The problem is, I see right through you. And we BOTH know it. Anyway, you're just boring me, at this point, so I'm going to move on. Thanks for the laughs.
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#37. To: Thunderbird, TooConservative (#3)
“When they made this reservation, they were some Irish heritage whatever.
#38. To: redleghunter (#37)
#42. To: Fred Mertz (#38)
You must be airborne qualified.
#43. To: redleghunter (#42)
Young and crazy back then:)
#52. To: Capitalist Eric (#43)
#53. To: redleghunter (#52)
#54. To: Capitalist Eric (#53)
#55. To: redleghunter (#54)
"Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane is fun"
#59. To: Ferret Mike, redleghunter (#55)
Eric considers me line dog trash because I was just a 'mere' helicopter mechanic on flight status as a crew chief in the 82nd.
And he seems to doubt I was in a Special Forces Guard unit spending time attached to an active duty group
I've gone to the SFQC for 18E.
So he's not necessarily picking on you; he's an equal opportunity fuss budget. ;-D
#60. To: Capitalist Eric (#59)
"Now you WERE Special Forces, eh? Before, it was just "oh, I knew some guys..."
#63. To: Ferret Mike, redleghunter (#60)
I have no ego tied up in what I have done in the past in any job.
I did phase one of the SFQC twice. Ite firt time was a three week Gaurd version complete with correspondence coursework I needed to do, and the second time was when I took a slot to go to the RA SFQC.
#65. To: Capitalist Eric (#63)
"The truth is, you don't know how much you don't know."
Replies to Comment # 65. Capitalist Eric: "The truth is, you don't know how much you don't know."
It is often am experience everyone who does challenging coursework in school, to be put face to face with the huge amount of information in the world there is to learn compared to what human limits will allow someone to absorb. I don't wear rose colored sunglasses in that regard for a minute.
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