Gothamist: 62-Year-Old Woman Punched, Mugged in Brooklyn

Armchair_warrior

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:39:27 -0500

thug should have his balls cut off and beaten.

Snoopy

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:35:10 -0500

BTW they caught the guy. Seems like he mugged several others and was released from a prior arrest just a few weeks ago. Judges need to be a bit more aware of repeat offenders.

sonyactivision

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:30:24 -0500

#30 is ten up on #20.

Colochita

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:05:28 -0500

"And people wonder why young black men are still racially profiled. This pretty much set race relations back in that neighborhood about 60 years." Yes, we do wonder why. It's not our fault that you look at that mugger and see not one person but an entire racial group. Or that you'll look at the next black guy you see and see a mugger. That's YOUR predjudice and YOUR narrow mind and YOUR mistake. That guy will get caught and go to jail, like he deserves. If you don't want race relations set back, then use the power of your mind. Choose to realize that he is an individual and not a representative of an entire race. Nobody voted for him to represent blackness. He's a mugger. We don't want him either.

Think twice

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:22:43 -0500

And people wonder why young black men are still racially profiled. This pretty much set race relations back in that neighborhood about 60 years. The brat is either from the Nostrand Houses or playing hookey from IS 278. These are the only vestiges of ghettodom in thoroughly middle-class neighborhood.

Shinobi Shaw

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:11:53 -0500

This idiot is going to get his just desserts soon, why steal and mug a 62 year old woman who is probably hardworking and barely making due? If you're going to steal at least steal from the Elite Superclass, not the hardworking dwindling middle class people. Thug trash.

Snakefist Von Thunderplug

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:05:22 -0500

Re: #20 Define hypocrisy. I hate moral soap-boxing idiots like you. Anything can be funny. If some people swing and wiff, big fucking deal. I refuse to give up my right to laugh at an old lady being punched through a gate by a colored gentleman in order to steal her purse that contains 3 Werther's Originals, a "Life's A Beach" key-chain, and $8.37. That said, I LOVE that video of the 101 year old lady getting clocked. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SH43DjYGgE You're welcome.

DWM2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:55:43 -0500

bra, get out, where was I such as you claim? unless you think that hooker reffers to white older women, I dont think you have a case....symantically that is....HAH

JenChungsBra

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:46:12 -0500

Doing his part to uphold racial stereotypes...DWM2008!

DWM2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:23:27 -0500

Wow, you would think that all th law and order foks on the web would make such a statement for what bloomberg and his shill raping the city over two new stadiums, NEWS PEOPLE that dude stealing your money is Bloomberg, like the woman in the video, call and scream all you want, they still robbing you. Just so you know in the 1980s and 90s that hooker would have been shot dead putting up that much of a fight for a purse.....dang I miss the 80s. BY the way......that does happen on Staten Island and New Jersey every day..... Babysitter, as racist as this place is it is in decline, gothamist has truly jumped the shark and watch within a year the ist a verse will be sold..........because kooks and kites think they run shites!

TSOL

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:12:01 -0500

Don't snitch, yo!

babyhitler

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:04:18 -0500

#22 - that would make too much sense to entertain.

Spear_Chucker

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:04:08 -0500

Do I still have to ask, "Where's Al Sharpton?".

ilovejapgirls

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:18:44 -0500

people don't know that lockup time = badge of honor

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:11:59 -0500

If karma exists and something ever happens to them, the rest of us are going to laugh our asses off. Wouldn't that then give those of us laughing bad karma?

Colochita

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:09:36 -0500

No, babyhitler. It's that every time gothamist posts about a crime committed by a black individual, we have to sit through comments about "the black community." I assure you, the "black community" does not approve of mugging old women or anyone else. One person did this. Because he's a bad person. Not because he's a black person. Come on. There's no need to be ridiculous here.

Spiritof76

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:58:31 -0500

Predictably, while everyone else expresses outrage, the resident trolls come out to try to be snarky and funny, which they never are. If karma exists and something ever happens to them, the rest of us are going to laugh our asses off.

Snoopy

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:44:09 -0500

The guy needed lunch money, cut him some slack.

babyhitler

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:34:53 -0500

Gothamist is so racist! Every time that a hard working old frail woman gets the shit beat out of her and mugged and degraded they show the crime being committed by a young virile black man who has their whole life in front of them and could be prosperous if only they applied themselves but choose the despicable way of life. EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! If that's not selective journalism, I don't know what is.

edEx

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:27:27 -0500

^GTA? hardly, in h is society (which not part of ours) this behavior is rewarded.

meL

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:11:23 -0500

I think we need an edit button. Also, you think he was influenced by GTA IV? I wouldn't be surprised if someone wanted to tout that as an influence on the youths of today to pull off petty crimes.

meL

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:03:25 -0500

Just despicable.

rtd2101

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:54:48 -0500

He's a punk. When he's caught, he'll get his in prison. Grannie muggers are just one level up on the beat down list from child molesters.

ilovejapgirls

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:31:41 -0500

he's gonna earn his colors now

takethecanoli

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:25:36 -0500

lynch mob! get the torches and pitchforks!

JacqueMehoff

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:15:38 -0500

if you say so, I think they're all in Staten Island and NJ.

famdoc

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:13:56 -0500

I am certain there are some fine citizens of Brooklyn who are capable of dispensing justice in this case (think: Howard Beach, Crown Heights, Bensonhurst...innocent victims in those cases, think of what they can do with a granny-beater).

JacqueMehoff

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:11:22 -0500

the gang's all here.

bellsandasiren

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:10:12 -0500

Man, why did we ever do away with the stockade? It's perfect for shit like this: make sure he has a trial or pleads guilty (which he inevitably will), and then put him on display in a public square in whatever humiliating, degrading ways are possible.

Tgirl

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:04:18 -0500

just evil. That poor woman.

dooWOP

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:03:50 -0500

Why is everyone so quick to pass judgment? I expect a march by Reverend Al real soon...

MarygraceNYC

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:57:55 -0500

Simply put.. a coward at best. Motherless and Fatherless. Faithless lost youth should skinned alive as an example to others. Or maybe some tar and feathers? Public scorn and humiliation might be something to consider as well.

Snoopy

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:57:27 -0500

Any description of the perp?

edEx

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:47:44 -0500

charge him with a hate crime and then skin him alive.

JenChungsBra

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:42:12 -0500

I hope the locals catch this fine young man and deposit him in the weeds on the other side of Avenue U.

Kojak

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:33:53 -0500

2000 Toyota Corolla? The mugger must have been desperate.