Don’t know how much of this is accurate–especially coming from the NYT–but certainly food for thought.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/opinion/a-beating-in-detroit.html?_r=0
I love the quote of the mom of the black boy that jumped in front of the car.
“That beating…well, that was a little too much.” As if it would’ve been acceptable had they beat him up for just a few minutes less…
Not the first time this has happened and it sure as hell won’t be the last . . .
The Crown Heights Riot was a three-day riot that occurred from August 19 to August 21, 1991 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. At the time of the riot, Crown Heights was predominantly an African-American and Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. It is the home of the Lubavitch sect of Orthodox Jewish Hasidim. The riots began on August 19, 1991, after a child of Guyanese immigrants was accidentally struck and killed by an automobile in the motorcade of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the sect’s leader.
The riot unleashed simmering tensions of the Crown Heights’ black community against the Orthodox Jewish community. In its wake, several Jews were seriously injured; one Orthodox Jewish man, Yankel Rosenbaum, was killed; and a non-Jewish man, allegedly mistaken by rioters for a Jew, was killed by a group of African-American men.