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Subscribe to RSSViral video shows an assault on a tourist during a St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Baltimore. WBAL's Kai Reed reports.
Baltimore police have arrested a second person in the videotaped beating of a 31-year-old Virginia man in St. Patrick’s Day, according to the Baltimore Sun. After taking the victim’s keys and money and leaving him naked on the sidewalk, the pair then posted a video of the graphic video on YouTube, police allege.
Police have arrested Aaron Jacob Parsons, 20, and Shayona Mikia Davis, 20, and charged them with robbery and assault. They are seeking two others allegedly involved in the beating.
People who knew Parsons and Davis recognized them in the video and directed police to them.
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OMG that is so wrong...whoops..blacks beating a white guy...nevermind, no story, move along, nothing to see here.
Where is Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?
Why would AL an JESSE come? This article is about the ARREST of these jokers! DUH!! Al and Jesse show up when NO arrest has been made....keep up O.K.
Rev. Sharpton and Mr. Jackson wouldn't have anything to do with this because the victim isn't, well....black. The reality is if this was a video of a handful of white doing the the same thing to a blackman the media and political leaders would be on every channel going off and calling this a hate crime, racist, etc. It really is a sad statement that our outcry for justice should be equal treatment of all fellow humans and that no one should live in fear . I just don't see that happening anytime soon.
First of all there is NO Rev. about sharptoon and jacksoon, What he is saying is that these two only want attention to what happens to a black, But wait there is no problem with a black beating on a white. You guy's want to talk about racist. look no futher than the mirror Fools.
First its robbery, second it assult and third they are perverts pulling off his under wear, they should have been shot like trybang.
Well gee it took a month to make the arrest. Where was all the action at solving this for a whole month? Isn't that Al and Jesses point that it took too long in Florida. They should charge them with a sex offense and put them all on the sex offenders registry for life.
Everyone involved deserves jail time.
*Posters, lets not start with the RACE BS...as the first ding-dong poster did!
The statement has to be said that it is about race, but more in regards of making the point that until the sight of the blind is restored and those with sight are made blind, the color of one's skin will control and destory those who live with the idea is defines them as human.
Give me a break if it were white people beating up and robbing a black man it would be considered a hate crime. The door should swing both ways when it come to hate crimes like this.
It won't though the victim didn't look like the presidents son. And Holder won't be running to file a hate crime he is probably watching the tape and cheering with the rest.
Druggies in their finest hour.
I hope that all involved get what they deserve. I feel so bad for the kid. I give high praise to the people who turned these creeps in to the cops. And, the Al and Jesse thing is way yesterday. If your only comment to this sick story is to only reference Al or Jesse, it really says alot about you as a person.
It will never be way yesterday as long as the federal government doesn't treat all citizens the same. What is a hate crime when it happens to one group should be a hate crime when it happens to the other group. Itis hate after all that fueled this crime too.
Are criminals getting dumber? Committing a crime is dumb enough but they compound the ignorance by video taping and posting the evidence on-line for all to see......Way to go morons!
They needed proof of their "street cred".
All those thousands of spy cameras around Baltimore and they had wait for a privately owned camera. Sheesh!
YouTube is becoming an increasingly effective crimesolving tool... hahaha
yeah thanks to the incompetance of the American criminal.
Looks like a hate crime to me.
hate crime even more since they had the desire to place it online as a sense of pride of their behavior and had no remorse for doing what they did to this guy.
Bet the evil, bigoted, racist judicial system will put them in jail just because they're not white, though.
sarcasm?
Sarcasm? What's that?
Well maybe just a little.
What the bigoted evil racist government will not do is tag on the extra years under the hate crime law. That it seems only goes one way.
Children of the Corn and Lord of the Flies
Negativity at the top and the whole unit takes on the color of treasonous, murderous, lying politicians in bed with Mafia, Finance and Insurance Industries and worse - Saudi Arabia and taking World Policies and making them RULES here! When the leaders are corrupt so too are the people, unless they are mindless obeying SLAVES for a system which needs them that way!...but the children - the children have nothing, not even role models - and an Adult population which has sold them out and their innocence and all future generations to come will have to crawl through Hell before the become adults and hopefully stand up against anything which is Anti-Life, therefore negative.
Glad to see these people get arrested. Technology is a two edged sword which can be wielded in both directions (for and against you). Look at all the people who have posted stuff on the Social Media boards and lost their jobs because of it. I don't know what they were thinking but I am glad to see people come out and help put the nail in the coffin on them.
oh just a white kid getting beat up by a black kid....just brush it under the carpet...i am sure they did it for trayvon
Was it
Beavis or Butthead, er Parsons or Davis who was so incredibly stupid (and wonderfully helpful) as to put the video up? You gotta love it - our criminal justice system needs more do-it-yourselfers like them!When they get out of jail/;prison they will not want to take anymore pictures. I bet the other two are caught very soon because these two rascals are going to be the ones to tell since they are now probably trying to make a deal. Considering that you commit a crime and then p;ost it shows that your elevator does not go to the top, bread is not done and you are a couple cans short of a six pack and therefore you need to be in jail/prison. Stupid is as stupid does
Low grade morons should be castrated before trial. When the legal system finds a loop hole to turn them loose at least they won't be breeders.
...good point.
This seems to happen a lot by guys whose mommas couldn't give them real names.
If you're referring to Shayona...that is a female (I won't use the term woman or lady), the male's name is Aaron...but I know what you mean. I pity teachers today trying to figure out how to pronounce all these "unique monikers!"
Nah I'm waiting until the ACLU tries to remove the word Jesus from schools. In every hispanic area all the teachers will be in trouble right after they call the roll. At least one boy in each class will be named Jesus.
I hope it is prosecuted as a hate crime. The stupid girl hit him with a shoe, made sure the police had video evidence, she is being charged with armed robbery. Sometimes life is sweet.
yeppers, karma hard at work.
I am not racist in any way shape or form, but after all of the Treyvon Martin 'hoodie march' bs, I say we have nude rallys until these people are all arrested and brought to justice!!
Drats! Now I need to clean my monitor!
Just sad.
HENCE the name African-American.
What do you mean?
whoops, that was directed at unkn0wn1
This is a hate crime plain and simple but they won't be charged for that since the aggressors are not white and the victim a minority. Sad but true.
It is a hate crime. There were way more black people than white people in that video, I feel sure he was singled out just because of the color of his skin. It will be interesting to see if the prosecution sees it that way.
Sheila don't hold your breath. Nobody gives a damn the victim is white. Didn't you know discrimination cannot happen to white people. We are just supposed to stand there and die.
Perfect example first they want your jewels/cash and then they want your crapy shorts too..........what more do they want a 9mm slug.
some backward scum jealous of the white man
This brutal video was televised on the evening news. Kudos to those responsible for the arrest of these 2 THUGS who, in all probability, were too'' work-shy'' to hold down a job. Hopefully, it is just a matter of time before their partners-in-crime are rounded-up to face the ''music.'' Expect the local chapter of the NAACP to keep a low profile on this crime. No taking to the streets chanting in a ''hoodie march.''
poor street kid doomed from the start; how'd she expect him / her to spell shayonna mika correctly ? aren't even in most popular names rev. 24