The national media won't cover this 'local news story'
The new thing between protesters and thugs seems to be waylaying people in their cars.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_d71b49dd-b8a5-5f9c-9803-93b1ffbe56f3.html
A little background on St. Louis:
The city used to have over 800,000 people mid0century until postwar decline caused that number to plummet to ~319,000. A city which has lost a half a million people, more than half its population, is going to have problems in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Bosnians_in_St._Louis
So ~20% of the city's population is fairly recent Bosnian immigrants which I'm sure the resident underclass resents.
The new thing between protesters and thugs seems to be waylaying people in their cars.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_d71b49dd-b8a5-5f9c-9803-93b1ffbe56f3.html
Attack on Bosnian woman near Bevo Mill is called a hate crime
DECEMBER 06, 2014 6:45 AM • BY DOUG MOORE [email protected] 314-340-8125
St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson has called in the FBI to help investigate what he is calling a hate crime because a woman assaulted by three black teens is Bosnian.
The Friday morning attack occurred in the Bevo Mill neighborhood where earlier this week a Bosnian man was killed with a hammer by a group of teens.
In Friday’s case, the woman, 26, told police that she was driving in the 4600 block of Lansdowne Avenue about 5:25 a.m. when three men in their late teens to early 20s walked in front of her vehicle.
When the woman attempted to drive around the young men, at least one of them pulled a gun and ordered her to stop. One of the men struck the windshield with an object police said could have been a crowbar. The woman was pulled from the vehicle while another of the men opened the passenger door and went through the woman’s purse, saying it was empty. One of the men threw her cellphone to the ground and stomped on it.
One of the men asked where the woman was from. She said she was European.
“You’re a (expletive) liar. You’re Bosnian. I should just kill you now,” Dotson said of the woman’s account.
Based on that comment, he said, police are labeling the assault as a hate crime.
The woman was pushed to the ground and kicked before the attackers fled. A passer-by told police the woman was found unconscious. She declined to be taken to a hospital for treatment, saying she would go later.
The incident occurred five days after Zemir Begic, a 32-year-old Bosnian man, was killed in the 4200 block of Itaska Street. About 1:15 a.m. Sunday, he was walking to his car with his fiancée and two others when four teens confronted the group. At least one of them struck Begic with a hammer. He suffered injuries to his face, head and abdomen. Police said they have no evidence to believe Begic was targeted because of his race, although some in the community have doubts.
A little background on St. Louis:
The city used to have over 800,000 people mid0century until postwar decline caused that number to plummet to ~319,000. A city which has lost a half a million people, more than half its population, is going to have problems in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Bosnians_in_St._Louis
As of 2013 there were 70,000 Bosnians in St. Louis. This is the largest population of Bosnians in the United States and the largest Bosnian population outside of Europe.
So ~20% of the city's population is fairly recent Bosnian immigrants which I'm sure the resident underclass resents.
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