Attack in Cedar Rapids leaves teen with broken jaw
Victim’s mother says the attack was unprovoked
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Photo: Christian Meek
One boy had his jaw broken and another had teeth knocked out in what has been described as a random assault Tuesday in Cedar Rapids.
Police are investigating the incident, which was reported around 1 p.m. in front of 368 20th St. SE, but no arrests have been made. Parents of the four teenage boys, who they say were “jumped,” are furious about the incident, which happened after the first day of school.
Stephenie Meek, 40, of Cedar Rapids, said her 14-year-old son Christian was walking home from Washington High School with three friends when someone shouted at them to “Get off my block.” She said the boys did not respond and kept walking. That’s when four boys or young men came off a porch [Hah!], started following the group, and then one hit her son from behind.
“He hit Christian from behind, broke his jaw and severed his nerve,” Meek said. “He may lose feeling permanently from his jaw to his lower lip.”
Meek said her son was out of surgery by Wednesday night and will spend the night at the hospital before he is expected to be released on Thursday.
Another boy, a 15-year-old, had his two front teeth knocked out. A 16-year-old boy had a cut on his face and a black eye. A fourth boy was not injured.
Charity Flood, 39, who lives next door, said she witnessed the last 30 seconds of the assault. She said a bigger boy, was “beating (one boy) relentlessly into the ground.” She said the assailants ran off to the north on 20th Street SE, and she called 911 at the boys’ request.
“You could tell his teeth were gone,” Flood said. “Blood was just streaming out.” Flood said she has lived here for 17 years and has never seen this happen.
A neighbor from across the street brought out ice and searched in the grass for the 15-year-old’s teeth, neighbors said. Ambulances took two victims to St. Luke’s Hospital, where doctors performed surgery on Meek on Wednesday. Meek said her son can only ingest food through a straw and must keep his jaw closed for the next two weeks.
Stephenie Meek said she is unsure if the attack was racially motivated [who said the attackers were a different race? Oh, you just sort of did. Way to give the game away, Stephanie]. Flood said her daughter, also a Washington student, has heard of a practice where older males encourage younger males into beatings before they join a group. Meek said she wondered the same thing.
“I don’t know if it’s gang-related, some sort of initiation, but it was completely unprovoked,” Meek said.
Police have not commented publicly about any possible motives for the attack. Sgt. Cristy Hamblin said investigators have some possible names of the assailants, and were working to locate them.
Meek said the 15-year-old victim had his front teeth replaced and was released from the hospital. She said her son will likely be out of school for a while post-surgery. She said her son and his friends like video games and are “harmless.”
“He’s the type of kid that, without being asked, goes out and cleans up the city, picking up trash,” Meek said.
The attack startled Flood, who said she will no longer let her daughter walk home from school. She said it’s not worth the risk.
“You hear about it in inner-city Chicago, but I never thought it would happen in my front yard,” Flood said.
http://thegazette.com/2012/08/22/attack-in-cedar-rapids-leaves-teen-with-broken-jaw/
This is horrible. There were basically no blacks in Iowa at all when I lived there. Many people I knew had never even seen a black person except on trips or vacations out of state. People in Iowa are simply not used to the violence and crime that seems to follow blacks everywhere they go.
Apparently, black migration into the state got started when the mayor of Dubuque decided that, quote, “there wasn’t enough diversity” in his city, and invited unemployed blacks from Chicago to move into public housing there.
And the rest is history.
Of course because we know that blacks commit all the crimes. Since this is violence against whites are you going to post the links to articles of white on white crime? The latest ones being the movie theater shootout, the school shootout? Last I checked these are crimes committed by whites against whites.
Do these not count? White people are really angry and violent now especially the men. You should really try and focus on that, are they afraid that they are losing their power. I know it’s a travesty to only own 99% of the world and minorities (blacks, asians, hispanics etc etc) are speaking up, but don’t let that bring you down. It’s your own hubris that makes you believe the world is yours when in fact it is not..
Stop spreading hate it solves nothing, be part of the solution. It’s 2013 not 1813.
It’s funny the amount of people who come to my blog and tell me what they think I should be blogging about. If you think there should be a blog about white-on-white violence, then start one, no one’s stopping you.
So there’s been three-or-four high profile shootings in America perpetrated by white shooters recently. That’s a drop in the ocean compared to the victims of black-on-white and Asian-on-white and Latino-on-white crime. This blog isn’t just about America by the way. And non-whites commit these spree shootings too. http://violenceagainstwhites.wordpress.com/tag/massacre/ http://violenceagainstwhites.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/long-list-of-black-serial-killers-spree-killers-etc-some-where-they-explicitly-admit-a-racial-bias-some-where-they-dont/ http://violenceagainstwhites.wordpress.com/statistics/
You say white men are angry that they’re losing their power. Which shooting does this motive apply to? That Batman shooting and the Sandy Hook shooting were young mentally ill men barely in their twenties. The Sandy Hook shooter was angry at his mother, he shot her first. So you’re reading a political motive into them that just isn’t there.
Whites do not own 99% of the world. We are not claiming the world. We are claiming our small part of the world. You seem to think that white countries = the world, and they don’t. How many white people are there in Asia? How many white people are there in South America? How many white people are there in Africa? The few whites that haven’t fled Zimbabwe and South Africa are being genocided by racist blacks. You should really try and focus on that.
It’s 2013, not 1963.