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reply posted on 7-10-2008 @ 06:00 PM by Kailassa
To retell what actually happened:

Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend 'Believe'. The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting 'I f***ing hate n*****s' and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.

The man then left the shop but when Mr Egwuatu re-emerged, the attacker was waiting for him in broad daylight with a threatening-looking dog and holding a gun behind his back. Realising what had sparked the increasingly violent assault, the terrified Mr Egwuatu zipped up his jacket to cover the image of Mr Obama and walked to his car. But the shaven-headed man, who was white, followed Mr Egwuatu and after pulling open the passenger door pointed the gun at him.

After pleading with the man to leave him alone, the married former street warden put the keys in the ignition and turned the engine on. The attacker then fired the gas-powered ball-bearing pistol three times, hitting the civil servant in the face, hand and shoulder. Fearing for his life and bleeding heavily, Mr Egwuatu raced away in his car and found somewhere safe to call for help. He was taken to hospital and later sent to have a piece of metal removed from his jaw.


And on the safety of BB guns and air rifles:

Nonpowder guns kill an average of four Americans yearly, and from 1990 to 2000, there were 39 such deaths -- 32 of children younger than 15, the study found.


I guess it's ok here to ridicule the attack and blame the victim when he's black, the attacker is white, and the attack is racial hatred..


reply posted on 7-10-2008 @ 09:36 PM by Rockpuck
reply to post by lee anoma


But.... but..... wait....
[size=4]Doesn't the UK have gun laws???[/size]



S'pose the bad guys did not resort to spoons after all eh?

[edit on 10/7/2008 by Rockpuck]

[edit on 10/7/2008 by Rockpuck]


reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 12:05 AM by Gamechanger
Originally posted by lee anoma

Man shot for wearing Obama T-shirt


itn.co.uk
Mr Egwuatu was attacked as he tried to buy a mobile phone card at an off-licence in Upper Norwood, south London, on Sunday afternoon while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an image of the black US presidential candidate.

A man confronted Mr Egwuatu inside the shop and launched a volley of racist abuse before chasing him with a Staffordshire bull terrier.
(visit the link for the full news article)


Related News Links:
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I do think the media is sensationalizing this piece. It leads the average American who only skims headlines the idea that a man was

A) Shot with a real gun, injured or dead as a result
B) Shot for the explicit reason that he was wearing an Obama shirt.

All that we know for sure from the evidence presented in the news article is that a man with a clearly ethnic (Middle Eastern possibly?) name, and therefore probably appearance, was shot with a BB gun by another person who spat racial slurs.

How do we know that it was because of the Obama shirt at all? The assault could have been based solely on the basis of the victim's race, nowhere does it specify that the Obama shirt was the true object of hate here.


reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 12:20 AM by lee anoma
reply to post by Sublime620


Thanks for the sanity, Sublime.

Jeez...the man was racially berated, chased, threatened with a pit bull, accosted and shot but since it was a "BB" gun it's not a violent attack according to some members here.

What sort of lives are you living where that's normal?

You do know this constitutes assault right folks?
You don't have to be beaten to death for it to be a crime.

Good grief.


Originally posted by Sublime620
And I will concede that possibly this thread title should be changed. It is misleading, but the article itself is exactly as it should be.


...and those are the rules.
There are a number of ways I wanted to write the title but that would break policy.

Every article I saw said he was "shot".
Rightfully so, because he was.

Bullets aren't the only thing a person can be shot with.
If you assumed it was a .45, you did that on your own and didn't read.

- Lee



reply posted on 8-10-2008 @ 12:30 AM by lee anoma
reply to post by Rockpuck


They usually use knives.
Personally I like the odds should I ever have to face a nut with a beef.

What if he did have easy access to a gun though?
Be a whole different story, I imagine.

Thank goodness that wasn't the case and the victim actually walked away without having massive holes in his chest.



- Lee
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