Peoria Chronicle:
Peorians living in fear
This eye-witness account is from Paul Wilkinson, president of the Altamont Park Neighborhood Association:
Tonight, around 11 p.m., a group of at least 60-70 African American youth marched down one of the side streets (W. Thrush) to the 4 lane main drag (Sheridan). They were yelling threats to white residents. Things such as we need to kill alll the white people around here. They were physically intimidating anyone calling for help from the police. They were surrounding cars. Cars on the main drag had to slam on their brakes to either avoid the youth blocking not only all four lanes, but a large section of the side street as well. fights were breaking out among them. They were rushing residents who looked out their doors, going on to porches, yelling threats to people calling the police for help.“The fifth large mob action in about a month.” Wow. This is really outrageous. Why is this neighborhood having to put up with this? “Residents were advised to simply keep inside and to lock their doors”? Seriously? That’s the best we can do for our fellow citizens’ safety?
Cars were doing U turns on the streets just to avoid the mob, mostly male. One youth stated his grandfather was white and several assaulted him on the spot. One police officer answered the call. The youth split into two large groups, one heading north, the other south. They were also yelling racial threats to the police officer but he was outnumbered. Another police car did not show up until after the youth finally dispersed and the patty wagon (van) also eventually showed up.
Residents are very shaken, both black and white alike. This is the fifth large mob action in about a month with smaller groups of 10-12 are out threatening children and adults a few evenings a week or later into the night. The times vary, even occuring during the day. In talking to the police officer, they are short staffed. Residents were advised to simply keep inside and to lock their doors. In other words buckle down, it’s not even safe to sit on your porch or go into your yards.
This needs to be addressed, and quickly.
UPDATES - from Pastorius:
- From the Peoria Star Journal (the primary newspaper in Peoria, Illinois) Allegations of racist threats and mob-style intimidation in a West Bluff neighborhood Friday captured national attention over the weekend, but some say the claims were exaggerated. Paul Wilkinson, who has lived on Sheridan for 11 years, says the group was blocking four lanes of traffic, fighting and yelling racist comments at neighbors. "They were yelling 'We're gonna kill all the white people. This is our neighborhood,'" Wilkinson, 45, said. He emailed his account of the incident to several City Council members and one local blogger. Police responded to Thrush on Friday night on a report of fireworks and fighting but found neither of those activities occurring, a police report stated. The group dispersed in multiple directions when an officer arrived. No one was arrested. Khalid Davis, who lives on Thrush, said the group blocked a few cars but was very orderly. He witnessed no fights and called the racist allegations a "heck of an exaggeration." "If I heard them screaming any such thing, I would have called police immediately," said Davis, 62. Wilkinson, the president of the Altamont Park Neighborhood Association, said Sunday the neighborhood has seen its share of problems with drugs and guns in his 11 years there, but the problems have visibly increased as of late. He said police recommended residents stay inside and keep their doors locked. The effects of the allegations were evident in the neighborhood Sunday. A police nuisance abatement truck called the Armadillo, outfitted with cameras, was parked on the side of Thrush. Peoria City Councilwoman Barbara Van Auken said Sunday she is outraged by Wilkinson's allegations. Van Auken, who has known Wilkinson for six years, said he's had a history of "wildly exaggerating" reports, many of them involving race. And police are well aware of it.
- Here's another perspective, from the Peorian Pundit: Now for some facts. Paul Wilkinson. I have met this guy and I have found him to be a caring individual who has taken the time to form a neighborhood organization and defend the area he lives in. He has volunteered at many civic events and he is very knowledgeable about the inner city workings and politics. To put it bluntly, he knows who is sucking who’s dick to get things done in this town and he knows who the phony assholes are. This tends to make him a target for a few of our esteem elected officials and some city staffers. No one likes to be told they got shit on their nose. So if Paul is lying, then this is the first I have ever heard him do so. But, did he embellish this story? Maybe. His neighborhood, like many others in Peoria, except maybe out north where people step away from their BBQ’s and admire the evening rainbow, have some serious problems and after banging your head for years, maybe one does tend to embellish. Did he cause some damage? Fuck no. If our city’s image is tarnished then it’s from the many commenter’s who see violence as end to a result. That’s worse than any thugs doing the same. It’s from the lack of leadership from our elected leaders and our Mayor. Time will tell whether Paul has lost it or something did indeed happen the other night. Me? I can’t imagine a group a black kids being belligerent and using vulgar language. After all, I was in the lunch room at Peoria High last fall and I heard many in that line call the women working the line (yes, lunch ladies) bitches, Ho’s, and tell them to “Give me a fucking cheeseburger” Yes these young men were black but most of the lunch ladies are too. Peoria High has problems and it’s some of the clientele. Now for the reaction from the media and the response from the Second District councilwoman, Barbara Van Auken. This whole thing happened in the Second and she comes out and calls Paul a liar straight away. This is the same woman who when drunk with her rich friend, went to the Frat house’s on the Bradley campus and tried to quell a party at one of them. When the Bradley police arrived, she not only called them fake cops but stuck her boney finger into the chest of the officer while telling him so. What it boils down to is this; Wilkinson has butted heads with Van Auken many times. Could it be because she says one thing and does another? As for the Thrush and Sheridan and throw in McQueen Street also, these areas are shit boxes to be sure. It isn’t because of home owners trying to make their neighborhood a better place, it’s because many moved out, sold their homes for a dime and now fat rich whites, who some of don’t even live in Peoria, bought these houses and they don’t give a damn who they rent them to. So, in comes the element. Is it mostly black? Yes it is in this case. Are all these blacks thugs? No, many are just black families trying to make a living and get a roof over their heads. They are targets just like white folk are and maybe more so.
- Did the police back down the other night? I seriously doubt it. Are they stressed and understaffed? You bet your ass they are and we should thank our lucky stars we have people like these men and women who take this job and do it well. We have black officers too ya know. So, maybe the crowd wasn’t as big as some perceived it to be. Maybe they did flip off a few cars as they passed. Gee, in this town, driving from A to B, it’s hard not to get the finger from someone. Everyone is so uptight these days. I firmly believe Paul saw what he thought he saw, and I firmly believe when the police arrived, the thugs scattered like rats they are. And the game goes on…. Let’s put our race cards away for the rest of the week and maybe, step outside for a change and if you see your neighbor, say “Hello” and while you are out, maybe drop a note to our Mayor and tell him what a dumbass Van Auken is for her remarks about our elected Council members both of whom I neither consider dumb or gullible. ...
21 comments:
The descent into anarchy?
What the hell inspired this kind of behavior? Wow.
One wonders if it is, in part, a media-generated frenzy. In other words, 10-12 kids get tanked up on beer one night, go out and do some crazy shit, the media reports on it, and the next time they get tanked up, they get even more kids, cuz they know they're gonna get attention from the media, and so they get more specific and outrageous in their threatening behavior, and round and round and down and down from there.
I just put up a few more similar stories that happened over the weekend in Chicago, Philly, Darby, Cleveland.
While I don't think these are organized acros cities they are organized within. The flash mobs in stores have been happening in Philly for sometime now. Maybe elsewhere, too, but I live near Philly so that's what I hear about most.
The attention they get fuels it in part but it is Twitter and Facebook et al that let's them organize, as they did in Tunisia and Egypt and Libya etc.
Whether these are just youths behaving very badly or not I don't know but I have my doubts. Something deeper is going on here. Or it is going to lead to it.
As I said to you yesterday, Pasto, we are now 2 years away from the summer when the bottom fell out of the employment situation. People who were let go from June 2009 onward and have still not been able to get re-employed are begining to exhaust the last of their unemployment benefits in numbers we have not seen before. It is only going to accelerate now. And as these people cannot pay for mortgages or rent for that matter, when they go to the cupboard and can't find bread or coffee or milk in the fridge and their kids are geting hngry this is going to get very ugly. Wee'll be seeing these types of things and worse coming from otherwise normal adults. So it's no big surprise that over the weekend economists were saying they expect a major slide in the economy over the next few months. We've been saying that here for a long time now.
The great irony, of course, is that as these people fall off the unemployment books, they will no longer count aws unemployed and the administration will be able to say "Look! Unemployment is down!" while scratching their heads and asses and balls trying to figure out why everyone is so angry.
In a post above ronmorgan comments gird yourselves.
He's right.
To which I add arm yourselves.
It's interesting that people accuse Obama of being a Gramscian, or of following the Cloward-Piven method, but they don't ask the question, TO WHAT END?
Could it be ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_revolution
You guys are overthinking this. When a rampaging black mob is yelling that they want to "kill all the white people", we should probably take them at their word rather than try to rationalize an alternative explanation.
Black mobs aren't doing this in Peoria and all around the rest of the country because of the bad economy, they're doing this because they hate white people, period. This is nothing new, it's just that they now feel emboldened to act out their racist violence against whites. These are Obama's stormtroopers/brownshirts, giving Americans a taste of what's going to happen on a colossal scale if their man loses the 2012 election. You've been warned, whitey.
Great work in accumulating these stories, MR. Did you hear about the kid in S. Carolina who was beaten to within an inch of his life by a black mob, solely because he was white? Bloody awful. It's going to be a long, hot summer.
Man, I wish they'd come down to a Texas suburban or rural neighborhood and try this shit.
This is like a dream come true for someone who's been stocking up on ammo waiting for the day he can use it to clear his lawn.
I did, Jeppo, and forgot to post it. Just did so now, thank you for the reminder.
They are charging the gang under a former lynching law.
By the way, Glenn Beck opened his show tonight by litanizing all these stories.
At least we're not the only ones seeing it.
Drudge was reporting these types of stories a few weeks back, wasn't he?
RT-- we have a well defended cul-de-sac here. We could sit in our living rooms from an elevated position.
Bring it.
It would give that dead end street sign in front of my house a whole new meaning.
Pastorius -- yes, but these are all from the last couple days. Some are from Drudge, others elsewhere. But yeah, it's something that's been building up.
He's also been reporting a rash of copper theft lately.
Interesting observation about the Unemployment benefits running out.
I too have been waiting to see how that manifests itself.
..... I think most of us here have come to conclude that our Muslim problem is not going to be properly addressed until there is some kind of cataclysmic event that evaporates our fear of incarceration for policing our communities.
But Nuclear explosions are not the only way to empty urban supermarket shelves.
I'm certainly not looking forward to the day I have to be on neighborhood sentry duty, keeping watch for marauding bands of ethnic tribesmen looking to do a little extraconstitutional wealth / resource redistribution.
But, if you look at it from a longer term perspective ...... it will be the first steps back to our restoration........ or our permanent marginalization.
Depends on whether you and I decide to hunker down and wait for them to come to our cul-de-sac, or whether we help organize and enforce transportation blockades on our urban centers.
Food and water are our ultimate weapons.
The suburbs are, unfortunately, the front line.
In that eventuality, RT, some neighborhoods will be fortunate or closely knit enough to form neighborhood watches etc.
But I think as much as we may need to concern ourselves with ethnic maruaders -- whatever ethnicity they may be -- there will be neighbor on neighbor trouble as food or funds for it begin to run short.
If there were white mobs even coming close to this behavior in any US city, I guarantee that the towns streets would be lined with National Guardsmen while the FBI was investigating every nook and cranny in order to charge people with civil rights offenses.
http://www.pjstar.com/news/x2069925100/Account-of-racist-Peoria-mob-spurs-national-attention
Allegations of racist threats and mob-style intimidation in a West Bluff neighborhood Friday captured national attention over the weekend, but some say the claims were exaggerated.
Paul Wilkinson, who has lived on Sheridan for 11 years, says the group was blocking four lanes of traffic, fighting and yelling racist comments at neighbors.
"They were yelling 'We're gonna kill all the white people. This is our neighborhood,'" Wilkinson, 45, said.
He emailed his account of the incident to several City Council members and one local blogger.
Police responded to Thrush on Friday night on a report of fireworks and fighting but found neither of those activities occurring, a police report stated. The group dispersed in multiple directions when an officer arrived. No one was arrested.
Khalid Davis, who lives on Thrush, said the group blocked a few cars but was very orderly. He witnessed no fights and called the racist allegations a "heck of an exaggeration."
"If I heard them screaming any such thing, I would have called police immediately," said Davis, 62.
Wilkinson, the president of the Altamont Park Neighborhood Association, said Sunday the neighborhood has seen its share of problems with drugs and guns in his 11 years there, but the problems have visibly increased as of late. He said police recommended residents stay inside and keep their doors locked.
The effects of the allegations were evident in the neighborhood Sunday. A police nuisance abatement truck called the Armadillo, outfitted with cameras, was parked on the side of Thrush.
Peoria City Councilwoman Barbara Van Auken said Sunday she is outraged by Wilkinson's allegations.
Van Auken, who has known Wilkinson for six years, said he's had a history of "wildly exaggerating" reports, many of them involving race. And police are well aware of it.
Here's another perspective:
http://peoriaantipundit.blogspot.com/2011/06/sohow-was-your-weekend.html
Now for some facts. Paul Wilkinson. I have met this guy and I have found him to be a caring individual who has taken the time to form a neighborhood organization and defend the area he lives in. He has volunteered at many civic events and he is very knowledgeable about the inner city workings and politics. To put it bluntly, he knows who is sucking who’s dick to get things done in this town and he knows who the phony assholes are. This tends to make him a target for a few of our esteem elected officials and some city staffers. No one likes to be told they got shit on their nose. So if Paul is lying, then this is the first I have ever heard him do so. But, did he embellish this story? Maybe. His neighborhood, like many others in Peoria, except maybe out north where people step away from their BBQ’s and admire the evening rainbow, have some serious problems and after banging your head for years, maybe one does tend to embellish. Did he cause some damage? Fuck no. If our city’s image is tarnished then it’s from the many commenter’s who see violence as end to a result. That’s worse than any thugs doing the same. It’s from the lack of leadership from our elected leaders and our Mayor.
Time will tell whether Paul has lost it or something did indeed happen the other night. Me? I can’t imagine a group a black kids being belligerent and using vulgar language. After all, I was in the lunch room at Peoria High last fall and I heard many in that line call the women working the line (yes, lunch ladies) bitches, Ho’s, and tell them to “Give me a fucking cheeseburger” Yes these young men were black but most of the lunch ladies are too. Peoria High has problems and it’s some of the clientele.
Now for the reaction from the media and the response from the Second District councilwoman, Barbara Van Auken. This whole thing happened in the Second and she comes out and calls Paul a liar straight away. This is the same woman who when drunk with her rich friend, went to the Frat house’s on the Bradley campus and tried to quell a party at one of them. When the Bradley police arrived, she not only called them fake cops but stuck her boney finger into the chest of the officer while telling him so.
What it boils down to is this; Wilkinson has butted heads with Van Auken many times. Could it be because she says one thing and does another?
As for the Thrush and Sheridan and throw in McQueen Street also, these areas are shit boxes to be sure. It isn’t because of home owners trying to make their neighborhood a better place, it’s because many moved out, sold their homes for a dime and now fat rich whites, who some of don’t even live in Peoria, bought these houses and they don’t give a damn who they rent them to. So, in comes the element. Is it mostly black? Yes it is in this case. Are all these blacks thugs? No, many are just black families trying to make a living and get a roof over their heads. They are targets just like white folk are and maybe more so.
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Did the police back down the other night? I seriously doubt it. Are they stressed and understaffed? You bet your ass they are and we should thank our lucky stars we have people like these men and women who take this job and do it well. We have black officers too ya know. So, maybe the crowd wasn’t as big as some perceived it to be. Maybe they did flip off a few cars as they passed. Gee, in this town, driving from A to B, it’s hard not to get the finger from someone. Everyone is so uptight these days.
I firmly believe Paul saw what he thought he saw, and I firmly believe when the police arrived, the thugs scattered like rats they are. And the game goes on….
Let’s put our race cards away for the rest of the week and maybe, step outside for a change and if you see your neighbor, say “Hello” and while you are out, maybe drop a note to our Mayor and tell him what a dumbass Van Auken is for her remarks about our elected Council members both of whom I neither consider dumb or gullible.
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Apparently, these teenage flash mob robberies are not rare in Washington, D.C. Even tony Georgetown is not immune.
A commenter at my site said the following:
I believe this is tame compared to what will happen if Hussein is tossed out next year.
While we cannot afford another four years and we need to get him out, some people are not going to take it well.
For better or worse we are not Japan.
Woodstock >> Altamont
Ohio Union - Glee >> Peoria - Kill all the white people
If this DID NOT happen, I would be surprised.
Humans are not weak, they are TERRIBLY WEAK
Hi guys.
Related?
Martial Law Provision Secretly Passed In Congress Committee.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/753/154/Martial_Law_Provision_Secretly_Passed_In_Congress_Committee.html
I think it happened. However, I do have a very hard time believing it happened exactly the way it was described by Wilkinson. I think the truth is likely closer to being a combination of the three stories in this post.
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