Not surprised the video didn't get uploaded until after the guy went to jail, I figured there had to be a reason for the 5-month delay. Glad the victim moved away.

Booker Assails an Attack and Those Who Kept Silent

By NATE SCHWEBER

Published: February 13, 2013

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Mayor Cory A. Booker at a news conference Wednesday.

“In the face of evil, those who remain quiet are participants in that evil,” Mr. Booker said. “We’re better than this.”

http://news.msn.com/us/3-...g-whipping

paintedlady said:

cbarnes3121 said:

that video hurt and abused my feelings to know that black people live so hard and do such harsh things to each other.we need 2 make a major change and alot of it has 2 do wit the music and movies these kids watching

Movies???

With all due respect, the problem is the non-parenting going on.

My kids can watch all types of shit on TV... if I parent them then they should know better.

These young men have no one to be accountable to, parent who allow them (and encourage them) to make money over having an education and hate the police. They teach their children to hate the police and to not respect authority.

Its a "Lord of the Flies" world they live in where the children raise themselves. The mothers are too busy doing themselves and so are their absentee fathers.

This kid who was attacked had a dad that owed some thug 20 dollars, why the hell any grown man owing some little asshole 20 dollars????

The sad part is, most likely the victim has a father who lives in fear of these thugs also.

No one is protecting the kids who fall victims to predators.

I see grown women ready to fuck and suck little boys, even ones in their own families. They do not value those boys having a childhood, or any joy.

I see grown men not available to father their own. They stand by and let the boys stay lost.

Mothers who pay more attention to their damned nails than their children.

We live in an age where mommas buy and iphone before they buy diapers and food.

They just are fine with allowing their kids to go hungry... go without... so kids are left to worry for themselves.

We should blame ourselves, since most of these kids learn evil first hand.... from us.

I love you!

Love ya back Shorty...

but damn these were men??? These guys are older than I expected them to be. Where's the maturity that you have to sweat 20 dollars from anyone? You have to gang up on, whip and berate somebody's son who owes you 20 fucking dollars?

If YOU and your homies (who are 23-31 years old!!!) are sweating 20 dollars that hard then its time someone should whip your asses for being scrubs.

Good grief.

and this mofo here Mr Camera man looks shook already.. i hope they have a field day on his ass in jail..

cbarnes3121 said:

Timmy84 said:

Music and movies don't have anything to do with the nonsense on that tape. It's human beings.

u must not be black then honey these kids are copying the images of what they see and feel is the coolest thing 2 be u cant always blame parenting 4 everything yea it plays a big part but what goes on in our society is a big part as well. u sound like a fucking rapper they wanna feel the radio and tv with graphic images but dont wanna take responsiblity when kids copy them.

Did you have to go there? No, I don't agree that the media is 100% to blame for what happened here but believe what you believe, I guess.

banks said:

Booker Assails an Attack and Those Who Kept Silent

By NATE SCHWEBER

Published: February 13, 2013

NEWARK — Beating his fist on a lectern Wednesday, Mayor Cory A. Booker railed not only at three men charged with forcing another man to strip naked before savagely whipping him and capturing it on video, but especially at those who knew about the attack and did not tell the police.

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Mayor Cory A. Booker at a news conference Wednesday.

“In the face of evil, those who remain quiet are participants in that evil,” Mr. Booker said. “We’re better than this.”

Mr. Booker, a Democratic Senate candidate who has made improving the hardscrabble image of the state’s largest city a cornerstone of his two terms as mayor, held a news conference at the police communications center to address the crime, which took place in August and came to the attention of the police on Friday.

The Newark police identified the three suspects over the weekend after they saw the video, which had been viewed widely. The video, which has been removed from YouTube, shows the thin victim cowering as he is slashed with a belt. In between the cracking sounds of the belt’s striking flesh, the laughter of accomplices can be heard.

The suspects, all from Newark, are each charged with armed robbery and aggravated assault. The police said Ahmad Holt, 22, did the whipping and was incarcerated in Trenton on an unrelated charge. Raheem Clark, 31, is accused of giving Mr. Holt his belt, the police said, and was arrested in Newark on Tuesday. The police said that the cameraman, who can be seen squirting water on the victim, was Jamaar Gray, 23, and that he turned himself in on Tuesday.

For Mr. Booker, the fact that this attack went unreported for months despite being witnessed, videotaped and uploaded added insult to injury. On Wednesday, he struck the lectern, sending a loud bleat of microphone feedback through speakers.

“Others saw this brutality and said nothing; this vicious crime was not reported,” he said, also paraphrasing the dictum attributed to the British orator Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Newark’s police director, Samuel DeMaio, said that after the police saw the video, they identified the spot where the assault took place as an alley off Irvine Turner Boulevard. Mr. DeMaio said officers canvassed the neighborhood and found several people who knew about the attack, then used that information to find the victim, who the police said was 21 and had moved away out of concern for his safety. Mr. DeMaio said the victim had not reported the assault because he feared his assailants.

The police director said the victim’s father had owed $20 to the suspects, who all had gang affiliations and had stolen that amount from the victim.

Carolyn Murray, acting prosecutor for Essex County, said the men could each face 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted of armed robbery, and 5 to 10 years if convicted of aggravated assault. They could also be charged with crimes for uploading the video, she said, but it was unclear who had uploaded the video.

Of more than a dozen people interviewed on Wednesday afternoon near the spot where the victim was whipped, none would give their names. A young man who said he had seen the assault described it as “not a big deal,” adding, “The mayor just made it a problem because it made him look bad.”

Mr. Booker said he had received hundreds of calls, e-mails and Twitter messages from people who had seen the video and were aghast.

“There is a brutal culture in this community,” he said. “It’s not the city’s culture, but it’s a subculture of violence and crime. And the reality is it’s something I think we could fight a lot better if more people who were not involved found a way to speak up, engage and do something.”

http://www.nytimes.com/20....html?_r=0

Thanks Banks... People need to stop being silent and get rid of that no snitching bullshit.

paintedlady said:

Love ya back Shorty...

but damn these were men??? These guys are older than I expected them to be. Where's the maturity that you have to sweat 20 dollars from anyone? You have to gang up on, whip and berate somebody's son who owes you 20 fucking dollars?

If YOU and your homies (who are 23-31 years old!!!) are sweating 20 dollars that hard then its time someone should whip your asses for being scrubs.

Good grief.

Men?! These were fucking PUNKS! Straight up. Men my ass.

Timmy84 said:

paintedlady said:

Love ya back Shorty...

but damn these were men??? These guys are older than I expected them to be. Where's the maturity that you have to sweat 20 dollars from anyone? You have to gang up on, whip and berate somebody's son who owes you 20 fucking dollars?

If YOU and your homies (who are 23-31 years old!!!) are sweating 20 dollars that hard then its time someone should whip your asses for being scrubs.

Good grief.

Men?! These were fucking PUNKS! Straight up. Men my ass.

Exactly. 20 damn dollars. STUPID.

Seriously the judge should make an example of those overgrown kids, teach them something their parents never taught them.