I actually saw this over at Sweetness & Light News Forum this morning. It is so appalling I wanted to share it. I hope if anyone can learn anything from this, it’s to just not stand around like a spineless idiot while these types of atrocities are being committed. I hope this video can be shown to all this thug’s future prison roomies.
DETROIT —
A convenience store surveillance video shows each punch 91-year-old Leonard Sims took to the side of his face during a carjacking.But the tape also caught a group of people standing only feet away who either didn’t see the attack or chose not to get involved.
“You can’t really tell what they were focusing on,” Maria Miller, a spokeswoman for the Wayne County prosecutor’s office, said Monday.
That’s bull, these people knew exactly what was going on. You can’t be that close and not.
Miller said at least one bystander did report the May 4 attack outside the store in Detroit.
Sims was outside his car in the store parking lot about 8:30 p.m. when a man walked up and asked for a light for his cigarette, according to the prosecutor’s office.
The man then punched Sims at least a half-dozen times in the side of his head while Sims held onto the car door. The video also shows the man using the door to knock Sims to the ground before taking the keys and driving off in the 2005 Chevy Malibu.
Detroit police arrested the man last Thursday following a foot chase in Warren, just north of Detroit.
Deonte Edward Bradley, 22, of Detroit was arraigned Friday on assault with intent to do great bodily harm and carjacking in connection with the attack.
Officials at 36th District Court in Detroit said Monday that a lawyer had not yet been assigned to Bradley.
“Is there really any reason to beat a 91-year-old just to take his car?” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement. “Carjacking is bad enough, but there was absolutely no reason for him to brutalize one of our senior citizens to accomplish his criminal goal.”
A visibly bruised Sims told WDIV-TV that his attacker was of “very low character.”
“If he wanted the car, he could have grabbed the keys and taken off,” Sims said.
A preliminary examination is scheduled for May 23.
Comment posted by Kaida Rose
at 5/26/2007 8:44:51 PM
Carjakers are as**oles. No offence.
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at 5/26/2007 7:01:40 PM
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Comment posted by wytammic
at 5/26/2007 4:35:47 PM
Yeah, I knew you were talking about the invasion of Iraq. I was simply mocking you for being an idiot by drawing any sort of correlation between bringing democracy to a nation that was under a brutal dictator and some thug beating a senior citizen to get his car.
Comment posted by TCO
at 5/26/2007 2:06:52 PM
I was referring to the US invasion of Iraq. The United States was not invaded on 9/11, that’s one of the silliest things I’ve ever read on the Internet.
People saw the US invade Iraq, kill hundreds of thousands of people. No one did anything about it. People saw some old guy getting beat up. No one did anything about it.
Should we really be surprised?
Comment posted by wytammic
at 5/25/2007 10:31:53 PM
Hi TCO,
I’m not sure what the United States getting invaded / attacked on 9/11 has to do with this horrendous act? We all know those islamofacists had phony baloney reasons for attacking us.
Comment posted by TCO
at 5/25/2007 7:19:34 PM
If people can watch a country get invaded for phony baloney reasons and not do anything about it…should we be surprised when situations like this come up?
One is on an international level…another, on a parking lot.
Comment posted by wytammic
at 5/22/2007 7:55:54 PM
Hi Mary,
Thanks for stopping in. It doesn’t appear that this guy can be saved. If by the grace of God he does get his life together, he still should never see the light of day.
Hi DI — agreed!
Comment posted by Mary Dawson
at 5/22/2007 2:15:58 PM
As a Black female defense investigator … I wouldn’t even be on a defense team for this “hoodlum” … they should put his butt under the jail. He is a disgrace to all people and if he acts like that … what kind of family does he come from … the gentleman that was beat has a big heart … but believe this … there are those out there that CANNOT be saved … this guy is one of them … but when he gets to jail … each and every day someone will take a chunk from his butt … trust me … news travels …
Comment posted by Defiant_Infidel
at 5/21/2007 3:48:46 PM
A digital camera mounted above the barrel of the old man’s Super Blackhawk would have given me the desired glossy photo of the look on that 22 y.o. pig’s face as the senior squeezed out the slop in the trigger.
Uh huh… just imagine. It would have been suitable for framin’. Surprise, @**hole!
Comment posted by wytammic
at 5/16/2007 9:18:33 AM
Yes totaltransformation, I’m a girl and I wouldn’t stand by and let that happen.
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