Two Baltimore brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights activists hope the Martin case will draw more attention to what they believe was racial profiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes....
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What's with the busted link, Globe?
"Md. man guilty in attack on teen; Neighborhood watch case echoed Martin shooting" by Sarah Brumfield | Associated Press, May 04, 2012
BALTIMORE - One brother was convicted and the other was exonerated Thursday in the 2010 beating of a black teenager they encountered while patrolling as watch volunteers in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.
Eliyahu Werdesheim, 24, and his brother Avi, 22, opted for a bench trial after withdrawing a motion to move their trial because of publicity comparing their case to the fatal shooting of black Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
Related: Boston Globe Race-Baiting
Yes, I noticed this case was a one-day wonder, and didn't receive near the attention Zimmerman did from the TV.
Both were charged with false imprisonment, second-degree assault, and
carrying a deadly weapon with intent to injure. Judge Pamela White
found Eliyahu not guilty of the weapon charge and cleared Avi on all
three.
Prosecutors said the brothers attacked the teen, hitting him with a radio and holding him on the ground. But Eliyahu testified that he acted in self-defense when the teen attacked him with a nail-studded plank and said his brother was not involved in the fight. The judge rejected Eliyahu’s claim of self-defense.
Prosecutor Kevin Wiggins told the judge the then-15-year-old boy lived in the neighborhood with his grandmother. He was walking to the bus stop to meet his mother for a doctor’s appointment when he noticed two men in a red sports coupe watching him.
When one of the men told the teen that he did not belong in the neighborhood, he felt scared and armed himself with a board.
I'll bet a Palestinian can relate.
The car left, but when it came back, the teen threw down the stick as the men got out and confronted him.
The prosecutor said Eliyahu grabbed him and Avi hit him in the head, creating a wound that required two staples. Once a third person arrived on the scene, stepping on the teen’s hand when he reached for the phone in his pocket, the Werdesheims left.
No charge?
Wiggins struggled to get the now 16-year-old teen to speak on the witness stand about the incident. The emotional teen’s words were inaudible and he frequently put his head down in his lap. Finally, he stood, declaring that he should not have called police and he would not testify anymore. The teen was excused and his testimony stricken from the record, but his 911 call recording was allowed.
This kid suffered serious mental trauma!
Sergeant John Jackson, the Baltimore police district’s patrol supervisor at the time, testified that he found the teen upset, bleeding from a gash on the back of his head, and disheveled with leaves and dirt on his clothes.
Jackson quickly became frustrated with members of the Shomrim of Baltimore watch group, because he believed they were not being truthful. Though he asked them to have the two men involved in the incident return to the scene, the men did not come back, he said.
And that is the POLICEMAN feeling that way!
After days of conflicting accounts from several witnesses for the state and defense, including Shomrim members, Eliyahu Werdesheim took the stand Wednesday and gave his version of events, explaining that he acted in self-defense.
He testified that he was headed home around noon that Friday with his brother, Avi, when he responded to a suspicious person report he heard on the Shomrim radio. He found the teen looking into windows of homes and trying the door of an SUV, he said.
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"Md. teen admits to terrorism charge" Associated Press, May 05, 2012
Mohammad Hassan Khalid, now 18, was just 15 when he began the online chats. Khalid was held in FBI custody as a juvenile before being indicted after turning 18. He and his family are legal immigrants from Pakistan and he could be deported following completion of his prison term. A sentencing date was not immediately set.
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Also see: Jihad Jane and Friend
Jihad Jane's Pen Pal
Return to sender.
"A Baltimore man denies killing a teenager who had gone missing for months before her body was found - a girl he considered a sibling of his own even as he broke up with the teen’s half-sister, his attorney said Thursday."
Let's get out of Maryland:
"NYC Jewish women want to join all-male EMT group" by Cristian Salazar Associated Press / November 27, 2011
NEW YORK—Most Orthodox Jewish women avoid touching men except direct relatives. They don't sit next to men on buses or even at weddings. They have separate swimming hours at indoor pools. But for an emergency birth, Orthodox Jewish women will usually turn to the all-male volunteer ambulance corps known as Hatzolah.
If they were Islamic it would be an issue.
Now a group of women in one of the country's largest Orthodox Jewish communities is proposing to join up with Hatzolah as emergency medical technicians to respond in cases of labor or gynecological emergencies.
I dare say the crazed Zionists are sexists, too!!
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"Court dismisses Jews’ bias claim vs. UC-Berkeley" December 28, 2011
BERKELEY, Calif. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley, filed by two Jewish students who claimed the school fostered an atmosphere of anti-Semitism by not doing enough to curb alleged harassment during pro-Palestinian protests that included mock checkpoints.
Jessica Felber, a plaintiff, claimed in the lawsuit that a leader of a campus pro-Palestinian group rammed her with a shopping cart as she staged a counterprotest to “Apartheid Week,’’ an annual event that compares Israel’s policies to the institutionalized racism of South Africa’s former white government....
It's gotten to the point where it is worse.
And all I see about Apartheid Week in my AmeriKan paper is this one sentence?
Related:
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Aaaaahhh!
In the Apartheid Week protests as described in the lawsuit, students dressed as soldiers carry fake assault weapons and demand to know whether passing students are Jewish....
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"Army accepts bearded rabbi as chaplain" December 09, 2011|Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An Orthodox Jewish rabbi who was barred from serving as an Army chaplain because he refused to shave the beard required by his faith has won his legal fight against the military and will be sworn in today.
How many exceptions are we going to carve out for these folks?
Rabbi Menachem Stern of Brooklyn, N.Y., will be officially admitted to the chaplaincy in a ceremony at The Shul Jewish Community Center in Surfside, Fla. Stern is a member of the Chabad Lubavitch movement of Judaism, whose rabbis are prohibited from shaving their beards.
“I felt this was my calling,’’ Stern said of the chaplaincy.
The rabbi saw an advertisement in late 2008 for military chaplains and attended a recruiter’s presentation. After consulting with his wife, he decided to apply in January 2009, making clear in his application he intended to keep his beard.
“Although we adapted to the modern world, we still maintain old-world values,’’ he wrote. “By not trimming my beard, I represent the unadulterated view of the holy Torah, the way we believe a person should live.’’
Some Orthodox Jews do not shave, believing it is outlawed by a passage in the Book of Leviticus: “Do not clip your hair at the temples, nor trim the edges of your beard.’’
I notice some of those Muslim guys got long beards, too.
According to the lawsuit he filed later, Stern was alerted by both e-mail and letter that he had been accepted. When he first got word, he said he jumped in the air, thrilled at the news.
A day after the second mailing, though, the Army rescinded its offer, citing its prohibition on beards.
“To find out the following day that it was an error was a very big letdown,’’ he said.
Stern has ministered in prisons, hospitals, and nursing homes, taught at a Hebrew school, volunteered as an EMT, and directed children’s summer camps. But he said he felt the military chaplaincy most fit his duty to “make the world a better place with acts of goodness and kindness.’’
In the military?
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