{"id":29804,"date":"2012-05-03T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29804"},"modified":"2012-05-03T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:23:00","slug":"do-it-for-trayvon-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29804","title":{"rendered":"“Do it for Trayvon Martin”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin sends us a link to a Fox News<\/a> article about two Norfolk, VA reporters for the Virginia-Pilot, Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami who were leaving a concert one night in Norfolk. Near their car were about 100 people gathered on the sidewalk. When they got in the car, of course, they locked their doors. One of the people threw a rock at the car and Forster got out to confront the vandal (yeah, big mistake), so he got his ass beat. When Rostami tried to haul his macho ass back in the car, she got her ass beat, too. <\/p>\n

So they took a week off from work to recover from their injuries. Another reporter, Michelle Washington , wrote an article about the incident. She went so far as to find “Tweets” about the crime that she found on the internet;<\/p>\n

The day after the attack Forster searched Twitter and found a chilling tweet Washington wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel for the white man who got beat up at the light,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t,\u201d wrote another, indicating laughter. \u2018(do it for trayvon martin) (sic)\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWere Forster and Rostami beaten in some kind of warped, vigilante retribution for a killing 750 miles away, a person none of them knew?\u201d Washington wrote. \u201cWas it just bombast? Is a beating funny, ever?\u201d<\/p>\n

A police spokesman tells Fox News that the incident is still under investigation and they are also looking at whoever wrote the tweet. But as of now \u2013 the case is still a simple assault \u2013 and does not rise to the level of a hate crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Washington wrote that police seemed dismissive when they arrived at the crime scene, telling the injured Rostami to \u201cshut up and get in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth said the officer did not record any names of witnesses who stopped to help,\u201d Washington wrote. Rostami said the officer told them the attackers were \u2018probably juveniles anyway. What are we going to do? Find their parents and tell them?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So why weren’t the reporters armed? It’s Virginia, a “shall issue” state. I’ll admit the doofus never should have tried to impress his girlfriend by confronting 100 thugs…unarmed, no less…but he wasn’t “asking for it” any more than scantily clad women on a dark street is “asking for” rape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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