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03/13/2008
Hideous Attack on Black Reporter by White Mob in South Carolina
Four white women attacked a female black reporter who was covering a homicide investigation in Union, South Carolina. Two of the women arrested are the wife and the sister of the murder suspect. Another reporter on the scene covering the same, who is white, was not threatened and captured most of the incident on camera.
Clip AFTER THE JUMP...
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Posted 8:11 AM EST by Andy Towle in News, South Carolina | Permalink
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So instead of helping out the other reporter, they just stood by and filmed her getting attacked?
Posted by: z | Mar 13, 2008 8:25:11 AM
Probably a good thing... now all the trash is where it belongs.
Posted by: BusyTimmy | Mar 13, 2008 8:46:14 AM
So, four white women bypassed a white reporter in order to attack a Black reporter?
No, there is no race problem in America. None at all.
Posted by: Michael Crawford | Mar 13, 2008 8:55:35 AM
Nothing worse than southern white trash. Only in "America."
Posted by: Mikey | Mar 13, 2008 9:02:22 AM
This incident raises an interesting question - in a case like this, is it better for a cameraperson to put down the camera and help out the victim, or film the assault so that it can be used in evidence later on? I suppose that if the victim is in danger of his/her life the cameraperson should intervene, but if others have already come to the victim's aid then there's more value to recording the assault for later prosecution - I personally would have put down the camera and intervened though...
Posted by: johnnzboy | Mar 13, 2008 9:04:49 AM
Johnzboy
I can not say what I would have done in the sitation since I have never been in such a situation.
I would hope that the bettr part of my humnity would put down the camera and intervene.
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Mar 13, 2008 9:20:50 AM
I wonder if they're voting for Obama.
Posted by: D.R.H. | Mar 13, 2008 9:36:30 AM
This should hopefully put a nail in Geraldine Ferraro's assertion that women are always victims, and blacks always get a free ride. True equality means women can be ignorant a**holes too!
Posted by: Strepsi | Mar 13, 2008 9:39:57 AM
I think it's pretty standard that news media keep filming a story regardless. I don't know whether that's right or wrong, but I think it's a journalistic convention.
I wonder if anyone will argue that the reporter was "lucky" to be black in America today or she wouldn't have achieved her position of public prominence.
Posted by: Clay | Mar 13, 2008 9:42:44 AM
I'll wait on this one. There are a couple of Towleroad posters whose comments I'm waiting for--waiting like a alley queen cat ready to pounce.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Mar 13, 2008 10:12:43 AM
The event never should have happened, but we don't live in the United States of Utopia. What DID occur, however, is an arrest and a search for a fourth attacker. THAT makes me happy. Unless a "Sterilize the Stupid" campaign were to be carried out, there will always be pathetic, inbred white trash. Trash comes in all sizes shapes and colors, but the law did its job...and you can bet your sweet ass it's because Charmayne Brown is a professional news journalist and the journalist community cannot afford to allow the public to believe it would ever be tolerable to attack one of them. Had Ms. Brown been anyone else in South Carolina, who is to say what the result would have been.
I'd have been more than happy to have been there and clock a bitch. I'm just irritable lately and doing my part to take out the trash would bring me great joy.
Posted by: FizziekruntNT | Mar 13, 2008 10:27:32 AM
The cameraman could have kept filming while the reporter stepped in to help. They should be ashamed of themselves. I hope those fine white women run into some sisters in jail. :)
Posted by: secretagentman | Mar 13, 2008 10:33:35 AM
The first rule of being a cameraman is "get the shot". It is also the second and third rule. (The fourth is "follow the ball.")
They are not there to be the story, but to report on it. The cameraman did what he was supposed to do: get the shot. Eyewitnesses' stories change--the camera is unblinking.
Posted by: Chris | Mar 13, 2008 12:46:08 PM
yeah johnnzboy, the video does raise interesting question [among many, really]. i have to disagree with most of the chorus here and say that since the reporter wasn't ENTIRELY alone and helpless, i would have made the decision to keep filming. how often do you think incidents like this occur where one party denies the incident occurred at all or attempts to minimize it? i'd reckon pretty frequently.
you know what i love about this story? there is no hate crime legislation in south carolina. so these women will get some misdemeanor assault charges filed on them and nothing more. i think the hatred they have shown is worthy of harsher punishment.
Posted by: buzz | Mar 13, 2008 12:50:26 PM
This is despicable. When I saw the clip on a news program the other night, it looked like there were a few individuals across the street just watching what was taking place, but no one attempted to step in and stop it. I'm glad these people are in jail and I second "Secretagentman's" comments.
Posted by: Matt | Mar 13, 2008 1:15:11 PM
Gotta love those advantages black people have.
<3 Ferraro.
/sarcasm
Posted by: Chris Evans | Mar 13, 2008 1:16:55 PM
Trash is as trash does.
But it's not like the reporters (both white and black) weren't being pretty trashy as journalists filming "coverage" of an investigation outside the home of the murder suspect. There's no excuse for actually attacking the reporter and the racism in their choice of attackee is obvious.
But there's also no excuse for taking a film crew and attracting a crowd to the home of a murder suspect *where other people live* - other people who are usually innocent and who are then made complete pariahs in their neighborhood (or schools or jobs). This wasn't coverage of an investigation, it was sensationalist "live from the scene" reporting. These crazy hick bitches weren't innocent by any stretch here - but both reporter were trying to make a scene in what would otherwise have been an empty neighborhood street just to pad their pointless evening news segments. And both of them got their scene.
Posted by: kipp | Mar 13, 2008 1:28:42 PM
Buzz
Hopefuly this very public hate crime stimulates the passing of hate crime legislation in SC. The one possible silver lning out of this.
FizziekruntNT
What the heck does your screen name mean?
Yeah, sadly this could have been a crime where the offeders got away with it in SC. The silver linig is that it was done towards a reporter and caught on tape. Otherweise......
Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Mar 13, 2008 1:50:20 PM
Andy's headline implies that all white people in SC were responsible for this woman's attack, and that we know for certain it was an entirely racist event (modern day lynching?)
I would wait for the facts to come in first. For example, did these people exchange words before the attack? The family of the suspect may be a tad violent in general?? or racist in particular?? I don't think we can claim, ala Obama v Clinton, that this is evidence of white on black oppression.
Posted by: anon | Mar 13, 2008 1:53:46 PM
You're an idiot anon,
While that white trash mob was beating the reporter, they were yelling racial epithets at the same time.
Posted by: michael | Mar 13, 2008 2:21:10 PM
What in the hell does this have to do with the election or Ferraro? I seriously doubt anyone's genuine concern or disgust at this issue when they only use it to make some silly unnecessary political point that isn't even remotely relevant.
Posted by: Alex | Mar 13, 2008 4:42:05 PM
Also, I will say I absolutely love that the reporter got loose and went back after those stupid bitches. She rolled right around the camera guy and was running at them punching. Love it. I hope she got a few good punches in. Sorry, I grew up poor and white in the South and I still look at people like those three women and thank God every day I out of a shit hole like that.
Posted by: Benji | Mar 13, 2008 4:48:29 PM
@ anon
Some people will have excuses until they are bluue in the face....
Posted by: john | Mar 13, 2008 5:13:55 PM
Nothing worse than southern white trash. Only in "America."
Posted by: Mikey | Mar 13, 2008 9:02:22 AM
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Actually it's sadly not only in America, and all white trash is sad. Which as a GWM I'd like to say to Andy's fans of color, you know we're all not like that. I have also had it come back at me from the black community when I've dated men of color.
The woman looks like she held up well and thank God they got them on film, hard to deny you did it when it's on film, no matter how biased a jury may be.
Oh and ANON, you are an asshole.
Posted by: patrick nyc | Mar 13, 2008 7:12:07 PM
The women were angry over the media's slanted coverage of the death of their relative via a black on White hate crime. The negroid reporter that was attacked had covered the murder case in a very offensive manner that blamed the victim & White people as a whole for the murder. The negroid recieved a small taste of what she deserved. Right on women!
Posted by: Discriminator | Apr 14, 2008 5:18:51 PM