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Burger King stomping: Elderly man was also beaten with a chair
By adamg on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 7:45pm
Boston Police report that a man who punched and kicked a senior citizen at the Boylston Street Burger King last week also used a chair to beat him.
As reported yesterday, police say the senior was stomped after he asked a rowdy group to quiet down around 10:25 p.m. on Friday:
On arrival, officers were approached by the victim who was bleeding from multiple lacerations to the face. The victim stated that he was punched and struck with a chair numerous times by a black male suspect inside of the Burger King. Officers spoke with witnesses who stated there had been a large group of black males and females, in the 20-25 year old range, who had been causing a loud commotion. When asked to leave multiple times, the group ignored the staff's requests. The witnesses stated that the victim had asked the group to quiet down as well, to which the black male suspect responded by punching and striking the victim with a chair multiple times.
He's 20-25 years old, 6' with a muscular build and short black hair. He fled the area with the large group.
If he looks familiar, contact D-4 detectives at 617-343-5619 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
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Comments
Plain and Simple
The offender needs to be caught and charged with a hate crime.
The city has a problem with
The city has a problem with violent packs of kids and needs to develop an appropriate response apparatus. Other cities have a larger problem than Boston with these packs flash robbing stores and committing mass beatings of innocent people. Boston needs to get ahead of this before the local incidents escalate to that level.
It was bad enough when this was occurring at late night clubs, concerts, MBTA stations, and bus stops. What's next a mini riot at the Corner Mall food court during the lunch hour rush?
Elder Stomping
Wait? The staff asked them MULTIPLE times to leave and when they didn't no one called 911? And then no one on the staff tried to intervene while this man was being beaten? This location needs to be closed, pure and simple. And the victim should sue the management for negligence.
Only
Thing is our elderly aren't PC liberals, I bet the man moves on and keeps his racial connotations. I'm sure he's delt with worse during WWII. We will soon loose the greatest generation of people our era has ever seen. RESPECT YOUR ELDERS! They are the real reason this fine nation is still free.
and they're also the reason
and they're also the reason it's buried in debt
Different elders. I'd gladly
Different elders. I'd gladly take a thousand geriatric Greatest Generationers over a single Baby Boomer.
Debatable
Assuming the generations viewpoint is even the right viewpoint to view such issues, one can argue that the retiring or about-to-retire Baby Boomers generation is more at fault about debt than the 80+ year old Greatest Generation.
The Baby Boomers....
...are the generation who got hit with Reagan's big increase in Social Security and Medicare taxes early in their career -- which they accepted as necessary to _avoid_ running up the debt when it came time for them to retire. How is it these workers' fault that GWB decided to run two wars on a credit card (instead of raising taxes to pay for the wars, as typically happened in the past)?
GWB deserves the blame for
GWB deserves the blame for the two wars, but the wars added about $2 trillion to the national debt, which is approaching $17 trillion. The fat rabbit is still the "entitlements": Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, government pensions, and the many other benefits.
Social Security doesn't
Social Security doesn't contribute to the national debt.
"Entitlements"
just another word for spending I don't like.
Here's a chart, thats dated by the way. Fiscal outlook is much better atm short-medium term.
Long term Medicare is the biggest problem, and Heathcare in general for private debt and wellbeing.
well
I'd point out they voted for him in record numbers. They also shoo-shooed Bush senior for raising taxes to pay as they went.
The raise in taxes didn't nearly correspond to the size of the boomer bubble. Still, social security is in pretty good shape, as all things are when people try to forecast 50-80 years out.
Medicare, well that's another story. But it a problem that is more a subset of the larger Healthcare issue. Which itself is a problem of the exponentially costly care provided for end of life services for the very elderly, a population growing every day.
I'll do my part, after seeing my grandparents holding on for dear life as their bodies just gave out, even as their minds were as sharp as ever. I wouldn't wish that on my enemies.
I just have to find a one way ticket to deep space when the time is right. Also need to find a escape plan off Seti Alpha V.
anon...?!
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Details
What do you mean by racial connotations?
Wages
You really think people who are making eight dollars an hour without benefits are going to risk their health and jobs to intervene? I wish I lived in that world, but I don't. It was just as much, if not more, the responsibility of the other people in the dining room to step in.
Staff at a business have a duty to protect customers.
They should have called 911 when the unruly mob wouldn't leave. If they had this wouldn't have happened.
Also, maybe the franchisee should think about hiring some security.
Oh Crist
Being loud doesn't necessarily mean being violent. Monday morning QB'ing is fun, but I suggest you leave it up to Tim Tebow.
Great line
nothing like sledgehammering a misplaced tebow reference to (not) make a point.
We're not talking about noisy kids. We are talking about disruptive guests who were asked to leave an establishment and refused. You know, trespassers. Once they refused to leave the store should have called the cops. There's a pretty large intersection of people who refuse to leave a private business after being ordered to do so and people prone to violence on the criminal Venn diagram.
missing
the point.
Random acts of violence are rare, but do happen. It's not every day we're reading about people getting a beat-down in a busy neighborhood fast food joint. It's unfortunate, but calls for "this" or "that" are just reactionary BS that probably wouldn't have prevented a thing in the first place.
The cops will find this DB, arrest him, and case closed. There's not much more to this story IMO.
Adam is good at focusing on all crime in the city and reporting especially on the stories that don't always get attention. That doesn't mean things are turning for the worse, just that we're getting better at aggregating all the data. Except for some petty crime in Allston, most neighborhoods are once again on pace for reductions in crime as far as I know.
Here we go again
Typical redneck: can't say I like 'em, but they can live next door to me as long as they're quiet.
Typical MA liberal: the poor disadvantaged disenfranchised slavery victims can do whatever they want, wherever they want. My heart bleeds for them because they'll never be able to live in my lily-white suburb, next my $2.5M house I inherited from my grandma. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to drive down blue hill ave before it gets dark (with my windows up, doors locked) and take some photos for my blog, just so all my friends know how much I care.
At least the redneck is honest.
Staff
Probably come from the same type of neighborhoods the 'mob' comes from, ride the MBTA, go to schools, etc. and run the risk themselves of being jumped. Some of them may even know some of the 'mob'.
Presumably there was a mature, responsible manager on the scene? If not, ask BK management why not.
Maybe an off duty cop needs to be hired at certain hours for this location.
Why should a fast-food place need to hire 'security' ?
I don't see any special 'security' people in any of the fast-food places I frequent (mostly in Davis, Porter, and Union squares)
To keep their customers from
To keep their customers from getting the shit kicked out of them? Is this a trick question?
Depends on the restaurant
A lot of inner city fast food restaurants hire security. Especially at night. I see it all the time.
Davis, Porter, and Union Sq
are not dangerous locations. Unfortunately, there are parts of Boston, even occasionally downtown, where shit like this can and does happen.
Calling 911....
Calling 911 sound like it may have been a good idea, but;
If places downtown called 911 everytime someone is rowdy or rude, they'd be calling multiple times/day.
Calling 911 does NOT mean, "this wouldn't have happened". (Maybe but maybe not). While they certainly try, methinks you have too high an opinion about the availability and speed of police response.
MBTA?
Have there been reports of attacks by roving gangs on the T ?
Not just attacks on
Not just attacks on passengers. One of these mobs attacked a bus. This is why the whole keep your hands off MBTA employees campaign got kicked off.
http://www.universalhub.com/crime/20130309-t-bus-d...
During the school year
YES. I've read many on UHub, one that sticks out (because I live in the area) is the 4 kids you robbed an individual at the hills while yelling homophobic slurs.
During the school year
YES. I've read many on UHub, one that sticks out (because I live in the area) is the 4 kids you robbed an individual at the hills while yelling homophobic slurs.
Ashmont line
http://www.universalhub.com/2013/teens-attacking-r...
persons identity..
look up Lennster Lickster Jones on facebook
Good work!
Nancy Drew!! Hopefully this has been forwarded to the BPD for a proper investigation and they can be the arbiters of whether this is relevant or not. Not sure it looks too much like him, but hard to tell with the shot they have -- the status updates however...
He's on youtube,also
IMO he looks very much like the suspect.