St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands: Unprovoked Assault on Tourist, Racial Tensions
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |
1 comment | September 5th, 2006 | Trackback
A tourist from Chicago visiting St. John for a wedding was brutally beaten by a youth with a shovel Aug. 10 when he was walking to his hotel from a bar late at night. He was unaware that taxi service shut down before bars closed and was told to walk toward the Westin Hotel and he might find a taxi. On the way a group of youths approached from behind and one attacked him. Robbery was not the motive because they were not interested in his valuables. Youths are known to loiter in the area, near the Quiet Mon Pub in Cruz Bay, and two years ago another man was attacked there. Trouble has been brewing on St. John for the past year since an alleged hate crime rape was reported. The alleged crime caused a wave of demonstrations in 2005 and inflamed racial tensions.
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Sorry, must have been tough from the pictures. News flash, “American Paradise” is a lie, when the US Navy still kept port crime stats, the USVI was 20 times more brutal than blood alley in Naples, Italy. This goes all the way back to the massacre in the 70’s, more dead tourist in the 80’s, we’re talking gang attacks with baseball bats right on the cruise ship pier. The 90’s saw no reduction in crime against tourist, most of which is swept in the trash when your plane departs. God forbid you defend your self, and bruise a local, the only thing more profitable than tourist is an incarcerated tourist! A lawyer, bribes, medical care in jail, this will all take a VERY LONG time.
So we stack dead white tourist like cordwood over the years, who cares! But if one black woman makes Twanna Brawley charges, the town riots! (happened recently)