See Updates below for more details about this violent and life-endangering situation.
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Last night in Hamilton Township, Ohio, an ex-urb about 30 miles northeast of Cincinnati, we may have received a sneak preview of the consequences we face, even in America’s heartland, of our government’s decades-long abandonment of border control and immigration sanity.
You can already see the local media attempting to downplay the severity and significance of the confrontation, especially, as seen in the Updates below, when you compare what was revealed in the video broadcasts to what made it into the related published Internet reports.
This armed attack occurred roughly 5 miles as the crow flies from BizzyBlog headquarters.
The headlines from the local TV stations’ web sites don’t even begin to hint at their stories’ frightening content:
WKRC-TV –
Police: Armed Feud Erupts At Construction Site After Supervisor Fires Employee
Police look for as many as ten people wanted for an armed attack at a Warren County construction site.
Hamilton Township Police say a worker named “Max” retaliated against his supervisor after he was fired Friday.
It happened on State Route 22, just north of Route 48. (note: story incorrectly said “State Route 223″ — Ed.)
The group was armed with guns and baseball bats.
Local 12′s Joelle Girone spoke with parents whose children were near the attack.
911 operator: “911 what’s your emergency?”
Caller: “I’ve got Mexicans out here on the job with guns!”
“I’ve got four kids,” said Robyn Kerman, concerned parent. “And to have it happen in my backyard is a little scary for me!”
Joelle Girone: “Police describe the scene here as chaos. The group fired off as many as 10 gunshots with children living just feet away.”
“People running in all directions,” said Lt. Jeff Braley, Hamilton Township Police. “Shots being fired in different directions.”
Hamilton Township Police say an armed feud erupted Friday at a construction site after a supervisor fired an employee for being late.
Police say the Hispanic worker, known as “Max,” started a fight and then left. They say he came back one hour later with as many as nine other Hispanic men, armed with baseball bats and guns.
Some “feud,” with no indication of how many people were involved until the “subheadline.”
How about this headline: “Armed Hispanic Men Wreak Havoc at Construction Site after Employee is Fired”? That says everything that needs to be said (actually, not quite — see Updates below), and only took 75 characters, including spaces, three fewer than the 78 WKRC used in a headline that said very little.
WCPO-TV –
Supervisor Says Employee Became Violent After Being Fired
Police are looking for as many as ten suspects after a fight broke out at a Warren County construction site after an employee was fired and later sought retaliation.
It happened at a worksite for All-Good Construction on SR 22 in Hamilton Township.
The supervisor of the construction company reportedly fired the worker earlier in the day after he said the man had repeatedly not shown up for work.
The employee told the supervisor he’d be back as he left the site.
The supervisor said he eventually did make his way back, only this time with a car full of other men who fired shots and repeatedly swung baseball bats at the him in what onlookers describe as “pure melee.”
The supervisor called 911 and hid in a nearby wooded area.
Police have put out several calls for various agencies to be on the lookout for a white Dodge Durango that the suspects might have fled the scene in.
WCPO has a picture of one damaged truck. Something tells me that this is only a small hint at the true extent of the damage caused.
You would think from WCPO’s headline that only the fired employee was involved. What I want to know (and I’ll bet someone does and isn’t saying), is whether the violence was carried out by an organized gang and not just “other men” who know the fired employee.
I channel-surfed into the tail-end of one report about this on one of the local newscasts last night. The reporter went to great lengths to “reassure” us that the worker involved was “here legally” (if so, how is it that we don’t know the full name of “Max”?), but said nothing about the status of the others who came back with the employee after he was fired. I’d like to know that too.
24 hours later, The Cincinnati Enquirer has absolutely ….. no ….. coverage. Correction — See Update 3 Below.
Will our PC media ever give us answers to the questions about this frightening incident raised here?
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UPDATE: Here are some items from WKRC’s actual video report (loads painfully slowly; browser compatibility is dicey; the relevant report is in the first third of the video) that “somehow” didn’t make it into what was published on the Internet:
“Police say property was damaged, two people assaulted, one of them narrowly escaping a bullet to the head by shielding himself with this board:
Police say “Max” was looking for his boss.
….. (nearby parent Robyn) Kerman says that just on her side of the street 20 children live and play.
UPDATE 2: The WCPO report (also painfully slow-loading, and in RealPlayer; browser compatibility is dicey; relevant story begins at about 5 minutes into the broadcast) adds these items:
- Makes it clear that “Max” intended to kill his supervisor, and all of the attackers were looking for the same supervisor.
- The group involved is believed to be from the City of Hamilton, Ohio, which is a 30-40 minute drive from Hamilton Township, Ohio.
- The supervisor didn’t escape injury entirely — “He got beat a little bit” by the suspects, according to someone on the scene.
- The builder was (ahem) “not able to identify who this worker was to police,” but the reporter said he was assured that “Max” is a legal citizen.
How do these facts get into the bandwidth-hogging video but then “somehow” NOT make it into the nearly bandwidth-free published story?
UPDATE 3, July 17, 2 PM: There was the briefest of coverage in the Enquirer Saturday in “Local News Briefs” in the print edition:
A construction foreman told police a worker he fired early Friday returned later in the day with eight other men armed with handguns and baseball bats. William D. Johnson said a worker named “Max” started a fight with him after being fired and returned with the men an hour later. Johnson told police the group rammed his truck with their car, fired 10-12 shots and struck another employee, James Parsons Jr., multiple times with the bats as Parsons tried to come to Johnson’s aid. Before police arrived, the men fled the scene in a white SUV, Johnson told police. He was treated at the scene for minor injuries and Parsons was taken to a hospital.
Big whoop. The items doesn’t even say where in Hamilton Township the incident occurred, or the Hispanic ethnicity of the men involved. Very, very, weak. I called The Enquirer’s West Chester bureau and confirmed that no other coverage has appeared since Saturday.
UPDATE 4, July 17, 4:30 PM: Boy, is this report from locally-based Journal-News, and of course its implications, ever different from what WCPO-TV said in its Friday night report in Update 2 above (HT Michelle Malkin):
A construction company supervisor said the incident began when a worker at the 21 Oaks subdivision construction site off U.S. 22/Ohio 3 was asked to produce paperwork to prove he was a legal immigrant. When he failed to produce the paperwork, he was fired.
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