had Hakeem been drafted by another team...and won championships for another city...it wouldn't have mattered to me. had the Rockets moved back to san diego, all of this would have been to me like a tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it. the rockets are my team because they're from houston. because they're the team i grew up with.
yeah but it wasn't clutchcity until Rudy T, Dream, Vernon, Kenny, Otis, Sam, Mario made it ClutchCity. remember Save our Rockets? if ClutchCity didn't exist, we'd have zero NBA team. The love that the ClutchCity Rockets brought to the city, the city gave the love back and said stay. we love you. you are begging me to start a thread on this, with a poll.
beyond being in the general vacinity of a celebrations . .has nothing t5o do with JuneTeenth I feel bad for this person's death. Seems pretty senseless Esp since the baby is ok. I personally don't know my reaction to watching my 3~4 yr get hit by a car Rocket River
Ever since VY left no one has been able to keep the masses in check. Unfortunately this is whats become of Austin. I'm afraid to leave my house at night.
I thought Juneteenth was a Texas holiday because it's when Texas learned about the freeing of slaves. Why was Milwaukee celebrating it?
I lived no the East side and dug it. Far North East gets a little sketchy and far South East can get rough - but after moving there from a bad neighborhood in Dallas I can truly say that I haven't been to a "bad" neighborhood in Austin. There are certainly some "good" neighborhoods and none of those are on the East side apart from right around Manor Rd. (which isn't upscale, but can be a pretty cool spot). Living out in the woods North of Montgomery it is a reminder anytime I get off the freeway between 1960 and the loop off of I-45. That area East on Greens Rd. and there-a-bouts is worse than anything Austin has to offer... Cheers, Brock
lol. Wow. That's even scarier. I don't know about you, but if I see a 3-4 year old getting hit by a car and the guy that hit her get out to check on her, my first thought is to call 911 and get an ambulance there. It's not like the guy was trying to escape during a hit and run (not that it would've been ok to beat him up at that point, but let's just say "I'd understand"). I can't say my first thought would ever be to beat the crap out of some dude trying to right a wrong or help out. Geez.
The lion was coming to kill the buffalo - that's defense. It seems like the animals are more human than the humans.
i'm assuming these attackers were black, hence the reason you're seemingly distancing and rationalizing this.... because if this was a group of latinos who killed a black man, i guaran-f*cking-tee your response would be quite different. and yes, you just made this racial. congrats.
Updated news article. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070621/D8PT5C3O0.html By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child. Investigators were struggling to piece together what happened Tuesday when David Rivas Morales died defending the driver from members of a crowd. There could have been anywhere from two to 20 attackers, Austin Police Commander Harold Piatt said. The car in which Morales, 40, was a passenger had entered an apartment complex's parking lot when it struck a 2-year-old boy, Piatt said. The boy was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver got out of the car to check on the child and was confronted by several people, Piatt said. When they attacked the driver, Morales got out of the car to protect the driver and was attacked as well. Police said no guns or knives were used. The driver got away and is cooperating with investigators. Police identified the child as Michael Hosea Jr. There were conflicting accounts of how many people were in the area. Police originally estimated 2,000 to 3,000 and a woman who lives at the complex said hundreds who had been at a Juneteenth festival filled the parking lot and street. But late Wednesday police spokeswoman Toni Chovanetz said only 20 people were in the area where the assault occurred. Chovanetz also said <b>there was no connection to the nearby city-sponsored festival for Juneteenth</b>, which commemorates Texas slaves getting the word that they had been freed. Margaret Morales said a young boy came to her door to tell her that her brother was lying on the ground outside. She found David Morales, sprawled on the pavement 100 feet from her townhouse, battered and choking on blood. She said her mother came running after hearing her screams, but police wouldn't let either of them get close to him. Police arrived one minute after receiving a 911 call, by which time the beating had stopped, Chovanetz said. But the Morales family complained that medical help was slow in coming. Chovanetz said witnesses told police that three or four men attacked Morales, knocking him to the ground. A man got out of another vehicle and hit Morales again, Chovanetz said. David Morales arrived at the hospital about 35 minutes after the 911 call was received, said Warren Hassinger, Austin-Travis County Emergency Services spokesman. Emergency officials said police ordered them to wait until the area was secure. Several hundred people had filled the parking lot and street as the daylong festival at a nearby park ended and spilled over into the surrounding neighborhoods, said Katherine White, a Morales family friend who lives in a townhouse next door to where the beating took place. Margaret Morales said her brother, who was staying with her, was a painter on his way home from work. The driver, whom she knew only as Victor, picked him up and dropped him off everyday, she said. The Morales family remembered David as a caring brother who loved the San Antonio Spurs and was thrilled when they won the NBA title last week. Earl White, Katherine's brother, said David Morales enjoyed sitting on the porch, watching the neighborhood children play in the parking lot. "I just want the people caught and brought to justice," another sister, Elizabeth Morales, said. "I want them to feel the same pain that they caused my brother."
i dont know what to say. poor guy, he died from blunt force taruma basically. literally beaten and stomped to death.
