Michael Brown and Ferguson has captured the world and media's attention, but there seems to be a much larger story that is NOT being reported. I recently wrote about the two Veteran's in West Point, MS that were beaten by a black mob. Thankfully the Sheriff has called in the FBI to investigate this particular incident, but I decided to cast a net and see what else I could find. I wanted to know if there were more incidents that were not getting media coverage, and one that I found was chilling.
McDonald's recently lost a three year lawsuit for negligence resulting in a win of $27 million payable to the family of eighteen year old Denton James Ward. What this family, as well as the families of three other teens involved, has experienced and endured reads more like a horror movie than a fleeting story on the Internet. Brace yourself because it is a tough one to swallow.
Four young suburban college kids double-dated to a concert and afterwards decided to stop at the "University McDonald's" near Texas A&M. These four kids who thought that they had no worries, other than term papers and their college majors, had no idea that pulling in to grab a bite to eat would result in death. The parking lot was full of near 400 young black men, but these four young people thought nothing of it because this was supposed to be a safe area. They had no idea that after midnight there had been many problems at this particular place. They had no idea that just minutes before their arrival a gun had been pulled during a fight inside. The manager didn't call the police but just sent the party outside. Ward and his friend Tanner Giesen hopped out of the truck to run to the restroom, while the girls went through the drive thru. As they walked towards the door Giesen remembers a black male yelling, "You're in the wrong neck of the woods cowboy!" An altercation immediately ensued. Giesen was knocked out. Ward was on the ground and circled by a crazy mob being kicked, jumped on and stomped to a literal pulp. The girls pulled around from the drive thru to this chilling scene and ran from the vehicle to try to rescue their two friends. With the help of a few good Samaritans nearby, some of them being black females, they were able to pull the two young men to the vehicle and heeded a warning from one of their "guardian angels" to leave quickly because it wasn't safe. Ward could not walk or speak and was bleeding profusely. One of the few white patrons that were present was a Veteran Marine that said the kids face just "did not look natural". A terrorized Samantha Bean took the wheel while a frantic Lauren Bailey Crisp was in the back doing anything she could for Ward. They rushed to the hospital, terrified that the mob would follow, only to run a red light and get hit by a Chevrolet Silverado. The vehicle of four traumatized young people spun out of control and hit a light pole. Denton James Ward and Lauren Bailey Crisp were pronounced dead at the scene. At first the police considered charging Bean for the deaths until pathologist determined that Ward had died from the beaten he had taken at McDonald's.
Back at McDonald's the mob had gotten so out of hand that when the law enforcement officer arrived he had to grab his AR-15. Giesen's abdomen had a boot print and he suffers episodes of amnesia due to brain damage. The investigation was almost impossible because there were no outdoor surveillance cameras, no security and there were no cooperative witnesses. Marcus Jamal Jones, known as "Plucky" to friends, was the only arrest made. He ONLY SERVED A 90 DAY JAIL SENTENCE FOR MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT!
Let me ask....where is the justice for these four young lives? Two lives were lost and two altered forever? Families were devastated for absolutely no reason and they have no recourse. The $27 million that McDonald's paid for their negligence is small consolation to the grieving parents. One must ask why this story did not make national news and why someone did not scream from the rooftops HATE CRIME!! I can not even imagine if the skin color had been reversed. What would have happened? I can guarantee that not only would blacks be protesting and demanding justice, but whites would have been as well. So why didn't it happen for these kids? Were they not as important as Michael Brown?
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