latest attack was last Thursday afternoon near Missouri Botanical Garden

There's an alert out about recent assaults on bike riders in south St. Louis.
Trailnet.org, an organization that promotes hiking and biking, is cautioning riders to be on the alert for roving bands of teenagers who swarm and attack riders.

Trailnet says the latest attack was last Thursday (8/25) afternoon near Missouri Botanical Garden where a group of 10 to 15 African-American teens charged and attacked a cyclist.
"They weren't really interested in robbing me. It just seemed like they wanted to beat me up," says assault victim Cheech Ramirez. "They weren't interested in letting me get off the ground and having a fair fight."

Via RCP, John T. Bennett in the American Thinker--latest on the Knockout Game, with a resurgence in Denver, the site of the last Dem convention.

Now they're not just using fists but baseball bats. More:

It cannot be emphasized enough that these attacks often occur in suburban areas where the black groups have to leave their own neighborhoods and purposefully travel to areas that are predominantly non-black, to attack non-black victims. For instance, in one of the many flash mob attacks in Chicago, Trovulus Pickett, 17, is part of a group that attacked and robbed several victims, including a 68-year-old doctor. The attacks occurred in the North side, which is 15 miles away from Pickett's home. This indicates a serious level of planning and potential racial targeting. If these were just run-of-the mill robberies, it wouldn't be too surprising. But the social problem we're looking at is large groups, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, sometimes armed, engaging in racially-focused violent crimes. 

So are we gonna ban baseball bats?

Feet?

They stomped on his head. Mob Action, Chinatown, Chicago

P.S. Bennett: "While academics dwell on hateful speech, the actual violence continues." Then we have a human rights investigator like this, who thinks even hateful speech is no biggie:

Following an investigation, officials at the Illinois Department of Human Rights delivered a verbal reprimand to Alvin Forbes Sr. in the spring. The case came to light Monday when the state’s Executive Ethics Commission published the details on its web site.

The pro-Democratic e-mail urged readers to fight at the ballot box against a tea party political coup because “these people hate blacks. They hate Latinos. They hate Muslims and have at times made many anti-Semitic statements. They hate gays. They hate any moderate Republican who might be likely to cooperate with Obama.”

Forbes, 56, of Chicago, said in an interview that the case against him was “petty as hell.” He called the reprimand “bogus,” saying he sent the e-mail accidentally to some of his co-workers. He said his sister had sent it to him.

“I didn’t endorse it at all,” Forbes said. “It was just something I inadvertently sent. Had I thought a little more about it and were able to perceive the ramifications that I would have experienced, I would have just eliminated that e-mail altogether.”

One of the other places hit in Chicago was Boystown.

P.P.S. Mark Steyn

Related posts: Lord of the Flies in London, "It's Obama". Hatred empowered. Berkeley to Chicago to suburban NJ