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Hisler
May 24, 2012, 6:13:36 PM5/24/12
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What a cluster f*ck. If the white supremacists had had concealed carry
permits, it would have been like bringing a hammer to a gunfight instead
of a massacre.
'Anti-Racists' Attack White Heritage Group in Family Restaurant
ABC NEWS By Andrew Fies
A group of 18 people dressed in black, wearing masks, wielding steel
batons and hammers and claiming to be extreme anti-racists allegedly
stormed a suburban Chicago family restaurant in broad daylight to
assault a meeting of alleged white supremacists, officials said.
Ten people were injured and at least three required treatment for head
wounds as a result of the attack Saturday at the Ashford House
Restaurant in Tinley Park, Ill., a quiet Chicago suburb. The restaurant
sustained $15,000 in damages including broken plates, glasses and furniture.
"I've been mayor for 31 years," Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki tells ABC
News, "and I've never heard of anything stranger than this."
Five of the attackers were caught and have now been charged with
aggravated battery, mob action and criminal damage to property, all
felonies. Brothers Jason, Cody and Dylan Sutherlin, along with Alex
Stuck and John Tucker are all from Indiana. The men are connected to the
Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (H.A.R.M.) whose website now claims them as
"The Tinley Park 5?.
Meanwhile the targets of their attack were about a dozen members of the
Illinois European Heritage Association, a group linked to the "White
Pride" group Storm Front. Two of these victims were also caught up in
the police investigation following the incident: Steven Speers of North
Dakota was arrested on an outstanding warrant for possession of child
pornography and Francis Gilroy of Florida was charged with unlawful
possession of a firearm by a felon.
A restaurant surveillance camera captured some of the melee on video and
Zabrocki viewed it before it was turned over to prosecutors as evidence
in the investigation.
"You see the door opens up, these 15, 18 people walk in. They've got
hoods on, they've got masks on," Zabrocki said.
While the confrontation itself happens out of the camera's view, he
said, "You see tables moving into view, food spilling on the floor. You
see them marching out and you see some of the waiters taking swings at
them."
Tinley Park police chief Steve Neubauer said neither of the groups
involved had any connection to his town or the restaurant and he was
struck by the randomness of the incident.
"There was a college graduation luncheon and a shower going on there.
It's a nice little family restaurant. You take your mother in law there
for mother's day for breakfast," Neubauer said.
The meeting of the Illinois European Heritage Association had been
frequently mentioned on the "White Pride" webforum stormfront.org. It
was called the "5 th Annual White Nationalist Economic summit"
and promoted as an opportunity to "work for whites."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist group
activity, suggested that H.A.R.M. probably matched the names of those
organizing the meeting on stormfront.org to those on a membership list
of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement. But Beckie Williams, one of
the attack victims, told the Chicago Tribune that the charge of racism
is "ridiculous" and that her Heritage group was only meeting to discuss
"economic hardships."
Meanwhile Zabrocki said he is angry about this "totally bizarre"
incident for the law enforcement and emergency response it has required.
"This is going to cost us a bundle … to our town and a bunch of other
towns that responded for you know, a bunch of idiots," he said. "And I'm
referring to both sides."
http://news.yahoo.com/anti-racists-attack-white-heritage-group-family-restaurant-003220721--abc-news-topstories.html
permits, it would have been like bringing a hammer to a gunfight instead
of a massacre.
'Anti-Racists' Attack White Heritage Group in Family Restaurant
ABC NEWS By Andrew Fies
A group of 18 people dressed in black, wearing masks, wielding steel
batons and hammers and claiming to be extreme anti-racists allegedly
stormed a suburban Chicago family restaurant in broad daylight to
assault a meeting of alleged white supremacists, officials said.
Ten people were injured and at least three required treatment for head
wounds as a result of the attack Saturday at the Ashford House
Restaurant in Tinley Park, Ill., a quiet Chicago suburb. The restaurant
sustained $15,000 in damages including broken plates, glasses and furniture.
"I've been mayor for 31 years," Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki tells ABC
News, "and I've never heard of anything stranger than this."
Five of the attackers were caught and have now been charged with
aggravated battery, mob action and criminal damage to property, all
felonies. Brothers Jason, Cody and Dylan Sutherlin, along with Alex
Stuck and John Tucker are all from Indiana. The men are connected to the
Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement (H.A.R.M.) whose website now claims them as
"The Tinley Park 5?.
Meanwhile the targets of their attack were about a dozen members of the
Illinois European Heritage Association, a group linked to the "White
Pride" group Storm Front. Two of these victims were also caught up in
the police investigation following the incident: Steven Speers of North
Dakota was arrested on an outstanding warrant for possession of child
pornography and Francis Gilroy of Florida was charged with unlawful
possession of a firearm by a felon.
A restaurant surveillance camera captured some of the melee on video and
Zabrocki viewed it before it was turned over to prosecutors as evidence
in the investigation.
"You see the door opens up, these 15, 18 people walk in. They've got
hoods on, they've got masks on," Zabrocki said.
While the confrontation itself happens out of the camera's view, he
said, "You see tables moving into view, food spilling on the floor. You
see them marching out and you see some of the waiters taking swings at
them."
Tinley Park police chief Steve Neubauer said neither of the groups
involved had any connection to his town or the restaurant and he was
struck by the randomness of the incident.
"There was a college graduation luncheon and a shower going on there.
It's a nice little family restaurant. You take your mother in law there
for mother's day for breakfast," Neubauer said.
The meeting of the Illinois European Heritage Association had been
frequently mentioned on the "White Pride" webforum stormfront.org. It
was called the "5 th Annual White Nationalist Economic summit"
and promoted as an opportunity to "work for whites."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist group
activity, suggested that H.A.R.M. probably matched the names of those
organizing the meeting on stormfront.org to those on a membership list
of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement. But Beckie Williams, one of
the attack victims, told the Chicago Tribune that the charge of racism
is "ridiculous" and that her Heritage group was only meeting to discuss
"economic hardships."
Meanwhile Zabrocki said he is angry about this "totally bizarre"
incident for the law enforcement and emergency response it has required.
"This is going to cost us a bundle … to our town and a bunch of other
towns that responded for you know, a bunch of idiots," he said. "And I'm
referring to both sides."
http://news.yahoo.com/anti-racists-attack-white-heritage-group-family-restaurant-003220721--abc-news-topstories.html
plainolamerican
May 24, 2012, 6:23:44 PM5/24/12
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a little revenge is in order
walt tonne
May 24, 2012, 8:09:51 PM5/24/12
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Tough shit Chief Zabrocki. Whites have rights.
Padraigh ProAmerica
May 25, 2012, 10:13:20 AM5/25/12
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IN THIS SPECIFIC CASE the victims were the scum.
Since they were just meeting, and not acting, they are the innocent ones
here.
The attackers should spend some hard tme in jail and pay restitution.
--
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed-
and hence clamorous to be led to safety- by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "--
H.L. Mencken
Since they were just meeting, and not acting, they are the innocent ones
here.
The attackers should spend some hard tme in jail and pay restitution.
--
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed-
and hence clamorous to be led to safety- by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "--
H.L. Mencken
Hisler
May 26, 2012, 3:00:50 PM5/26/12
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On 5/24/2012 6:09 PM, walt tonne wrote:
> Tough shit Chief Zabrocki. Whites have rights.
The anti-racists have been arrested. Mark Potok of the SPLC is trying to
> Tough shit Chief Zabrocki. Whites have rights.
distance his own hate group from the attackers.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/12776463-418/eyewitness-recalls-violence-of-tinley-park-restaurant-attack.html
Updated: May 26, 2012 2:09AM
A horde of masked figures stormed the restaurant in a single-file line,
wielding bats, claw hammers and metal batons — their presence announced
when one shouted, “‘Hey, bitches, the ARA is going to f--- up this place.’ ”
With that, the shrouded thugs went on a rampage, clubbing diners at The
Ashford House restaurant on May 19 in Tinley Park. They did not
discriminate as to the targets of their violence, even pushing an
80-year-old woman to the ground, according to an eyewitness who’s a
former Chicago police officer.
“Although the terrorist assault lasted only about a minute, it was the
longest minute of my life,” the eyewitness said.
Authorities have said the attackers were targeting a group that believes
in white supremacy and calls itself the Illinois European Heritage
Association. At least 10 people were hurt during the attack, with three
taken to a hospital for treatment.
Five Indiana men who prosecutors say are linked to the Anti-Racist
Action Group remain in the Cook County Jail, charged with felony mob
action, aggravated battery and criminal damage to property. They are
John Tucker, 26, of Martinsville, Ind.; Cody Sutherlin, 23, and Alex
Stuck, 22, both of Bloomington, Ind.; and Dylan Sutherlin, 20, and Jason
Sutherlin, 33, both of Gosport, Ind. Two victims also were arrested on
charges unrelated to the attack.
The Anti-Racist Action Group (ARA) is a “radical left-wing group” that
often resorts to violent acts, said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at The
Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization based
in Montgomery, Ala. The attack, he said, “did more harm to the cause of
fighting racism than almost anyone can imagine.”
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