Hate-crime charges eyed in ‘unprovoked attack by group of thugs’
A mob of 20 to 30 black juveniles went on a rampage against a white family at a family friendly event in Wilson Park in Florence, Alabama, allegedly slinging racial slurs as they fired a Taser at the husband and beat him.
The man’s son, 14-year-old Brandon Dawes, was attacked, too, WHNT News reported.
“Randomly, they just hit me in the back of the head,” he said. “I didn’t think nothing of it at first because, well, I thought maybe somebody tripped or something.”
Juli Dawes, meanwhile, said her husband, Kevin, reached out to shield their son and then the group of juveniles started attacking him.
Husband and father Kevin said: “I got in between him and the attacker and told him to go toward the van and that’s when I started getting attacked,” the local news station reported.
Juli said she was in the van with her four-year-old, watching the scene unfold.
“My four-year-old said, ‘Look, Mommy, they’re dancing,’” she said, WHNT News reported. “I said, ‘No, baby, they’re not dancing; they’re fighting.’ Then I see my husband, and he’s on the ground being Tased. … There’s this wall of people, and there was nothing I could do.”
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