"GET WHITEY !"

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THEY SCREAMED: "GET WHITEY!"
By Michelle Malkin · April 09, 2006 01:26 PM

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If John Hehman, may he rest in peace, had been black and his assailants had been white, you'd know his story by now. But the races were reversed and his murder has been relegated to a footnote by the p.c. New York Times and the rest of the national MSM. (Compare the NYTimes' coverage of Hehman with this NYTimes story of a local white-on-black attack last year.) http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://w...Q5EnQ7C!njF (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/nyregion/08hit.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=45ee72d6Q2FQ2AAQ3FeQ2AUDZThDDnBQ2ABbb9Q2Ab(Q2Ab rQ2A32hQ3F_Q5ED3Q2Abr!Q5EnQ7C!njF)
*vs* http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/nyregion...=rssnyt&emc=rss (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/nyregion/30beach.html?ex=1277784000&en=00539a795bf8b9ff&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)


Local media are filling in the details.


The New York Post reports: http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print....lnews/64110.htm (http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/64110.htm)


The NYPD hate-crimes unit is probing a report that a white NYU student killed by a car in Harlem was fleeing a gang of black teenagers screaming "Get whitey!" sources said yesterday. If the report proves true, the violence could turn out to be an eerie replay in reverse of the infamous 1986 Howard Beach murder, where a black man was chased into traffic and killed by a group of white bigots. The 20-year-old student, John Broderick Hehman, died yesterday, six days after the attack. The sources said Hehman might have been targeted as a soft mark for robbers after the teenage gang spotted the caring urban-studies major handing pocket change to a wheelchair- bound man near the corner of 125th Street and Park Avenue Saturday night. The gang of youths, some of them as young as 11, had been smoking pot inside a nearby Popeye's fast-food eatery at 8:30 p.m. when they spotted Hehman walking by and then stopping to help the handicapped man. An anonymous caller later tipped the CrimeStoppers hot line that a group of youths screamed, "Get Whitey!" and ran toward him.
Witnesses said Hehman fled into traffic against the light and was hit by a Mercedes-Benz traveling east on 125th Street.


The NY Daily News added this week: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/406851p-344320c.html


The Harlem hooligans who killed an NYU student by chasing him into the path of a car were videotaped trashing a nearby McDonald's, law enforcement sources revealed yesterday.

The footage could prove crucial in the hunt for the teens who screamed "Get the white boy!" as they chased John Broderick Hehman, 20, into traffic Saturday, the sources said.

At least two dozen punks were caught on video terrorizing workers at the E. 125th St. McDonald's on March 24 - a week before Hehman was fatally injured a block away, sources said.

The suspects - including black teens who sources say attacked Hehman - kicked over trash cans, hurled trays through the air and knocked around registers, a witness said.

"I was terrified. I literally thought they were all going to jump over the counter and come after us," said McDonald's manager Maria Prandy, 33, who was hit in the face with a tray. "I've never been as scared as I was that night."


Last night, four thugs were arrested (via NY1):
http://www.wnbc.com/news/8570742/detail.html


Four teenagers are facing charges in the death of an NYU student who was hit by a car earlier this month in Harlem in what some are calling a hate crime.

Hassan Mayfield and Andre Johnson, both 15, face second degree murder and robbery charges. Charges are pending against two 13 year olds.

Investigators believe the four chased 20-year-old Broderick Hehman into the street on April 1st. Hehman was hit by a silver Mercedes on East 125th Street near Park Avenue. He died three days later.

Eric Adams of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement says Hehman died for two reasons.

"One, because he made a decision to do a kind act for someone. Second because of his ethnicity; that's unacceptable," he said.

"Very simply, if the reports are accurate that one of the people in the group said, 'get the white boy,' that's a hate crime," said civil rights attorney Norman Siegel.

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The NY Post condemns the damning silence about the case in the national media.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/64188.htm

DAMNING SILENCE
April 9, 2006


It's been a week now since a car hit NYU student John Hehman after he ran into a Harlem street, fleeing from a gang of thugs.

After laying in a coma for five days, Hehman died on Wednesday.

Despite its eerie resemblance to the 1986 Howard Beach affair, this incident has all but passed unnoticed.

Back in '86, a gang of white thugs chased Michael Griffith, a black man, onto the busy Belt Parkway - where he, too, was killed by a car. The outrageous act inflamed racial passions across the city.

Last year, when another black man was beaten by several white thugs from Howard Beach, the city again took notice.

Al Sharpton & Co. saw to that.

So, Howard Beach, big headlines.

Harlem, hardly any headlines at all.

Could it be because this time the gang was black and the victim white?

Obviously, the police have to take their time as they make their case, but the silence in the media - relative to the other two cases - is stunning.

Eyewitness accounts say Hehman had stopped to give a homeless man a dollar. One thug allegedly approached, asking, "Where's our dollar?" Another yelled, "Get the white boy!" or "Get whitey!" The gang chased him. Running into 125th Street, Hehman was hit by a Mercedes Benz.

The incident is troubling in other respects: The gang members were allegedly smoking pot in a local Popeye's right before accosting Hehman. If that's the case, the NYPD must get these thugs off the street immediately: Tolerance for this sort of activity violates the basic precepts that restored this city's social fabric these last dozen years.

Meanwhile, while we have never particularly cared for the concept of "hate" crimes, the fact is that the statutes must be enforced as written. A little public protest from Al Sharpton and his merry pranksters would go a long way toward making their reflexive "outrage" when the shoe is on the other foot a bit more credible.

Even if they don't really mean it.






Hehman's friends at NYU mourn his loss and remember his life and spirit here.
http://www.nyunews.com/vnews/display.v/ART...6/4434bdd916130 (http://www.nyunews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/04/06/4434bdd916130)

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HARLEM THUGS YUPPIE HUNTING
By LAURA ITALIANO

April 11, 2006 -- It's yuppie-hunting season on 125th Street in Harlem.

Teen wolf packs have been systematically preying on people in the gentrifying neighborhood, police sources said yesterday, as four young punks were charged with murder for a mugging gone awry.

The teens, charged as adults, face up to nine years to life behind bars for allegedly acting with depraved indifference in causing the death of New York University student Broderick John Hehman, 20.

Theirs are the first high-profile arrests in a new crime pattern that's shaken the on-the-rise neighborhood. Sources said local teens, typically ages 13 to 15, linger along 125th Street, scoping out potential mugging victims, then moving in to surround and attack.

The kids target well-dressed students, tourists or commuters, preferring those who are alone and talking on cellphones as they climb out of the Metro-North and subway stations at Lexington Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, sources said. They're after cellphones, small electronics and wallets.

The sources said cops arrest groups of kids for these coordinated sidewalk muggings a couple times a month. "The larger kids will grab or punch you, maybe throw you to the ground," said one cop from the area. "Then the little ones go through your pockets."

Until now, these attacks caused only scratches and bruises. But that changed April 1, when just this kind of pack allegedly pounced on Hehman, 20, who was visiting a friend in the neighborhood.

Hehman, the son of a Manhattan investment banker, ran into traffic to flee his pursuers. Struck by a Mercedes, he died six days later of head injuries .


"These kids are just like what we're always getting out there," said a cop who patrols the historic street. Added the cop, "We keep telling people, when you walk out of the station, stay off the cellphone. Be alert. Don't act like you're in Midtown. 'Cause you're not in Midtown. You're in Harlem."

Robberies in the 25th Precinct, which includes 125th Street in East Harlem, are up 3.3 percent so far this year, according to NYPD crime statistics through April 2. There were 61 robberies in the precinct for the first three months of the year, compared to 59 for the same period in 2005.

All four teens charged in Hehman's murder have confessed to acting together to mug the popular student, according to criminal complaints released yesterday.

Accused ringleader Andre "Chris" Johnson, 15, spotted Hehman walking alone and talking on his cell as he left the Metro-North station, and pointed him out to the others, the complaints allege.

Johnson admitted punching the student in the side of his head, and Hassan Mayfield, 15, admitted "trying" to grab him, prosecutors said.

Denzell Fell and Humberto Guzman, both 13, insisted they played minor roles, saying, "Chris and Hassan never give us any of the stuff they take," according to Assistant District Attorney Joel Seideman.

None of the teens admitted chasing Hehman into traffic. All denied wanting to seriously injure him. They're being held without bail, and a fifth teen is still being sought.

Additional reporting by Perry Chiaramonte

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/66814.htm