Interesting story with video…from Bay Ridge (where John Travolta portrayed Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever a scant 30 years ago).
Vigilante Justice: NYC Storeowners Fight Back! (click to see video)
Brothers Defend Brooklyn Bodega With Machetes, Large Carving Knives; Fight Off Would-Be Thieves
Video Shows Owners Confronting Suspects Until Police Arrive
ReportingNEW YORK (CBS) ― Some storeowners in Brooklyn who were fed up with thieves took matters into their own hands. The episode of vigilante justice was caught on tape, as two brothers used machetes and large knives to fend off three criminals, who also had weapons of their own. As the camera rolled, the lines between good and evil were drawn.
“You never know. This is a business. There’s always someone trying to rip us off,” Mohammed Othman said Thursday night.
But the would-be robbers picked the wrong store. Mohammed Othman was working the register at S & J Meat Market in Bay Ridge when three men entered his family’s deli and asked to use the store’s bathroom. Both Mohammed and brother Sammy knew something was up.
“There’s someone up there robbing us so I came here and grabbed two knives. I grabbed them and ran upstairs,” Sammy Othman told CBS 2 HD.
“Once I heard all that noise I picked up the machete,” Mohammed added.
The brothers then ran up the stairs and saw that the suspects were stealing $2,000 worth of cigarettes. Sammy and Mohammed weren’t going to let that happen.
“Right when he was coming down, I just swung, boom. I ended up hitting his legs,” Mohammed said.
“We started fighting in the front [of the store],” Sammy added. “There were five guys, three against two.”
Sammy ran nearly two blocks after the suspect and chased them into another deli where surveillance cameras captured the whole confrontation.
The video shows Sammy face to face with one suspect in a white tank top who pulls out his own weapon.
“He had a knife on him and he said, ‘I will stab you,’ and I told him ‘Don’t even think about it,” Sammy said. “My knife is more bigger than yours. Don’t even think about it.’”
Sammy was able to keep the suspects at the deli until police arrived.
A third suspect was caught when he tried calling one of the other suspect’s cell phone, which had fallen out inside the meat market. Who answered the phone? Mohammed Othman, who then asked the suspect where he was. The suspect told him and that’s where police found him and quickly placed him under arrest.
No one was injured in the altercation.
But justice was served!
CBS 2 HD’s Hazel Sanchez contributed to this report
(Magee and Hazel see no irony in their comments of justice being served by the sword)
Tags: Brooklyn, Creeping Sharia, Crime, islam, Legal, Life, News, NYC, Religion, Video
July 27, 2008 at 12:33
That is justified….
July 29, 2008 at 11:27
This message was sent to me by a friend. I am posting it because I think it says what needs to be said about the Islamic threat. It also needs to be read by all decent Muslims who do not subscribe to Jihad/terror.
The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a well known and well respected psychiatrist. (I have no personal knowledge of this individual.)
A German’s View on Islam
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II,
owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. “Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”
We are told again and again by “experts” and “talking heads” that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectra of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor- kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.
It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape
victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the
“silent majority,” is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live
in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the
murder of about20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.
China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese
Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving”?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our posers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.
As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this and think about it, and send it on - before it’s too late.
Emanuel Tanay, M.D.
Fousesquawk comment:
This is a very cogent message-both to the West and to decent Muslims world-wide. The fact of the matter is that otherwise decent Muslims are being made irrelevant by their silence in the face of the atrocities that are being carried out in the name of Islam. Even more so, we non-Muslims must recognize and support those Muslims who have chosen to speak out against Islamic terror and intimidation. They put their lives on the line, and we must make it clear that we stand with them and will protect them if necessary.
Thank you Dr Tanay, whoever you are and wherever you are for putting it in perspective.
gary fouse
fousesquawk