Neighborhood Watch President Gone Wild

[Milkster]

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore judge is deciding the fates of two brothers charged with beating a black teenager while responding to a suspicious person report to a Jewish neighborhood watch.
Judge Pamela White is expected to announce her decision Thursday afternoon in the case of Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim, who are charged in the 2010 beating of a 15-year-old boy.
The brothers opted for a bench trial after withdrawing a motion to move their trial because of publicity comparing their case to the fatal shooting of black Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
Prosecutors say the brothers attacked the teen, hitting him with a radio and holding him on the ground. But Eliyahu Werdesheim testified that he acted in self-defense when the teen attacked him with a nail-studded plank.

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BALTIMORE — Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights activists hope the Martin case will draw more attention to what they believe was racial profiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes.
Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim are accused of beating a 15-year-old boy who was walking through a Baltimore neighborhood in November 2010. The brothers pulled up next to the teen in a vehicle, then got out and "surrounded him," according to charging documents. The passenger threw the teen to the ground and the driver hit him in the head with a hand-held radio and patted him down.
The teen remembered the driver yelling, "You wanna (mess) with us, you don't belong around here, get outta here!" according to court documents, which do not identify which brother was driving.
While the teen struggled, a third man got out of a van and kneed the teen, pinning him to the ground. The teen told police that he stopped struggling and the third man continued to search him, while the teen insisted he didn't have anything on him.
Eliyahu Werdesheim told the Baltimore Jewish Times that he was acting in self-defense because the teen was holding the piece of wood. The teen picked up the board during the encounter, but put it back down, said J. Wyndal Gordon, an attorney for the teen's family. He said the family did not want to speak publically.
After the trio left, the teen called police and was taken to a hospital with a cut on the back of his head and a broken wrist, according to court documents. Using a photo book compiled by investigators, the teen later identified Eliyahu Werdesheim, now 24, as one of the men who assaulted him. He was arrested after about 10 days; his now 21-year-old brother was charged two months later.
The brothers are charged with second-degree assault, false imprisonment and carrying a deadly weapon (the hand-held radio). The pair face up to 13 years in prison if convicted on all three counts. A third man, identified in a lawsuit brought by the teen's family as Ronald Rosenbluth, does not face charges.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said investigators don't believe Rosenbluth was involved in the beating. Rosenbluth said he doesn't believe there was a third person and he was only called to the scene after the incident.

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There probably should be a little more certification to be President or Captain of a Neighborhood Watch.

Can't really change the background from gray.

[Acevalefor]

Oh god...now a two-way radio is a deadly weapon.

I am honestly surprised they didn't call the kids terrorists because they were clearly communicating with their terrorist leader via the two-way radio and attacking this teen as a message to all blacks in America.

[Dimmauk]

I'm sure this is the first time someone got their ass beat for being in the wrong place.

[Lucavi]

Can't be a terrorist if you're attacking blacks specifically. More of a freedom fighter or a hero, really.

[kuronosan]

What is it with all these fuckers suddenly claiming self defense after beating someone up?

[Acevalefor]

What is it with all these fuckers suddenly claiming self defense after beating someone up?

It's the new insanity plea.

[Dimmauk]

There is an Israel joke that needs to happen in this thread.

[Lucavi]

What is it with all these fuckers suddenly claiming self defense after beating someone up?

Well, they're helping the cause - of getting the law overturned.

[Correction]

Eliyahu Werdesheim testified that he acted in self-defense when the teen attacked him with a nail-studded plank.

Run, Kodos!

[Yugl]

Run, Kodos!

Winning post.

[Ragnus]

I think it's safe to say that it's /thread at this point.

[Niiro]

What is it with all these fuckers suddenly claiming self defense after beating someone up?

There is an Israel joke that needs to happen in this thread.

Is it a joke if it's just a frighteningly precise metaphor?