Colin Flaherty reviews and gives commentary on news with headlines "Caught on camera: Man, stepchildren beaten on East Memphis street" and "Man attacked, knocked out by 6 people in front of popular Beale Street bar, police say" a…
Colin Flaherty reviews and gives commentary on news with headlines "Caught on camera: Man, stepchildren beaten on East Memphis street" and "Man attacked, knocked out by 6 people in front of popular Beale Street bar, police say" and "A Conversation with Memphis Mayor A. C. Wharton"
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https://wreg.com/2018/07/27/caught-on-camera-man-stepchildren-beaten-on-east-memphis-street/
POSTED 9:36 PM, JULY 27, 2018, BY LUKE JONES
UPDATED AT 10:26PM, JULY 27, 2018
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A cell phone camera captured the blows as a 62-year-old man and his two stepchildren were attacked in broad daylight last Saturday in the middle of Kimball Avenue.
About six men can be seen beating the family with pieces of wood, leaving them with fractured skulls and gashes covering their faces.
“They just continued beating us, beating us, beating us. Beating us with sticks, so they broke over our heads,” said one of the victims, Mark Clark.
Clark said the attack started when his stepfather confronted the men after they started throwing rocks at his home.
Thursday, another East Memphis family showed WREG surveillance footage of what they say are the same men setting fire to two of their cars on Dunn Avenue.
https://www.fox13memphis.com/top-stories/man-attacked-knocked-out-by-6-people-in-front-of-popular-beale-street-bar-police-say/796647423
By: Zach Crenshaw Updated: Jul 24, 2018 - 4:45 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A man is recovering after he said about six people beat him unconscious while on Beale Street early Sunday.
According to a criminal complaint from Memphis police, the victim was in front of Wet Willie’s in the 200 block of Beale when about six men came from behind and started to punch him.
Police said he did not get a good look at the suspects.
The victim was taken by private means to Methodist South with bruises and swelling around his face, lower lip and forehead.
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/12/23/mayor-wharton-memphis
December 23, 2015
For the past few years, Here & Now has been checking in with A. C. Wharton, the Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, about how issues like the economy, the Affordable Care Act, politics, and race and policing.
