Police: Man spits on black child, calls him racial slur

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CBS NEWS

CBS NEWS March 2, 2018, 8:53 PM

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas -- Authorities say a man allegedly spit on a black child and called him a racial slur Monday night at a Hooters restaurant in Overland Park, Kansas. The alleged incident began when the child wandered away from his family inside the restaurant Monday night and another customer used a racial slur and spit on the child, several witnesses told police.

"He basically said get that little 'blank' up off the floor. The n-word started to get thrown around," a witness who asked to remain anonymous told CBS Kansas City affiliate KCTV. The witness said he was dumbfounded by what the suspect told police who responded to the incident.

"I didn't catch what the officer said to him, but his immediate response was 'It's OK, I'm a fireman,' like that was supposed to blanket cover everything for him," the witness said.

In a statement, Overland Park Police Department clarified that the suspect is not a firefighter, but said they would pursue charges against the suspect relating to battery on a child.


Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overland-park-kansas-police-man-spits-black-child-calls-him-racial-slur-hooters/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. +1 for pursuing charges. Is he a Trumpanzee?

[cstanleytech]

4. I the answer a 99% chance of being yes. nt

[sfwriter]

14. .99999

[dalton99a]

6. There is an extremely high likelihood.

[dalton99a]

2. Racist trash are flooding the comments section to defend the trash and call the witnesses liars.

[GWC58]

5. And as if being a firefighter

which he isn’t, was supposed to make it okay. Fucker!!

[Xipe Totec]

10. It turns out impersonating a firefighter is also a crime

So, if they really want to teach this... person a lesson, they can charge him with that as well.

[GWC58]

32. I hope they throw everything at him.

Falsely claiming to be something you’re not, like a policeman, or fireman, could get him in some trouble. If I were a firefighter, a real one, I’d be plenty pissed off at this piece of dogshit. 😡

[Wuddles440]

43. He was probably...

expecting some "professional courtesy" from the responding officers - nothing to see here and they would just move along. While I'm sure that this happens all the time there, it appears that there may have been just too many witnesses (thankfully) on this occasion for it to be simply dismissed.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

48. Police call it "courtesy" ...

I call it "corruption".

[Proud liberal 80]

8. Yeah

No matter how horrible an incident, the comments section of an article never ceases to amaze me how many racist idiots are out there

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. How awful.

I lived in Overland Park for over a decade, and I know exactly where that Hooters is.

While on one hand I can understand a customer being annoyed by a wandering child, NOTHING justifies that behavior.

[GWC58]

7. I can not

understand how that would be annoying. Maybe that’s just me.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I am with you. As someone who used to have young children,

kids wandering around a restaurant or being noisy in public doesn't particularly bother me. I have an acquaintance that I rarely see any more who is always completely intolerant of the slightest misbehavior of children in public, as if she was never a kid herself or never had her own child, who I suspect was very ill-behaved most of the time.

I am convinced that when my kids were young they were well behaved in public. Except that I have clear memories of times we left a restaurant because one of them was acting up. We did always try to go to noisy, family friendly restaurants, but even those don't need to be subject to a screaming kid.

Kids will be kids. Yeah, there are places you shouldn't be taking them, but no matter what, spitting and calling out racial slurs is never the right response.

[bobbieinok]

13. I always took paper, crayons, a few toys, etc, to restaurant or on long bus trips. Some take nothing

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. After a while we always did that.

Paper and crayons were the best.

I loved restaurants that had paper placements and some crayons, but I understood that the establishment was in the business of feeding people, not entertaining kids.

I will admit that I can sometimes be torn between what's normal kid behavior, and what's stuff the parents shouldn't be tolerating in the first place. It's a wide and fuzzy line.

[Chellee]

15. I do kind of understand that it could be annoying...

depending on whether the kid was running, yelling, etc. Also the age of the kid, the younger the child the more forgiving I get. But honestly, when the behavior is totally over the top, it just starts to get funny.

Once, my daughter, my grandmother and I were at, (and I don't want to create a DU flame war here) let's just say, a certain Italian chain restaurant, having lunch. And the table next to us was exhibiting (to us) jaw droppingly shocking behavior. One kid standing on the chair and yelling. Parents putting spaghetti with tomato sauce ON THE TABLE for the baby to eat. Food on the floor in literally a two foot ring around the table. Another kid that would not sit in his seat, and would just run around, stop by the table, take a bite and take off again. But when the standing kid didn't want to eat her salad, and threw it, and a piece of lettuce landed on my grandmother's head, we couldn't help it and just burst out laughing. It was so ridiculous that we couldn't believe it was happening. They never apologized to us, or to the staff. When they left, they left what I consider a very average tip, and considering the state of that table, really substandard. The poor girl who had to clean up, walked over to the table, looked at it for a second, sighed heavily, and then started cleaning.

On edit: You know, the subthread brought up that funny memory (and my Grandmother is gone now) that I forgot about how outrageous the OP story was. Obviously, the man in the story was horrific and I'm glad he's being charged.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. Oh, my.

I don't think I ever witnessed anything that over the top. Even at their very worst my kids weren't like that. And I only had two, which helped.

Once they were old enough (as in at least 8 and 4) to be civilized, we'd have family conversations about such things as the conditions in the early Universe just after the Big Bang. I'm sure patrons who could hear us were quite nonplussed, but honest, sometimes that was the conversation.

The then 8 year old is now in a PhD program in astronomy. No surprise there.

[GWC58]

30. I know my son acted up a few times and

when he did my wife & I exited the area. I was always mindful of where my son was at. As for this asshole that spit on a child there’s no excuse. None. Period! Exclamation point. By the way I’ve never spit on a child or, for that matter, ever thought about doing so. The father of that child, if justice exists, should have “beat the living shit” out of that racist prick. I hate seeing children hurt, always have.

[liberalhistorian]

45. I agree, and I'm especially not annoyed

because I'm not the one who has to deal with and take care of them, lol! I love kids, but my son is grown, I'm older, and I've paid my dues!

[Laffy Kat]

22. Ummm, why is a wandering child annoying?

Who would think that? How is that bothersome? I don't understand.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. For me, and I gather for you, it's not.

But too many adults are totally intolerant of children. Makes me crazy.

I will go out of my way, when in a public place and someone's child is misbehaving, to give them sympathy and let them know that it has happened to every parent.

[Laffy Kat]

24. Me too. My first response to seeing any child is a smile.

It must be horrible going through life annoyed by kids.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. Yes, so true.

Children are amazing. Sometimes wonderful, sometimes not.

[RhodeIslandOne]

37. Children should not be wandering around a restaurant

It’s a good way for a waiter/waitress/child/other customers to get hot food spilled or glass broken on them when children get under foot.

This has nothing to do with the racist’s abhorrent behavior.

[Bengus81]

36. How is that annoying,I would be worried if he was very young but not annoyed....

[TheSmarterDog]

12. This is an argument for setting up re-education camps for social regressives.

Those who have been poisoned by Faux Snooze & Britebart need to learn how to behave in a civilized society again.

[TheSmarterDog]

33. RTFA - This wasn't speech. This was a violent & unprovoked attack on a child.

So, forgive me if I'm a little conservative when it comes to the health, safety & welfare of our children. The real question is: Why aren't you?

Monkeys living in trees do a better job of protecting their children than we do ours. And people like the villain in the OP are an obvious threat to our society, wouldn't you agree?

So how do we deal with them? They aren't evil. They don't have any psychological problems. They've just been taught that such anti-social behavior is acceptable - or even necessary. It's not.

And I'd think "we liberals" should be concerned about not only the villains' rights, but those of his victims as well. Maybe you should go visit those "conservative" sites that advocate attacking children.

[Judi Lynn]

25. I doubt they have ever been educated at all! They aren't well-balanced enough to be around people!

So hard to believe they imagine themselves to be human beings, when they can't behave as human beings do.

It's painful to realize there are so many of them among, around us, that it's profitable for groups like Faux and Breitbart to even consider going into business, a nightmare to realize there are human-sized bags of flesh who can't live without them to tell them how to think.

"Regressive" is surely appropriate if we can assume they started failing to progress socially around 2 years of age. They never learned to respect anyone outside what represents a family in adulthood.

[LovingA2andMI]

17. Disgusting POS....

[JohnnyRingo]

19. Well thank you for your service, racist.

I'm amazed the parent(s) had the inner calm to call police instead of "first responding" all over his head with restaurant seating and cutlery.

[GWC58]

31. Fake thanks for his

fictional firefighter job. 🤪

[Grassy Knoll]

21. Now Here's Some News Not Seen On Fox News...

...Fucking Disgusting, OTOH, Children At Hooter ?

[47of74]

26. I'd bet cash money this was yet another Branch Trumpvidian in action.

[ProudLib72]

27. Why was there a child at Hooters?

[RandiFan1290]

41. Why are there kids at the beach?

It's a restaurant.

[ProudLib72]

46. Yeah right

[True Blue American]

29. I hope that man pays

For his ignorance and hatefulness.

I have noticed as I have grown older just how polite and considerate young,black teens are.
They open doors,respect others.

But my question about the man is where did he learn to be so crude and mean? His actions are far beyond the child wondering. He is the child.

As to his lie about being a Fireman, those who try to save lives at the expense of their own have huge compassion,something this man lacked.

[Bob Loblaw]

34. No one goes to Hooters for the food

nt

[BumRushDaShow]

35. Apparently they were attending a birthday party there according to a local station

The child’s family called KCTV5 News and also said the man spat on their child. They were celebrating a birthday at Hooters with about 20 to 30 guests. The family said the young boy wandered away from the party.

http://www.kctv5.com/story/37627894/child-called-racial-slur-spat-on-by-firefighter-at-overland-park-hooters

[Bengus81]

38. Trump voters galore up there. That Trump loving racist shot that Indian guy and another a year ago..

Shouting slurs,calling him a mooslim and then killed him.

OLATHE, Kan. – A man has been charged with murder in what some witnesses described as a racially motivated shooting at a crowded suburban Kansas City bar that left one Indian man dead and two other men hospitalized.

Local police are working with the FBI to investigate the shooting Wednesday night in Olathe, Kansas, but have declined to describe the attack as a hate crime.

A bartender at Austins Bar and Grill said Adam Purinton used "racial slurs" before he opened fire as patrons watched the University of Kansas-TCU basketball game on television. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, died at a hospital, while 32-year-old Alok Madasani and 24-year-old Ian Grillot are hospitalized in stable condition, police said.


http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/24/deadly-shooting-at-kansas-sports-bar-was-racially-motivated-witnesses-say.html

[lastlib]

40. twelve miles from the Hooters....

It's all Johnson County KS--redder than blood. LOT of Trump bumper stickers.

[The Wizard]

39. More evidence that we don't want Trump

taking us back to the bad old days. Bigotry that was once frowned upon is becoming normal again. Thanks Trump for lowering the bar on what passes as normal in the eyes of your bigoted cult.

[marble falls]

42. I'll bet dollars to chicken wings that racist owns an AR-15.

[McCamy Taylor]

44. There are so many layers of hatred and self hatred behind this story

that it makes me want to cry. The self proclaimed "fireman" needs to cry. He has a lot of sorrow inside that has turned to anger over the years. At some point in his life, he was a tiny child in public crying because he was unhappy/in pain/hungry and someone smacked him good and told him "Stop it! Boys don't cry!"

When shit like this happens, the perp should be sentenced to 1000 hours of deep introspective navel gazing with some new age hippie types who will pry that childhood trauma out of him. Plus, when the judge reads it in court, he will hate the sentence much more than going to jail (which is "manly" ).

[Honeycombe8]

47. OMG. They no longer even try to pretend they're not Nazis. nt