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February 27, 2006

Everybody just stay the hell out of Alabama, pt. 2

I'm tellin' ya, there's something in the water lately:

Man of Arab descent shot; suspect held

TUSCALOOSA - A man of Arab descent was in fair condition Friday night after being shot Thursday night by a man who had been yelling racial slurs outside a Middle Eastern takeout restaurant near the University of Alabama campus.

Among those who went to the aid of Nabil Chagri was John Bart Tyra, a Marine Reservist who returned from a tour in Iraq nearly a year ago. Afterward, Tyra said he was sickened by the incident.

"I shed a few tears over it, let's put it that way," said Tyra, a Tuscaloosa resident and a lance corporal in the Bessemer-based 4th Anti-Terrorism Battalion. "It just breaks my heart that that can happen here in the United States."

"Hello, CNN? Fox News? Oh, you're only interested if the victim's white...? C'mon, you can dredge up the whole history of Alabama's racial strife, show that Birmingham firehose video one more time..."

Posted by Jeff at February 27, 2006 07:07 AM