bodily harm. another 16-year-old kid will likely be charged soon. they are decide if he will be charged as an adult. i don t think the prosecutors are going to go easy on them. no, i don t either. a hate crime as you you know gets into the federal system. one last question for you, mr. beckman, mr. utash is still in the hospital, any update on his condition? no. just that he is still in this induced coma and his family is praying that he survives and that s a major concern to everybody here in detroit that he pulls through. this absolutely. the other part is, you know, bill, this is a community that s got a very thin skin. we feel like only the bad parts of detroit ever get shown and when i told the police spokesman earlier today he i was going to be on here tonight he said please don t judge our city by a small subset of people that give our city a bad reputation. i think that s fair. easter protest. muslim father objects to egg hunt on religious grounds.
people in this crowd except for this brave woman, this former nurse came to steve utash s aid. they participated in this horrific beating for no reason at snrul. what happened to the nurse when she came to mr. utash s aid. did anything happen to her? no. she went to attend to him and the beating stopped when she went down and actually laid on the ground next to him, tried to comfort him to see whether she could offer any support. and she said she shoved on his chest some to make sure he was still breathing. she did everything she could until the ambulance arrived to take him away. but nobody else tried to assist except for this brave woman, who by the way, said that she also had a gun in her pocket and, if needed she would have used it. all right. now what kind of neighborhood is, this mr. wimbley, i understand that this gas station where the children were playing is a gathering point? but it is primarily black neighborhood, correct? this is the east side of detroit that you ar
stations in detroit. the nurse is a black woman. yeah, wait a minute, mr. beckman, the nurse who helped mr. utash, is she a black woman. yes. yes, she is. and the other element here is that there was a robbery that mr. utash s phone and money were taken from his truck. is that correct, mr. wimbley. it turns out not the case. that was the original story but that is not the case. i just got off the phone with the detroit police spokesperson who says the wallet was found. initially it was reported, we heard, from every reliable source mr. utash was robbed but turns out that wasn t the case. do you believe, mr. wimbley there will be a bias charge lodged in this case? i can t really speak to that. four people are in custody right now. one of them has been charged with assault with intent to murder and assault with intent to commit great
harris, after hitting him he stopped to see if the boy was okay, to check um on him and then he was attacked. a lot of people, everyone here is pretty much upset about this. black, white, you name it, everyone is ticked off that this happened. and they want to seat guys responsible brought to justice. all right. mr. beckman, how do you see he it? is there a race component here? maybe not initially, bill, but certainly on a secondary level. i talked earlier tonight with a lady named debra hughes who is a former nurse who came to steve utash s aid after he came to be beaten on the ground outside that gas station. she said the words that were being shouted first by one man who said you are the one who hurt my nephew. then she said other men were shouting from the mob that was around. there were 100 to 150 people around. others shouting it s the white guy. get the white guy. that may be just a means of identifying him. but the issue of race came up in that way the shocking thick is tha
harris, after hitting him he stopped to see if the boy was okay, to check um on him and then he was attacked. a lot of people, everyone here is pretty much upset about this. black, white, you name it, everyone is ticked off that this happened. and they want to seat guys responsible brought to justice. all right. mr. beckman, how do you see he it? is there a race component here? maybe not initially, bill, but certainly on a secondary level. i talked earlier tonight with a lady named debra hughes who is a former nurse who came to steve utash s aid after he came to be beaten on the ground outside that gas station. she said the words that were being shouted first by one man who said you are the one who hurt my nephew. then she said other men were shouting from the mob that was around. there were 100 to 150 people around. others shouting it s the white guy. get the white guy. that may be just a means of identifying him. but the issue of race came up in that way the shocking thick is tha