A video circulating around the Internet shows a crowd laughing as a white man is beat up, robbed and stripped naked outside of a Baltimore courthouse.
Many believe the beating would have received more attention if the crowd had been white and the victim had been black:
https://twitter.com/#!/coloradorebecca/status/189219493988409344
https://twitter.com/#!/chaselindley/status/189147632340443137
https://twitter.com/#!/dlbasch/status/189086479442649088
https://twitter.com/#!/TPO_Hisself/status/189039442202337280
Several Twitter users argued that the incident vindicates John Derbyshire’s controversial article warning his children to be suspicious of black people:
https://twitter.com/#!/CristaRamone/status/189091309431160832
https://twitter.com/#!/PhilSchoen/status/189084672658112512
https://twitter.com/#!/CarlBrandt/status/188745503201173505
At least one Twitter user replied that the events in Baltimore lend no support to Derbyshire’s views:
https://twitter.com/#!/NathanWurtzel/status/188778959696171009
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