Capri-Wearing Man On Loose!

Ruh roh. Another person was attacked on a SEPTA concourse yesterday, which means we’re in for another bit of hand-wringing from the media (unless the opinion settles on the idea the guy had it coming):

A West Philadelphia man is in critical condition this morning after being attacked by an unidentified assailant on a SEPTA concourse in Center City yesterday afternoon, police said.

No cameras captured images of the brutal beating which occurred about 3:25 p.m. on a stairway at 12th and Market Streets.

Witnesses said an older man stomped the victim, 23, numerous times in the head. Police are uncertain what prompted the beating. The attacker is described as black, with a scruffy beard and close-cropped hair, lanky, about 6-foot-2 and 170 pounds. He was wearing an oversized white T-shirt, dark capri-style jeans and tan Timberland boots.

“Black dude in an oversized white t-shirt” certainly narrows it down a bit, though that is a pretty thorough description. But capri-style jeans? This man should already have been taken off the street by the fashion police.

Brutal beating on SEPTA concourse leaves man critical [Inquirer]

And Now A Full Post On The Byko Column

Stu Bykofsky went to that 10,000 men rally yesterday at the Liacouras Center, and the resulting column was pretty much what you’d expect from an old white man attending a rally of 10,000 black people: Complete and total awesomeness.

He first notes the rally lost about a third of the crowd around the time the Eagles game started. (It went from 2:40 to 5.) But the opening graf is pretty awesome, too:

THE USE of the Liacouras Center at Temple University, a seat of learning, was unintended symbolism for yesterday’s “10,000 Men: A Call to Action,” the black mobilization to take back the city’s toughest neighborhoods from killers, drug dealers, hustlers and pimps.

Pimps! Now there’s a job you don’t really see reported on in the news much. “Pimp kills 2,” perhaps the headlines would read. Hustlers, too; I kind of thought hustlers would encompass drug dealers and pimps, but maybe not. Maybe Byko lost a lot of money to a pool hustler and doesn’t want that to happen to somebody else.

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