Rocky Hill tackles racism as 'Black Crimes Matter' flyers appear all over town after attempted carjacking
ROCKY HILL, CONNECTICUT: Following an attempted carjacking of a White man's car, which left him being seriously injured, a Connecticut town held an "anti-racism meeting" on Wednesday night, April 26. This came after local lawns were littered with flyers reading 'Black Crimes Matter.'
A Ring doorbell camera captured the attempted car theft on April 10. The footage shows a young Black man coming out of a red Infiniti Q50 sedan parked in a doorway, which is valued at $42,000 new. After finding the driver's side door unlocked he jumps in. As soon as the homeowner confronts the intruder, the Black man attacks him. As the pair scuffle and fall to the ground, three more men emerge from a nearby car and join the brawl punching and kicking the White homeowner.
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3 Black males were involved in the carjacking
The homeowner managed to lift the first thief above his head, but the rest of the group pulled him down to the ground. One of them put him in a headlock while the others kicked and punched him. In the midst of the attack, one of the attackers kicked him so hard that his shoe falls off, and they continued to hit him with the shoe. After the assault, the four perpetrators fled the scene, leaving the homeowner with bruises but no serious injuries, Daily Mail reports.
Sergeant Jeffrey Foss-Rugan stated that the assailants were "three younger in age black males and one younger in age white/Hispanic male." After three days after the attempted car theft, small white flyers containing the words "Black Crimes Matter" and the contact details of a neo-Nazi group were found scattered around the area. Valerie Triblets, a member of the Racial Justice Steering Committee at the Rocky Hill Congregational Church, strongly believes that the flyers and the attempted car theft were connected.
'We call out the evil behavior'
Speaking of the flyers, Triblets said, "They were distributed generally in the same neighborhood as the assault, Valley View Drive." She added that the supremacist group was "using it as an opportunity to spread hate." Triblets wrote a statement on behalf of her church that was posted on Facebook, "We call out the evil behavior of those who chose to scatter hate through our neighborhoods in an attempt to create moral panic and convince good people that there is a connection between race and criminal behavior."
Kate Schramm, who lives near Valley View Drive, said she noticed tiny slips of paper when she was walking her dog. "I was surprised to see them. They looked like little pieces of trash," Schramm said. "I picked one up. I was just disgusted. They're really tiny. You wouldn't notice them unless you were looking for them," she said. A community meeting was held on Wednesday night to address the incident, and a march is scheduled for Sunday under the banner of 'Unite Against White Supremacy in Connecticut.'