IF YOU LIVE IN WILKES-BARRE, OR CARE ABOUT ANYONE WHO DOES, YOU HAVE TO READ THIS!!!!!!! At about 2:00 a.m. last Sunday morning a young man by the name of Anthony Gipson had finally finished his shift as a cook at Bart and Urbys bar in downtown Wilkes-Barre. As he was walking home he was accosted by several young men while walking past another downtown bar only a couple of blocks from where he works. The bar where this attack took place is right next door to Barnes and Noble and Boscovs. Sadly, this young man was beaten to within inches of death, and eyewitness reports from the scene seem to point to the fact that there numerous individuals who recorded this cowardly event on their cellphones, yet not 1 individual has yet to come forward with this video that may very well be key to taking these savages off the street. Sharing this video with authorities does not make you a snitch, it makes you a decent, empathetic human being. If you are holding any of this information man up and DO THE RIGHT THING! On an even more disturbing note, yesterdays article regarding this attack that appeared in yesterdays Times Leader quotes Mayor Tom Leighton as saying that he was unaware of this brutality until THURSDAY MORNING! I, as just an average blue-collar citizen, knew about this attack by Monday afternoon. Please keep in mind, Mayor Leighton is the boss of the whole of the Wilkes-Barre Police Department, yet a non-descript citizen knew of this atrocity 3 DAYS before the Mayor of the city!? If this does not qualify as utter and complete ineptitude on behalf of the city leadership, then nothing ever will. Furthermore, once again, the beloved, (only by city leadership), Hawkeye camera system, failed us the taxpayers, and Anthony Gipson miserably. Par for the course, thus far. On behalf of this poor young man I plead with each and every citizen out there to do what needs to be done and put and end to this ineffective regime by whatever means we have at our disposal, before the next victim is one of YOUR loved ones. Please share.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:41:32 +0000
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