Another Philly Mob Attack- " 'We got you, you white mother-------!' "

Chased home: Mob attacks man in his house

BY JULIE SHAW
Philadelphia Daily News

shawj@phillynews.com 215-854-2592

ABOUT 11 P.M. on Sept. 9, dozens of youths with bats and pipes descended on a tidy residential area of Port Richmond looking for white teens who allegedly had attacked an African-American kid at Stokely Playground a couple of hours earlier.

Two fearful white teens spotted Mark LaVelle on Indiana Avenue near Belgrade Street and asked for help. Suddenly, the mob appeared. LaVelle, who said that he didn't know the two kids, who looked to be 13 or 14, ran with them into his nearby house.

" 'We got you, you white mother-------!' " LaVelle said he heard someone yell in the "mob" of black and Hispanic youths.

Inside his house, LaVelle, 37, called to his wife, Kim, 30, to go to their bedroom with their twin 13-month-old boys, Mark and Mason, and to call police. He also ordered his two other sons, 11 and 17, and his nephew, 7, to stay upstairs.

With the two teens hiding in the house, LaVelle, 5 feet 10, 220 pounds, a well-known sports-league organizer and coach in the community, went outside to try to calm the angry mob.

They were standing on his steps. One shouted, " 'Something's going to happen now!' " LaVelle recalled in an interview Friday at his house. LaVelle got nervous and went back inside, locking his door with a deadbolt.

But the attackers pounded on his front windows and kicked his wooden door so hard, it flew open and some of them entered his house.

"The first guy hits me with a pipe. The second guy knocks me in the face. All I'm hearing is my wife and kids screaming," said LaVelle, who feared that the next time they saw him, he would be in a casket.

He said that he was able to push the attackers out the door, but then a third man - who had a gun - tried to extend his arm. LaVelle grabbed onto the gunman's lower arm and shoulder so he couldn't raise the weapon. Then, police sirens screamed in the neighborhood, and the mob turned and ran.

LaVelle was able to identify three of the people from the melee. He said he did not know if they had been chasing the white teenagers, or if they were just trying to find someone to attack.

Police arrested Bergson Morin, 21, of Rosehill Street near Wyoming Avenue, Feltonville, as the man with the gun. They arrested Enrique Delgado, 32, of Rockland and C streets, Feltonville, as the man who hit LaVelle with the pipe. And they arrested a 17-year-old juvenile as the one who punched LaVelle in the face, giving him a black eye.


LaVelle said that the next day the mother of the juvenile came back with some other people, banging on his door, screaming. LaVelle, who was at a charity sports event, was called back to the house by one of his sons.

When he got home, LaVelle said, the mother yelled at him, " 'You white mother------, you got my kid locked up! You got my son locked up because he's black, you're white!' " The mother claimed that her son had been "a witness," not an attacker. To that, LaVelle said if that were true, it would come out in court.

But the mother, according to LaVelle, then yelled: " 'If you make it to court! I know where you live!' "

Police public affairs could not confirm yesterday if the mother has been arrested for making threats.

Patty-Pat Kozlowski, president of the Port Richmond on Patrol and Civic Association, said that police told her that the attack on LaVelle stemmed from the incident at Stokely Playground, Indiana Avenue and Thompson Street, a few blocks from LaVelle's house.

She heard that an African-American "kid got knocked off his bike or fell off" and white kids were laughing at him. The group of African-Americans and Hispanics came back for retaliation, Kozlowski believes.

She said she didn't know any of the people involved in the playground incident or in the attack on LaVelle. LaVelle said he also did not know anyone involved.

Morin and Delgado, who face charges of aggravated assault, conspiracy, burglary, weapons and related offenses, face a preliminary hearing in Municipal Court today. They are both in custody. Their family members could not be reached for comment.

Freddy Godoy, Delgado's attorney, said yesterday that someone Delgado knows "was probably related to the child" who was attacked in the playground. But he contends that Delgado was not one of the people who attacked LaVelle.

Richard Patton, Morin's attorney, declined comment yesterday.

Kozlowski, a legislative aide to City Councilwoman Joan Krajewski and a lifelong Port Richmond resident, wrote about the attack in The Spirit community newspaper, which serves the river wards. Since then, the story has created a lot of buzz in the predominantly white neighborhood.

Kozlowski and Maryann Trombetta, president of the Port Richmond Town Watch, both recalled the murder of Sean Daily, a white teen who was beaten and shot by bat-wielding youths, mostly Latino, in May 1989.

They don't believe that the attack on LaVelle started as a racial incident, but believe that there was a racial element to it when the mob "called him a white mother------" and when the juvenile's mother allegedly threatened LaVelle.

LaVelle, who runs sports leagues composed of youths and adults of different races, said he doesn't want any retaliation on the people who attacked him. But the attack has instilled fear in him and his family, and he hopes that there will be more of a police presence in the neighborhood.

His wife is afraid to stay at home, and "every time I hear a car, I'm looking out the door," he said.

"It's not a good way to live."

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Thank God, the police scared the criminal mob, so badly that they didn't murder the homeowner in his own house. Will this be called a hate crime though?

Consider a white mob trying to murder a black man in his own house to screams of " 'We got you, you black mother-------!' ". Would the gov't/media need days to at least call this a possible hate crime?

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So this guy was attacked, in his house, for sheltering two white kids who were going to get jumped by dozens of thugs. It's just a shame he didn't pull out a double barrel and off a few of these savages.

Funny that this black mother is all worked up now that her criminal kid is locked up. Guess she had no problems with this gangsta wannabe breaking & entering, and assaulting a family man in his house, in front of his wife and kids.

Seriously, these 'mobs' should be rounded up and deported back to Africa.

 

I don't expect any help from the gov't of Kilidelphia or the Just-us Dept.

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I think this could be classified as such, given the rhetoric that was allegedly used...

That said,

I was unaware that we could deport people back to places that they've probably never been...

 

A few days ago Barry told a group of black leaders to put their stomping boots on and take to the streets. I guess these people are just following the orders of the organizer in chief.

They weren't African Americans? I thought that I saw that in the article.

 

Not likely...

Sounds to me like a group of people that have no regard for the law...

But, by all means, don't let me stop you from going off-topic and turning this into another bash Obama thread...

 

Now that it seems overtly racist incidents of black violence against whites is increasing (actually being reported), I wonder how lefties will go about sunsetting Hate Crime laws.

 

Happens every year with the children of illegal aliens.

I agree that it sounds like people with no regard for the law but I would include Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Richard Trumka, Maxine Waters, and most of the current administration was "people with no regard for the law".

 

The same could be said about expecting taxpayers to pay reparations. They have never owned slaves. BTW- how did European nations get off the hook, and now act like they are the center of progressive morality? They RAPED Africa.

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Don't know...

I've never spoken for anything that you listed...

 

They just ignore the elements of the crime, unless they scream something overt like " 'We got you, you white mother-------!' ".....oh wait....they overlook that too.


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You can't deport a child born here, because they are citizens, so that example falls flat on its face...

 

Fair enough.


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You should've left that edit off...

Now your post is more ridiculous...

 

But the little 6-month old suckers have trouble finding a job. Your denial falls flat on it's face. I'm not in favor of deporting anyone to Africa, though. I think they should be forced to move to California or New York City.

 

That's not going to matter, if progressives like Resisting Arrest start a class/race war and lose. With economic decline comes unrest and revolution. If we don't pull back from the progressive economic policies pushing us into the abyss, we will see this come to be.


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I would assume that most Afircan Americans in this country are indeed American citizens by birth.

Now I am not sure how you would enforce your dream of shipping American citizens to a continent other than our own, but I am pretty sure your statement is bigoted crap.

 

Seems to be increasing?

I see no evidence of that.

What I do see is a group of posters that are unable to actually address any issue and instead parade up and down the forum with faux outrage over perceived black crime, sitting around congratulating each other on behaving in the ugliest way possible.

 

What denial? You can't deport a child born here, plain & simple...

Because they are citizens...

You're not helping yourself...

I was replying to another poster (^^^) who seems to think that we can deport children that are born here...

At any rate, the idea of some sort of class/race war sounds nuts...

Just something to make people nervous of each other...

 

It's obvious that a certain segment of this population simply cannot function in a civilized society. Well, maybe they could, and they simply choose not to. Regardless, their goal in life seems to be to run amok and terrorize whoever or whatever gets in their way. Since most of Africa is still uncivilized, I think this is the perfect place for them to go. Let them try flash mobbing some lions or hippos for a while.

 

Then we should drop the title 'African' Americans. I don't hear many people referred to as Irish Americans, Polish Americans, etc. Maybe we should though. After all, why should blacks be any different from everyone else?

 

See, this is the kind of ignorant (*)(*)(*)(*) that causes people to disregard everything you have to say...

So, let's see...

You want to deport Black people, who, by the way, are citizens of this country, to Africa because you feel that they can't function in society...

Nothing bigoted about that, right?

People of all races commit crimes...

Your inability to see that exposes you for what you truly are...

 

Your post reeks of more pathetic denial. 'Perceived black crime'? Did it not happen? Is Don making this whole story up?

 

That's fine. I'm just reporting what radical Leftists talk about all of the time here at PF. I really wonder, if they consider losing.

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And then the next thing we'd hear is the King of Race Baiting Al Sharpton blow his horn about how "misunderstood African American youths were victims of a mean white guy" and Obama would add his 1 cent with how the guy "acted stupidly".