On the heels of the recent false “Knock Out” story on the DTM, it appears there was a real random assault (Note: this does not appear to be a “knock out” game attack) on the DTM on Saturday, March 22, which resulted in the arrest of 27-year old Altonio F. Turner on the 100 block…
Read more Real Knock Out: brick and punch-throwing attacker arrested on the DTM
Those involved in the so-called “knock out” attack on the Downtown Mall on December 20 had their day in court on Friday, March 21…but let’s back track a bit. Back in December, Cville Weekly ran a story about a white couple who claimed they were brutally attacked and beaten on the DTM (one man into…
Read more Knock Out Knocked Out: parties on both sides convicted of assault in Mall beating case
Del. David Toscano just released a statement regarded the burglary/assault that took place at his home. Here it is: Charlottesville, VA–February 27, 2014–Nancy Tramontin met Claire Ogilvie in the fall of 2010, when the Toscano family participated in a Semester at Sea voyage. Semester at Sea is a shipboard program for global study, operated by…
Read more Attacker had “unsettling interest” in Toscano family
Charlottesville Police are reporting that a Burglary/Abduction/Assault took place at the home of Delegate David Toscano yesterday. Toscano’s wife, Nancy Tramontin. suffered non-life threatening injuries as the result of this incident. She was treated at MJH and released. According to a release, police have arrested Claire Kennedy Ogilvie (pictured), 35 of Charlottesville, in connection with…
Read more Delegate David Toscano’s wife injured in assault/burglary
A crowd of protesters gathered in front of the offices of Cville Weekly today, outraged by a December 29 story the local paper ran that, according to one protest organizer, “threw gasoline on the fire of racial tension in our community.” Indeed, the story, titled, “Knockout: Victims of brutal Downtown Mall assault want arrests, and…
Read more Knock at the door: Protesters accuse C-Ville Weekly of “inflaming racial tensions”
The two men charged with assault in a December 20 altercation that gained national attention for the way it was originally portrayed as a random, unprovoked “knock out” game style attack by the alleged victims, have filed assault charges against the alleged victims, according to court records. Malcolm Stevenson has filed a complaint against Marc…
Read more Men charged in Mall assault file charges against alleged victims
Cville Weekly, just months after being the target of a protest following racists comments in the paper’s “Rant” section, which was later removed as a feature, will again become the target of protesters on January 31. Organizers of the protest accuse the paper of publishing a story “about a late-night brawl on the Downtown Mall…
Read more Knockout fallout: Cville Weekly to be target of protest, again
Just days after the DTM interviewed the accused Mall attackers, NBC29 follows suit.
Read more More knock, knock: NBC29 interviews accused Mall attackers
In an exclusive interview with the two men arrested and charged with assault in connection with a December 20 altercation on the Downtown Mall, which was initially portrayed as a “knock out” style attack for mere sport and entertainment by the alleged victims in the press and on Facebook, Malcolm Stevenson and Richard Spears offered…
Read more Knock, knock: men involved in Mall “beating” tell their side of the story
What was portrayed as a vicious, unprovoked “knock out game” and “Clockwork Orange” style attack on a white couple by a group of black males on the Downtown Mall, both on social media and in initial press reports, appears to have been nothing of the sort. “Nothing in support of this investigation leads us to…
Read more No Knock Out: police charge two in Mall beating, details emerge
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