Baltimore Shomrein Trial Verdict Sends a Clear Message: Black Children May be Treated with Impunity

No Protest from Black Bourgeoise Organizations

 

By Nadrat Siddique and David Wiggins

 

Baltimore, MD

May 3, 2012

 

New Trend readers might recall that in November 2010, a black boy, surnamed Ausby, was beaten in the Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore by adult males from the Shomrein Jewish militia while walking between school and home. The Shomrein militia was established with the approval of local authorities. It runs a patrol in the upscale Jewish part of Park Heights, adjacent to the adjoining Black neighborhood of the same name. The Jewish part is said to house many current and former members of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), who are duel Israeli and U.S. nationals, and like the Werdesheims, travel back and forth to “Israel.”

 

Initial charges against the Werdesheims were: 1. First Degree Assault; 2. Second Degree Assault; 3. Reckless Endangerment of a Minor; 4. Possession of a Dangerous Weapon Intent to Injure; 5. False imprisonment. This was before Jewish attorney Gregg Bernstein entered the scene.

 

Then, Bernstein came into office as State’s Attorney. His first act was to drop all felony charges against the Werdesheim brothers. His second act was to prosecute two black men, Travers and Tremayne Johnson, for setting a pittbull on fire in Baltimore. That case ultimately resulted in acquittal. Not surprisingly, many of Baltimore’s black residents viewed both decisions as examples of the Zionist attorney’s racial bias.

 

The Werdesheim brothers were permitted six postponements. The elder Werdesheim was permitted to vacation in Israel with his fiancée pending trial—something few (perhaps no) defendants of color on trial are permitted to do—with the express approval of the victim's lawyer. That attorney, a blackman named J. Wyndal Gordon, also represented John Allen Muhammad. On his watch, Muhammad was put to death, an odd contrast from Mumia Abu Jamal and many others who remain on death row for decades.

Today, the remaining three (misdemeanor) charges were dropped against 22-year old Avi Werdesheim. The most serious of the three misdemenor charges against 24-year old former Israeli Defense Special forces member Eliyahu Werdesheim were dismissed by the judge. The decisions were handed down by presiding Judge Pamela J. White, since the Werdesheims had requested a trial by judge, and not by jury. Eliyahu was subsequently convicted only of the two most insignificant misdemeanor charges, reckless endangerment and false imprisonment.

 

All told, 8 out of ten charges were dropped or resulted in acquittal; only two charges resulted in conviction.

The two other alleged defendants--other than Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim--were never brought to the fore or charged. And—although there was strong evidence that the attack was a hate crime, this fact was never hinted at for the duration of the trial.

 

Most oddly, the $6.5 million civil lawsuit about which the Ausby’s mother was initally adamant, was dropped. Given that Eliyahu Werdesheim has his own security company here in Baltimore, and his IDF Special Forces training, the possibility that the victim’s family were intimidated into dropping the suit cannot be discounted.

 

The case also exposes the collusion between the Black bourgeoisie and the ruling Zionist Jews in Baltimore. The Baltimore chapters of the National Action Network, the SCLC, and the NAACP, while vocifereously protesting the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida, repeatedly failed to make the connection between the two cases, and hence the opportunity to make both more relevant to Baltimore’s disenfranchised Black population.

 

J. Wyndal Gordon, the black attorney representing the Ausby family, said “I was quite pleased with the verdict. In fact, I predicted it,” he said. (Jewish Times, May 3, 2012) Discussing the family’s decision to drop the civil suit, he said, "No amount of money can give someone back their peace of mind. We’re happy about having closure. What’s best for [the victim] now is to put all of this behind him and move on with his life.”

 

And, as reparations activists, and others fighting for the rights of Black people in the U.S., well know, “Moving on with one’s life,” “Letting bygones be bygones,” or characterizing an unaddressed wrong as being“in the past,” is terminology used by the White Supremacist power structure and its representatives in ensuring its design is permitted to continue and for its victims to shut up and put up. Jewish victims of the Holocaust, for example, are never expected to “move on with their lives” or to put things behind them.

 

The verdict is a clear testament to the existence of a two-tiered justice system, and of the collusion between Baltimore Zionists and the Baltimore Black bourgeoisie which allow it to be perpetuated.  The verdict is a slap in the face to all people of color. We might as well go back to the slave docks.