Somalis in Lewiston
In the early evening on the first day of summer, a large group of Somali boys approached a woman on the corner of Ash and Pierce streets. According to police reports, they intimidated the woman and slapped her in the back of the head before scattering into the downtown.
Five days later, shortly after midnight, a man was accosted by a group of Somali boys outside the Big Apple on Main Street. Police reports say several members of the group punched the man and took money from him. They then fled in a car.
Later that night, a woman in her late 60s was beaten by a group of Somali boys and relieved of cash while walking in Kennedy Park.
Five nights later, another man was jumped by a group of similar description. He resisted the gang and was beaten badly. He required surgery.
A typical white victim of Somali attacks
Throughout the summer, similar reports have come into the Police Department. Witnesses and investigators say swarms of Somali boys, some as young as 8, others in their late teens, overwhelm solitary victims through sheer numbers.
“It’s not gang activity in the traditional sense,” Deputy Chief James Minkowsky said. “We’re not seeing the colors or the monikers, but it’s still a gang mentality.”
Often, these gang members carry sticks and rocks with which to intimidate their victims. There are often four or five of them, sometimes as many as a dozen. Typically, they threaten or beat their victims until they give up the goods: money, bicycles, cell phones, prescription drugs, or other items of value.
Then they scatter.
“By the time the call gets to us, the group has dispersed,” Minkowsky said.
The attacks continued all summer; more than a dozen were reported to police. There were more in the fall and a series of them in recent weeks. In each attack, the victim is one who may have appeared weak to the group that descended on them.
“They single out a person who is walking alone. The victim is often intoxicated,” Minkowsky said. “Or he might be small. They look for someone who is not likely to fight back or present much of a challenge.”
On the first day of December, a man walking through Kennedy Park after leaving a Park Street club said he was attacked by four Somali males. The group came at him from behind, knocked him down and stole prescription drugs and $150 in cash. That man told police it was the second time he was attacked in such a fashion. The first time, he was able to escape.
Another typical white victim of Somali attacks
On the last day of November, there were three such attacks reported in Lewiston: one in the area of Central Maine Medical Center, another on Bartlett Street, the third in Kennedy Park.
In another attack, a woman walking a dog in the park was set upon. The assailants, a group of Somali males, beat her dog with a stick. Police later tracked down one of the attackers. He was a 10-year-old boy.
In late summer, an off-duty civilian police employee was eating at a local restaurant. A local boy ran to the window, screaming for help. The police employee ran outside and found a group — roughly a half-dozen — of Somali boys. When confronted, they ran off.
Police say they are investigating the attacks on several fronts. They are using new technology and new techniques. A bigger break came in recent weeks when they were approached by a group that wants to help.
“Members of the Somali community came to us,” Minkowsky says. “They set up a meeting with us and came in to talk about it. They want to help us combat it.”
Police Chief Michael Bussiere pointed out that the attackers do not appear to involve large segments of the Somali population. It seems to be a select group that has organized to carry out the attacks.
Police say group robberies are almost unheard of in Lewiston. In the past, when multiple people have attacked a lone victim, two or three assailants were reported and the assault was typically prompted by intoxication or old rivalries.
Not so with the Somali attacks.
“We haven’t seen that it’s been fueled by alcohol or drugs,” Minkowsky said. He added that robbery appears to be a primary motivation among the Somali gangs. “But in some cases, they seem to do it for the thrill of it.”
Stephen Wessler, director of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, said he was not aware of the Somali assaults in Lewiston. After hearing the nature of them, he said the attacks likely were not the type that involve his group. The motive appears to be robbery, rather than race.
While investigating the ambush-style attacks, police have little to compare them with, at least locally. A search of assaults dating back to spring revealed no incidents of a similar nature involving non-Somalis.
“This is unique,” Minkowsky said.
There have been a few arrests since the attacks began. Minkowsky said many of the suspects had dropped out of school. Their parents seemed to have no idea that their children had become part of a roving gang.
Seeing children as young as 8 running the streets with teens closing in on 20 is something police are not used to seeing. There is a lot about the attacks investigators have not seen before.
That’s why it helps them enormously to have input from the Somali elders.
“It’s an interesting dynamic for us,” Minkowsky said. “We’re still on the learning curve with this. Getting help from the Somali community is probably our best chance to resolve it.”
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Where are you even getting these photos from?
The photos of Somali violence are from Somalia NOT Maine or this article you repreduced…
They are inappropriate and it appears you would like to create an inflammatory situation when the community in Maine is trying to help resolve the issue! Why????
Skeptic- Seems to me, it’s the Somali youths attacking White people are the ones creating an “inflammatory situation”. Arm yourselves people, this is coming to a neighborhood near you.
Skeptic the photos are appropriate. The beating photos show the anti-white intolerance in Africa and in Somalia. This violence is being exported to the United States. Than again, violence by African Americans against whites has always existed in the US.
Violence against whites whether in South Africa, Zimbabwe, or in the US has always had elements of hate.
That’s ridiculous. These photos have absolutely nothing to do with Lewiston, Maine and this story is totally sensationalized.
White ppl need to walk in groups and plz fight back when confronted.If this type of stuff keeps up,we will become like England.Fight back and do not let african/arab muslims take this country over.
Whites in Maine will learn that they’ll ruin their own cities if they allow non-whites to do what they want.
When I was growing up we lived in a city neighborhood surrounded by Black neighborhoods. Our neighborhood was beautiful. Just a few blocks down on either side were increasingly run down Black neighborhoods.
We as white kids formed close friendship with each other, something you don’t see much of today. The great thing about my neighborhood was that it was almost a stereotypical North East Italian and Irish neighborhood. Every home had Irish or Italian flags, we had our little Italian sandwich shop and an Irish community center right across the street. There was the Roman Catholic school with the local parishioners on Sunday and kids neatly dressed in school uniforms. There were the elderly sitting on their front porch and kids playing or running through the streets playing tag. One of our favorite games was to try and catch a ball bounced off the wall. Occasionally, everyone would come outside and we could all tell who belonged on our streets and who didn’t. You’d see a stranger walking through and you’d steer at him.
The neighborhood changed, but put more accurately was cleansed. Whites including us felt unsafe and increasingly we felt limited to a smaller portion of the neighborhood as more whites fled and non-whites spread. I remember how a white kid who rode my bus could no longer walk through his own neighborhood which at that time had become black, he was left with little options than to routinely be harassed or beaten while he tried to reach his bus stop which was in my neighborhood.
You could feel the shift and atmosphere when my neighborhood started taking in non-whites. Car windows would be smashed, the local corner store was being robbed monthly, police and dogs could be heard patrolling.
Whites became victims.
One brutal attack against two young white boys has always angered me, a large group of roaming black men in their 20s bloody beat and robbed these kids of Halloween candy. Even though I was their age I felt so pissed that I had to see two kids crying with blood dripping from their face simply because they were white. I myself couldn’t even freely walk outside anymore without occasionally being scared of being robbed because of one instance when I was robbed at gun point by a gang of blacks.
People say things don’t change when race changes. That is the furthest from the truth. When one race replaces another the entire culture and atmosphere changes.
The neighborhood I partly grew up in with its brick row houses, clean lawns, and tiny alleyways has slowly become browner and blacker. I’ve noticed those same changes happening to America. The U.S has slowly drifted away from classical American music to rap, from white clothing to browner clothing.
Changes happen, and America is heading down that road. You just don’t even notice it until it’s to late and your looking back at how things changed for the worst.
“then again, violence by african-americans against whites has always existed in the US” excel says.
You have got to be the stupiest person on the planet. Look at your evil racist history you took the Africans against there will to your evil country and made them into slaves, split familes up, tortured, beat, humiliated and took all their rights away and you talk about the violence against whites SHAME ON YOU
No, idiot. Your the most stupid person.
Africans were split up by fellow African tribes who sold their own people into enslavement. Africans in America even when enslaved were living better than Africans in Africa. Their grandchildren just like white indentured servants were given opportunities that no other African people had.
Yes, slavery was and will always be wrong.
However, the violence African-Americans have committed in America is unacceptable. Were not talking about 300 years ago when Africans were being enslaved, which at the same time European coastal villages were also sacked being and Europeans forced into slavery throughout North Africa, Ottoman, etc. Were talking about today, not the past.
Face it, African Americans have no reason to commit the violence they commit today. They are wealthy compared to their counterparts, they have a strong cultural connections, they have more than enough reasons to stop their racist violence.
Our evil country has created more billion and millionaire Africans than any other nation. Our evil country has done more to promote African culture through BET, Black history month, etc, than any other country in the world. Our evil country has tolerated black racist violence in the excess of thousands of whites becoming victims of murder, rape, beatings, etc, than any nation should ever remotely tolerate. Our evil country has done more to give aid in the excess of billions to Africa than any other nation. No foreign country has done more to help Africa and Africans than this evil nation.
Yes, America is evil, but it’s evil for allowing black genocidal racism to foster and spread.
African Blacks were sold into slavery by other African blacks. A small number of very small number of wealthy, evil whites participated in this tradition. Most whites wanted nothing to do with slavery and fought and died to end it. Whites are now assaulted, murdered and raped every few seconds by blacks. You and they are the racist ones. You’re a vile, disgusting person…spineless liberal. You people are useless, and you’re the enemy.
If this nation is evil its evil for cleansing white neighborhoods and schools with coded racist words of “integration”.
If this country is evil it’s evil for making whites second class while blacks have become a protected class. Unlike the old “segregated & equal” system the “system of quotas and affirmative action” of today specifically target whites out for racism.
In the old system everybody was equally segregated, cultures were equally protected, both were given schools, water fountains, etc. Today, only non-whites get the benefits of the “quota and affirmative action system”.
This government today in America is in fact a non-white Apartheid system created more cruel than even the Apartheid system. White culture, neighborhoods, people are being cleansed which is something not even Apartheid considered for blacks.
Like the old “segregated & equal system” it’s largely a group of laws, lobbies, organizations, and key politicians holding it together. It is much more sophisticated, though.
It tries to create an image of fighting racism, even trying to turn white woman against white men by also allowing them to reek some special privileges, but in reality white woman are still second class because their still white who only get moved up a notch above the white man. Their just being used to divide, conquer, and defeat our race.
Non-whites are allowed and encouraged to get away with murder, rape, thievery if it’s against whites. There are code words used to fight whites such as “racist” or “hater” which is used to defame and put whites in prison for a long time. Almost, as if being called a fascist in the Soviet Union with a kangaroo court backed by ADL supported laws to lock up white dissenters.
The only similarities between the Apartheid system and the “Quota and Affirmative action system” is that both favored the minority when it came to jobs, schooling, and housing. Today, white Americans live under a foreign oppressive system which is doing all in its power to eliminate white Americans. It’s time for white to realize that this nations government has been usurped a long time ago. This nation has been run by an underground system of non-white lobbies, media, politicians, anti-white organizations, and a justice system.
Sadly, democracies are inherently weak. They’re prone to infiltration and corruption. The “system of quotas and affirmative action” is a system likely to continue because it has infiltrated our democratic system and the people, lobbies, organizations promoting it or not about to give it up. That is why they will continue to call white political organizations racist, because white unity and politics is a serious threat to their system.
They try to expose whites as racist and their media tries to create an image of white nationalist as violent so to delegitimatize and create a fringe image of nationalist. They have to keep making the non-white out as the victim in order to continue making whites out as evil in order to continue their hold on people’s minds. If you control the past you control the future, and that is exactly what our enemies control.
excel is the most rasict person ive ever seen.
Thank you. Very nice beautiful compliment.
i really do agree with you Ismail. Excel doesnt only seem rasist but also Hater!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahaaaaaaah
and thats his own problem
Stop the Hate! Segregate!
If you can tell me what is hateful about my post maybe I could correct you on the meaning of Hate and the definition of racist.
I’m a very tolerant person. I am intolerant to verbal bullies, anti-whites, scapegoaters, and mean people who think white people must conform to their their social habits, racial desires, culture, language, and for us to not be our own free independent people.
the definition of a hater and a racist to people like the fuckers above is: you are white and you say anything that tells the truth about black people. I have had blacks tell me with a suprised look on their face, that ONLY whites can be racist, and they actually believed that, because they are so stupid and mis-informed. Somalia is an incredibly violent, death dealing, murdering raping country, why would anyone expect them to behave any differently once they move here ?!!! parents had no idea their 8 year old kids were running the streets? GREAT PARENTING fucking first generation africans and already well on their way to creating a gang banging poverty violence filled ghetto in a single generation, and they can’t blame slavery !!
somali’s are the most racist violent christian murdering baby raping people on earth – muslim scum!
if u r nt hater, then why u talkin about all dat shit? why da fckn u keep sayin black pple did this.. black pple did that?
cause black people DID do this and that you asshole. LEARN TO SPELL fucker.
Personally I could care less about things that happened almost 2 centuries ago. Whites need to arm themselves and defend themselves aggressively against attacks be these feral savages! There is no excuse for this kind of behavior
Personally I think whites should arm themselves and defend themselves against attacks by these feral savages!! There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of animalistic behavior. If these somali’s commit crimes then deport them back to the third world hellhole they came from–no exceptions!!
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Rather than consulting self-serving members of the Somali community, Deputy Chief Minkowsky should be in touch with law enforcement from Ottawa, Toronto, and Edmonton Canada, as well as Minneapolis, London England and Oslo Norway.
The Somali diaspora talks to each other across transcontinental boundaries. So should Western law agencies, to better understand commonalities of Somali criminal behavior.
Viva Africa, viva Somalia, viva blacks.. Time has changed. Its da ryt tym 4 da ryt thing. Im happy 2 c whts happenin 2 whites n hw way they cnt help themslvs.. Ahahah.
I suggest law abiding white citizens arm themselves and when attacked by rock & stick wielding scum of the earth, open fire.
To those commenting from the Third World: the English word you are seeking to use is “the” NOT “da.” “C” is not how you spell the word “see.” “To” is the correct written usage, not “2.” (That is only used as a number.) Also, check your spelling. You are leaving out a lot of vowels, which makes it hard for readers to figure out your thoughts.
blacks are nothing more than filthy animals… criminal race of semi human apes… nothing good comes from the black plague,when they are imported into your Country or neighborhood,all I can say is arm up and get ready.. segregation is the only answer… nigger rapist thieves, and murderers can not co/exist with White People..
what black country ever created a civilization..name one..you cant, monkeys do not create civilizations..just mud huts … its why they are referred to as *muds*
WPWPWW
if you don’t know what that means nigger… fuck you…
HAHAHAHAHAAAAA
Oh one other thing… monkeys can’ spell either..LMAO… FILTHY MUDS…
You know there is saying that the chickens always come home to roost.
Guess all that lynching you guys did to blacks is coming home to roost.
Gotta love love how people don’t see the irony in a situation.
“all that lynching” “you guys did” who are you talking about dumbass? I never lynched anybody, and nobody in your family was ever lynched. No I don’t see any irony in this situation, all I see is that niggers from africa come here and behave exactly the same as the niggers that are already here and they don’t have the “slavery & lynchin’” excuse you lazy shitbags always use. What’s their excuse? OH that’s right, they’re african.