Most violence such as you mention is tied to economic conditions, not race or legal/illegal status. Thats has been validated by study after study, and I’ll take the studies word over yours.

That you hear more about various minority groups speaks more to individual groups economic status than thier race or immigrant status.

That aside, only the “wallflowers”, nerds, bookworms and religious nuts who I grew up with in high school don’t have something in their past that they hope will never become public; the difference is, some of us got caught, but most of us didn’t.

Why do you think that we as a country continue to wind up with so many inept politicians? It’s because any of us who were adventurous or risk takers growing up don’t want the media to dig up something from our distant past and have it wind up on the front page of supermarket tabloid. Only idiots like Dan Quayle have nothing to hide, because they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth and have lived very cloistered lives.

No matter what this guys background is, it certainly doesn’t warrant being beat into a coma 3 on 1 simply for wearing another teams garb to another ballpark or stadium. We are after all only talking about a game you know.

In response to rumors circulating about Bryan Stow’s violent past and criminal history the Stow Family posted the following comment on the Bryan Stow Fund website:

“News & Updates Sunday, May 22, 2011

‘there has been comments and postings regarding Bryan’s past. Bryan was not perfect…nobody is. In the years since, Bryan turned his life around. Regardless of his history, we ask that everyone refrain from posting any judgmental comments. Please be aware that we will delete ANY negative comment. Don’t forget to visit the store to show your support! ‘

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I am no apologist for illegal immigration (hate it) and will never be a member of the PC Police (hate them). However, your INS comment erodes the credibility of your other comments. Yes, there are a lot of gangs in the Los Angeles area. Yes, many of the gang members are hispanic. I get that. What I don’t get is how you automatically make the leap to assume that a-hole at ballpark + L.A. = illegal immigrant. LA is plenty good at raising thugs from its own indiginous population. Most of the illegal immigrants come to make a living at a decent wage (though I would prefer they did it the legal way that my grandparents chose). Your comments makes you appear less than intelligent or ignorant (I prefer this word to racist, which I feel is overused).

I can’t think of any other MLB team where the owner owns both the stadium AND the surrounding parking lot (Wrigley Field and I believe Fenway Park are privately owned by the teams owners, however, there aren’t any associated parking lots that go with them); that makes this exclusively a Dodgers issue.

On Chicago’s south side, the city owns the parking lots surrounding US Cellular Field and the parking lots been free of any major incidents since it opened 20 years ago because the city has ALWAYS had a strong show of police, including cops on bicycles and horseback that can quickly get to any potential incident.

The LA gang issue being at Dodger Stadium is also exclusively a Dodgers issue, as teams do have a lot of control over who they market and cater to. Al Davis loves his Raiders gang banger/tough guy image, and that’s why he draws the type of scum to Raider games that he does.

The growing security problem at Dodger Stadium was certainly obvious to anyone who even went there periodically, yet the Dodgers simply looked the other way as it was all about the profits. Hopefully the courts will force a change in Dodger ownership soon.

I guess everything that I read in the papers or see on the nightly news about the Vietnamese gangs that terrorize Garden Grove and Westminster and the black gangs that terrorize Compton and Stanton and the Mexican gangs that terrorize the Inland Empire must all be made up stories by the media?

I think that you should contact Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s office and volunteer to help her with her possible upcoming Presidential bid (I hear that Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon and Barbara Streisand are all already aboard!)!

Not only was the Giant fan followed from the stands, but he was then assaulted by THREE men, not just the guy charged with inflicting the most damage once the guy was down on the ground.

In addition, the mere fact that Frank Mc Broke fired the head of stadium security and his staff about a year prior to this incident and then didn’t replace them smacks of irresponsibility on the part of Dodger management.

I don’t get you bleeding heart liberals who think that he shouldn’t sue. When/if he’ll ever be able to hold down a job again and provide for his family is still in serious doubt, and he will have lost at least a years salary while racking up what I’m sure will be staggering medical/hospital bills.

I fully expect that his medical insurance company will also eventually file suit against the Dodgers in order to recover their losses (which are estimated to be approaching $1M at the LA Trauma Center Hospital alone), as well.

What further adds to the intrigue of this case is that Frank Mc Broke broke the Dodgers up into 26 different shell corporations (allegedly to hide the profits from his wife Jamie). That means that the Dodger Stadium parking lot is owned by a shell corporation that Frank is Chairman of that’s totally independent of the Dodgers baseball club. Hmmmm….

The lawyer then went on to compare and contrast this case to another pending case in which a toddler got seriously injured from falling out of a luxury box at the Staples Center. The lawyer said in that case, both the team and the arena will likely be indemnified with the company responsible for constructing the luxury boxes being held liable.

Altercations at baseball games isn’t something new. Brian Stow is still alive. A few years ago a dodger fan KILLED a Giants fan in the parking lot…KILLED.

At baseball games at the ‘Stick, in the 80′s I saw savage beatings taking place but since there were such small crowds you could just move and get away from the altercation. Sometimes the security would just let the idiots fight until they couldn’t any more and then haul them off. I’ve seen fights at Yankee Stadium, Angels Stadium, Oakland Stadium, etc…, and I don’t think the ‘INS’ not the Nat’l Guard (hahahahahahaha! Nat’l Guard! Leave them out of this, they’re too busy in Afghanistan) needed to be called for any of those incidents.

Passing judgement on ALL people of color is an ugly thing and unless you’ve lived in their shoes you probably should keep your mouth shut. You have NO precedence to judge.

Now, however, with the soaring prices of parking at not only Dodger Stadium, but at many of the nations big city venues into the $15-$45 range, it seems to me like it’s logical for those paying that price to expect that their cars won’t be broken into or vandalized and that they won’t get jumped go to/from the stadium entrances/exits.

If I were an attorney, I’d further argue that due to the lack of available transportation to get to/from Dodger home games (i.e., no subway or rail lines), the Dodgers have an even bigger responsibility to make their parking lot safe, as it can’t be argued that “well, the fans made a conscious choice to drive and park in the stadium parking lot and as such assumed all of the inherent risks of doing so”.

I used to take my family to several Dodger games every season, but we stopped going all together after one too many bad experience there where the candy stripers who the Dodgers called “security” couldn’t have cared less about throwing out the morons in the stands. We’re not going back either, regardless of how much security the Dodgers deploy.

The ironic thing is that Dodger home attendance has been in free fall ever since they brought out a “show of force” after this incident (down around 7,000 per game now over last season). Seems that the gang bangers now mostly avoid Dodger Stadium because they don’t want to be around uniformed policemen (they might get recognized and busted on an outstanding warrant), and people like me have been SO turned off over the past 3-5 years that we’re not coming back.

Of course, a summary judgement against the Mc Broke’s might be about as collectible as Fred Goldman’s summary judgement against OJ Simpson too!

The best thing for the judge to do in what should be an open and shut case would be to award the victim one of the several mansions the Mc Broke’s bought with Dodger team money.

Unfortunately for Stow, the Dodgers aren’t guilty of anything here. “Foreseeable criminal acts”? How many times in the history of major league baseball has an opposing fan come within an inch of his life at the hands of an opposing team’s fans? Sorry. Not that often. This doesn’t fall into the category of FORESEEABLE criminal acts.

I wish it did.

Hopefully, this will be enough.