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May 12, 2021 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
06:46
"Anti-Racist" Terrorism Caught on Video
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On May 19th, 2012, 18 members of something called the Hoosier Anti-Racist Movement stormed the Ashford House restaurant in Tinley Park, Illinois, armed with hammers and clubs.
They attacked a small gathering of a group called the Illinois European Heritage Association.
What follow are never before released footage of the attack and recordings from emergency services and police radio.
Is that a robbery?
Yes. Like, literally, like, 15 kids, they had, um, handkerchiefs over their face and were wearing black hoods, and they came in and they said,"What's up, motherfucker bitch?" And then they, like, took a chair and then, like, threw it at a guy.
Is anybody hurt there?
Yes. There are people hurt?
Yes. Okay, we're gonna get an ambulance over there as well.
Hold on a second.
Oh, my God, dude, are you bleeding?
Okay, we got ambulances coming.
How many people are hurt?
Can you tell how many people are hurt?
I don't know!
There's, like, several people that are hurt.
911. You need to get cops over to Ashford House on 159th Street quickly.
There was a group that just came in here and started everybody up.
They did what?
Please, quickly, and I think we might even need an ambulance.
What did they do?
What did they do?
They came in with a...
started beating the place up with chairs, and they're hitting everybody over the head.
Are they still there?
No, they ran out in the parking lot, but you need to get the police over here right now.
This is, uh, actual house restaurant.
There's people beating you up in our store right now.
I'm gonna need a paramedic.
What are they doing?
They're destroying my restaurant at the moment.
They're beating the shit out of each other.
I got guys bleeding everywhere.
We need about a half dozen ambulances up here.
This is Finley Park Police.
We have officers and ambulances on the way.
Can you tell me anything that happened?
Well... We were sitting in there and just made an order, and there was a group of fellows in there sitting at a table.
They weren't bothering anybody.
And all of a sudden, a whole bunch of people came in.
They were dressed in black, and they started picking up chairs, and they started hitting everybody over the head.
We got close to the chair.
Okay. Do you know which way they left?
They went in a red dodge neon.
They headed going east down 159th Street in a red Dodge Neon.
And it was a...
Witnesses said the attackers chanted political slogans in the parking lot before bursting into the restaurant, where they shouted, ARA stands for Anti-Racist Action.
The perps then began upending tables and smashing and throwing plates.
They injured ten diners, four of whom needed stitches, and three were hospitalized.
They did not limit their attack to the table of about 10 supposed racists.
Restaurant owner Mike Winston noted that, quote, The Chicago Sun-Times said the perps,
quote, Several dozen women having a bridal shower were horrified by the mob attack and a graduation party was ruined.
When the graduate's father picked up a chair to protect his family, an anti-racist hit him in the head with a baton.
Minutes after the attack, an off-duty police officer pulled over the Dodge Neon and arrested five of the perps.
Police found police-style batons and a knife in the car.
Alex Stuck, brothers Cody, Dylan, and Jason Sutherland And their cousin John Tucker were arrested and charged with felony mob action, aggravated battery, and criminal damage to property.
On January 4, 2013, the Five each pled guilty to three felony counts of armed violence.
Jason Sutherland was sentenced to six years in prison.
Cody and Dylan Sutherland got five years.
Alex Stuck and John Tucker received three and a half years.
These men supporters refer to them as the Tinley Park Five.
Seven months later, and over a year after the attack, police arrested Jason Hammond for his involvement in the assaults, charging him with armed violence, aggravated battery, and mob action.
Mr. Hammond is out on bail awaiting an August 1st court date.
In 2009, he was arrested for a similar attack when he and seven others tried to disrupt a group gathered to hear David Irving, a historian accused of minimizing the Holocaust, only to find police waiting for them.
Mr. Hammond pled guilty to disorderly conduct and got off with 10 days of community service and a small fine.
Police have not revealed how they caught Mr. Hammond this time, but surveillance footage we obtained from the police shows several of the perps eating at a Five Guys restaurant prior to the attack.
Minutes after the first group entered the restaurant, a second group joined them.
The white man here with the ear gauges and neck tattoos appears to be Alex Stuck.
This appears to be Jason Hammond.
Here he is winding up to smash something or someone in the Ashford House video.
Jason and Cody Sutherland are also clearly identifiable in the Five Guys footage.
All these men were brought to justice, but what about their friends?
The white man here is wearing the same shorts and shoes as this baton-wielding attacker in the Ashford video.
The black man has the same hat, shirt, shorts, and arm tattoos as this masked, baton-wielding thug.
Why haven't they been arrested?
Why haven't their friends been arrested?
The faces of many of them are clear in the Five Guys footage.
Why haven't police made these images public?
We tried to find out from the Tenley Park Police, but repeated phone calls over the course of several weeks were not returned.
Both Alex Stuck and John Tucker were released after serving just 18 and 20 months, respectively, of their 42-month sentences.
Other members of the Tinley Park Five may be released before year's end.
All of their lawyers worked pro bono.
John Tucker's lawyer, Stuart Smith, said, quote, He says the attackers stormed the restaurant because, quote, they were trying to fight for equal rights.
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