Decorated Iraq vet whose bravery was immortalized in a statue says he was beaten and robbed by teens who asked him if 'black lives matter' as he ate i

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[h=1]Decorated Iraq vet whose bravery was immortalized in a statue says he was beaten and robbed by teens who asked him if 'black lives matter' as he ate in McDonald's[/h]

• Chris Marquez is an Iraq vet who served eight years of active duty
• He says he was eating in a Washington, DC McDonald's when he was approached by a group of teens who asked him if 'black lives matter'
• He says he ignored them, and they later assaulted him when he left
• A 2004 photograph of Marquez carrying a wounded soldier in Fallujah inspired the No Man Left Behind statues located at two army bases

By JAMES WILKINSON FOR DAILY MAIL ONLINE
PUBLISHED: 23:36, 16 February 2016 | UPDATED: 02:55, 17 February 2016




An Iraq war veteran whose bravery inspired two statues says he was beaten by a group of teens in Washington, DC on Friday night after they approached and asked him whether 'black lives matter'.
Chris Marquez, a decorated US marine, was eating in a McDonald's when the youths walked up and started questioning him, WJLA reported yesterday. 'I felt threatened and thought they were trying to intimidate me, so I figured I'm just going to keep to my food, eat my food and hopefully they'll leave me alone,' Marquez told the station.
But he says the youths started calling him a racist, and that when he left they jumped him, beat him up, and robbed him.


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Vet: Chris Marquez, an Iraq vet with eight years of active duty, says he was attacked outside a Washington, DC McDonald's on Friday after a gang of youths asked him whether he thought 'black lives matter'

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Injured: He says the youths knocked him to the ground from behind, beat him and robbed him. He was taken to George Washington Hospital with injuries to his face and eye


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'As soon as I walked out of the McDonald’s I got hit in the back of the head, or the side of the head,' he told WJLA. 'I just dropped to the ground, and [the McDonald's manager] says I looked unconscious.'
Marquez was taken to George Washington Hospital with bruises and cuts to his face, and says that he's had trouble sleeping since the event, due to a sharp pain that he often feels in his head.
He also says that the youths took his credit cards and immediately used them in a number of locations, leaving a trail that he hopes will help police catch them.

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Sleepless: Marquez told WJLA that he has had trouble sleeping with the incident, as he now has a repeated shooting pain down the left-hand side of his head

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Inspiration: Marquez and fellow marine Dane Shaffer were photographed carrying an injured Sgt Maj Brad Kasal out of a battle, an image that inspired two statues, including this one at Camp Pendleton, San Diego



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Marquez served eight years on active duty in the marines as a rifleman and scout sniper from 2003-2011, and was awarded a Bronze Star for valor after carrying his commander's body out of combat, according to The Daily Caller.
But he was best known for a photograph showing him and a fellow marine carrying a wounded sergeant out of a house in Fallujah, after a firefight that became known as 'Hell House.'
That photograph in turn inspired two statues named No Man Left Behind, which are currently on display at Camp Pendleton in San Diego and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
Police told The NY Daily News today that they were reviewing the McDonald's location's surveillance footage, but had yet to make any arrests.


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[Willie99]

thugs should be in jail, then made to work for the first time in their lives

this is Obama's America, hate police, hate authority, you're a victim of the selfish white man

he's scum, his very soul rots at the core

he was supposed to help overcome racism, but the scumbag nurtures it like no political leader ever has (unless one considers Sharpton a political leader)

Obama would be an embarrassment to MLK, who's values and goals and ideals were so much higher

Obama is full bore ghetto next to MLK

 

[Willie99]

and if these thugs vote, you know they're Democrats, they represent the base very well

"47%", honesty is suicide in politics, the facts be damned




oh boo hoo, "I don't understand these people"

yes I do, I can smell the stench of lying scum from miles away

 

[roadreeler57]

Too bad it wasnt Schumer or Harry Reid...

 

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[h=3]HOW MARQUEZ SAVED A LEGEND IN FALLUJAH'S 'HELL HOUSE' AND BECAME AN INSPIRATION[/h]

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Hell: Marquez (pictured, left) and fellow marine Dane Shaffer lift injured 1st Sgt Brad Kasal after the 'Hell House' firefight in Fallujah. The image shocked the world and was memorialized in two statues

On November 7 2004, American, British and Iraqi troops began a fierce, unrelenting conflict with insurgents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah - little knowing that the campaign would last two months and become known as The Second Battle of Fallujah.
The fighting was furious throughout, but it was the brutal events of one particular day - November 13 - that would become known in Marine Corps legend as 'The House of Hell'.
That day, in south-western Fallujah, two soldiers on a seek-and-destroy mission found themselves caught in a vicious foxhole. They managed to surprise and kill one hidden insurgent, but in doing so alerted others on the roof to their presence.
A volley of bullets came through a skylight, followed by grenades, wounding both soldiers. US reinforcements arrived but were also caught in the gunfire and trapped.
First Sergeant Brad Kasal, who had arrived outside the building, grabbed another marine and the two entered to provide support. Kasal was an experienced soldier who had fought in the first Gulf War, and the two managed to neutralize another insurgent before being surrounded and hit in the legs with gunfire.
A grenade was thrown into the room to finish them off and Kasal threw himself on top of his comrade to protect him, suffering further injuries to his legs.
Nevertheless, Kasal was able to pull his fellow soldier out of harm's way, then draw his pistol and guard them for over an hour while reinforcements fought their way into the house to rescue the men.
Two of the reinforcements that battled their way into the room were Chris Marquez and Dane Shaffer, who carried Kasal to safety. Photographer Lucien Read was also there, and took the picture that would immortalize the three and become an iconic image of the terrible violence being wrought in the country.
Ten years later, Wyoming artist John Phelps would recreate the image as two statues that would be placed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

 

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Targeted: Marquez says that he was assaulted outside this McDonald's in Washington, DC, after being confronted inside by a gang of teens






The veteran seemed troubled by the teens' accusations of racism, telling The Daily Caller, 'When I was in the Marine Corps, I served with people from many different backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, and races. Like all Marines, I fought for the freedom of all Americans and not just one particular group.'

 

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"Charleston SC, Never before have I seen such divide and pointless hate and disregard for other humans life, than I have in the last four years. It deeply troubles me, and sickens me."




"Fairfield USA,
Thank Obama."

 

[ScottL]

Firing squad for every fucking one of them.

 

[Acebb]

My favorite part of the Obama era is all the racial healing.

 

[hehateme82]

Firing squad for every fucking one of them.

This all fucking day.

 

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The Black community know who they are. They are not giving them up. They are complicit.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

thugs should be in jail, then made to work for the first time in their lives

this is Obama's America, hate police, hate authority, you're a victim of the selfish white man

he's scum, his very soul rots at the core

he was supposed to help overcome racism, but the scumbag nurtures it like no political leader ever has (unless one considers Sharpton a political leader)

Obama would be an embarrassment to MLK, who's values and goals and ideals were so much higher

Obama is full bore ghetto next to MLK

Now, now. They were probably born poor which put them in an impossible situation. 99.99% of poor people can’t overcome it and that’s the fault of society. You don’t live among them so you have no idea how difficult it is. I know someone and you do too who has spent a good portion of his life trying to help those people and he can confirm this as fact.


As for Obama, he has done more for black people and race relations than any other man except for Al Sharpton.

 

[vitterd]

Of course the color of the president makes no difference on race relations. You think a racist skin head all the sudden likes black people after the country elects a black president.

Unarmed black people being shot by white cops is causing the strained race relations. Dash cams and cell phone videos of this stuff is causing the problems. How dumb are you republicans?

that said....in regards to this story....if these accusations are true and this is how happened, then punishment should be severe.

 

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To glimpse how little Mr Obama has done for his own constituency – the poor blacks – it is worth reading an instructive article in the latest New Yorker. It is about evictions in Milwaukee, a city that is 40 per cent black. An industry exists to service evictions – courts, lawyers, removal men, bailiffs – and operates full-time, dealing with masses who cannot pay their rent, or their mortgages.


Mr Obama was elected promising to end such misery: but he hasn’t, and he never would. America has astonishing wealth: it also has astonishing deprivation and squalor, because there isn’t enough well-paid work to go round. I don’t know Milwaukee, but am familiar with cities such as Baltimore, Newark and Trenton on the east coast, which have square miles of squalor on a scale unknown in Britain. Detroit teeters on the verge of extinction: in thriving cities such as Los Angeles and Washington DC pockets of affluence sit cheek-by-jowl with areas of appalling poverty and crime.

Racial tensions, which a black president was supposed to heal, seem worse than ever – remember Ferguson – and Mr Obama’s interventions have often been clumsy and grandstanding. He has failed to control immigration, even though (unlike in Britain) he has the sovereign power to do so. And America has largely rejected Obamacare, which displays all that can go wrong with massive state intervention.

But if Mr Obama’s economic legacy is poor, his other achievements – or failings – are alarming. He has largely removed America from international conversations. After the disastrous interventions in the Islamic world after 2001 it is quite right it should think more deeply about such expeditions: but that does not mean the superpower’s global responsibility can be abdicated completely. The Kerry intervention in Syria last week was typically, and tragically, late. Mr Obama’s international legacy is the repulsive sight of Vladimir Putin, whom he underestimated, ruling the roost, the barbarians of Isil (for dealing with whom he had no strategy) and a Europe mired in introspection.



Racial tensions, which a black president was supposed to heal, seem worse than ever – remember Ferguson – and Mr Obama’s interventions have often been clumsy and grandstanding.

 

[Acebb]

The Black community know who they are. They are not giving them up. They are complicit.

And guess who is legitimizing them?

Washington (CNN) Civil rights activists, including members of protest groups like Black Lives Matter, will meet at the White House Thursday with President Barack Obama as part of the administration's marking of Black History Month.