Somerville martial arts instructors arrested after allegedly delivering severe beating

[Bill Mattocks]

http://www.wickedlocal.com/somervil...ed-after-allegedly-delivering-severe-beatings

Three martial arts experts were ordered to surrender their passports today following their arraignments on charges that they beat a pair of Revere man outside a Chelsea restaurant, injuring one man so badly that he may suffer permanent brain damage as a result, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

 

[grydth]

Things which seem inexcusable on their face can sometimes appear much different when all the facts are in..... hope you can keep this updated.

 

[Carol]

What I'm hearing from folks within the Brazilian community is a concern that these guys are acting like "pitboys". In Brazilian cities, pitboys are thugs that are typically young men from middle-class familes. They are well trained in some sort of martial arts and use their skills in a menacing way, often brutalizing homosexual men.

There is a nightclub in the area that attracts a rough crowd. It also has nights dedicated to the Brazilian community. This club has been astoundingly violent, but the surrounding municipality too ****ing corrupt to pull their license. After a show there, these three scumbags drove off to nearby McDonalds, where they set their sites on another young Brazilian man, and started beating him up. A friend of the victim tried to interfere; he too was beaten. Both victims were then stomped on when When a friend of the victim started to interfere, he got beaten and stomped on as well (literally). Last I heard, the initial victim is still in intensive care, struggling with the head trauma and paralyzed legs.

The pitboys will have their day in court, if they show up.