Police: Beating of 78-Year Old White Man ‘Not Hate Crime’

Saturday afternoon around 4:45pm, 78-year-old Dallas Watts was walking home from the gas station at the corner of Starr and White in East Toledo. He was confronted by six juveniles between the ages of 11 to 17, both white and black, and for the next three or four minutes was nearly beaten to death because of, as he says, the color of his skin. “This white man said, ‘Take him down!’ and the next thing I knew, I was sucker punched from the back,” Watts said. For the next four minutes, the group of juveniles punched and kicked Watts, until he nearly passed out. Two customers at the nearby gas station stepped in to help. “All I could hear before I passed out, ‘Don’t kill him, or we all go to jail,’” Watts recalled. “If (the customers) had not gotten involved, he would have killed me.”

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