IF I HAD A SON, he would look like a member of a Detroit mob that beat a stranger almost to death. He hit a boy with his truck, stopped to help, and was immediately attacked. In the process, someone stole his belongings from the truck. He was not at fault for hitting the boy, though:

Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody said Steven Utash was not at fault for the accident.

“Our preliminary investigation shows the child stepped in front of his vehicle,” Woody said. “He did exactly the right thing. He stopped his vehicle, he got out and he tried to render aid to a small child. He did exactly what he was supposed to do… It was a small child and it was an accident; is what it was.”

On the contrary, he didn’t do the right thing, as is evident by his near-fatal beating at the hands of a barbarous mob. If he had kept driving, he wouldn’t be in the hospital.

Joseph Utash said although it was tough to stomach, he watched video of the incident.

“It shows the kid, he was standing on the curb with his dad and as my dad’s truck was coming down the street, the kid stepped right in front of my dad’s truck. My dad had absolutely not one chance in the world to try to swerve out-of-the-way or stop,” he said. “He got out of the car to check on the kid and before he even got up to the kid, he got assaulted by 11, 12 people. They jumped all over him and beat him up. While they were jumping him, somebody else jumped in the truck and stole his belongings. They took his wallet, his cellphone, everything out of his truck.”

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