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  • A highly decorated former Marine was harrashed, attacked, and robbed outside of a McDonald's by a group of teens asking him if he believed black lives matter.
  • The group followed Christopher Marquez out of the restaurant and stuck him in the back of the head, knocking him unconcsious.
  • Marquez received the Bronze Star for valor after serving in the Iraq War.
  • During a firefight in Fallujah, Marquez and a fellow marine saved 4 other soldiers lives, one photo of his rescue insipred a famous war memorial.

A former Marine was enjoying his burger at a McDonald’s Friday evening when a crowd of teens approached him and demanded he respond to the question, “Do you believe black lives matter?” Shortly after this, the youths allegedly knocked the man unconscious and robbed him.

Christopher Marquez received the Bronze Star for valor after serving in the Iraq war.

 Marquez said he was grabbing a bite at a McDonald’s in northwest Washington, D.C., when the group came up to him and started harassing him about the Black Lives Matter movement, the Daily Caller reported.

“Do you believe black lives matter?” they asked him repeatedly. When Marquez ignored them, they began shouting that he was a racist.

After finishing his food, Marquez left the restaurant. As he was walking out to the parking lot, he allegedly sustained a blow to the back of his head, which knocked him unconscious.

The vet awoke to find his pants ripped and his wallet, which contained $400, three credit cards, his VA medical card, school identification, metro card and driver’s license, missing.

“I remember this group of teens harassing me while I was eating, they surrounded my table and kept on asking me ‘Do you believe black lives matter?’” Marquez told the Daily Caller. “Then they started calling me a racist. I can’t recall if they were saying anything else to me at this moment because the blow to my head really screwed up my memory.”

DeAnthony Mason, manager of the restaurant, examined security footage and told Marquez in a phone call Saturday that he was struck on the side of the head by a teen wearing a white shirt.

The rest of the group then surrounded Marquez and robbed him. After Marquez had a chance to recover from his incapacitated state, Marquez called a cab driver to drive him back to his apartment across from American University, where he is currently a student.

Workers at the university called the police, who transported Marquez to George Washington Hospital, where he underwent a thorough medical evaluation. Medical documents obtained by the Daily Caller show Marquez received treatment for head trauma and an eye contusion.

According to the Daily Caller, transactions made on Marquez’s stolen credit cards reveal that his attackers charged more than $115 at a liquor store, Five Guys and Walmart. Mason told Marquez that police had already been looking for the group of teens for a prior incident. On Saturday, Mason helped Marquez piece together the events leading up to the head blow.

“I believe this was a hate crime, and I was targeted because of my skin color,” Marquez told the Daily Caller. “Too many of these types of attacks have been happening against white people by members of the black community and the majority of the mainstream media refuses to report on it.”

Marquez served active duty between 2003 and 2011 as a rifleman and scout sniper in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Marine received the Bronze Star for valor during his first deployment after he carried the body of his fallen team leader from combat following an ambush during the Battle of Fallujah.

And just to clear the record, Marquez told the Daily Caller that he is in no way a racist.

“When I was in the Marine Corps, I served with people from many different backgrounds, ethnicities, religions and races,” Marquez told the Daily Caller. “Like all Marines, I fought for the freedom of all Americans and not just one particular group.”

Marquez was involved in the infamous “Hell House” fire fight in Fallujah. He and his fellow Marine, Dane Shaffer, rescued four other Marines who were stuck in a house after an insurgent ambush. According to theL.A. Times, a picture taken of the two pulling Sgt Maj Brad Kasal out of combat inspired a famous war memorial of Iraq located in California.

Officer Anthony Hector of the Metropolitan Police Department told the Daily Caller that he is currently investigating the reported assault. No further details could be provided as of Tuesday. Marquez described his attackers as a group of about five black youths, including one female, ages 16 to 21.

Marquez told the Daily Caller, “I really think this group of teens is dangerous and will do this type of thing again if they are not caught.”

(H/T: Daily Caller)

Carly Hoilman, TheBlaze

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64 Comments

  • genie says:

    These GI’S deserve all our respect and support for standing up for all of America.
    Thank You very much from one veteran who will stand with you all the way
    God Bless

  • gary garrett says:

    semper fidelis

  • Yes, he deserved much better. He deserved respect, not questions from a bunch of ungrateful losers using their race as an excuse.

  • Davidme says:

    As long as we have all this Tyranny, Radical Rabble Rousing and Hate Mongering Coming From Our Oval Office and Washington, DC these events will likely become more frequent!!! We Are Losing Our America, Our Constitution and Our Freedom, If It is Not Already Lost !!

    • Arizona Don says:

      The US was doing well regarding race relations, not perfect but rather good, prior to obama becoming president and spreading his hatred. The very person it was thought would totally fix racism and bring us all together has managed to make it much worse. There is little doubt or should be little doubt he has managed to set race relations back to nearly how things were shortly after the civil war a hundred and fifty years ago. That should sadden us all but mostly it should sadden the blacks. Those who feel sorry for themselves and see themselves as entitled will never prosper and therefore never be satisfied. Those who do not and actually do try to lift themselves up from the ghettos succeed. Most claim they do not want slavery even through they themselves were never slaves. Yet they demand dependence on government which is a major part of slavery whether they realize that or not. What they are demanding can only lead to dependence seems to suggest they do not know that. They were given independence when freed now it seems they want dependence. Being independent requires effort, desire and ability as well as self motivation!

      What they have to begin to realize is they are not entitled to anything they are not willing to make an effort themselves to secure. What they call white privilege is not actually privilege it is instead realization of the required effort, ambition and motivation necessary to succeed. If they wanted something bad enough they could and would be willing to work for it. People like LBJ and obama make things worse for them not better. There is no motivational factors in gifts other then the expectation of more gifts. LBJ’s war on poverty never worked and was certainly doomed from day one. But as Johnson said we will have these n–g-ers voting democrat for two hundred years because of these give away programs. (His words not mine) Democrats have so many fooled into thinking they are so nice to them and helping them they no doubt will do exactly that. The give away wagon however is exactly what is keeping them down but they like some ignorant poor whites cannot see it. No one ever became independently wealthy on welfare. Most barely survive who excepts anyone to be either happy or satisfied with that anyone? Consequently we have all the unrest we have today. As far as the black lives matter people start recognizing black lives do matter just like all other lives and stop ignorantly killing their own nothing will change for them. No communal living situation or government handout will ever solve their problems it will in the end take them to do that.

      No one ever has been happy in a communal living state and there is NO free lunch! Those serious about making a better life understand it is an individual thing not a collective thing. It was once said doing the same thing over and over is the epitome of ignorance if so why do the blacks keep supporting democrats? It is them who keeping them down is it because of the hand outs or because of the ignorance or does one perhaps create the other?

      In the final analysis no one owes them or any poor whites anything. Even respect needs to be earned. Our constitution guarantees our right to “pursue happiness,” not happiness itself. The sooner all blacks realize that the better off they will all be! If government is always a cushion many will always need a cushion. That prevents individualism. When government(s) make citizens too comfortable civilization like individualism deteriorates rapidly.

      • Cliff A says:

        Well Don, that is one facet to look at things. However, Christopher Marquez, myself and a million other Brother and Sister-in-Arms fought for this Country to maintain the Freedoms and Rights that the rest of our fellow Americans enjoy; yes, including the thugs that attacked former U.S. Marine Christopher Marquez. We know what it is like to face death, danger, and tragedy. We accept it as part of doing our jobs.

        Don said that all Service members of the Armed Forces deserve this nations respect because we put ourselves in the path of danger and death. This is true. There are those that claim that all Law Enforcement personnel deserve our respect because they place themselves in the path of danger and death. This is true too. Yet, others say that all Fire Fighters and First Responders deserve our respect because they place themselves in the path of danger and death; and this is also true too. Where I disagree with Don is that “Respect” has already been Earned by my forefathers and bestowed upon me as an American Citizen. It is my duty and obligation to maintain this “Respect”. The only way that I can lose this respect is to behave in a disrespectful way or manner like this thugs did. They lost any respect for themselves and each other. It isn’t a question of Black Lives Matter but that “All Lives Matter” period. It is this Respect for human life that makes America the Greatest and Best country in the world. When you compare how cheap human life is in other countries; these thugs would proclaim their heritage of being an American Citizen.

        I have been in countries where being the wrong color, race, background, would get you killed without a second thought. But here in American, we value all life including these thugs. This is what makes us a Great Nation because we care and we employ something called “Justice for All” another way of saying “Respect for All.”

  • Mark says:

    The race war begins

  • charles says:

    All our military members should get respect from our nation for putting their asses on the the line for our country

  • Greg says:

    His nation didn’t let him down directly. A few warped misguided punks. But we do owe it to him and others to get these racist hoodlums under control and straightened out/in jail/ whatever it takes so not only our soldiers can safely walk our streets but our daughters and mothers and fathers too!! He fought for us and now we have a responsibility to make this nation what it once was or he fought for nothing but a image of greatness.

  • Larry Varner says:

    because he sacrificed for this country and even for the thugs who done this!

  • john says:

    Because he served his country .not white or hispanics or blacks he served all for God and Country. He didn’t need to be thugged by them that’s a disgrace…..

  • Mark Davis says:

    These blacks who are committing these crimes have no respect for anyone or anything! They need to be severely punished! no more slaps on the wrist. They need jail time doing hard labor and anger management. When they do this to a veteran they also need to be punished with community service helping wounded Vet’s! maybe that way they can learn some respect!

  • Floyd Howe says:

    I’m sure these idiots didn’t know he was a war vet, but even if they did no one deserves this kind of treatment. America is descending into a hell hole pit of violence because of losing its’ bearings of morality and spirituality. The leadership in the government in Washington is beyond deplorable and a black mark on America. This is the result of the chickens coming home to roost.

  • rex stevens says:

    BLM is the politically correct group protected by this justice department and the Marines are just mentally deranged veterans.

  • Gaylene Bucher says:

    I would suggest shipping these cowards to Iran/Iraq but they would be a dis-honor to our soldiers and would probably turn tail and run or join the terrorists.

  • Joe. Sedlak says:

    It’s the only way for brothers (Veterans) to help each other, during hate crimes. Why is white on black racist and white on black not ,something is not right,”white lives matter”.

  • Rw says:

    The only people that are responsible for the issue of racism are the same ones who seam to think that only they are special.

  • Barbara McCune says:

    Not only this Marine but many other white people who are being attacked. And it doesn’t help that the sitting excuse of a President of the US doesn’t step up to the plate and defend these innocent people who are being attacked.

  • GR Arnold says:

    I hope whoever the cowards are that did this all burn in hell.

  • Dan DeCoff says:

    THERE IS NO RESPECT LEFT FOR THIS COUNTRY OR FOR IT’S DEFENDERS!
    US ARMY, RETIRED

  • Jerry Felton says:

    This young man served his country fighting for freedom. He didn’t deserve to be beaten by a bunch of young thugs who could give a damn about any skin color, especially their own. And they are using the black lives to instigate their own BS cause. The man is a hero who put his life on the line to help others.

  • Don Ellis says:

    All lives matter but the way “Black Lives Matter” are conducting themselves I am about to change my mind. You beat someone like they did, for no reason, perhaps they should lose their rights. They will land up in jail, good job mom and dad.

  • michael Cain says:

    the man was doing his duty and those who oppose our way of life are a total danger to all of us

  • Bud Chapman says:

    One by One, you track them down and stop any plans they might have had for America paying for their college or scholarships and they wouldn’t be able to because of their physical disability. Where was his brother Marines when he needed help!!!

  • Robert says:

    No one who do or do not believe should not be robbed and beaten regardless of the response. Hatred and violence is not the American way. If a white person were to do what these black teens did would have been arrested and prosecuted. Justice should not be at the hands of a mob regardless of a persons color or believe.

  • Diana says:

    He deserves appreciation and respect for being an American hero.

  • Doug says:

    He served his country, the BLM trash only serve themselves.

  • dave says:

    These friggin idiot,s best get a Grip,bashing any one let alone a warrior On the idiot,s behalf is past Racism being Taught by Racist friggin catch em and hang em by what little ball,s they have…

  • Jean says:

    more black cowards at work

  • jim byers says:

    as a fellow marine, he should have all the support that can be mustered to get those scum bags off the streets for good. like he said he was fighting for all of us, not just the whites…. since hilary is supportive of the “black lives matter” group, put her and them in the same cell, let see how well that turns out!!!

  • John Wright says:

    This Marine fought for his fellow Marines, and country, not caring whether they were white., Black, Hispanic, no matter. Then he comes home, goes out for dinner, ending getting visciously beaten by a bunch of asshole BLM thugs. They beat him simply because he is White, because they didn’t’ have the balls to take him on, one at a time.

  • AceMan says:

    These thugs would have gotten a very different response if they hassled me while I was eating. Good thing I live in GA. They know better around here. Too many white people with guns. Funny how these things always seem to happen in Liberal states with tough gun laws.

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  • glen henry says:

    This man is an American first and a patriot second. He should have all of our respect. Why?
    It’s because its who we are as Americans.
    I have another comment for those lawless thugs running the streets all the way up to this lawless president who is a disgrace to this great country.
    Thanks

  • S. says:

    It’s terrible, but the word BLACKSCUM is getting truer almost every day! What is it about these people that insist on dragging their race down the toilet???

  • Carole Gleason-Minor says:

    The current administration has promoted this type of behavior by the blacks. They are led to believe that they’re impervious to retribution simply because they’re black. Obama has caused unparalleled damage to race relations in America!

  • Jason says:

    I’m so tired of hearing about this BLM crap!!! It sounds to me like most of these BLM people are nothing but a bunch of mindless, RACIST thugs, usually black that have nothing better to do than to harass people. They’re always in the news causing riots, stealing, beating people up for no reason other than the fact that they think everyone hates blacks. Well if they keep up with their racist beliefs, pretty soon we will have a race war on our hands. They purposefully beat up a marine that saved lives! Who knows, the lives he saved may have been black?! The point is that this whole thing about, “Black Lives Matter” needs to be All Lives Matter.

  • Thomas Miller says:

    They are punks that need to be given a real ass beating!

  • R. Neely says:

    First off, he is an American. This alone make his beating nothing more than criminal activity
    Second: He is in the service of our country – to treat him in this manner is to dishonor this country.
    All else makes this beating even more insulting not only to the community, the state and to the nation and to the Marines in particular.

  • Name says:

    This is outrageous. The Police chief and the restaurant manager need to be issuing public statements of OUTRAGE and DISGUST at these BLM PUNKS: they need to be publicly horsewhipped

  • RICHARD SANDERS says:

    OUTRAGEOUS- The Restaurant owner and the police chief need to be publicly issuing scathing letters of condemnation of these filthy BLM punks. They need to be publicly horsewhipped for this.

  • Douglas Slawter says:

    we should honor all who serve and gangs should be put behind bars for a long time they are the trash

  • lneal says:

    want thing for nothingsome

  • Carl says:

    This marine fought for his country and didn’t deserve to be treated like that. BLM should be ashamed !!!!

  • Joyce ` says:

    Blacks and illegals are the true racist. The government protects them. Me, I owe them nothing.

  • Kari says:

    He served his counry & he was not bothering anyone. He was minding his own business. Those black lives matter individuals need to understand that this type action just makes it harder on the blacks in the long run. They also need to do some time for an act as vicious as this. Must be held responsible for this for sure.

  • jack a says:

    he was beaten by criminal trash that had no clue why they did it other than he was there. Every man, woman a d you citizen should be allowed to carry firearms to stop this bullshit. how long are we going to tolerate it?

  • Philip Allen says:

    One Day these thugs from Black Lives Matter is gonna find out when they pick on the wrong person their life is not gonna matter one iota Let them come to Texas and try and do this shit here…The punks will get their life ended as someone here with open or concealed will blow them away as should be. Because a decorated hero or marine refuses to answer such a stupid question and then get robbed and beaten up is very upsetting. This should never happen. These thugs need to be caught and sent to prison and do hard time. Otherwise let them pick on the wrong person and get killed before they can hurt someone else needlessly. Obama is a lot to blame because he want to blame other races for the problems the blacks have had in this country. I don’t here him speaking up when a black commits a crime on whites but when a white commits a crime on blacks you can’t shut him up.. It sound ;ike Obama the racist.

  • Bill Jerrolds says:

    If the general public don’t get involved in situations where people are attacked then they or theirs may be the next victims of a vicious attack. White people are more apt to be victims of racial attacks than black people.

  • Tom says:

    Soldiers do not go to war, they are sent. The news media and all Americans should be ashamed that these types of shameful and immoral acts go both unreported and ignored which lead to the decay of our American society. God bless our soldiers and all they stand for.

  • james morris says:

    these kids think they can get away with anything! Apparently they have no morals, or a sense of what is right and what is wrong. They will be caught this time and hopefully someone has the guts to prosecute them for a Hate Crime

  • MaryAnn says:

    No one should ever be attacked by robbers or muggers in USA!

  • Jim Rolewicz says:

    I Total agree with every comment That I read before mine

  • Lawrence Young says:

    This is a REAL problem in other countries that always want to blame the soldiers for all the daily crap they are being subjected to by others.

  • Lawrence Young says:

    This is a REAL problem in other countries that always want to blame the soldiers for all the daily crap they are being subjected to by others.

  • Ricky says:

    This is the main reason to be armed at all times. I know this is Washington d.c. But everyone should read keep and bear ams buying your first gun . This article is very enlightening. Frankly untill some shoots these Afro ‘s in self defense of course. This type of racism by afro’s will continue . And if you are offended by the term Afro ‘s tough, this is what Africans preferred to be called they act more African than American and are more proud to be African than American.

  • Mick Neal says:

    This Black Lives Matter bullshit is out of control. It has just given a bunch of punks a license to act like a wild dog pack. Time to fight back because maybe Obumer doesn’t realize that White Lives Matter also.

  • john koester says:

    you didn’t hear about this terrible act on nbc abc cbs or any remarks from the black community what a shame

  • Tim says:

    These street punks deserve punishment for their cowardly attack on this hero. This attack took place in good ole Washington DC good luck protecting yourself there, no way you can concealed carry to prevent this kind of crap.

  • Chris Robert says:

    These losers need to be tarred and feathered for treating someone in this raciest way. Hang’em until dead!!!!

  • Russell Abel says:

    As a citizen that lives in an ass backward state that will not even change the law to have it a stand your ground law, i feel very bad for the soldier because the citizens have no right when it comes to the law. people will not step up and assist someone in that situation because of the law.

  • Gerald W Lobb says:

    This is horrible. This group of people should be tried and then killed. They are animals and should be put down. They will never amount to anything and will just be a drag on the nation. They have given up their right to live.

  • David Plumbley says:

    Blacks think only there lives matter , the are the Racist! This marine would give his life if those kids were in trouble with out thinking twice. Those kids are a big pile of shit!!!!! But I guess that’s what there parents taught them! So add there parents to that pile as well!

  • william cloutier says:

    I am also a veteran and believe these black lives matter racist negroes think they deserve something. Incarceration is what they deserve

  • greg says:

    the 5 blacks that attacked him will not serve our country, chicken shits

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