Props for investigative blogging!

Rob of Say Anything blog, and also a guest at Wizbang! has been looking into this story. I first saw this story at Ilyka's, where she asks if these criminals will be charged with a hate crime (3 blacks attacked 2 whites) but guesses not....

Seems 2 OIF veterans (not sure whether this is true, but they are soldiers) were at a bar in Seattle with some dates when 3 black men allegedly groped their girlfriends. Being honorable men, the soldiers stood up for the girls, and a melee broke out. If you clicked the link above, you saw how brutal the beat down was.

In viewing this video, Rob noticed a number of similarities between it and videos for sale at realfight.com (no link, I'm not supporting these bastards), which someone sent him the link to. This website specializes in selling tapes of live ghetto fights, and gee, wouldn't you know, has a contact number in SEATTLE, and an address (which may be fake) near the scene of the fight....

While this is all speculation, Rob has already notified the Seattle PD and KOMO-TV, the station that ran the beating video in hopes of helping to capture suspects, that there may be a connection.

Yeah, it's far-fetched, but like Rob, I have to ask, If this was a random fight, and not a set up, how could the camera guy walk right into the middle of the fight and not get a punch thrown at him? If I was in a fight and somebody started taping me, I sure as hell would knock the crap out of him and get the film or memory stick. And why were there 3 actual video cameras at the scene? Camera phones I can see, but who in hell randomly takes their video camera to the club? Something doesn't add up.

Read the whole thing, and don't miss the comments!