So I was driving down Chapman Ave today when a fellow named Aries Brown, a local crackhead and a runner for the pimp and prostitution operation we've discussed here on this site, got sufficiently smoked up on crack and stepped in front of my car, shouting that I was a "bitch ass motherfucker" for "calling the cops" and that if I didn't stop calling the cops on the pimping and crack dealing on Chapman, he was going to kick my ass. He also shouted several racial slurs at me about "white motherfuckers". I stepped out of my car and told him to get out of the road. He looked at me as if he was going to fight me, then thought better about it, and did. Then I turned around, drove down the block and parked and waited for police.

I called 911 three times over a twenty minute period and could not get police to respond. As I was on the phone the third time, Mr Brown walked up to me and started swinging on me. I stopped him, grabbed him, jumped up and wrapped my legs around him and took him down on top of me, then grabbed the back of his head and thrust my other hand into his throat, choking him. He was near unconscious when a prostitute named Latoya Mennis -- I mentioned her on the show Monday night -- ran up and began kicking, then punching, me in the head, while I held Mr Brown. I let Mr Brown go -- he got in one good punch on the side of my head when I released him -- jumped up, knocked Ms Mennis away, and the two were just taking off down the street when the police drove up.

They have both been charged with assault and battery. The news came out to videotape the aftermath. Both Mr Brown and Ms Mennis are apparently swearing that I just jumped out of my car and assaulted them for no reason, seeking a warrant against me for assault and battery, though I don't know if they have been successful.

I am at least the fifth person this pimp and prostitution ring has assaulted on Chapman in the past week -- and I'm sure the Roanoke Times will have a nice lead editorial praising the black liberation efforts of the local criminal underground in tomorrow's paper.

Other than a cut of two and a small bruise on the side of my head, I am unhurt. Mr Brown was treated by an ambulance for throat injuries and breathing problems.