There are good Americans, there are great Americans and then there’s Brock

Published 7:00 am Tuesday, August 31, 2010

There are good Americans, there are great Americans and then there’s Brock Stainbrook, who most good and great Americans wish would quit giving them such a bad name. Stainbrook has a long criminal record, including convictions for DUI and making terrorist threats. And last Monday night, he committed the ultimate un-American sin by allegedly assaulting a working man.According to police, Stainbrook walked into a downtown 7-11 around 12:30 a.m. and approached an employee standing at the coffee machine. The 45-year-old then allegedly threw some change at the floor, punched the employee in the head and said, “You’re not even American, you’re Al-Qaeda. Go back to your country.” The employee, who shares a surname common in the Sikh faith, was wearing a turban at the time.After a second 7-11 employee confronted Stainbrook he left the store, but not before kicking a barcode scanner in what criminal experts believe was a symbolic gesture representing the helplessness brought on by his own victimhood.Stainbrook was picked up by police a short time after when a call went out to be on the look out for a white male “carrying one shoe.” He then admitted to police that he’d hit a person “on his turban” because he didn’t like the man. Stainbrook has been charged with fourth-degree assault, along with a hate crime. He’s also been accused of the more serious charge of failing to understand the irony in his attack on a man who embodies many of the fine qualities of the country he purports to love.