You are talking out your ass. Three teenagers mercilessly beating a tweener on the ground for an extended period of time is not just another day at school. It's pretty obvious you are playing dumb to make this look less serious.
In this case, it wasn't a fight since the white kid was attacked by 3 kids viciously. You want to bring up contact sports, that's another subject for another day, you're getting off topic now buddy.
No, but you're lobbing insults for no reason. Fights happen everyday at school, lots of time the numbers and ages aren't equitable.
Of course it was a fight. It was inequitable and unfair, but still an unarmed conflict with the same root causes, duration and resulting injuries similar to several other fights that don't end in felony charges or public outcry.
Completely different topic and you dishonestly edited the first half of my post. But good to know you instinctively discredit someone's logic due to their race.
Yeah right. The post is linked and the first part was just you waxing poetic. Cat's out of the bag for you - can't be relied on to objectively look at anything that involves race. But please keep going justifying a 3 on 1 beating of a 13 year old .
That was a completely different topic, the only information you got from it was my race, which you've chosen to use to discredit my views here. I didn't justify the beating, I said it's happened before and that it shouldn't merit excessive criminal prosecution or an attempted murder charge.
The first part of my post in the other thread was explaining that the term "white community" is unnecessary, because it's the society they built, and that I've grown up and chosen to live in. You can't dismiss that part of the post if you're going to quote it. There was a clip posted a few months ago about some bus driver who was antagonized by students who were predominately white, I objected to her getting donations and to the outrage against the students; similarly because I think adults view Youtube clips in vacuum and affix excessive moral outrage to events that are more common than they realize. I wouldn't be any more outraged about the school fight if the individuals weren't black, for all the reasons I've stated over and over in this thread; before you felt compelled to mention my race as a means of discrediting me.
Yeah, but usually they don't break out due to someone being angry that their illegal activities have been uncovered by a 13 year old, taking the form of a gang style beat down in front of an adult.
I'm categorizing a regularly occurring phenomenon as a fight between students at a school and never lobbed around the word playground; and I've fully explained over and over my belief that minors can be deterred from this behavior without the intervention of excessive publicity or excessive criminal charges.
I haven't seen anything that verified the kid's original allegations, but even so there's a separate set of disciplinary and legal punishments that can be administered for that.
To be clear then, are you saying your are A-OK with these types of fights? Because on the one hand, you have, according to you, these types of fights happening every day for decades. But on the other hand, according to you, despite these types of fights continuing to happen every day for decades, it is fairly easy to deter such fights without excessive publicity or criminal charges. So I can only assume then, in your twisted world view, that the reason you believe these types of altercations haven't been deterred is because they are just minor little fights that strengthen character or something, and the rest of the country agrees?? Because in the real world, whether or not these types of fights happen every day, they absolutely shouldn't and need to be stopped. AND, even with excessive publicity and criminal charges, they do continue to happen. Regardless of the race of the victim or assailants, what absolutely needs to happen here is fair criminal charges assessed. I don't know what is or isn't fair according to the law, but it absolutely isn't a "don't do that again" speech and in-school suspension.
Disagree with you about a hundred different ways, but here's one of them. I view the video as a clearer picture of what actually happened. Being able to see the determination and the viciousness of the blows made it pretty clear to me they could have killed the kid or left him disabled in some way. It's pure luck the boy did not suffer more serious injuries (and the fact he had a seat to hide under). If it happened your way and no video was taken, and to your delight it was simply reported as "three children got in a fight with another child," it would not have accurately portrayed the incident. And, if you're telling me this happens all the time at schools and teenagers only get punished by the school (with what? suspension?), then I would argue they're getting off light simply because no video was taken to give an accurate portrayal of how serious the battery was.
Never said they were okay or that they build character. I did say they happen frequently in school and have for decades without anyone getting killed. I believe the individual assailants can be and typically are deterred from this future behavior without a felony attempted murder charge, or any similarly excessive charge; and I feel that the publicizing of the video creates excessive public knowledge an outrage for an act that regularly happens and can be dealt with, and has been historically, by the school and district. I don't categorically dismiss criminal prosecution, particularly once a policeman and prosecutor has knowledge and evidence of act and has to enforce existing legal precedent.
I'm just pointing out that if these acts have been historically dealt with by the school and district, then they've dealt with it very very poorly. I have two young boys. I don't want them to grow up to experience this situation either as assailant or victim. If public outcry and fair criminal prosecution does more to prevent that then whatever the school/district has been doing, then I'm all for that.
