Their inability to inflict optimal damage doesn't change the fact that a 6 on 1 assault on an unconscious kid is an extremely violent action.
Yeah, I guess they did a pretty good job of only knocking him out... There is nothing to defend here. If some punk kids and their buddies jump another and knock him out etc, they shouldn't be surprised when some bad **** happens to them. And they definitely should not be heroes. If they did not violently attacked a person, they would not have been arrested or charged with anything. They got what was coming to them.
The idea of a 6 on 1 assault does seem violent, but if the physical damage doesn't suggest it then you question how bad it really was... Should they have been punished? Of course... But people are greatly exaggerating how "brutal" this was... ...or maybe he heals quickly.
A 6 on 1 assault doesn't "seem" violent -- it "is" violent. Violence like the Jena 6 assault deserves jail time. The ones with criminal histories, if convicted by an impartial jury, need to get even longer prison sentences, regardless of their ages. Had this been six white kids beating a black kid I would have the same opinion. Personally, I am tired of seeing a double standard applied when hate crimes occur.
people arent acknowledging the fact that the kid that got beat up was still able to go to a social event that night and, moreover, he didn't feel the need to report it until a little while after that... I don't think that the 6 kids are free from guilt (I mean, hey, they did gang up on a kid), but there is a double standard here- a group of white kids did nearly the same thing before this incident, and nothing came out of that. so, yes, there is a double standard. I hate it when people give their opinion on things that they haven't fully read about.
Yes, I have read about the nooses and the tit for tats. However, one has to focus on the crime at hand. For the record, I favor punishing them too. And, incidentally, there was an arrest on the nooses hung from a tree. Remember, however, that one crime does not engender a free pass crime in return. All of this reminds of how my older sister pounded me as a little kid. I returned with some counter punches and got caught and punished by my parents while my older sister laughed at me behind their backs. Then I got smart and cried like I was killed and my parents punished my older sister while I laughed. The blacks and whites in Jena are doing basically the same thing -- only there is no playfulness in this. But the tactics are the same.
It was definitely violent and deserves punishment. People who are trying to make a point to show that the people who committed the crime do deserve punishment are exaggerating the brutality.
My point is that these boys had justification for their actions. This is no different than going to war on principles. Do you think we should fight for our freedom, even to the bloodshed, is freedom worth bloodshed to you! Well, I want to inform you that this kind of racism was worth these kids lashing out. Did they pick a misguided target, probably, but they had every right to fight for this thing, even moreso than "Dubya" starting a war over oil. But there is no shortage of supporters. Dubya did worst things than these kids will ever do, yet he gets away with it. Think about that! He should do time.
Really? You know how bad they intended to hurt this person? Isn't that for a court to decide? I think the DA might have a better idea. These kids had criminal records. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they had actually killed him.
Yeah everybody is a morally-sound pacifist when it comes to these kinds of issues. Let me ask you a question, do you support the idea of war?
