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Originally Posted by MBlovr
I agree. The real problem here is how the adults handled the respective situations. They blew an opportunity to help defuse any racial tensions. IMO the principal should have made it clear through a PA announcement that any future displays of would not be tolerated and that the students would be expected to find peaceful ways of resolving their differences.
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As I understand it, the principal, with school board backing, wanted to expel the boys who beat the crap out of the one kid and discipline Mr Hangman's Noose. Law enforcement went a different direction and the prosecutor went whole-hog on the boys as though they were gangsters.
It seems from what I read that one of those boys had been in a lot of trouble with the law, including violence, as a juvenile. Tough guys get respect in school and I imagine he had some weak-minded followers who didn't want to be excluded from giving the kid a well-deserved butt-kicking. Too bad they found it necessary to gang-up on him -- why not just allow Mr Tuffguy to demonstrate his abilities?
It's a sorry affair blown way, way out of proportion by small-minded people who have a racial vendetta who were unintentionally aided and abetted by dumbasses in law enforcement and the DA's office.
Had the principal's approach been followed this crap would have remained what it actually was, teenaged boys showing-off and one getting hurt. It happens like, a million times a year.
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