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Originally Posted by cmac2012
Pergs: do you really think if the DA had made that remark he would admit to it? I'd have to hear a lot more testimony from numerous witnesses to be convinced of that one, one way or another.
Whether or not some students played with the nooses does not deflect the fact that it is a highly charged symbol, one that should be avoided. I'm glad to hear there was some serious hand slapping on that one.
The shotgun story is an interesting one. If the group of black youths were so menacing, why was there no report of serious injury to whites after the gun was taken? So many unknowns here. How long was the gun held? Overnight or 3 weeks? What, do you expect someone to take a gun away from someone who was using it to threaten and then just hand it back to them 2 minutes later?
Unclear. Did they deny he was looking at the black kids or did they deny he uttered those words? A bit curious as the 2nd degree attempted murder charges would make the suspects disappear for some time.
If he said it, don't really matter who he was looking at -- such a bizarre utterance ought to be grounds for the loss of his job. Don't be abusing power like that in my face, duuuuuudddde.
I agree that cutting the tree down was bone-headed. I don't think the fact that there's no record of the youth seeking treatment for the alleged broken bottle incident means anything. Results of such might have been a bump on the head, maybe a small cut, or it could be much worse.
I don't like to hear Sharpton get up on his self-righteous soapbox any more than anyone else, but the willingness to absolve all the whites and crucify the blacks JUST IN THIS FORUM is telling.
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So, who do you feel is not being punished enough and who is being punished too much?
At the Fair Barn party Mr. Bailey and his friends weren't invited to the party and were asked to leave. Some white guy started a fight. Mr. Bailey and friends got into another fight with some other guy and Mr. Sloan was charged with battery by the DA (Mr. Sloan is a white guy).
At the convenience store Mr. Bailey and friends are again involved in a violent altercation. Police get two stories from both parties involved. Based on a uninvolved witness, unnamed and unraced, they charged Mr. Bell and friends with theft and other things but not the white guy.
At school Mr. Barker allegedly taunts Mr. Bailey and is later punched unconcious by Mr. Bell, football team's star running back, and then Mr. Bell and Mr. Bailey and their friends proceed to kick Mr. Barker's unconcious body repeatedly until a fellow student intervenes. Mr. Bailey has not gone to trial yet. Mr. Bell was convicted of
2nd degree aggrevated assault by the all white jury (
not attempted murder). Mr. Bailey and his friends are charged with
aggrevated assault and await trial. Keeping in mind that Mr. Bell, while awaiting the verdict of his appeal concerning his assault on Mr. Barker, was already on probation for a Dec 2005 battery. While on probation for the 2005 battery Mr. Bell was convicted of two other seperate batteries and another count of criminal damage of property.
So, kindly answer some questions:
1. Is taunting a crime?
2. Is a 6 or more on 1 beating of an unconcious man to be considered aggrevated assault?
3. What seems to be the common theme of all the violent incidents that have occured in this situation?
4. Which whites were guilty of what and what blacks are being unjustly crucified?