Whats with that? Even worse through out the news coverage it always sounded as though the "Perps' were being portrayed as the victims. Those 3 girls were hurt pretty badly and those kids are just going to walk, I think it's VERY wrong ,How about you?
2007-02-03 12:13:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
They haven't been sentenced yet.
From the newspaper.......
It was a Halloween fright fest that went horribly wrong for three young women. Shortly after they left a "haunted house" in a middle class area of Long Beach, south of Los Angeles, on October 31, a teenage mob set upon the women.
Even by the savage conditions that often prevail on Los Angeles's mean streets, what followed was a vicious assault. The women were surrounded by a group of kicking and punching teenagers. One victim suffered multiple fractures to her face and needs surgery to reposition an eye that was smashed in. Another was knocked unconscious by a skateboard. The third has a bruised lung.
But for the intervention of a passer-by, the victims believe the mob - estimated by witnesses as about 30 strong - would have killed them. Last week, after an emotional trial fraught with legal histrionics and claims of witness intimidation, eight girls, age 13 to 18, and one 18-year-old male were found guilty of hate crimes, while a 12-year-old girl was acquitted. Two other boys were subsequently charged and await trial.
Long Beach is used to violence. Gangs are endemic. Murder frequent. But the Halloween case has had a big impact.
All the defendants were black. Their victims were white. Not only that, but the defendants, who chanted "F--- white people!" and other racial epithets during the melee, were charged with hate crimes, a charge traditionally seen in white-on-black crimes.
"I think the case has the potential to have a much wider impact," says Tracy Manzer, who covered the story for the Long Beach Press-Telegram. Few would disagree.
Yet apart from the Press-Telegram and, belatedly, the Los Angeles Times, plus heated radio commentary, national press coverage was scant, partly due to uncertainties about how to report a black-on-white hate crime. The Times agonised that laws designed to prosecute hate crimes - defined by Congress in 1992 as "motivated by hatred, bias or prejudice, based on the actual or perceived race, colour, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity of another individual or group of individuals" - might end up "punishing blacks".
Read the rest... http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/a-crime-they-wont-talk-about/2007/02/02/1169919531033.html
2007-02-03 12:28:05 · answer #1 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is wrong for the punishment to not fit the crime no matter the race of the victim or perpertrators. And while two wrongs do not make a right this type of thing is very common when the victim is black and the perpertrator is white.
2007-02-03 12:22:47 · answer #2 · answered by micg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it was 9 white kids beating the crap out of them would it have made a difference to you? I'm guessing that it would...but anyway...
I'm not really acquianted with US legislaton, but I know that in UK legislation being put on probation is the most likely thing that would happen. Those kids are not just going to walk, they are going to be supervised and looked-after so when they DO walk freely in the future the chances of their repeating this are much less.
Such decisions have been taken to enable people who acted wrongly as children to have a chance to set their life straight rather than have a whole life wasted.
2007-02-04 05:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by lily54 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is a total miscarriage of justice. Those POSs should be given the same punishment they dealt out. The families of the victims should be given skateboards and allowed to beat and kick the living crap out of the perps.
2016-03-29 03:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it was 9 white kids that beat the crap out of 3 black kids .those white kids would have done major time in jail.the far left media would have made that a major story on their nightly news.you know nbc,cnn,and cbs.white people can't do anything to a black person without being called a racest. maybe the ayrian brotherhood should pay those boys a visit
2007-02-03 13:01:20 · answer #5 · answered by iceball_1976 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would be a hate crime and be on every news station if it was white on Black. This is the way the U.S. is headed and it's no stopping it. In fact don't be surprised if the yahoos at Yahoo don't delete your post.
2007-02-03 12:31:40 · answer #6 · answered by Adi 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why is race an issue here? All we have here is 9 kids beating up 3 girls. All we need to know.
2007-02-03 12:17:59 · answer #7 · answered by Fish Lover 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
That doesn't sound quite right. Do you have a link to the story? I would need to know the details.
2007-02-03 12:19:02 · answer #8 · answered by Charleygirl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that's why whenever I beat the crap out of someone I always put on blackface first.
2007-02-03 12:22:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, that's normal. It's reverse discrimination. I suggest you contact your state legislator, as well as the legislators of the state that this happened in. Let them know exactly what you think about it, and let them know what remedy YOU suggest.
2007-02-03 12:22:01 · answer #10 · answered by cyanne2ak 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋