2007-09-20 10:22:57 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I agree they took the law into their own hands. Anyone who does that should be punished.
People forget that for many of these teens it wasnt their 1st run in with the law. One of them has had multiple convictions for violent crimes.
Do I beleive that the white students should be punished, yes, but this doesn't give anyone else the right to take the law into their own hands.
Lets take a look at the LA riots after the rodney king verdict. What happened to reginald denny was not justice for a wrong verdict. It was people taking the law into their own hands.
Why couldnt they get Al sharpton down there to march against the injustice of the white kids punishment why does it have to go to violence. All they did was take the focus off the innitial problem.
Oh yeah by the way when more than one person beats up a single person in a fight it is a felony. It is called mob action and is a serious offense.
2007-09-20 10:39:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Per the attorney the victim was not beaten half to death he had non live threatening injuries. No one deserves to be beaten and no one deserves to have racism thrown in their faces either. Do some research on the hanging of black people back in the 40's 50's. Look at the pictures and see why a noose hanging from a tree in 2007 isn't a slap in the face. We've came along way in a sense but we really haven't in reality. The young man that had and pulled the gun why didn't he get arrested??? Does anyone think that is fair?? Hanging a noose is a hate crime, why didn't those people get arrested?? He will get out of jail and justice will be done. The punishment did not fit the crime of those 6 kids.
2007-09-20 10:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by MZCOLE 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The real complaint is not the treatment of the blacks (although half to death does not match the reporting I have seen) but that the white guys who started this with the nooses in the tree and other activities got a 3 day suspension from school. Considering that in the south lynching of blacks is not that far back, offering a threat to lynch people is pretty bad. Several people have said that the fight was more like a school yard maylay rather than an assault with intent to kill which is what the white prosecutor took to court.
2007-09-20 10:37:15 · answer #3 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, lets look at this shall we.
1. Kid is a minor.
2. Kid has a record.
3. Given 15 years for his part in the crime.
In order to make the call on this, we would need to be able to see this kids file. Thats not going to happen any time soon because his lawyer does not want to risk having his file opened to the public. Old Al, could you please inform his parents to let the public know of his file.
Just from the sound of the case, fighting does not warrant 15 years for a minor. We have adults that need to stay in jail that have killed people, rapped kids. These people have problems and they need to stay locked up.
Will this kids require punishment, yes and I hope the judge lays it on him so that he will turn from his ways. When I was a kids, we stole a toy from Tiffany in CA. The store owner put all the toys he could on me and snapped a picture. Though I only stole one toy, the judge made me write a 1000 word esay over the topic. So, point being is that the judge needs to lay it on him in a way to remove this issue from his growth. So that he can grow up and enjoy some good old tea... made in the sun....
BTW, all of the information has not been made available to the public. Thus we are working on limited knowledge of the case at hand. Please if you think six vs one is bad, please look at the facts before you go off on the kid. 15 years is a big chunck of a kids life for fighting. The adults need to be punished for there part because alas, they are adults. Please think about the other five first before you judge this kid.
2007-09-20 10:59:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. But...is 22 years a fair punishment? And doesn't the school have an obligation to take action BEFORE it comes to this?
This whole incident was tragic. It's a clear cut case of racism, though. I don't think that they should go free, but this wasn't an isolated incident. The school had been racist for YEARS. Think about what that does to a young person's self esteem.
2007-09-20 10:35:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are absolutely right. Now the only thing that has to happen is for someone to put a muzzle on the trouble makers egging everyone on. Jackson, Sharpton King III are nothing but agitators.
I hope the DA there stands by his decision and tries them for what the crime really was.
2007-09-20 10:33:28 · answer #6 · answered by From Yours Trully 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely. They need to be punished. But the scope of that punishment will be decided, in part, by the details of the situation. In what way did the "victim" help incite the violence, if at all? Were these people acting out of pure meanness, or trying to exact some (still illegal) kind of justice? This is why the law is so complicated.
2007-09-20 10:26:52 · answer #7 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
That guy was not beaten half to death. He was at a party that same night.
And that's not even a question!
AND ... no one is saying they shouldn't have been punished or that they shouldn't be punished. People are protesting the fact that the punishment was extremely severe for the black students (who were involved in a lunchroom brawl that involved a lot more people), and the racist threats and assaults committed by the white students were played off as teenage pranks.
2007-09-20 10:26:11 · answer #8 · answered by Hillary 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Amen to that. I certainly think that 6 people beating one person is infinitely more punishable than hanging three nooses from a tree. Now-if we could just convince Al Sharpton of that.
2007-09-20 10:27:07 · answer #9 · answered by phlada64 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Half to death? The "victim" was at a school function that same evening. The charges are an outrage! I am a 63 year old white Republican but I know racism when I see it!
2007-09-20 10:27:01 · answer #10 · answered by connor g 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋