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When I was a teen I was in a similar situation... went to new school, got bullied relentlessly and daily, after about 8 months of it I finally responded, cracking one kid’s head open during an intense and merciless pummeling that ended only when physically restrained from continuing. Since the only parts of the encounter that surprised anyone were that it took so long to happen, and that I was that effective and delivering a beating, there were no official consequences.

Given my experience I’d probably have voted to acquit in this case.

The kid who got killed had been harassing the other one for some time, and the boy had asked for help in dealing with the bully...btw, I’m not sure he was gay, but the other kid kept calling him that.

However, because of the Obama laws where problem kids cannot be disciplined or removed from class, no matter how awful their behavior, nobody intervened on his behalf.

There was an article about this problem by the father of one of the Parkland students who had been killed by a Nicholas Cruz, a kid who had been known as crazy practically since kindergarten.

The law was meant to protect black kids from the consequences of their own behavior, which would normally be some kind of a record, but has basically resulted in handing the classrooms over to the worst of the worst, who cannot be disciplined and can get away with horrible treatment of their classmates. I’m not saying the boy should have killed his tormenter, but I think he got an excessive punishment for dealing badly with something that should have been handled by the school. That is, the kid who was killed should have been removed from the classroom by the teacher before he got to bully this obviously weak boy to this point.