Deputies: Teens who filmed, mocked drowning man in Brevard charged

News 13 ^ | 21 July, 2017 | Greg Pallone and Anthony Leone

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The group of teenagers who filmed and mocked a man as he was drowning in a Cocoa pond have been charged, according to police.

Cocoa Police Chief Michael Cantaloupe said in a press conference that it is the duty of four people to report a death. While there is no requirement to report to officials that someone is dying, but once someone is dead, then people, according to the law, must report it to authorities, he explained.

He said there is no "just outcome" for what happened in the drowning since Jamel Dunn died.

"We don't want another family have to go through what the Dunn Family has went through," he said, adding that it was very hard to watch and listen to the video.

While Cantaloupe said he would not give the names of the teenagers out because it is an ongoing investigation, he did reveal that the ages of the five teenagers were between 14 to 16 years old.

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It is nowhere near the kind of charge they should have received, but at least it is something.

This is a follow-up to this thread: Teens filmed, mocked and laughed while man slowly drowned

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I wonder if Mrs. Cantaloupe calls him Honeydew. /rhetorical

[brownsfan]

A society that can produce such animals is very sick.

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Brevard County, Florida follow-up ping.

At least it's something. Juvie, though, and will likely get buried (npi) over time.

Let me know if you want on or off this low volume ping list.
(not associated with the county government)

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I would bet that by age 25 all of of these punks will be dead or doing serious time.

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Please educate me as to why this story got moved to chat, being a news-sourced item and a follow up to a thread posted in news with 158 replies. Help us understand the rules.

[Uncle Sam 911]

That black life didn’t matter did it?

[Puppage]

The group of teenagers who filmed and mocked a man as he was drowning in a Cocoa pond

I weep for the future.

[I want the USA back]

The word “black” does not appear in the news story.

Suppose the bastards were White, and the dead kid Black. It would be all over the papers and the TV “news.”

[Osage Orange]

Well....I guess I'm sick.

There are a few people...I could very much so...watch drown....

And I would say "Good riddance!!"

[Osage Orange]

Well....I guess I'm sick.

There are a few people...I could very much so...watch drown....

And I would say "Good riddance!!"

[Drew68]

Please educate me as to why this story got moved to chat, being a news-sourced item and a follow up to a thread posted in news with 158 replies. Help us understand the rules.

Hey, at least the mods moved it. Yesterday I posted a news item about the suicide of the singer of a popular rock band. About 40 posts in the mods just yanked it completely. "Belongs in chat" was the reply in the now dead link.

Whatever...

[Leep]

Was anybody filming their arrest...while mocking them?

[Jeff Chandler]

Teens.

[ilovesarah2012]

I want to know why the man waded into the pond.

[NonValueAdded]

I see it is back in news. Yeah, it would be helpful to know the rules. This is a serious crime and punishment case and a local embarrassment.

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thank you

[lonevoice]

I would bet that by age 25 all of of these punks will be dead or doing serious time.

Can we just make all of them dead by 2018?

[Dallas59]

To be fair, it wasn’t that they were charged because they didn’t help, they just didn’t report his death.

[CivilWarBrewing]

"We don't want another family have to go through what the Dunn Family has went through,"

"has went GONE through".. Can't CHIEFS speak proper English?