Posted on 07/29/2019 4:42:43 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
The mom of a 10-year-old boy received the shock of her life recently: a phone call from her local juvenile court, explaining that her son would be charged with aggravated assault, months after a playground game of dodgeball at his elementary school.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Cameishi Lindley, mother of soon-to-be-fifth-grader Bryce Lindley, told 7 Action News about the call, received from the Wayne County Juvenile Court in Canton, Mich., on July 24.
Now, because the boy being punished is black and the boy who was injured is white, some critics are calling the incident racist, while others — including celebrity comedian DL Hughley, who called the charge “ridiculous” — are coming to the boy’s general defense.
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He can always plead not guilty and ask for a jury trial. Let’s start voir dire!
Was there bullying going on? Where were the adults—usually 10 year olds are supervised.
Oh for the love of god...can the kids just play without this crap?
This sounds ridiculous.
There just might be more to the story.
There are some sports, like football and dodgeball, where kids get injured. Comes with the territory. Need to know a lot more about this case before reaching any conclusions.
Sounds like the littlengoon used an impromptu game of “dodgeball” to take out his hostilities on a weaker child
I’d like to know how fall away he was when he launched the ball at his classmate.
Someone check the temperature at Satan’s place.
I’m forced to agree with DL Hughley.
Unless there are some EXTREME extenuating circumstance.. which there may be.. this is ridiculous.
I would assume there had to be some extenuating circumstances. I can’t see a DA willing to bring charges otherwise...
Given the news likes to mislead and lie to get you to read or click, I will assume, for now, there is much more to the story
Time to withhold judgment until all the facts are in. There’s a lot that could be missing from this story, and where race is involved, the media is slow to come out with the facts.
Oh for the love of god...can the kids just play without this crap?
I agree the parents have got to let their kids be kids.. Just because a child hit another kid in the face with the ball.. They were playing dodge ball I believe. Isn’t that where you throw the ball at another person and hit them. If they catch the ball they stay in the game..
But the injured child’s mother — who declined to release her name or her child’s to the public — says her son had a previous medical condition that made him susceptible to head injuries.
LOL
I must have had a “sheltered” K-6 schooling. We never once played dodgeball. We had many other playground games and P/E time games, but never dodgeball.
We had softball, baseball, tether ball, volley ball, soccer, running competitions of various sorts.
And we had games on the black top where we hit a ball to land in one of either three or eight other squares that others stood in. You were eliminated (had to leave your square) if a ball you hit went out of bounds. A player in the square you aimed had to let the ball bounce in the square once before they hit it, and they were out if they could not do that.
A line of waiting kids filled the squares of the kids who were eliminated (but you could also rejoin that line to play again). The sport of it was trying to be one who remained in their square the longest. If a ball actually hit another player it was never thought to be intentional and I don’t rember that being a frequent complaint. It was not an all boys or all girls game. The sex of the players didn’t matter, nor did anyone seek to manufacture “equal” numbers of boys and girls in any one set. The playground had a number of such painted-on places to play these games and there was always multiple games going on at any one time. It was “free participation” and not teacher organized.
It was mostly what they called “Four Square” but we had a few “expert” courts that had nine squares in them. You strove to be a good nine square player. Then you were really a “cool” one.
Of course, “racism”.
One, I doubt that.
2, why did this have to be a court charge? Although the black boy WAS suspended (why), shrill not sure even if done with malice that this deserves a trial.
The face is off-limits . . . I think there may be more to the story.
There is....
Clicks = CA$H
I agree with some of the posters here. Something about this has a slight smell to it. Waiting ‘months’ before taking any action? If the kid had a big raspberry on his person after the game, OK, sure. Even at that, you let the principal take charge of any punitive punishment. (And yes, I know that might backfire these days. Humor me here.) Court isn’t necessary unless the kid ended up in the ER. Something here is afoot.
There is really not enough information here. We really don’t know the nature of how the kid was hit, and what witnesses are saying. There is a chance that their was a viscous component to the hit(Intent to seriously harm). But short of that then these charges are ridiculous.
My school used large foam balls (Nerf type) when we played Dodgeball. Made it far more fun. When it was going to be an hour of it in gym class, we just went to town!
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