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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I don’t know if any kind of racism existed in this circumstance. And, I don’t care to know the races of the kids involved. I do know there is no crying in dodgeball!
Got to be more to the story. We played dodgeball up until 6th grade and yes, intimidation and bloody faces were not all that uncommon.
In 7th grade they upped the aggression level and we began playing team handball in place of dodgeball. I suffered my first broken nose in PhysEd that year.
I copied important facts about this:
The situation began back on Apr. 29, when Bryce received a one-day suspension from Ruth Eriksson Elementary, in Canton, for allegedly hitting a classmate in the face with a ball during a game of dodgeball. The child reportedly sustained a concussion....
The mother.... alleges to 7 Action News that this particular injury was no accident, adding that he “sustained facial tissue damage to his face. He had a black eye and a bruised nose.”
The case, Wayne County’s assistant prosecuting attorney Maria Miller tells Yahoo Lifestyle, “was evaluated by our Juvenile Prosecuting Unit, and it was determined that there was enough evidence to for us to charge aggravated assault.”
As a high school kid, I was enchanted with the Beatles music. Then, in the Army, the First Sergeant “volunteered” me for an endurance test that included sleep deprivation and the constant blasting of Yellow Submarine in my headset. To this day, Yellow Submarine gives me PTSD-like flashbacks. The test conditioned me, all right. I hate, HATE Beatles music.
The defense of the accused seems to be based entirely on supposition of what the activists think happened.
If a kid intentionally hurt another kid, that’s possibly criminal. It’s a juvie crime. Hardly the end of the world.
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.
Sure but if it was the other way around they would be calling for whites head. DL Hughley is as racist as they come.