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Here's a story to curl your hair. After the (big), fireworks last night in a small town near mine, kids and families were leaving the park, going back to their cars, and some turned down a nearby road to see two white 21 year-old twin bros. beating up a young (18 year-old), black boy. The white men had take karate classes with a friend of mine, who said she'd seen them at weekly classes.)

So they were karate chopping and kicking this young black man, who had just graduated as valedictorian of his class and was going to college. The white men were well known druggies. Dealing and using. Maybe witnesses to this were kids, no parents, but surely teenagers saw it and did nothing. I don't know. Kids would be afraid to stop violence for fear of being the next target. Whatever, nobody stopped it, and no one called 911 on a cell phone until it was too late and they'd kicked this young black man to death. the final blow was a kick to the head.

The rumor is he was dating a white girl and they didn't like it. This is in Ma., by the way. Finally, someone did call the cops and described or named the killers, so in no time at all undercover cops were parked out in front of the parents' home. Yes, these two upstanding citizens, though 21, were living with Mom and Dad. They finally came home in the wee hours and were promptly arrested....lots of cops. They're being arraigned tomorrow, bail set at a quarter mill apiece. So much is wrong with this story, from people watching and not doing anything to stop it, not even yelling that they were calling the cops, (even if you didn't have a cell phone, you could pretend to have one), or actually doing it, to it's ever happening at all. You want to scream. Stupid viciousness, probably fueled by drugs. Now the pride and joy of one family is dead for no reason.