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Family of high school track star sucker-punched during race are considering lawsuit 'after they were stopped from pressing charges by cops who threatened to arrest THEIR son if they filed a report'
Daily Mail ^ | April 2nd, 2022 | Matt Mcnulty

Posted on 04/02/2022 12:01:18 PM PDT by shadowlands1960

-The family of a high school track star who was sucker-punched during a race say they had wanted to press charges against his attacker,
-However, the family's attorney said deputies had threatened to arrest their son if they'd done so:
-Now, they're looking into potentially filing a lawsuit. -The high school runner was punched in the head during his 1,600m race last Saturday at the Tohopekaliga Tiger Invitational in Kissimmee, Florida.
-The athlete who threw the punch had earlier got in the way of the lead runner.
-After still obscuring the track, the runner pushed him out of the way.
-On the subsequent lap, the other athlete sucker punched the runner the face, knocking him over - he managed to get to his feet and complete the race.
-DO YOU KNOW THOSE INVOLVED? EMAIL: matt.mcnulty@mailonline.com


The family of a high school track star who was sucker-punched during a race say they had wanted to press charges against his attacker but deputies had threatened to arrest their son if they'd done so.

Now, the family is considering filing a civil lawsuit against the other student and the track invitation event that hosted the race, their attorney says.

Shocking video of the attack during the Tohopekaliga Tiger Invitational in Kissimmee last Saturday captured the incident as a pack of runners coming down the track in the 1,600-meter race when a teen comes up from behind and punches the athlete in the lead in the back of the head

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TOPICS: Politics; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: 2manyracists; bidensfault; bidenvoters; blacksupremacy; cheaters; criminals; kissimmee; lawsuit; obamasfault; splc; splkkk; thugs; trackmeet; usualsuspects
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To: ronniesgal

The article says he pushed the attacker out of the way in a prior lap because he was blocking the track. I am guessing that could be classified as battery but the cops really just did not want to do their job.


21 posted on 04/02/2022 12:13:41 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: shadowlands1960
Video
22 posted on 04/02/2022 12:13:45 PM PDT by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: V_TWIN

Hate crime law is supposed to protect all races. Yet honestly it seems to not apply to those with light colored skin, or rarely.


23 posted on 04/02/2022 12:14:14 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: noiseman

It’s like predicting the sun will rise in the east, or water is wet.


24 posted on 04/02/2022 12:14:38 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Bullish

Yes, I think you do.

The reporting is awful, as always. The challenge, from the responding deputies’ point of view is that they had a misdemeanor that had occurred outside of their presence, and even this news piece says that the victim had previously made physical contact with the assailant, so it would sound a lot like “mutual combat” without the video evidence. But for a juvenile, the “arrest” would mostly be a cite-and-release to the parents, so the family’s lawyer’s description is a little melodramatic.

OTOH, presuming that the video evidence is new, there’s nothing stopping the family from filing a new report. No way the DA will file though in current year. Some people have license to do whatever they want without consequence.


25 posted on 04/02/2022 12:15:08 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: shadowlands1960

The kid who got knocked down does not look like Chris Rock. I guess they all look alike.


26 posted on 04/02/2022 12:15:40 PM PDT by Bernard (Jeffrey Toobin may turn out to be the most ethical character at CNN because he only abused himself.)
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To: ronniesgal
Perp is black. They were making idle threats to keep BLM in check lest they descend on the town and make things tough for the cops.

The only charge I can think of is fomenting a race riot. Wouldn't stick though.

27 posted on 04/02/2022 12:19:22 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
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To: shadowlands1960

Black privilege.


28 posted on 04/02/2022 12:20:23 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Phoenix8

“ Hate crime law is supposed to protect all races.”

Somehow they have sold the notion that blacks CAN’T be racist, that it is the exclusive position of the white man to be racist. I still haven’t figured that one out.


29 posted on 04/02/2022 12:20:39 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: BenLurkin

Haven’t seen one, even though it allegedly happened on the track...Even if there was a shove it doesn’t justify the sucker punch in my opinion...


30 posted on 04/02/2022 12:22:50 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: ronniesgal

victim supposedly shoved the puncher earlier...


31 posted on 04/02/2022 12:24:24 PM PDT by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: shadowlands1960

Just a guess - the local cops have already maxed-out their DOJ-allowed arrest quota for black men, and don’t want any more, lest they lose Fed.gov money or get involved in a civil-rights lawsuit from the DOJ


32 posted on 04/02/2022 12:24:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: shadowlands1960

Hate crime.

5.56mm


33 posted on 04/02/2022 12:27:08 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Phoenix8

“Hate crime law is supposed to protect all races. Yet honestly it seems to not apply to those with light colored skin, or rarely.”

Like never.


34 posted on 04/02/2022 12:27:41 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Fido969

Yup.🙄


35 posted on 04/02/2022 12:33:07 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: shadowlands1960

The Family of the attacked victim, should have gotten the cops name who threatened arrest. The officers name should be mentioned in the story. An important part of the who, what, why... of the story.


36 posted on 04/02/2022 12:36:25 PM PDT by Mark was here
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To: shadowlands1960

Ghetto Democrat scum get more violent by the week.


37 posted on 04/02/2022 12:40:06 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: noiseman
I knew when I read this in the article (emphasis not necessary, but added anyway):

" ... when a teen comes up from behind and punches the athlete in the lead in the back of the head

38 posted on 04/02/2022 12:43:07 PM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: ronniesgal

Allegedly the white kid pushed the black kid before starting the race.


39 posted on 04/02/2022 12:43:49 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: shadowlands1960

F the law.


40 posted on 04/02/2022 12:44:04 PM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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