Posted on 11/01/2014 2:35:57 PM PDT by grundle
Detroit police say a 16-year-old is clinging to life after getting being attacked by a classmate at his charter school, apparently over a pair of shoes.
The incident happened Wednesday at Allen Academy on Quincy Street, in a northwest neighborhood off of I-96 near Joy Road.
Police say the student, identified in reports as 16-year-old Willie Wallace, was violently attacked by at least one other student. Investigators believe it all stemmed from a previous altercation over a pair of expensive Nike Air Force shoes Wallace was wearing.
Wallace reportedly suffered a seizure, fractured skull, bleeding in his brain, and damage to his chin, cheek and neck in the attack, which went on for about five minutes. He was last reported in critical condition.
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We put rabid animals down when they act in such a way. We need to star doing it with people too, lest the gene pool is brought down to the lowest common denominator.
They got no Sole!
I would call it attempted murder.
Well, as long as it was over something important, like honor or footwear ...
Regrettably he baited the trap with those shoes. How does a kid get shoes that cost more than the family income?
Pumped up kicks.
Do I even need to ask?
It’s mighty nice of you to load Mama’s EBT for her n her chilluns.
I agree. If this kid was wearing a pair of Skechers or New Balances, go’s have been left alone. He forgot he was Detroit and not Midwest suburbia.
Another reason to require school uniforms...
Slaves were more educated than these fools.
How about instead requiring that the kids act like human beings?
This is the kind of behavior that made our ancestors create laws.
And this was at a “Charter School”. At the regular school, they just hold them down and cut their feet off.
I don’t get the shoe thing. If you are in a “bad neighborhood”, rule #0 is, “don’t have/wear anything flashy or that will stick out”.
I would not be wearing those shoes unless I was trained in several self-defense methods AND armed.
TNB
This is a fashion cycle. Kids were killing each other for shoes years ago. It’s just coming back after having gone out of style.
But are they Chucks?
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