allegedly pummeled
-allegedly, Recorded with a camera and is in the hospital.
This happened two days ago, did MSM run the recording over and over and over like they would have with a kid wearing an Obongo hat? Did they run it even once?
Actually, the attack occurred a week before Thanksgiving on 21 November. News of the attack is just hitting the MSM now.
Unfortunately, this is how hyperbolic, inflamed, partisan political rhetoric at the national level plays out at the local level, especially in low information communities. There is a direct line from words of vilification being uttered by prominent national personages (not all of them politicians) to Antifa to the opportunistic beating up of people who wear Trump hats.
The lack of condemnation; nay, the approval and after-the-fact justification of such attacks gives tacit approval for further attacks. Fortunately, but belatedly, defamation lawsuits against such careless incitement are beginning to curb some of these excesses. Time will tell if ethics complaints and other measures can curb runaway mouths/behavior in Congress.
Hamilton County is just south of the Georgia border. It is a small county with just over 14,000 residents and is 60% white demographically. Voted Republican in the last five Presidential elections. Incomes are pretty low. Here is a link to the Wikipedia article on the county:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_County,_Florida?wprov=sfti1
Schools consist of one elementary school and one high school. Got a feeling the boy and his attackers have seen/known each other for some time (like the beginning of their first year(s) of school).
This is the problem. There are medical bills to be paid and there are students that need to be punished. However, there is only one high school in this county and the boy and his attackers eventually are going to be back on that school bus. Twice a day, every school day. Unless there is true recognition of their wrong doing and repentance for it on the part of the student offenders, this situation will repeat itself.
Aye, there’s the rub. True repentance. Cutting through all the pre-conditioning caused by the rhetoric mentioned earlier is going to be difficult -especially when teenagers are involved. If the “remorse for their action” is imposed by necessity, pretended, or superficial, it is going to lead to resentment and, ultimately, to feelings of or an actual desire for revenge.
Twice a day, every school day. That’s the problem the county courts, county police, county school district, and the families involved are trying to solve. Every one involved, even the offenders, knows there have to be consequences for this act. The trick is to craft a solution that meets the needs of justice while making it possible for the community to go forward, together, if possible.
BTW, JEDNCS