Posted on 06/22/2005 6:11:10 AM PDT by pickemuphere
HAMILTON, Ohio -- Vigilante justice seems to have taken over in the community where a 9-year-old girl was raped Monday, News 5 reported.
Someone set fire Tuesday evening to the house where the attack occurred. Six Mexican immigrants were renting the house in the 900 block of Sycamore Street, and neighbors believe the attacker lived there, News 5 reported.
Racial tensions rose high after the attack, with some angry residents threatening to burn down the house and take other retaliation against Hispanics in the area. Someone had spray-painted "Rapest" (sic) and "Child Molester" on the house.
The victim's father asked people to let police handle the situation.
"They probably mean well, but they're taking everything in their own hands and they should leave it in the police's hands," the father said.
One neighbor told News 5 the community just wants justice. Some neighbors are alarmed that the alleged attacker is still on the loose.
"They're just trying to get a suspected predator off the streets," Eric Price said. "Everybody's outraged. I can't even believe it myself."
Hamilton police Det. Mark Hayes said vigilantes interfere with police efforts to find the attacker.
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There were threats made against Hispanics in general because they were/are the same race as the perp. As the story said i the following:
Racial tensions rose high after the attack, with some angry residents threatening to burn down the house and take other retaliation against Hispanics in the area. Someone had spray-painted "Rapest" (sic) and "Child Molester" on the house.
You don't see the problem? You don't see the problem with burning down the house that didn't even belong to the perp? I wonder if you apply this wonderful world view to apartment dwellers???
Landlords should be psychic now? Do you have a way to tell who's going to committ crimes in the future? If so, please, tell us all now.
Street Justice BTTT !
Utter BS. No system is perfect, but vigilantes operate in the heat of the moment which is fertile soil for "mistakes" as you put them. If things like burning down a house the perp doesn't is a mistake, or lynching the wrong guy is a mistake.
Exactly. Don't forget the collateral damage mob vengeance creates, such as also burning the house next door to the house they're "pretty sure" the perp was living in.
Of course, some conservatives have no problem with the mob also torching the house next door, so go figure.
Well, not to get ahead of you, but you have to have a house in a good part of town to start demanding things like good credit. Some neighborhoods, you as the landlord are just going to have to take whatever tenents you can get, or let your property sit empty, because the folks with good credit are shopping elsewhere.
"Don't ask me to feel sorry for them OR for a next door neighbor who does not raise his voice early on."
Are you assuming then that the next door neighbor knew of an illegal immigrant situation next door? Which also assumes that the people in the rental house were illegals? And then you also seem to be assuming that IF the next door neighbor DID know about illegal activity next door, that IF he were to "raise his voice early on", that something would have been done?
So many assumptions, so few facts.
Well spoken.
An amen BTTT!
I'm certainly not cool with it and I hope and pray other FReepers who feel the same will speak out. Times like these really make me doubt the sanity of some others.
Not to mention the Death Wish series with Charles Bronson.
I'm really starting to question things these days. These types of threads, with these over the top responses are becoming the norm.
Don't call them conservatives. They're nothing of the sort. Those who couldn't care less about the property of innocent people have no right to call themselves conservative.
You're right. Should have used the quotes.
Great line, though. Almost worth a new tagline!
I don't find it surprising at all. This attitude does support the MSM's view of Conservatives.
Yeah, but Freepers aren't supposed to actually embody the MSM's perception of conservatives. These last couple of days have really been a wake-up call.
You make a good point. To be effective, vigilantes must first make sure they have the right person, and second direct their activities toward that person in a manner that neither endangers nor punishes innocents.
Sometimes the definition of an 'innocent party' gets bent a bit to exclude anyone who is related to, or had an inkling of, the activities of the guilty.
Did the rest of the people in the house defend the perpetrator? Are they relatives? We do not know the complete story here.
As a rule, few are level headed enough to keep the situation from degenerating into mob violence.
The old adage I posted comes from the days of blood feuds in the Appalachians, when the parties were well known to one another, and the retaliatory acts at least were confined to members of opposing clans, for the most part. A solid patriarchical society kept things in check to a large degree.
Not necessarily so. I own a home in a bad part of town, and have wonderful tenants. They pay their rent on time, and maintain the front yard. They are no trouble whatsoever.
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