I'm with you. Unless the black guys were actually committing a crime, what we have here is a senseless assault (not a hate crime, just a senseless assault). They'd have gotten off easier if a car was actually being stolen.
How do you know they were not in the process of stealing a car?
Even in the bible where the laws are much more conservative, someone has to be on your property for you to be able to go thrash him. You don't get to go out on patrol. Even the cops aren't at liberty to thrash people when they actually ARE on patrol.
Look, people are either stupid, or just don't want to figure this out.
Who in their right mind is going to tell the cops "we were there to steal a car" if there was no evidence against them?
there is more to the story than the AP is reporting. How freaking retardedly stupid do youhave to be to tell the cops you were there to commit a crime, if you had done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. Say you got lost. Say you were out for a walk. Don't say "uh, I was there to steal a car".
Come on guys. They obviously were spotted breaking into cars or had some witnesses telling the cops that they saw them doing something. Otherwise, you would say something, anything other than "we were there to steal cars".
I'm pretty sure that they were in he process of committing a crime by the time this incident occured. Otherwise, their statement just doesn't make sense unless these are the most honest car theives on the planet.
Here in Texas it's legal to shoot someone if you catch them trying to steal your property.