Posted on 01/15/2006 4:22:38 PM PST by paulat
Fla. Teens Surrender in Homeless Beatings
By DENISE KALETTE, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Two South Florida teens suspected in the beatings of three homeless men turned themselves in to police Sunday, authorities said.
Family attorneys negotiated the surrender of Brian Hooks, 18, and Thomas S. Daugherty, 17.
They will face murder charges in the death of Norris Gaynor and aggravated battery charges in the videotaped beating of Jacques Pierre, said Capt. Michael Gregory of the Fort Lauderdale police.
They also are suspects in the beating of a third man, Raymond Perez, 49, whose case remains under investigation, Gregory said.
The teens were in police custody pending official charges from a grand jury, Gregory said. Police also were investigating whether the two may have been involved in other beatings and if they had accomplices.
"We do know there have been other assaults of homeless in Fort Lauderdale," Gregory said.
Pierre, 58, was beaten on the Fort Lauderdale campus of Florida Atlantic University. Gaynor, 45, was killed a few blocks away, and Perez, 49, was beaten in a Church-by-the-Sea garden.
It was not immediately clear if Perez and Pierre remained hospitalized Sunday.
I am confused why you find my cultural references offensive. They only underscore the lack of justice in the US criminal justice system due to years of liberalism.
And he knew the Old Media would cover for him, too.
Of course, if they hadn't been homeless, you would not be reading about it.
I wonder what they'll do to a 17 year old. Probably nothing. So why bother taking him into custody?
If they had just thrown them in the back seat of their car and taken them out and drowned them they would have had the start of a political career.
I didn't think distinction/separation would matter...ABCNNBC_BS (OLD MEDIA :) is The Democratic Party and vice versa...Associative Law of Politics/Corruption
Single mothers?
Were you born dumb...or have you just perfected being so?
Possibly, but I don't see anything wrong with some extra indignation from the public about this because the victims were homeless. I believe that when we finally hear the motive, it will just be some thrill killing by a couple of sociopaths. The homeless were targeted probably because they thought they could get away with it easier.
If this is turned political, and I am sure it will be, it will be that the "right wing media influenced these two bigots into attacking a poor liberal constituency group member"
Good point.
>>>I can't imagine what was in these kids' minds....<<<
Nothing. That's the problem.
>>>Execute these punks.<<<
No. They need to suffer. Life as a prison-wife.
It's true and you know it. The national media doesn't give a rip about the average joe being murdered. But make the victim homeless and suddenly there is outrage.
I am outraged at murder. Who the victim might be is irrelevant.
Does that hold true for all age groups of murderers or is there a difference between teenagers and adults?
You are looking for someone to pick on.
Please leave me alone.
This is a piece in City Journal, always a good read, by the Englishman, Theordore Dalrymple.
Two nights ago, my wife related something that she discovered in her geneological research. Three boys in Blytheville, AR, circa 1937, were charged with stealing a Dr Pepper from a lady's back porch.
At the time, the boys were age 11, 12 and 14. Their family was dirt poor and they were mowing yards to help out -- it was the tail end of the Great Depression. It was a hot July afternoon in the Delta, the boys were thirsty, and the lady whose yard they were mowing had inadvertently left a carton of Dr Pepper on the porch while moving her groceries into the house.
They only took one bottle, and shared it among themselves.
She turned them in. The boys were arrested and charged with theft. They were found guilty and sentenced to the state reform school, where they would remain until they turned 18. The younger one would spend seven years in the slammer -- for a few sips of hot Dr Pepper. The judge made notations in the margin of the trial papers (which are still on record) -- "we can't let this happen", "these boys have to learn their lesson", etc.
Fortunately, all three boys did "learn their lesson" -- because after they were released they all went on to lead uneventful lives and raise families of their own. All three served in WW II...and survived.
Nonetheless, my wife and I were both stunned by the story and what seemed to us Draconian punishment. We shook our heads and wondered, "What were they thinking?".
How ironic that, a day later, I would run across Dalrymple's piece. And, now, this one...
they won't. Only if the boys were black, would they even consider it, just to blame it on conservatives. Since these creeps are white, there will be no defense, which is fine by me.
I agree.
But the contrast between the "Blytheville 3" and the two Broward County punks, or the culture that Dalrymple described, suggests that, if one must err, one should err toward the punishment favored in 1937 rather than none.
It seems to set a better tone for society...
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