The councilwoman should be run out of office for her handling of this. She should be demanding justice for her constituents and decrying the protection of these vicious animals by the media blackout going on everywhere except LB. This kind of elected official is part of the problem.
You never hear about "healing" and so on when the situation is reversed, which usually involves law enforcement wasting some black scumbag who needs wasting. Then there's an uproar and the race-baiting shake-down artists start lining up to do the same old schtick, and the dumbass white-guilt media fall for it every time, which accomplishes nothing but to help line the pockets of the shakedown artists.
I have lost all respect for the councilwoman, so you're preaching to the choir. Fortunately, she isn't in my district, but her handling of this was appalling.
Most politicians bend over backward to sooth the outrage sure to come from the outspoken among the minority community, no matter the circumstances. This, coupled with parents who indoctrinate their kids that nothing is their fault, is a huge part of why we have kids who think they can get away with anything.
These parents should have been instilling the values in these kids which would have kept them from being involved in a near-fatal beating. At the very least, they should have been outraged at what their kids did and not made excuses.
The answer to all of this will no doubt be a bunch of community forums aimed at making people more culturally sensitive, because after all, if the minorities were not so mistreated in the first place, this wouldn't have happened, right?
On another note, I've noticed over the years that Halloween trick or treating, which used to be a very localized activity here for kids from the neighborhood, has turned into a procession of cars pulling up from out of the area where parents drop their kids off to "get the better treats". Not to mention the menacing looking older kids who roam the streets with no costumes, carrying pillowcases. I don't do Halloween any longer, and many neighbors are skipping it as well.
Unfortunately, building the haunted house attracted kids from all over, and the minute 30-35 kids of any race started hanging around making lewd comments to visitors, someone should have put the skids on it. Unfortunately, this isn't the town anymore that I grew up in where things were fairly innocent and crimes were reported as such without excuse.