Posted on 06/04/2009 8:58:51 AM PDT by Kartographer
A mob of furious neighbors of an 11-year-old girl raped on her way to school in Philadelphia won't be charged for beating a man wanted for questioning in the case.
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Well, it takes a village you know. /sarc
there exists no law to charge a “mob” anyway. it’s individuals or nothing
If they caught him in the act with an 11 year old I would have acquitted them if they were using his flaming corpse as a pinata hanging from a light pole.
And yet the media was up in arms over someone shooting a late term abortion doctor.
I oppose all vigilantism. Our media exhibits a dirty political double standard.
Good!!
If he shot the guy in both thumbs, he needs to work on his aim.
“Philadelphia Police Lt. Frank Vanore said authorities did the right thing in publicizing their desire to talk to Carrasquillo. He noted he was wanted on a bench warrant and had 17 prior arrests.
“We’ve got an 11-year-old viciously raped,” Vanore said. “We factored in a lot of things and the biggest thing was to get this individual off the street.”
17 prior arrests? Why was this animal on the streets?
Wondering the same thing.
A man at that time would sufer great from such wounds far beyond the intial pain. Manual work without thumbs would be extermely difficult, would be even difficult to use a gun and as most were single action at that time. Plus he would be marked for what he was for the rest of his life.
I usually do, too, but I think this was a little different. This child was raped for over an hour and needed surgery. Everyone wanted him off the streets immediately and it was the neighborhood who knew him and had the eyes and ears out to locate him. They knew that their children would be in danger until this man was off the streets. So they helped take care of the problem. I can’t blame them. Even the police chief seemed relieved.
Well, if all those arrests were bench warrants for parking or speeding tickets..........
I doubt that they were but..............
OK-As long as it applies to suburban residents acting the same way to a , ahem, “non-suburban” criminal they encountered under similar circumstances in their neighborhood.
What would you say if they had the wrong guy, or if it turns out this guy isn't the one that raped her? I can see them holding the guy until the police got there, but they had no business beating him.
I believe that he had just been released from prison. He had prior sexual charges, but they had been dropped. They won’t be this time, I’m guessing.
Of course, that’s always a problem. One man is already saying that the neighbors beat him up the day before because of mistaken identity. We’ll see. It would have been better had they just held him, but they no doubt wanted to make certain that he didn’t escape. The police chief has said that he’s completely certain they got the right guy. Their action wasn’t right, but I’m sympathetic.
Cool.
I don't. Here is a case in point. Let's say that I walk in on a perp raping my daughter. He immediately falls to the ground and begs for his life. In a unexpected fit of mercy, I spare his life only to see him get off in court.
I will then dispense justice on the said dirt bag knowing full well that he is guilty as sin. I would point you also to the real life incident in Skidmore Missouri where over 100 people were present when the local ruffian and scum bag got himself shot dead in the middle of the street and not one person would admit to seeing anything. I'm most concerned with justice, not the law and not the method.
Great! You can oppose what they did, but the law failed people with this perp.
He was arrested on similar charges 7 years prior, but the DA never pressed charges.
That is NOT justice.
We have dirtbag assassins who gun down people in cold blood in public and are called “the suspect” when we are told they are in custody.
This is for murderers aprehended at the scene.
The media spouts propaganda and nothing but. That they get their panties in a wad along with the President and then are silent over other acts of criminal vigilante justice just goes to expose the double standard.
They have a double standard when it comes to prison rape too. They laugh about it when it happens in American prisons. Not so Abu Ghraib.
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