Posted on 12/22/2009 4:57:41 PM PST by SkyPilot
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (CBS) ― Click to enlarge1 of 1 David Muneton, an eighth grade honor student, needed reconstructive facial surgery after being savagely beaten by a gang of 11 students on Dec. 18, 2009, in Engelwood, N.J.
David Muneton, an eighth grade honor student, needed reconstructive facial surgery after being savagely beaten by a gang of 11 students on Dec. 18, 2009, in Engelwood, N.J.
Police said as many as 11 students beat up the eighth-grader leaving him severely injured, and he may even lose his sight.
CBS 2 HD spoke with some of his friends about what led to the brutal attack.
The incident near a school soccer field was so violent that 13-year-old David Muneton needed reconstructive surgery to his face to correct several broken bones.
His friends at the Janis Dismus Middle School in Englewood are stunned.
"It's so hard. … I'm his best friend," Denise Melendez said before breaking down in tears.
Police have arrested seven students from both the middle school and high school, charging them with aggravated assault. The youngest one is just 12 years old.
Investigators said the teenagers jumped Muneton on Friday as he walked home from school to get back at him for an earlier incident during which the eighth-grader accidentally hit a girl with a basketball.
The superintendent said the girl, who has also been charged, led the boys to Muneton, saying "He's the one."
"We do know that after the girl made the comment one of the people, the boys, who was with him immediately punched him," Superintendent Dr. Richard Segall said.
Students at the middle school have made a get well card for the 13-year-old -- all of them outraged over what happened.
"He really didn't deserve to get beat up like that because he really didn't do anything and it wasn't intentional that he hit her with a ball," student Michael Bailey said.
"If I was there Ii would have told someone," student Emanuel Doughtery added.
"I wrote I hope he gets better soon," said student Katherine Saldarriga.
Muneton is recovering at Englewood Hospital. His brother told CBS 2 HD his condition is improving. The assistant principal said the youngster is a model student.
"He is a wonderful young man, actually one of our students who made the honor roll this quarter," Daniella Bailey said.
As these kids try to make sense of what happened all seven students arrested have been suspended. This coming as police was looking to charge four more teenagers.
Three of the students charged remain at the juvenile detention center in Paramus, while the rest have been released to their parents -- two of them required to wear ankle bracelets.
I would not be surprised if it was leftist hate-mongering behind this lopsided attack. You certain about the facts?
My wife’s entire family, brother, sister, parents, cousins,etc, are egalitarian liberals that support entitlements to the hilt, but not one of them has ever shown the slightest tilt toward violence.
“Most young black boys don’t exactly have the best role models.”
Black “liberation” theology doesn’t help either, does it?
“My wife’s entire family, brother, sister, parents, cousins,etc, are egalitarian liberals that support entitlements to the hilt, but not one of them has ever shown the slightest tilt toward violence.”
Maybe so, but the left’s leadership is dividing this country with hate-mongering.
And they lived happily ever after... Let me tell you how it goes in the 'Hood in the 4th largest school district in the nation, today. I've taught in the inner city for the last 15 years. Last year a teacher was jumped outside his classroom after school when he was tutoring kids on his own time to help them prep for the state mandated exams. He was jumped by an entire family of sorts: Crack addict mother, daughter and brother by different fathers. Brother was a golden gloves champ. They busted the teacher's jaw in three places. Happened right across from my room. I was out with the flu that day.
Another time I was out I got a frantic call on my cell from a buddy in another part of the building asking if I had a clear view of the bullet riddled body lying in the street outside my second floor class. They were on a code red lockdown and he wanted to know what I saw. He didn't know I was at home.
Then about three years ago, right across the street from school, one of my former students was ambling along the sidewalk with an AK47 (stock folded) when he caught sight of a member of an opposition gang headed his way. He dove into a barbershop. The Off Duty Cop in plainclothes thought the gang banger was there for HIM and as he tried to simultaneously dive to the floor from the chair AND draw from an ankle holster he got tangled up in the barber's sheet. The kid realized the weird customer was probably a cop and he darted out of the store. He was nabbed a block away with two full 30 rd mags in his ultra deep rear pockets and a round chambered in the AK.
I have a list of former students that I got from an article in the news. I had it laminated. They belonged to one of the most savage Haitian gangs in the area. It says which ones are dead, which are in prison and which of those are on death row. Before I laminated the article I put the results of MY interactions with them on each pic. Which ones I had expelled, or failed or in one rare case, which one got a decent grade in my class.
Most of the real hard cases still circle the school perimeter like sharks, looking for victims upon which to feed.
The ones I teach are for the most part smart, capable and really want to learn. They REALLY want to escape the 'Hood. Some of them are struggling with frightening situations at home. Alcoholic parents. One of my brightest just learned his dad is being sentenced to sixty five years in prison for drug dealing. This kid is so filled with grief and RAGE that he couldn't comprehend why. He said it in class, kind of yowling scream: It's not like he killed anybody! I had to get him to the TRUST counselor for some serious therapy.
I teach A.P. American Government. You should see the anger and RAGE that bubbles to the surface when the name Bush is raised. You should then see the angelic looks that Obama's name then engenders. He does more than walk on water for these kids. Nothing he does will ever cause them to turn on HIM. Nothing. To them he really is the Saviour. EXCEPT.... when you bring up his record on some certain issues. Most of these kids are also very devout Christians. They go to Bible studies and church dinners and they're involved in the youth groups. But they're also pretty well schooled in what goes and doesn't go when it comes to certain behaviors. For example, Gay marriage, adoption, or gay anything doesn't "go" for them. Same thing for abortion. None of them had ever heard of partial birth abortion. EVER. One kid went so far as to ask his own doctor about the procedure who denied it EVER was done. I went online and found a bunch of sources and a sequential series of hand drawn illustrations as to what happens and how often and I gave it to the kid to take to the doc with the admonition that I would promise to never practice medicine if the Doc promised to stay the Hell AWAY from social studies. I never heard another word from that kid or the Doc.
Every year, it's part of my job to sign kids who are eligible to vote. Universally, they choose democrat. Yet about 35% often will choose INDEPENDENT. To me that means they have really listened and not only learned but actually gone so far as to actually do that which I continually exhort them to do: CHECK IT ALL OUT ON THEIR OWN!
I make it clear at the start of the year that while I might have called myself a "Republican" since 1975, I'm a conservative that is about to resign from that party because it seems to have "UP" and left me! I affirm to them my own personal bottom line: I'm a Christian first and a conservative thereafter. That seems to resonate. I could go on and on, but this seems to be a good place to stop so I will. Here endeth the lesson.
If you mean the kind that is spawned by the constant spewing of lies by the news media, that tells black kids that the deck is stacked against them by 'whitey' and rich people, then you might be right.
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Yes Arthur, that is painfully obvious. But the majority still do not cave in to this kind of behavior. The violent ones have another axe to grind: pure demonic hate; the kind that comes when you yield control to another spirit than your own.
God bless you bullet-dodging teachers!
I personally think that violence is generally triggered by philosophies more than spirituality. Non-violent leftists often co-dependents or enablers of their violent brethren. Non-violent leftists tickle their ears and make excuses for them.
I'm not talking about the Libs compulsion to share other people's money with the underclass. I'm talking about the attitude (not limited to the underclass, but well represented there) that involves the belief that they are entitled to money, stuff, respect, whatever, without having done a thing to earn any of it.
A criminal can be defined as somebody who feels entitled to other people's property without any need to earn it.
That advice saved my bacon more then once growing up in LA.
btt
Aheh - you just made me choke on my tea (which I plan to exchange for a glass of wine in about 14 minutes when the cocktail hour starts).
Yeah, Black Liberation Theology.....yet another religion of peace.
Well, here is your first sentence and that’s what I was replying to:
“Kids looking for a fight will use ANYTHING as an excuse.”
But no matter. We agree it wasn’t a schoolyard “fight”.
11 on 1 does not a fight make. This was a race-based beat-down, no two ways about it. We have stand up and take the steps needed to put a stop to it.
Solid Ping for CW2.
Thanx.
Buddy, you’ve got a hard thankless job. Good to know there a few honest teachers out there not towing the “party line.”
Ditto.
All comments were done away with. All that’s left is the ditsy reporting.....the truth hurts
You oughtta rite a book!
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