I would be very surprised if this isn’t gang or race related. But then, I’m a bit cynical.
So how come this isn’t a “hate” crime?
My grandad experienced the same thing in NYC when he was growing up ... five kids constantly beat up on him ... this was in 1948 or so ... from his pictures he was just a little skinny kid .... so there’s no difference ....bet it goes way back in history ...
In this day and age, I’m afraid not. I’d be interested to know the race of the attackers, though.
There were high school students mixed in too, and who knows what affiliations actually are in this day and age. There may have been some gang cretans mixed in.
This girl should be real proud. I hope she gets a matching sentence with the worst of the lot.
This was attempted murder, premeditation or not.
I respectfully disagree. I grew up in the inner city and it happened all the time. I am now 67 and still have tension when I see a group of teenagers approach me.
I could take a guess, but then I’d be branded a racist.
If so, we seriously need some vigilante justice in our society. The balance is completely out-of-kilter. Hatred runs rampant with no fear of consequences.
If Convicted the 11 should be executed.
Don't expect the MSM to report that. The article is so squishy, it says the school regrets something "happened" to the kid who was maimed.
"Happened" - like he slipped and fell in the bathroom.
Sigh.
Well, I expect Erich Holder to prosecute the white victim for accidentally hitting the black girl with a basketball.
Not the first time we have seen this kind of crime in school or school buses.
Maybe there is more. But it sounds as if the girl probably was very good looking, and probably got the boys together and lied about what happened to her earlier, and persuaded them to “get” him. Then they got carried away.
That is, if it’s not some sort of racial incident.
I would like to see the race of the attackers.
Raised as trash, no one should be surprised when they act like trash.
Amish kids?
My guess: Nerdy kid who was a bit of an outcast let a basketball get away from him in gym class. It hit a girl with some friends in a rough crowd who didn’t like him anyway. His apology wasn’t contrite enough, so she went to her friends (mortified at what the “creepy” did) and they said they’d take care of it if she would go with them to point him out.
Oh I don’t know.. the society at schools very much resembles the way prison society functions. When you have nor freedom of association due to incarceration (also known as compulsory attendance), whether in school or prison, the good are not able to escape from the bad. This sort of thing happens frequently in schools, particularly government schools.
Kids looking for a fight will use ANYTHING as an excuse.
You don’t have to have done anything. I know, this threat happened to me sometimes when I was in Jr Hight in the sixties. I would leave the last class early, never did get jumped. And I’m a girl. But I did know someone who was beat up alot in high school. Just for being white.
You don’t even have to lay one finger on them for ‘them’ to get “wee-wee-ed up”.
I live in New Jersey. Englewood is a dump.
This a situation where the men in community need to step forward and take control of the neighborhood. If there are bad families, give them 24 hours to leave, after the guilty are indicted.
Boys need men to properly grow and become men themselves.
Can’t help but wonder what is NOT being reported.....