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To: cuban leaf

the death penalty?! are you serious?

Involuntary manslaughter at most.

It’s was a kids fight. Any fight can inadvertently lead to a death, and face it, kids get in fights all the time.


3 posted on 03/06/2013 5:27:56 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It’s was a kids fight. Any fight can inadvertently lead to a death, and face it, kids get in fights all the time.

Fight?
Two kids jump another kid and beat him? That is not a fight. That is assault. That it was black on white it was possibly a hate crime. It certainly was premeditated. This all certainly increases the required punishment. Though I personally would be against the death penalty for anyone under 16 at this time.


6 posted on 03/06/2013 5:33:24 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
First news reports describe the victim as being "jumped."

Now that he has died, they are very careful to now call it a "fight."

Let me ask you how many white 12 year-old kids in public schools are going to start a fight, by himself, with two black kids?

Apparently, though, the incident was caught on tape. Let's hope it's not conveniently lost or "damaged."

7 posted on 03/06/2013 5:41:29 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

the death penalty?! are you serious?

Involuntary manslaughter at most.

It’s was a kids fight. Any fight can inadvertently lead to a death, and face it, kids get in fights all the time.


I don’t see it as a kids thing. I was a kid. I remember “kids thing” fights”. There was never a risk of even serious injury. When two people gang up on another person and beat him to death, that screams “death penalty” to me. But I have a higher standard for human conduct than our modern society.

What do you think would have happened to these two boys 200 years ago, regardless of race? I’m very old school when it comes to justice.

Of course, this is all just my opinion, and I know it conflicts with modern opinions, but I side with Albert Einstein: “What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.”


12 posted on 03/06/2013 5:47:26 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“It’s was a kids fight. Any fight can inadvertently lead to a death, and face it, kids get in fights all the time.”

I hope you’re being sarcastic.


13 posted on 03/06/2013 5:48:10 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: TexasFreeper2009

the death penalty?! are you serious?

Involuntary manslaughter at most.

It’s was a kids fight. Any fight can inadvertently lead to a death, and face it, kids get in fights all the time.


And to be more blunt about it, my comment to these kids right after they are convicted and sentenced to death would be, “You took another human’s life. Our culture values human life to the extent that we show it by requiring the life of anyone who would intentionally take it. I hope and pray that you get right with the Lord before that happens. I would like to see you in paradise.”

and I sincerely mean that. This life is a mist. Most of what is “important” now will be of no consequece whatsoever in the hereafter.


15 posted on 03/06/2013 5:50:20 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
It’s was a kids fight.

Yeah -- that's what the media called what Trayvon Martin was doing to Zimmerman's head as he was bashing it into the concrete. Ohhh they were just having a fight. BS

This was no fight. It was an assault -- and not just an assault but two Trayvon wannabees ganging up on one smaller kid.

17 posted on 03/06/2013 5:55:14 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Two against one is not a child fight.... It’s attempted murder...We have to treat crime as a crime. These two knew right from wrong. They choose wrong. If this was a black kid beaten to death by two white boys,it would be an Obama racist rant on TV. Being a white boy.... Forget about it....


18 posted on 03/06/2013 5:59:46 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Two on one?
Baby mama and her spawn would not be long for the world.


20 posted on 03/06/2013 6:04:03 AM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
It’s was a kids fight. Any fight can inadvertently lead to a death, and face it, kids get in fights all the time.

Yes, it was a kids' fight and I witnessed them as a boy. The difference is that, given his injuries, this boy in all likelihood was knocked to the ground by a punch or punches (the broken nose resulting), whereupon he was kicked repeatedly in the head. This is speculative but it is based on first-hand observation of the MO of thugs such as these. It's what they do.

27 posted on 03/06/2013 6:10:41 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It takes two to fight! The boy Bailey refused to fight, he tried to walk away. One of the boys pushed Bailey into the one who beat the snot out of him to instigate the fight. They BOTH beat him about the head, broke his nose and caused a concussion!


44 posted on 03/06/2013 6:45:33 AM PST by panthermom (Pray for our troops!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

That’s their tough luck. I am tired of open season on white kids. I am fine with the death penalty for these oxygen wasters


46 posted on 03/06/2013 6:54:07 AM PST by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing --- Joe Pine)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Kids don't fight one on one any longer.

A pack will stalk & jump their victim, usually beginning with a sucker punch. Then the pack descends, punching, kicking, stomping; using whatever they can find to use as a weapon.

This ain't your old school dust-up. ...ever heard of the "Knock-Out" game?

47 posted on 03/06/2013 6:54:19 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: TexasFreeper2009

If you tolerate this, your children will be next. This was no fight, the dead boy didn’t have any chance to fight back.


49 posted on 03/06/2013 7:00:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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