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Civil rights activists remain silent on Florida school bus beating video
Fox ^ | 8/7/2013

Posted on 08/08/2013 5:27:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

A viral video showing the beating of a 13-year-old white boy by three African-American youths in Florida has left hundreds of thousands of viewers horrified, but critics say the case doesn't seem to be attracting much sympathy from self-styled civil rights activists.

In the chilling video, three 15-year-old boys repeatedly beat and kick a victim police said was left with a broken arm and two black eyes.

Although Florida came under fire in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting and George Zimmerman's acquittal by activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson - who called it an "apartheid state" - neither has spoken publicly about the bus incident. But one reason the case has not become as racially charged as other attacks may be that many news outlets have either not shown the first few seconds, before the victim goes down behind a seat, and others blur out his face to the point his race is no longer apparent.

The bus driver, 64-year-old John Moody, can be heard frantically calling a radio dispatcher for help, although he was criticized in some quarters for not physically intervening.

"No, you've got to get somebody here quick, quick, quick," Moody pleads on his phone as the assailants take turns landing windmill punches and vicious kicks on the cowering victim. "They about to beat this boy to death over here."

"They about to beat this boy to death over here." - Florida bus driver John Moody

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: assault; blackkk; florida; gangs; georgezimmerman; schoolbus; trayvonmartin
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1 posted on 08/08/2013 5:27:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

Should’ve just pulled a gun and shot them.


2 posted on 08/08/2013 5:28:35 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: NRA1995

I saw that video - it enrages me.

I pray that the boy makes a full recovery.


3 posted on 08/08/2013 5:29:24 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Altura Ct.

Of course they do.

They are more likely to protest and be upset of the perps are arrested.


4 posted on 08/08/2013 5:29:40 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Altura Ct.

SPJNK.


5 posted on 08/08/2013 5:34:57 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: GeronL

Driver should have driven straight to the police station.


6 posted on 08/08/2013 5:35:53 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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Yes. I bet he would have been fired though


7 posted on 08/08/2013 5:36:46 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Altura Ct.

Can’t say we weren’t warned about this sort of thing years and years ago....


8 posted on 08/08/2013 5:36:57 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Altura Ct.

Why aren’t this boys parents on any news coverage...not even on Fox? The worthless Black school bus driver wasn’t involved at al because he was afraid of getting hurt.

Having a young White boy ride that bus with the drug-dealing thugs from the hood is asking for abuse, and the school district and its taxpayers ought to be sued for this.


9 posted on 08/08/2013 5:38:34 AM PDT by txrefugee
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“Yes. I bet he would have been fired though”

I read that he quit a few days later. Forced?


10 posted on 08/08/2013 5:39:07 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Probably got the blame for embarrassing the school district.


11 posted on 08/08/2013 5:40:13 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Altura Ct.

Validating stereotypes.


12 posted on 08/08/2013 5:41:18 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: GeronL
They are more likely to protest and be upset of the perps are arrested.

I never considered myself racist, but under the current definition, i.e. if you see reality without any care of color, then I must be a racist.

We will never see the race pimps, jesse and al and posses denounce these vicious bastards.

13 posted on 08/08/2013 5:41:30 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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To: txrefugee
Why aren’t this boys parents on any news coverage

Is this getting any TV news attention? I doubt the MSM would want to show this video or talk about this case.

14 posted on 08/08/2013 5:42:25 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Altura Ct.

They don’t care about white kids.

How long have we lived here watching black killings and gangs and watching jobs given to incompetents to soothe the black hoards, and still we do not recognize that Civil Rights does not mean Civil Rights for everyone but only special rights for blacks.

The same way that rights given to Homosexuals do not mean Civil Rights for Everyone but only special rights for Homosexuals.


15 posted on 08/08/2013 5:44:04 AM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: GeronL

They should the story on a local news station here in Jacksonville the other night.

Be that as it may, the punks are now in the hands of the JUVI system. IOW, slap on wrist and back out on the street. I would hope that a parent of that student accosts them with a shotgun as they leave the school bus in the near future. I am due for jury duty...I can send in my vote on this one and even make it an absentee ballot.


16 posted on 08/08/2013 5:46:57 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Altura Ct.

My neighbor is a coach and teacher in our local middle school. Two GIRLS got into a fight, he tried to intervene. They turned on him an very nearly beat him to death. He is white, the girls black.


17 posted on 08/08/2013 5:47:38 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (")
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To: txrefugee

The worthless bus driver didn’t get involved, even after the thugs left, because he was afraid of being called an Uncle Tom.


18 posted on 08/08/2013 5:48:34 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Altura Ct.

Those three weren’t African Americans, jerks like that deserve the “N” word.


19 posted on 08/08/2013 5:52:21 AM PDT by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
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To: Altura Ct.
Civil rights activists remain silent on Florida school bus beating

Civil rights activists give tacit approval of Florida school bus beating.

20 posted on 08/08/2013 5:52:50 AM PDT by windsorknot (>>>)
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