Posted on 06/12/2022 4:21:40 PM PDT by grundle
A photo of the SPLATRBALL Water Bead Blaster gel gun found at the scene.Courtesy of the Akron Police Department.
Ethan Liming, 17, was killed after he and a group of juveniles targeted people with a water gun.
Three adult males were arrested on murder and felonious assault charges in connection with Liming's death.
Police said the juveniles "provoked the altercation" but that the attack was not "remotely justified."
An Ohio teenager was beaten to death after he and a group of teenagers shot at people with a water gun, police said.
Authorities were called to the scene of a fight at the I Promise School established by LeBron James' foundation on June 2 at 10:46 p.m., Akron Police Department Chief Stephen Mylett said.
When officers arrived, they found 17-year-old Ethan Liming lying on the ground in the parking lot, unresponsive. They tried to render aid, but Liming was pronounced dead on the scene, Mylett said.
"Ethan Liming lost his life in a senseless act of violence. Ethan did not deserve to die Saturday night. He did not," Mylett said in a press conference.
According to preliminary interviews conducted by police, Mylett said Liming was among a group of four juveniles who arrived in the lot near the basketball courts.
"Shortly after their arrival, they got out of their vehicle, and at least two members of occupants of the vehicle started discharging a, what we know now to be a SPLATRBALL Water Bead Blaster," Mylett said. "They started discharging it at the direction of four individuals who were playing basketball on the basketball court."
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>> Just doing what they do...
Having lived and worked in Africa, a comment: Watch the Montreal, Canada based comedy group - Just For Laughs Gags. Pranks are often pulled on blacks. But in this case they are, for the most part, French speaking African immigrants. Compared to American blacks, there’s a big difference in how they respond.
My comment? We don’t have a problem race, we have a violence prone subculture, all generated post LBJ’s “Great Society” programs.
Some folks wouldn’t wait to see what’s coming out of a gun pointed at them, you get my drift?
Never point a gun at something you don’t intend to shoot.
From the SplatRBall website: “WARNING: Do not take SplatRBall Blasters to any school or federal properties. Do not aim at or blast people or animals. Do not brandish or paint SplatRBall blasters to look like a firearm.”
That’s the problem with kids these days, they never read the instructions…
Ha! I sometimes ask myself if I really did the things I remember doing when I was a kid. The answer, I’m afraid, is yes.
I have family who spent years in Africa. They say the same thing. They lived in a rural area that was 99.9% black. They said the black men there would never tolerate American Ghetto Behavior.
Take the gun and stomp it.
He didn’t know how to use it properly, so that would have
been reasoned to me. No need to pound the guy. He’d get
the message.
Oh my, this is sad and so awful. Nothing this kid did deserved what was done to him. I feel very sad for your loss.
No, I don’t have a link. I think it has been mentioned more than once on Free Republic.
I am very sorry if this was your nephew. The friends who left him were punks. The thugs who beat him were/are chimp animals who need to be put down like the feral animals they are. I worked with ‘kids’ like this for three years and attempted to give them the education they were supposedly capable of getting. They weren’t.
I don’t fall for the BLM crap, by the way. They don’t matter any more than any other color. And I despise how thug culture is revered by our youth now — they’re able to act like “men” whereas caucasian youth must be submissive because of “justice”.
Why does that one guy have a string mop on his head? Is that some sort of disguise?
I have known quite a few real Africans living in America. They are nothing like the ghetto breed. Real Africans are ambitious, law abiding, hard working, striving for the American dream. Real Africans are appalled by the so called "African-American".
First guess...
The teenage victim is white.
The three men who killed him are not white.
If the reverse were true, this would be the lead story on every English language news channel and news website in the world.
Second guess...
The Political Left and MSM are praying this murder will result in violent reprisals by white people.
Coming soon...
Minimum age to purchase a Gel Gun raised to 21.
I am so sorry for your family and the loss. This should be prosecuted as a hate crime with appropriate additions to the sentences if guilty.
Yep it’s obvious they took this as a green light to murder a white kid. I am sorry for your loss.
Did he just drop the N word casually the same way rappers do? Or did the kid your talking about call someone it in a derogatory way?
I hope we all realize that if he had pulled this same trick on a cop the cop would have shot him to death without any second thought.
If a black kid pulled this on a cop the cop would have shot him to death also.
Getting involved in this altercation was very stupid. And the dead kid was the one who started the altercation.
Of course they shouldn’t have beaten him that badly, but if they had stopped at a broken nose, two black eyes and maybe a broken arm I would be thinking “he got what he deserved”.
He's right! Those 3 "yutes" would have blown away anyone.
Regards,
In the same breathe...RELEASED!
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