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Aspiring doctor brain dead after friends pushed him into lake knowing he can’t swim
NY Post ^ | May 4, 2024 | Katherine Donlevy

Posted on 05/05/2024 11:25:31 AM PDT by xxqqzz

An aspiring medical student was left brain dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Louisiana; US: New York
KEYWORDS: christophergilbert; farmerville; katherinedonlevy; lake; lakedarbonne; louisiana; manslaughter; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost
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To: unread
Sounds like he wasn't the only one in that bunch that was brain dead...

… nor couldn’t swim.

21 posted on 05/05/2024 12:45:35 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: xxqqzz

Charges and lawsuits. Who raised those lunkheads???


22 posted on 05/05/2024 12:46:03 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: rod5591

It is well known that most have a hard time floating due to lack of body fat, being mostly muscle. You seldom see blacks competing in water sports.


23 posted on 05/05/2024 12:48:16 PM PDT by TStro (God created everyone equal. Samuel Colt made them polite)
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To: nwrep
Were his friends also African Americans like him?

You can bet if they were white, this would be the Top Story on the news and Biden would already be blaming it on Trump.

24 posted on 05/05/2024 12:51:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jimwatx

Our son learned to swim at the same time he was learning to walk. We went to the local YMCA every Saturday morning for lessons.


25 posted on 05/05/2024 1:03:08 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: jimwatx

In Florida we teach the kids to swim as soon as they can walk.
Way to much open water here


26 posted on 05/05/2024 1:09:17 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: TigerClaws
"valuing it as a skill or sport."

This is it. Has nothing to do with economics, body fat or access. Urban pools, in many areas, are exclusively black, they having driven every other race out through sexual assaults on women and girls and general violence, criminality and mayhem. Swimming, like education, is a "White" thing and, hence, frowned upon and avoided. Also, it takes discipline, effort and focus. Othe "White" things to be avoided. My Father taught my brother, 5 years old and me, at 4, to swim. He took us out, in a canoe, to the middle of a lake, threw us in and paddled back to shore. We learned to swim and made it back. Getting out of the burlap sack was the hard part!😁😉

27 posted on 05/05/2024 1:17:17 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: TigerClaws
I guess it’s low body fat = harder to float.

A goodly fraction of welfare kangs and kaweens are morbidly obese.

They make Stacy Abrams look svelte!

(Until I lost 85 lbs I never worried about drowning, fat floats!)

28 posted on 05/05/2024 1:19:59 PM PDT by null and void (Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you, except our side, of course!)
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To: xxqqzz

With friends like that...


29 posted on 05/05/2024 1:20:33 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Eagles6
Getting out of the burlap sack was the hard part!😁😉

Good thing you had your pocket knives on you...

30 posted on 05/05/2024 1:22:29 PM PDT by null and void (Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you, except our side, of course!)
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To: xxqqzz

It’s not true that the guy’s “friends” did nothing. They filmed him drowning.


31 posted on 05/05/2024 1:25:27 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: nwrep
Were his friends also African Americans like him?

Apparently, the young women who pushed him into the lake was white, which probably explains why she didn't know that he couldn't swim.

Had she been black, she would've known perfectly that he couldn't swim.

32 posted on 05/05/2024 1:32:37 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: null and void

Exactly!
Actually, out in the country, all the boys got a pocket knife, when young.
Sort of a rite of passage.
Girls got them, too, but rarely carried them, unless doing farm work.


33 posted on 05/05/2024 2:04:25 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: xxqqzz
Terrible reporting. "Brain dead" people can't use a computer. Clown journalism.


34 posted on 05/05/2024 2:07:44 PM PDT by montag813
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To: xxqqzz

He also wanted to be an astronaut....


35 posted on 05/05/2024 2:10:27 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (What did Socialists use before candles? Electricity)
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To: Rennes Templar

Yeah, right? What kind of friends are these anyway? More like a bunch of assholes.


36 posted on 05/05/2024 2:11:00 PM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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To: jimwatx
Horrible story but I agree that every child should be taught to swim at an early age.

I can't even remember when I couldn't swim. I was always able to be in water over my head with no jeopardy whatsoever of drowning as I could easily stay afloat.

37 posted on 05/05/2024 2:11:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: montag813

I’m trying to remember if I ever saw Biden use a computer.


38 posted on 05/05/2024 2:13:31 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Angelino97

It’s very strange.

The same media that convinced 83% of zDems that Trump is Russia, called riots peaceful, write of men turning into women and collude and conspire to rig elections is full of Marxists dividing the nation pushing racist crud is very strange.

From capital letters to future astronauts and purposely omitting race, it’s even stranger that Pres Trump manages to treat everyone with respect and dignity until given reason to change course.

By strange and stranger, I mean 100% expected.


39 posted on 05/05/2024 2:17:23 PM PDT by Freest Republican
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To: Keyhopper

My wife taught swimming most of her life as a certified instructor. She taught the instructors how to teach swimming. As our friends and neighbors were having kids she would go to their homes and teach “drown proofing” to the kids starting around 6 months. If they didn’t have a pool or it was too cold she would use a bathtub.


40 posted on 05/05/2024 2:48:41 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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