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More info on the attack. They held him for 24 to 48 hours. He was tied up for 5 hours (beaten, mocked, threatened). His parents received a text asking for some type of ransom. When he was found, he was in shorts and tank top (in the cold Chicago winter), bloody and disoriented, walking down the street in such a way that the police knew something was wrong.

During the attack, the noise was so loud a downstairs neighbor complained and the 2 male attackers kicked in the neighbors door. That's when the victim was able to run out.

"I don't think this was evil."
- Don Lemon of CNN

 

I saw that segment by Don Lemon. CNN needs to fire him. To say it's not evil and blame the parents? No. And then we have the one lady in the segment saying we may not want to jump to conclusions that this is a hate crime. Dude. This is the definition of a hate crime. Just reverse the scenario and have 4 white kids abusing a disabled black boy and have him say the opposite towards black people and Obama or something. It would take all of 2 seconds to classify it as a hate crime. Here's the Don Lemon segment if interested. His "not evil" comment comes at about 3:25, but I'd watch the first lady talk as she's just about as infuriating.

 

^^^ one or two of them are adults. Past the point of blaming the parents. I'm confident they were taught, somewhere along the way, that stealing a van, kidnapping a mentally handicapped person, demanding ransom, beating, taunting, threatening, cutting, and making someone drink out of a toilet was wrong. And if they didn't learn any of that, I'm sure that Facebook told them not to live stream crimes.

Even the girl filming had a younger sister commenting that it wasn't cool and to stop.

Don Lemon should be fired.

 

I couldn't watch much. Despicable

 

This doesn't have to do with the police, but relates to those pieces of s*** that kidnapped and tortured that disabled white kid. About a year ago a group of white teens attacked and sodomized a black mentally disabled kid with a coat hangar causing rectal damage, and it seems this a****** is just going to get community service:

 

What the hell? How is that possible? Did he roll on the other 2 dudes and take a plea deal or something? I mean, how connected is the kid? How good at athletics is he? And the judge said he doesn't deserve to be treated like a sex offender? Why? If the kid would have shoved a foreign object up a girl's rear end, he would have certainly been labeled a sex offender. Was it just too violent or something that it ceased to be "rape" or something sexual?

I will say that part of the increased outrage with the black kids doing it to the white kid as opposed to this one is it was done on video where everyone SAW it. I'm in no way denying there is a racial aspect to this, but it's like the Ray Rice vs Greg Hardy situation. Greg Hardy absolutely annihilated his girl. Ray Rice through a punch, but that punch was caught on video so he became the poster child for domestic abuse. I have a feeling that if those kids would have been dumb enough to post the coat hanger thing on Facebook, there's no way he gets off with community service.

 

I'm shocked at how little coverage these incidents have gotten. Specifically the one that just happened though because it literally just happened. It happened live for everyone to see, literally, and yet these sorts of things are swept under the rug. The media never ceases to disgust me.

 

:MitchQFT:

 

Wag the dog.

 

Meant to post this a while ago.

 

I can't even watch that full video.

Yes that is f***ing racist, he would never do that if the races were reversed.

Just disgusting

 

That's an older case isn't it? What brought it back?

 

Got it. Interesting. I honestly did not connect the original video with race. I thought it was just an a**hole cop, but it looks worse the second time around.

 

Ok I'm open to listen. Why did he go to the white guy passing up the rest of the black people standing there?

Also, racist is just a specific type of a******. If I meet someone and they are rude, seem to talk down to their wife, hit their kids, whatever their type of a******, I wouldn't be surprised if they were racist too. Why is racist in a different catagory for you from all the other a****** qualities?

 

Davriver, I like you and respect the job you do and give leeway to your opinion in these matters because of your interactions on a daily basis, but I just can't understand how you don't view this as racism. Clear cut IMO