Regardless of who threw the first punch it’s absolutely insane that 15 guys jumped him afterwards.
One or two? Maybe even three? I’d understand. But 15? They knew from the get go that he had absolutely no chance to defend himself.
It wasn’t about making someone find out that they ■■■■■■ around. It was a classic case of a gang beating. Only gangbangers jump people like that with such overwhelming numbers.
You keep posting about their skin color like I care how tan they are. The source you posted said the kid who died threw the first punch, and I see nothing in the videos to contradict that.
Now I will say this. Even though I do not believe race really played a role in this gang beating (they’d have done a black kid the exact same way) I will say that based solely on the optics of it we must treat it as a racial incident. It’s impossible to separate the optics from the racial mix involved.
It’s really really bad. These little piss ants make life harder for the rest of us people of color. Because they played right into the stereotypes we have fought against for decades.
It makes me sick. I would support every single one of them who participated being taken out behind a courthouse and shot after a guilty verdict. I don’t care about their ages. They were man enough to kill another person with their bare hands. They should be treated like adult males in the sentencing.
The OP doesn’t make that assertion. That’s your projection.
From the OP:
Hardly an assertion. And whether or not the victim threw the first punch, the question still stands because of the optics of the savagery.
Suggesting that it can’t be a hate crime because the victim may have started it actually IS defending the killers – at a minimum, from the implications of the question asking if this might be considered a hate crime.
lol, okay. The OP asserted it might be considered a hate crime. A hate crime is determined by motive, which in this case appears to be a punch, not race. So not a hate crime, just regular crime.
No, it doesn’t. It asks a question. That’s indicated by the curly thing at the end of what you quoted.
Gaslight? Never knew that’s what calling out someone’s blatant error was called.
You were blatantly wrong, both to defend the thugs, and then to make the falsehood about what was said in the OP in an attempt to cover for the savagery you tried to soften. Try as you might, that’s not my problem. Smarten up, lib.
Funny that you didn’t include the quote. The OP asks a question that I responded to. You should try it instead of posting about me.
The dead guy threw the first punch according to the OP’s source. If acknowledging facts is defending thugs, then so be it. I can live with your outrage.