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Here is a white kid who played the knockout game with an old black man and it was a hate crime. Here
Investigators retrieved other videos from Barrett's phone, including some in which he uses racial epithets and talks about trying to work up the courage to play the knockout game, the complaint against him states. In one, Barrett says: "That plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?"
originally posted by: tsingtao
originally posted by: 3u40r15m
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
originally posted by: 3u40r15m
a reply to: Bassago
A few kids posted a few videos last year that's all it was.... Random assaults always have and always will happen. I doubt you would be saying anything if the girl was black and the guy was white....
A few?!?!? No, not a "few"; there are a LOT of these cases, and they are most certainly racially motivated.
Check this story - link - then check all the many, many links to the right, with story after story after story.
Yes, this is most certainly racial.
Idk I don't have the slightest interest in searching "knockout game" I've only seen it on the news twice the past few years that's what I'm going by. And this isn't a little kid punching someone. It's a grown man hitting a girl with a bat, which to me sounds like she did SOMETHING to piss him off... He went directly to her, so why make it about a game and throw race in it..... It is what it is. An assault...... Whoopty doo.... Next story plz....
was this vid as funny as the mom getting beaten in front of her kid?
hate crime will be decided by the prosecutor/state, not ats.
the dirtbag should get 5-15 anyway.
originally posted by: boncho
a reply to: 3u40r15m
Here is a white kid who played the knockout game with an old black man and it was a hate crime. Here
Nevermind that though, you can pull dozens of stories of young black thugs killing people either deliberately or by accident in petty robberies or over ego rages. And you barely ever see a hate crime tagged onto it.
Yet if there is white on black violence Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are singing from the rooftops.
I could care either way, if it's a heinous crime it should be treated as such and these people need to face severe consequences for senseless violence. I think we are all tired of special circumstances being added on to these cases, seeing them politicized and seeing unfair treatment because of skin colour.
Unfair treatment for victims that is.
originally posted by: 3u40r15m
originally posted by: boncho
a reply to: 3u40r15m
Here is a white kid who played the knockout game with an old black man and it was a hate crime. Here
Nevermind that though, you can pull dozens of stories of young black thugs killing people either deliberately or by accident in petty robberies or over ego rages. And you barely ever see a hate crime tagged onto it.
Yet if there is white on black violence Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are singing from the rooftops.
I could care either way, if it's a heinous crime it should be treated as such and these people need to face severe consequences for senseless violence. I think we are all tired of special circumstances being added on to these cases, seeing them politicized and seeing unfair treatment because of skin colour.
Unfair treatment for victims that is.
Why are you guys stuck on this knockout game and making it about race? READ.....They tell you pretty much what the deal was..... The point is a grown man hit a girl with a bat inside walmart, he needs to be put away for a while....And hopefully the girl recovers full. Sometimes I laugh when I see stuff like this in real life, but in reality it's not that funny, someone is getting hurt for no reason in some cases, and their lives aren't going to be the same again. PTSD is a b**** It's not fun.... But all you can do is make light of ANY situation life or death... I'd rather smile now and cry later...
originally posted by: Bassago
a reply to: Hr2burn
This is a black on white hate crime. Simple as that. The weasel speakers can try to make it sound like a random assault but it's simple hate. Give that bastard the electric chair and be done with it.
Victim identified in racially motivated baseball bat attack in Fort Smith Walmart. Fort Smith police say Corey Mosley, a black male, wanted to join a black street gang. These gangs often use racially motivated attacks on white people as initiations. topconservativenews.com...
Pearl police say a 13-year-old is in custody after randomly ambushing a woman at Walmart on Thursday night, striking her in the head with a small dumbbell. Pearl Detective Jake Windham said while the attack may have been influenced by “the Knockout Game” that has been a gang initiation across the coast, it doesn’t appear to be an actual “Knockout Game” attack.
www.clarionledger.com...
originally posted by: wantsome
$20,000 bond? THAT'S IT? OMG! The dude is going to be out jail in a year. This just sickens me. The video says he has schizophrenia and is off his medication. I have paranoid schizophrenia myself and I've been to the furthest reaches of insanity and back. After everything I went through with this illness I still knew right from wrong. The perpetrator in the video needs the be nailed to a tree and skinned alive.
originally posted by: RobertDeniro
Maybe someone can answer this, under the circumstances if a bystander had witnessed the event and picked up lets say a golf club and struck the perpetrator in the same fashion, would he be justified or liable? - Just curious what your thoughts are.