College student shot and killed by teens who were "bored"

Guitar92player

So sad and pathetic

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/justice/a ... killed930a

Nami

just reading/watching this BS on cnn. So sad....wtf ?

hedonist

Read about this earlier. That poor young man, and his family.

What the fuck is wrong with people to have such disregard for life?

Something tells me the neighborhood animals have experienced the boredom of these "teens" - whom I hope are tried as adults.

Guitar92player

hedonist wrote:

Something tells me the neighborhood animals have experienced the boredom of these "teens" - whom I hope are tried as adults.

Hopefully the judge and jury will be bored and just give them life in prison. :roll:

pjsyco

Guitar92player wrote:

So sad and pathetic

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/justice/a ... killed930a

I wonder if Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will protest this shooting?! I wouldn't hold my breath.

PJ51390

pjsyco wrote:

Guitar92player wrote:

So sad and pathetic

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/justice/a ... killed930a

I wonder if Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will protest this shooting?! I wouldn't hold my breath.

Absolutely agree, they will stay far from this!

THE LOOK

Is this not a hate crime?

PJ51390

THE LOOK wrote:

Is this not a hate crime?

I can't see how if the roles were reversed, it wouldn't be considered. And they would be tried as adults with no questions asked. Should be interesting to see how this goes.

MotoDC

PJ51390 wrote:

THE LOOK wrote:

Is this not a hate crime?

I can't see how if the roles were reversed, it wouldn't be considered. And they would be tried as adults with no questions asked. Should be interesting to see how this goes.

While I agree there is a double standard regarding "hate crimes", let us not get too carried away with decrying the injustice of the legal system towards whites. We have it pretty good.

PJ51390

MotoDC wrote:

PJ51390 wrote:

THE LOOK wrote:

Is this not a hate crime?

I can't see how if the roles were reversed, it wouldn't be considered. And they would be tried as adults with no questions asked. Should be interesting to see how this goes.

While I agree there is a double standard regarding "hate crimes", let us not get too carried away with decrying the injustice of the legal system towards whites. We have it pretty good.

I should have been more clear, I am not saying anything about our justice system. I am speaking of the public court of opinion when the unfortunate face of a lot of the public outcry and "reasoning" comes from the likes of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton.

MotoDC

PJ51390 wrote:

MotoDC wrote:

While I agree there is a double standard regarding "hate crimes", let us not get too carried away with decrying the injustice of the legal system towards whites. We have it pretty good.

I should have been more clear, I am not saying anything about our justice system. I am speaking of the public court of opinion when the unfortunate face of a lot of the public outcry and "reasoning" comes from the likes of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton.

Ah ok fair enough. My bad. Yeah you're right there's zero chance Jackson and Sharpton have anything to say about this.

Cosmo

PJ51390 wrote:

I should have been more clear, I am not saying anything about our justice system. I am speaking of the public court of opinion when the unfortunate face of a lot of the public outcry and "reasoning" comes from the likes of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton.

...
That is one of the problems in America... The court of public opinion. That court is filled with jesters and fools and no one should listen to nor care what they have to say.
Let the courts sort that shit out.

Gern Blansten

pjsyco wrote:

Guitar92player wrote:

So sad and pathetic

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/justice/a ... killed930a

I wonder if Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will protest this shooting?! I wouldn't hold my breath.

I would think that if these kids were not arrested and allowed to remain free then yes Jackson and Sharpton probably would have something to say.

They were arrested. If you're trying to compare this to Trayvon Martin's death you are really way off base.

Guitar92player

Gern Blansten wrote:

pjsyco wrote:

Guitar92player wrote:

So sad and pathetic

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/20/justice/a ... killed930a

I wonder if Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will protest this shooting?! I wouldn't hold my breath.

I would think that if these kids were not arrested and allowed to remain free then yes Jackson and Sharpton probably would have something to say.

They were arrested. If you're trying to compare this to Trayvon Martin's death you are really way off base.

agreed

hedonist

THE LOOK wrote:

Is this not a hate crime?

The article I read didn't mention anything about the race of the perpetrators. Honestly, I didn't even think about it until the issue was raised here. I just saw it as a supremely fucked up and sad situation.

But even if they are/were black, does that automatically deem this a hate crime? Strikes me as more of a stupid, pointless act committed by three useless (so far, it seems, anyway) teenagers.

This is the problem I have with the term "hate crime". Yes, it's hateful but then how many crimes aren't?

Different races possibly being involved doesn't automatically equate to it being ABOUT race. At least, not to me.

Guitar92player

hedonist wrote:

THE LOOK wrote:

Is this not a hate crime?

The article I read didn't mention anything about the race of the perpetrators. Honestly, I didn't even think about it until the issue was raised here. I just saw it as a supremely fucked up and sad situation.

But even if they are/were black, does that automatically deem this a hate crime? Strikes me as more of a stupid, pointless act committed by three useless (so far, it seems, anyway) teenagers.

This is the problem I have with the term "hate crime". Yes, it's hateful but then how many crimes aren't?

Different races possibly being involved doesn't automatically equate to it being ABOUT race. At least, not to me.

agreed

Like I said in the other thread regarding this issue, I just think when people bring up race it brings out some minimal racism itself (no offense to those). This situation is just fucked up, no need to bring race into it. Historically white people show racism towards blacks more than blacks show towards whites, or at least this is how I see it. If this case was the other way around (where 3 whites shot one black), yes it might spark more outrage, but not in the extreme that Trayvon's case was. The three black teens who did this were arrested. Justice was done, no more needs to be said. If it was three white teens and they were arrested, the same justice has been done.

g under p

hedonist wrote:

THE LOOK wrote:

Is this not a hate crime?

The article I read didn't mention anything about the race of the perpetrators. Honestly, I didn't even think about it until the issue was raised here. I just saw it as a supremely fucked up and sad situation.

But even if they are/were black, does that automatically deem this a hate crime? Strikes me as more of a stupid, pointless act committed by three useless (so far, it seems, anyway) teenagers.

This is the problem I have with the term "hate crime". Yes, it's hateful but then how many crimes aren't?

Different races possibly being involved doesn't automatically equate to it being ABOUT race. At least, not to me.

I agree, from what I read from the article these appear to say they were setting out to "kill somebody". The article didn't say lets go kill this white guy, they appeared to kill the first random guy they came across. Also yes I believe there's usually some hate involved in killing someone....one it seems has to ratchet up their anger to reach the level to end another persons life.

Peace

Loulou

That poor young fella. :( Absolutely disgusting!

jasonbouchard88

:evil: That is sickening and pathetic. I am really glad that these poor excuses of human teenagers will be tried as "adults". Killing someone "just because" is the most pathetic reason I have ever heard when it comes to a motive of murdering someone. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of that Australian victim.

lukin2006

These three are just a bunch human crap ...

RIP Christopher Lane

Hugh Freaking Dillon

lock them away until they die.