Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid
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I don't understand this sort of behavior...it's sickening and sad...
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/article/20070620/APA/706200736
Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid
The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas | A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday.
Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said.
The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police spokeswoman Toni Chovonetz said she had no further information, including how many people were involved.
The driver was able to get away is cooperating with investigators, police said.
Juneteenth marks the day Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in 1865 to share news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863.
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/article/20070620/APA/706200736
Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid
The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas | A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday.
Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said.
The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police spokeswoman Toni Chovonetz said she had no further information, including how many people were involved.
The driver was able to get away is cooperating with investigators, police said.
Juneteenth marks the day Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston in 1865 to share news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves two years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863.
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Sure we as humans are closer to a god then to an animal. Not!You've changed your place in this world!0
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This is horrible. Makes me ashamed to be a human and a Texan.0
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Thats sickening.Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V0
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This is just fucking ridiculous.0
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even flow? wrote:Sure we as humans are closer to a god then to an animal. Not!
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Death Penalty for the whole crowd. A few of them are bound to be guilty so it'll even out in the end.0
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Look at all the hatred when it's a government/atheist based celebration. Most of the worlds ills are due to governments/atheists. Does this murder count as a sacrifice made to the government and atheists??????“One good thing about music,
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
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All those death penalty supporters will be proud....The only people we should try to get even with...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.0 -
What in the holy hell are you talking about?surferdude wrote:Look at all the hatred when it's a government/atheist based celebration. Most of the worlds ills are due to governments/atheists. Does this murder count as a sacrifice made to the government and atheists??????
As for the crowd, I hope they're able to identify each and every "beater" and punish them accordingly. Oh, and the driver should probably be cited too. He did hit a kid after all.0 -
surferdude wrote:Look at all the hatred when it's a government/atheist based celebration. Most of the worlds ills are due to governments/atheists. Does this murder count as a sacrifice made to the government and atheists??????
what are you talking about?
P.S. This is perfect example of why emotion should not be used when considering "justice". Whenever it involves a child people are going to immediately become blindly furious. They killed the passenger for fucks sake, not even the motherfucker driving the car!0 -
RainDog wrote:What in the holy hell are you talking about?
As for the crowd, I hope they're able to identify each and every "beater" and punish them accordingly. Oh, and the driver should probably be cited too. He did hit a kid after all.
Well, they can't really prove he was going to leave until a group of people with death in their heads started to move on him.0 -
Wow.... horrible.... but I dont want yall to think this is how Texans are.Cincinnati. 6.24.06 Portland. 7.20.06 Gorge I. 7.22.06 London. 6.18.07
Lollapalooza. 8.5.07 West Palm Beach. 6.11.08 Bonnaroo. 6.14.08
Hartford. Mansfield.
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IlovveePJ wrote:Wow.... horrible.... but I dont want yall to think this is how Texans are.
I don't. I think this is how humans are.0 -
We all know that if this was an Easter Parade and the same thing happened I'd have to put up with all th ebullshit posts about how bad religion is and how what hypocrites they all are. Well here's a non-religious event and the outcome.RainDog wrote:What in the holy hell are you talking about?“One good thing about music,
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
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Kind of a strange story, isn't it? That the crowd killed the passenger and not the driver? IMO it looks like this crowd let their emotions run amok. What a shame... on a personal level, at least.
The worst part of this whole story, however, is the reaction of the posters in this thread. Somehow Vedderlution has the gall to ask for the death penalty. Strange, for sure. Vedderlution is condemning emotions run amok, yet he's guilty of it just as much as the attacker(s) in the crowd.
"How dare they let their emotions run amok! They deserve to die!" I hope I'm not the only one who findss irony in that.0 -
It's really sad.Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:I don't. I think this is how humans are.Cincinnati. 6.24.06 Portland. 7.20.06 Gorge I. 7.22.06 London. 6.18.07
Lollapalooza. 8.5.07 West Palm Beach. 6.11.08 Bonnaroo. 6.14.08
Hartford. Mansfield.
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Alex_Coe wrote:Kind of a strange story, isn't it? That the crowd killed the passenger and not the driver? IMO it looks like this crowd let their emotions run amok. What a shame... on a personal level, at least.
The worst part of this whole story, however, is the reaction of the posters in this thread. Somehow Vedderlution has the gall to ask for the death penalty. Strange, for sure. Vedderlution is condemning emotions run amok, yet he's guilty of it just as much as the attacker(s) in the crowd.
"How dare they let their emotions run amok! They deserve to die!" I hope I'm not the only one who findss irony in that.
My post was complete sarcasm. I am totally against the death penalty. It's my fault for refusing to use smilies. But trust me, I wish there was no death penalty at all.0 -
Nope, sorry. Still don't know what you're talking about. Bad Religion's a kick ass band, though.surferdude wrote:We all know that if this was an Easter Parade and the same thing happened I'd have to put up with all th ebullshit posts about how bad religion is and how what hypocrites they all are. Well here's a non-religious event and the outcome.0 -
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