Apparently beating the living crap out of someone -- twice -- then having a videotape of said beating circulate on the Interwebz isn't enough to warrant a guilty plea.
A judge released the teen -- who has not been named because he's a juvenile -- to his father's custody on the condition that he stay home except to attend court-ordered evaluations and go to school. (Let's hope he's not taking the bus!)
After his son was charged on Friday, Joe Fischer, the boy's father, told the Belleville News-Democrat that there was "no basis for an assault charge."
Hmm. One wonders if Fischer has seen the widely available video of his son repeatedly punching another student in the face.
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The other revelation that came this morning in the case is that the prosecutor claimed the second assailant charged in the incident, a fifteen-year-old, flashed gang signs after the attack.
Daily RFT has contacted assistant U.S. Attorney William Clay, the St. Clair County prosecutor handling the case, to clarify what gang signs were flashed. See for yourself in the video, about a minute and 45 seconds into it.
Check back on this post for updates when we get them.
In the meantime here are the links to the coverage of this morning's hearing in the BND and the Post-Dispatch.
If the kid gets off for some technicality then report on that and possible ways to fix the justice system so it does not happen again.
I agree we did raise a generator of spoiled brats.
Both those little assholes should be publicly caned. Make no mistake folks, this is our fault. We've raised generations of spoiled little brats.
Damn Kedbed, his dad must have really messed you up.
@Hobo:
Screw your movie shit! That's how you WISHED it had happened (if that ever happened to you at all!).
I bet you got your ass beat, then you went home to cry and jerk off while your pussy father kept burning himself on his meth pipe and your mom sucked wiener for more meth money.
Keep fantasizing about a perfect ending while you masturbate, you stupid fuck.
Why is the RFT and other "news" talking about this? Are all school fights going to make national news now if caught on video? Yea this is stupid fight like they all are, so why are wasting time with this. The school and local police department should handle this. If the kid gets off for some technicality then report on that and possible ways to fix the justice system so it does not happen again. How is this news that we need to here about? The highschool I went to had fights atleast once a month. this type of information just gets people in a uproar with nothing to do with the frustration. So why "report" it? what are you trying to accomplish?
When I was a kid in middle school a bully 3 years my senior blindsided me in the back of the head with a thick textbook. I suffered a concussion and he went unpunished.
When my father came home that night he saw me sick to my stomach as the headaches came and went.
Finally his anger boiled over and he took me, concussion and all to the house of the kid (a neighbor 10 houses down) who did it.
Knocking on the door he waited for his father to answer. Pushing past his father he grabbed him and dragged him out screaming, slamming his face against our car.
I was still inside the car.
My father, staring at this kid's dad the entire time, repeatedly slammed his son's head into the side of our Ford Aerostar until the window was a bloody mess.
His father didn't scream or try to help him. He stood staring from his door holding his mother back as she screamed for my father to stop.
Finally as my tormentor, sobbing through a broken bloodied face lay crumped over, my father opened the car door and told me to get out.
My father asked if I had anything to say and I didn't utter a word. He asked if there was anything I'd like to do. And I nodded yes, with tears running down my face. With my left foot raised and a terrified 8th grader beneath it, I slowly rested my foot on his neck and told him "Next time I won't need my dad."
Why be racist about this... The kid was clearly wrong and thats it. Why bring yourselves down with idiotic racist talk?
Oh and there were NO gang signs...
That being said, they deserve to be prosecuted.
How can this idiot plead NOT Guilty when is STUPID self is caught red handed on tape? What a LOSER. If that were my kid this PUNK beat up, there would not be a single spot on this planet that he would be safe from me!
Riff
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I want nothing to do with this!!
He is just doing what his dad does to him on a regular basis.
good thing the bully was black and the kid getting beat up was white... other way around and it'd be RACIST!!!
That kid should be sent to Africa!
Glad I got out of STL when I did. Crazy, offensive, prejudiced right wing nuts and others who don't know how to live without professional sports. No thanks.
"MrRee says:
Sure, you can hug my ass while my cock slides down your throat."
I bet you're a church-goin' Christian and a certified born-again Talibangelical. Right?
Isn't it great when the right wing stereotypes itself? It's almost too easy at this point.
MrRee, that made me laugh! The thought of a racist apologist getting deep-throated for being stupid...priceless!
Make sure to video record it. I like to watch.
Sure, you can hug my ass while my cock slides down your throat.
maybe we can start with you, sir. Hugs have saved more lives in this world than violence.
Yea, you're right - all those children need is some more hugs.
Then we can all join hands and sing: We are the World.
YES LETS SOLVE VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE WHY DO WE NEED TO EVEN THINK JUST GRAB A TORCH AND ROPE LIKE BACK IN THE GOOD OLE DAYS
TNB
Yep, send him to juvenile detention and let the white kids in there know why he's in there. After they knock the shit out of him a few times, he'll know how it feels to be a victim. His father needs the shit knocked out him also for not teaching his son the difference between right & wrong and defending the actions of his thug son.
That stupid kid should be sent to juvenile detention, especially since he is not willing to man up and admit to his stupid behavior. Without punishment now, he'll be a repeat offender for sure.