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04/24/2011 21:15

Subject: wow, nice behavior at at McDonalds in Baltimore County

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Anonymous wrote:I am not attempting to excuse it, only to put it in context. There is a difference between two girls saying, "Hey, look, a guy dressed as a girl! What a freak! Let's beat it up!" and two girls saying, "What the hell is a guy doing in the women's room? That's fucked up!"

I don't think the level of violence is justified by any means. If they truly were scared, they simply could have screamed for help or shoved Ms. Poli out and then sought help. They had better options. The violence they demonstrated was disgusting, especially once it became clear that Ms. Poli had no intentions of harming them and that there were bystanders who presumably could have helped if she had.

I'm only offering a possible alternative understanding of the situation, since the typical hand wringing about the downfall of society and description of the two attackers as "animals" is rarely productive and, oddly enough, a far more common reaction when the perpetrators of such attacks are people of color.

Can I say with any confidence that this assuredly the case? Absolutely not. But before we conclude that society is doomed and two young girls are animals undeserving of human consideration, maybe we should step back and try to understand what REALLY happened.

What REALLY happened is they were animals who beat a person beyond what the circumstances required. And make no mistake, the circumstances didn't require ANY violence.

You are an animal. The two girls were assuredly wrong and should be prosecuted. But they were young and stupid and wrong. They are not animals. You disgust me. Coward.

NP here. Uh, yes. YOU disgust me. "Young and stupid" does not explain this behavior. My pre-school aged child knows not to hit people.
They are animals; they acted like animals. They are vile. They are trash. And, I hope they go away for as long as is allowable by law.

I hope someone shows them that video and how utterly disgusting they are and appear. They should be ashamed. They should feel ashamed. Sadly, I doubt they would.

Another new poster here. Completely agree. Young and stupid does not even begin to excuse extreme, horrifying acts of violence like this.

I don't even want to think about the McDonald's employees who stood there and laughed and taped the beating. It makes me imagine my daughter, grown-up, wandering into a public place and being attacked without anyone helping (oh, except for the elderly woman who got punched in the eye for her efforts).

Yes, but with people like the PP who called me a coward holding opinions like that and raising kids, I don't hold much hope for the future.

Yes, I was agreeing with you. I feel exactly the same way. I was one of the first posters. The video made me sick. What's interesting to me is that I hear stories like this all the time but don't think much about them. It was the video that made it so horrifying and real. I can't imagine what went wrong in those girls' lives that they could act so violently. And don't even get me started on the McDonald's employees. I happily live in the District, but the video scared me enough to vow to NEVER stop at an inner-city fast-food restaurant or gas station.

It's one thing to get attacked. It's another thing to have a full staff of McDonald's employees do NOTHING but laugh while a human being is getting beaten so badly that she goes into convulsions.