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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a bunch of suburban white kids started attacking a stranger in front of a Hilton in DC, and a white teenage girl went so far as to spit a victim who was knocked out, the first thing everyone would do was ask why these kids did what they did and assume the victim did something to provoke an attack by kids, especially young women.

But I guess because they're young black kids, no one cares to explore their motives, what provoked them to do what they did, etc.

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I absolutely agree that black kids and teens are scrutinized completely different than white ones, assessed as older, not given the benefit of the doubt, punished more harshly. However, I don’t think you are at all right in your hypothetical case of white teens doing similar and it not be considered shocking and horrific. This is so far over the line of brutality that it couldn’t be shrugged off in any circumstance. [/quote]

I wasn't saying that at all. If 14 year old Becky from Bethesda spit in someone's face as they were lying unconscious after getting beat by a bunch of 13-14 white kids, including girls, from Walt Whitman and it was caught on video the first thing people would do was question what their motives where and what the victim had done to provoke the attack.

The kids are on camera saying, "that's him!" before beating him. My point is why are their motives not even being theoretically discussed at all? If these were young white kids that did this, motive and provocation would have been the [b]first[/b] thing that was discussed.

The attack of course is horrible and inexcusable, in case that needed to be said.[/quote]

Because it doesn't matter, at all. I was on a jury trial for an aggravated assault that involved the victim being kicked in the head after he had already been beaten down to the ground. The defendants tried to claim self defense, and the victim and all witnesses refused to testify about what lead to the incident, which made pretty clear that the victim had had some role in it. But despite that, the jury had zero problem convicting the defendants for aggravated assault.  Because no matter what happened to "provoke" the attack, kicking someone in the head when they are down on the ground is aggravated assault.  Period.  [/quote]

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