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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The CNN article refers to to the people posting the signs as “a man and two women” and the man (who filmed the incident) says he spent his high school years in the DC area. I thought the females in the video were teenagers as well, but perhaps not? Doesn’t make the attack less horrific.[/quote]

The primary reason this is viewed as horrific is that he was going after BLM posters.  Absent this fact, this would get no attention from the media or police.[/quote]

No, the primary reason this is awful is because he attacked children who are a fraction of his size, and small fraction of his age. There's zero reason to attack kids the way he did - nothing would make it acceptable (unless the kids decided to physically mob randomly and suddenly)

The BLM part adds to his awfulness, but it's not the primary reason. [/quote]

You raise an important point.  We don’t know what precipitated the incident.  We’ve heard one version, but what happened isn’t clear from the video and we haven’t heard his side.

And I disagree, the only reason this is getting attention as a “horrific attack” is the political context.  That’s not to say what he did was ok or appropriate; it wasn’t. But any semblance of reason regarding the severity of the offense has gone out the window.[/quote]

What? The 34 second video shows him assaulting the girl—who is tiny—quite clearly. What kind of story are you imagining that could possibly justify that?

Do you have kids? This story would get the exact same reaction from DCUM if there were no flyers involved. Parent communities tend to be outraged by attacks on kids, and there is no love for entitled cyclists here. Granted that the BLM angle has helped it get national attention, but what he did to those kids is the focus of our wrath here. [/quote]

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