13-year-old burnt alive because of race in Missouri

[pcosmar]

The boy's (the victim) father should beat both of those kids with a ball bat until they can't even feed themslves for a good 6 months.

Hell, the families of those boys should beat them to death, and deliver the remains with an apology.
They are a dishonor and disgrace to their families, community and race.

Perhaps not to death,, but this should not be acceptable to family and community and should be addressed by them before the State.

 

[FritzforPaul]

Teen Boy was Set on Fire; Police Investigating Hate Crime

Just when I think I have a grasp on things..something like this shows me I don't.

Teen Boy was Set on Fire; Police Investigating Hate Crime

 

[Kodaddy]

I saw nothing in the article about Tara Cole that stated she was pushed into the river by "two white guys". Is there another source where you got this information?

 

[catdd]

azxd

"I blame this on Obama ... He has created the greatest divide this nation has ever experienced, IMO."

agreed and fjmd

 

[tod evans]

Let's see........If I go shoot somebody or set them on fire, hell even if I just beat the hell out of them there's "hate" involved.
Why would I behave in that manner otherwise?

Those two boys deserve a fitting punishment without writing more laws.

 

[azxd]

The boy's (the victim) father should beat both of those kids with a ball bat until they can't even feed themslves for a good 6 months.

Purpose ?

In years past this form of conduct would have been dealt with, without question.

 

[azxd]

Say if you initially intended to kill them, shot them once, saw them begging for mercy and decided "Meh....I don't really need to kill them". What then? Does the law really need to be "If you start something you'd better finish it cause we're going to punish you the same whether you're successful or not"?

Dead men tell no tales

 

[azxd]

Let's see........If I go shoot somebody or set them on fire, hell even if I just beat the hell out of them there's "hate" involved.
Why would I behave in that manner otherwise?

Those two boys deserve a fitting punishment without writing more laws.

Agreed ... To many laws already.

 

[awake]

Hate crime laws are special interest laws that are tailor made for certain 'oppressed minorities' to actually oppress non members. Similar to how affirmative action is used to legally discriminate while deceptively claiming legal equality.

 

[catdd]

Hate crime laws are special interest laws that that are tailor made for certain 'oppressed minorities' to actually oppress non members. Similar to how affirmative action is used to legally discriminate while deceptively claiming legal equality.

yup

 

[angelatc]

I'm not certain that hyperbole is helpful. We get first degree burns from sitting in the sun too long. Rarely is that considered being "burnt alive". It's inappropriate to compare this to a dragging death.

Bullshit. They poured gasoline on him and set him on fire. The fact that he wasn't burned "enough" to suit you has no real bearing on the case - it's their intent that is the crime.

 

[awake]

When a white male claims discrimination its a joke. When any identifiable minority claims as much, it is a horrific injustice. I have experienced this first hand, it is expected that I stay silent and take it, to pay for the sins of past white slave holders I never knew.

 

[otherone]

Bullshit. They poured gasoline on him and set him on fire. The fact that he wasn't burned "enough" to suit you* has no real bearing on the case - it's their intent that is the crime.

What is the difference between "murder", and "attempted murder"? Is first degree burns equal to being tied to the bumper of a pickup and dragged until dead? They should be punished equally? You have an austere view of justice.

*this is unwarranted. "Burnt alive" is an expression meaning "killed by burning". Using it to describe this incident is hyperbole.

 

[azxd]

Weeping

 

[catdd]

Yeah, just as Govt intervention in the middle east recruits more terrorists and makes us less safe, so does Govt intervention in domestic affairs create more problems than it eliminates. Evil begets evil. Most of the hell being raised in the world is due to "do-gooders" trying to set things straight.

 

[fisharmor]

When a white male claims discrimination its a joke. When any identifiable minority claims as much, it is a horrific injustice. I have experienced this first hand, it is expected that I stay silent and take it, to pay for the sins of past white slave holders I never knew.

I'm sorry
For something I didn't do
Lynched somebody
But I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born

Guilty of being white

I'm a convict
Of a racist crime
I've only served
19 years of my time

Guilty of being white

(And this song is 30 years old.....)

 

[PierzStyx]

I'm not certain that hyperbole is helpful. We get first degree burns from sitting in the sun too long. Rarely is that considered being "burnt alive". It's inappropriate to compare this to a dragging death.

Why? Because he was able to take off his shirt while the other person couldn't cut their ropes? The difference in intent seems purely circumstantial at best.

 

[otherone]

Why? Because he was able to take off his shirt while the other person couldn't cut their ropes? The difference in intent seems purely circumstantial at best.

Why what? Why is not being murdered better than being murdered? Really?

 

[Intoxiklown]

What is the difference between "murder", and "attempted murder"? Is first degree burns equal to being tied to the bumper of a pickup and dragged until dead? They should be punished equally? You have an austere view of justice.

*this is unwarranted. "Burnt alive" is an expression meaning "killed by burning". Using it to describe this incident is hyperbole.

The fact their plan didn't work, in no way reduces the fact of what they tried to do.

I'd put bullets in their little fucking heads. Whether they were white, black, brown, green, who cares. You are ignoring the complete evil in the act of what they tried to do. Who gives a damn if it failed. They TRIED THEIR BEST to kill a 13 year old child in a savage way.

Yes, they should be punished equally. They brought gasoline and matches, that means they PLANNED it. They planned to kill him by burning him to death. That is the death penalty in some states.

All I can say, is they better hope that boy's father is the kind of pussy to drink the milk if it's sour. Because God almighty himself couldn't save them from me if that was my son.

 

[catdd]

Just stop please. It's just too fuckn easy to sit there and make a case of "which is worse". If two wrongs make a right, then show me the mathematical formula to support that theory.