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re :Generally not.

LOL I find that very hard to believe, I have read of such cases and not only on police camera action but even on threads here on FR.

Tony -- don't be dull Pom. The issue in most of the discussion on this thread is NOT that the US doesn't have youthful miscreants ... rather the issue is how the citiznry reacted during and AFTER the incident.

These Belgians felt powerless and acted cowardly. They LET a man be beaten to death. Then they looked to an inept and impotent State to "do something" about it.

During the Rodney King riots/ Reginald Denny incident you saw the worst of US "youths". The recent wanton shooting by "youths" in a Las Vegas casino is another example.

IT's not that it doesn;t happen -- it's about how American society and individuals would and do react differently than the Belgians quoted herein.

This is not to paint ALL Belgians with the same brush -- just the ones quoted in the article; and to point to a malaise inherent in a society where the citizens cannot and will not protect other members, and the State is apparently uninterested in doing so in fact.

In some very troubled inner cities you may occasionally have this sort of thing. But it's more likely gang on gang violence, not roaming thugs terrorizing citizens. An incident or two of that in most any neighborhood, and the citizens would do something about it...watch groups, defending themselves, raising absolute heck with the police department who would definitely step up patrols.

Look at the "terrorizing transvestites" story in New Orleans from this week. Probably the most broken, lawless city in America right now. The shop owners are banding together to protect each other and arming themselves since there are not enough police. Those trannies won't be around very long.