Posted on 07/15/2008 12:53:29 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
I like the way you think :)
Normally, I'd say that these charges are just for openers until the prosecutor can work up even more serious charges.
But this is Minnesota, and, worse yet, liberal Minneapolis/St Paul, so you never know how things will ultimately work out. If the normal pattern holds, one of the accused (or their mother) will claim the victim used a racial epithet without justification (sexual groping being acceptable behavior) and provoked his own beating. The victim will probably be accused of some racial offense by the local Human Rights Council and ordered to pay restitution even if he doesn't survive hospitalization.
It is cultural. Western Culture vs. the backward cultures of the world.
This is the future. Western Culture had better reassert itself or we are screwed.
$40-60K and they all made bail and left jail already. How pathetic is that...
These guys each made bail of $40-60K each? With what..... drug money???? Thugs like this normally don’t have access to that kind of cash.
Also, felony assault sounds kind of light if they were kicking him while he was unconscious.
I think it’s usually some percentage of bail that has to be in cash (10-20%?) probably their ‘aunt’s’ house or something.
$20 says at least half are arrested for other things between now and any trial.
To the liberals and many Repubs I suspect, this family is nothing more than COLLATERAL DAMAGE ... in the quest for Multi-culturalism and diversity.
Lovely.
The eighth person hasn't been found, said Shakopee Capt. Jeff Tate. He said the victim asked that his name not be released because he fears retaliation from his attackers who have been released after posting bail. He said the group, one of whom slapped the 12-year-old girl on her butt, didn't know the victim's family.
I hope the father and mother are both carrying concealed handguns from now on, regardless of whether or not Minnesota laws allows it. Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
Of course, $40-60K is only $4-6K in real life. Should have been higher IMHO.
Still it’s amazing that 7 street thugs can come up with $5K each *just like that*
Bail should have been a quarter mill each, right now they are probably walking on their Mastercards.
So much for good midwestern values...
Street tactics, so often categorized as big city problems have found their way to the promised land..........
Wonder how the MSM will explain this away.
Are the victims white and the perps black? If that’s the case why can’t hate crimes be charged like they would be if the roles were reversed?
Goodess people! What IF the victim is black? Would you find the crime less heinous? That little girl is traumatized for the rest of her life, no matter what her color is. And these perps should be strung up, no matter what their color is. It is amazing to me that the story about a father being assaulted trying to defend his daughter becomes a race thing. What are you Al Sharpton or David Duke?
609.223 ASSAULT IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
Subdivision 1. Substantial bodily harm. Whoever assaults another and inflicts substantial bodily harm may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than five years or to payment of a fine of not more than $10,000, or both.
Sounds like the Dad wrote a check with his mouth that his butt couldn’t cash. While I agree that the assault was unwarranted, the first order of business was to get his family to safety, not start an argument with the thugs. Trying to be a “hero” in front of his kid almost cost him his life.
Gee, I wonder what their ethnic background might be...
What are you trying to say? Just say it. If the little girl’s name is ethnic too, would you care less about what happened to her family? You effing racist.
Valley Fair is a GUN FREE ZONE in a state that allows conceal & carry.
I called Valley Fair and asked if they were a gun free zone and they said “of course and we have signs at the entrance” and then they added “we want customers to know there were no knives or weapons involved in this fight”........
I said I was calling in regards to their gun free zone policy resulting in victims such as this poor man & his family.
They weren’t interested.
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