[Stoat]

"We're going to Disney. Wooo!" the victim's father, Daniel Cicciaro Sr., crowed, as he left the Arthur M. Cromarty Court complex in Riverhead, L.I., Saturday night.

What the h* was this guy thinking?!?

Something isn't right here...

Probably at least a couple of things:

• The whole family of the shootee are probably all low-class idiots who frequently say and do low-class, stupid things, but that (unfortunately) isn't a Capital Offense and is not in and of itself grounds for an innocent verdict for Mr. White.  Very very few criminal cases involve one person who is a 100% Saint and another who is a 100% Devil, but even those few cases that are thusly proportioned still balance on the rule of law.
• The New York Daily News is playing up the low-class nature of this family and the more dignified nature of the Whites, which may well indeed be true.  However, that doesn't change the fact that Mr. White made a huge mistake when he elected to go outside and needlessly escalate an already tense situation that more than likely could have been diffused via police intervention..
  
  
   

"We're going to Disney. Wooo!" the victim's father, Daniel Cicciaro Sr., crowed, as he left the Arthur M. Cromarty Court complex in Riverhead, L.I., Saturday night.

What the h* was this guy thinking?!?

Something isn't right here...

[Caipirabob]

Thanks for the response, there's definitely fault on both sides. It's a tragic situation altogether, and it's not being helped by the willingness of the media to fan the flames of racism and further poison the community. We are absolutely being balkanized by the onslaught of race-bait politics, and it's a dynamic that seriously threatens to tear our nation apart.

Yet I expect this from tyrannical socialists in the media and those pulling the strings of American society. After all, "divide and conquer" has always been a foundation philosophy of ruling tyrants. Why would we expect any less from socialist democrats who mean to control our lives?