I think the kid burned himself and then made up the story about being burned by two black kids. I think that because the kid’s story sounds strange. 2 black kids he doesn’t know follow him home from school and then pick up a can of gasoline that just happens to be laying around and then pour it on him and tell him “This is what you get.”
So you’re reacting to the racial element in the story?
I saw two men douse a cat with a flammable liquid from a gasoline can and set it on fire in Kansas City's Gillham Park, 20 years ago. That seemed strange to me; yet, there it was.
A buddy of mine is out with his wife one day and gets a phone call from their 13 year old son asking them to come come because he has been burned and needs their help. So, they head home and get the story...
Apparently, the dog has gotten hold of a cigarette lighter and is playing with it. So the son went to get it from the dog and somehow, the dog ignites the lighter, burning the boy, the carpet, and some scrap paper that was torn into strips.
Now my buddy is a pretty smart guy, and smells BS all the way with this lame ass story. So, he decides to check the Internet browsing history and happens to find YouTube videos showing how to do a few magic tricks involving, you guessed it, fire. The kid was punished.
But the best part came after. A couple of the other guys at work love using MS Paint to alter photos and poke fun at each other and our coworkers. So one of them had a pic of my buddy’s dog, took a pic of my lighter, and then laid the pic of the dog with the lighter in it’s mouth (this was Paint, not Photoshop, very poorly done) over the image of Drew Barrymore on the VHS cover of the movie Firestarter. We laughed at that kid for weeks, and the Frankenpic was their home computer desktop wallpaper for almost 2 weeks. To our knowledge, there has been no more playing with fire in the household since...
Black on White hate crimes are all the rage in some cities these days. The left’s new and improved official diversity race hate doctrines kills the same as their previous race hate order did.
If the assailants had this in mind I’m sure they arranged for the can to be somewhere convenient.