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To: Irenic
Witness intimidation is a regular factor in the “hood”. There's always a chance the other gang members will retaliate. What the media has been providing is another reason not to cooperate with law enforcement and, by locating and publicizing the names of witnesses, they're acting as thug enablers.

In my neighborhood, Hispanic kids with knife wounds show up at the hospital ER almost every weekend. Sometimes, their friends just dump them in the parking lot and leave. They very rarely “know” who stabbed them, or why, and getting the right identity for them is always problematic. When they die, though, there's no shortage of family members claiming little Juan was a good boy who never had any involvement with gangs.

28 posted on 04/08/2012 1:06:35 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: ArmstedFragg

When they die, though, there’s no shortage of family members claiming little Juan was a good boy who never had any involvement with gangs.
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No kidding...

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This morning his father, John, told Today he didn’t agree with the gang’s defence lawyers, who claim they were good boys who made a mistake.

He said: ‘It sounds like they’re making excuses and trying to make light of the situation. It wasn’t like they were a group of kids that went out and did some property damage - they almost took someone’s life.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009096/Teenage-victim-Carter-Strange-talks-lynching-attack-time.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008252/Teenage-gang-charged-lynching-law-savage-attack-18-year-old-student.html


29 posted on 04/08/2012 2:21:08 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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