Interesting, did this actually happen?Fixey said:17 year old Samoan school boy walking home at 1am gets called a ****er by a 30 year old, the boy punches him once. 30 year old falls and hits head on pavement and dies......What should happen to the boy?
tough one,Fixey said:17 year old Samoan school boy walking home at 1am gets called a ****er by a 30 year old, the boy punches him once. 30 year old falls and hits head on pavement and dies......What should happen to the boy?
MountainPro said:tough one,
if there were no witnesses then he may be up for a murder or manslaughter charge.
steve said:Interesting, did this actually happen?
MountainPro said:tough one,
if there were no witnesses then he may be up for a murder or manslaughter charge.
Sad story.... The Samoan boy is the aggressor in this case. Name calling is not a reason to attack anyone. A murder charge might be a little strong , but manslaughter is maybe in the right direction. I am assuming here that the Samoan boy was just called the name and was not threatened with harm.Fixey said:There where witnesses.....He has been charged with murder, will probably get life which over here means out in 10 years. But for the grace of god goes I......
Fixey said:17 year old Samoan school boy walking home at 1am gets called a ****er by a 30 year old, the boy punches him once. 30 year old falls and hits head on pavement and dies......What should happen to the boy?
wolfix said:Sad story.... The Samoan boy is the aggressor in this case. Name calling is not a reason to attack anyone. A murder charge might be a little strong , but manslaughter is maybe in the right direction. I am assuming here that the Samoan boy was just called the name and was not threatened with harm.
Everyone gets called names. Racial names are no more damaging then other names. I was a Catholic raised in a non-Catholic neighborhood. I know it is tough not to hit back.
The result of the actions of the Samoan is that a life was taken. Someone is going to be without a son/father/ or wage earner. But to incarcerate the Samoan for a real long time serves no purpose as long he does not have a history of violence.
jhuskey said:He should be charged as any other that attacked someone in anger. No excuses as valid in my opinion.
Carrera said:Hold on, though. I was listening to a catholic nun on Hard Talk who opposed the death penalty (as I do) in the U.S.A. and she was pointing out that when black people kill white people in the U.S. there is far more frequent recourse to the death penalty.
But when a white man kills a black man, he apparently doesn't suffer the death penalty. Or rarely.
What I'm saying is most people on this forum may also lash out as this teenager did under provocation. Even the police lash out when they make arrests so how come they get off free?
We're talking here about a teen who couldn't have had much of punch so I figure the man slipped, fell and hit his head. It was tragic but it wasn't murder. The crime was assault I think but I wouldn't like to be on that particular jury as the case is difficult.
Maybe what would swing me one way or the other would be the attitude of the individual being charged. Is he struck by remorse or laughing at the law? There's a difference, of course.
P.S. my girlfriend was from the States and I've seen her lash out under provocation when she punched another girl over a row about a Madonna tape It does happen at times but I agree it's not justified to come out swinging rights, lefts, upper-cuts, jabs and hooks.
jhuskey said:I didn't mention the death penalty and a teenager can certainly hit hard enough to kill as can a female.
They should draw no special immunity and face the same justice,whatever might apply.
I could not even make a fair judgement in this case unless I had all the evidence in front of me and had time to consider it. The media, as I have stated, leaves out a lot and exagerates more.
If being insulted was an excuse to kill I could have killed about half of the posters here with justification.
Carrera said:My question is, I suppose, would you hit out in anger when provoked, say, by a car-driver who had nearly knocked you off?
I remember we had this teacher from Scotland when I was a wee laddy (as they say) and, you know, when I think of it I can recall so many scenes of violence. I can personally recall this teacher from Scotland bawling at kids to the point you thought he was about to flip. I saw another teacher punch a black boy in the chest so hard he was left coughing and this kid later went on to become a pretty good track-runner.
Even worse, when a school prank went wrong and one boy slammed a door in a teacher's face as he was entering the class (the guilty party had believed it was some classmate entering), I saw the teacher hurl the kid across some desks and then kick him repeatedly when he was on the floor.
They got away with it too. In those days kids had no rights at all. Maybe the fact the teachers wore a suit and tie helped them get away with it.
jhuskey said:If being insulted was an excuse to kill I could have killed about half of the posters here with justification.
Fixey said:Being insulted is in no way a justification to kill anybody, nobody is saying it is. I do not believe that it is a reasonble conclusion to say that if I punch someone he WILL die! It is a streatch to say if I punch someone he MIGHT die. If it where a reasonable conclusion then every person who ever punched anyone should be charged with attemted murder!
I know this kid so I am not sure how biased I am but I cant see how sending him to jail helps anyone. This guy intended to go onto tertiery education (Already has enough credits to do so) and by all accounts would go on to be a valuable contributing member of the comunity. If he goes to jail he is a burden to society.
He must be held responsible for his actions of course but as far as punitive recourse goes he will see this guys face every time he closes his eyes for the rest of his life and will have to live with that, to me that would be harder than anything a judge could hand out. I personaly would like to see him go on to work and pay maintanance to the guys kids.
jhuskey said:Not so far,however I have wanted to. Maybe that is the difference that thinking it and doing it are two very separate issues.
Most of us go through life and have cause to be angry and do not act in a malicious of violent way.
Where is the line crossed? I am not schooled enough to make a judgement.
I do have a question for you. You reference that a black child was struck. Does that fact that he was black make a difference?
Carrera said:Sure it makes a difference if he was singled out due to the colour of his skin. My view is people should be treated the same and nobody is better than anyone else. So it doesn't matter if a black man or a white man commits a crime where justice is concerned as either individual should be subject to the same laws and the same right to a fair trial. Don't you agree?
Of course, the same applies to gender and I think women should be paid the same as men if they do the same work and put in the same hours. I don't think people should be classed as better or worse due to gender or racial differences.
jhuskey said:Certainly I agree and that's why I would not differentiate even when telling the story,as in "a child was hit". Color matters not.
The more we point out the differences ,the more they are noted.
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