The cell phone video of that poor kid getting - literally - beaten to death is sickening

[Stinky The Clown]

They're showing it on teevee. They blur the bad parts.

What possess these kids to do that? I truly don't understand. That said, I recall being a kid growing up urban. I remember gang fights. I remember the kids from my neighborhood fighting the kids from the next neighborhood just a block or two over. I remember using sticks and bike chains, rolls of coins held in clenched fists.

And none of us over the age of 12.

But killing?

Is the killing accidental? SAre they saying 40 kids have been killed so far this year? That's not accidental. That's an epidemic of cruelty or an outbreak of war.

But mostly it is sickening.

[derby378]

1. It's not "accidental" if you beat someone to death with a railroad tie

That falls somewhere in the category of "But gee, Officer, I didn't mean to twist his head off!"

That dumbass punk just cost Chicago the 2016 Summer Olympics. I hope the judge reminds him of that during sentencing.

[xultar]

2. That is what I was thinking, the violence in Chitown is what caust them the olympics.

[deaniac21]

5. I'll bet the victim would have liked the olympics.

[JonLP24]

6. Which doesn't make sense

As Rio De Janiero has very high crime rates, especially homicide. If the judges does say that to him they are lying. This one incident has nothing to do with where the Olympics are going. Consider this a city in South America has never hosted the Olympics. Maybe that is the reason the Olympics went to Brazil. :shrug:

[derby378]

7. Duly noted

But the Obama administration, I've noticed, is taking this kid's death pretty hard. Arne Duncan and Eric Holder have now been dispatched to Chicago for some damage control. I can't help but think this may have played a role in the IOC eliminating Chicago in the first round.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I'm afraid I agree with the poster, above. The Olympics are going to Rio because they have NEVER ...

.... been held in South America before.

It had nothing to do with these kids.

[JonLP24]

10. If it wasn't so bad in Rio I'd consider that

I mean over 2,000(This doesn't include the police number who some are said to be corrupt) people murdered a year is much higher than any of our dangerous cities by a wide margin. I can't imagine one incident would influence when there is so much violence, especially the drug trade wars that go on there(Rio).

[seabeyond]

3. always happened. no different today.... oh wait. yes it is. until we admit todays

world is different for our kids than the past... there is no way in hell we will even get to the steps of recognizing the issues honestly to address.

we lie

we lie to ourselves all the time, to protect our comfy little world. ignoring the issues. pretending they arent. pretending social structures and conditioning is not effecting us negatively.

what would happen if we actually had to take responsibility for the world we live in

[jus_the_facts]

15. Exactly....

...still waiting for the trial for the monster that murdered my 2 month old nephew...his own father shook him so hard his little brain bled and he broke his leg and ribs too...it's beyond comprehension..yet it happened to us. :cry:

[seabeyond]

23. oooooh, .... yup. that is so very sad. yet

we will pretend.

i am sorry for yours that grieve

[jus_the_facts]

25. Thank You.... n/t

[Odin2005]

4. Gangs need to be cracked down on and hard,

My god, the attitudes these kids have reminds me of the attitudes of "warriors" in tribalistic societies like in Afghanistan. Obsessions with "honor" and whatnot...

[Echo In Light]

11. Very RW, very authoritarian, very pro-violence. Isn't the military into recruiting gang types?

[jus_the_facts]

8. Kids today are bombarded with violence on TV and in movies....

.....it's death...murder...rape...kill...be mean..spiteful...hateful...and stab everybody in the back...it's what they are taught by the idiot box 24/7/365.

[seabeyond]

12. i wouldnt let kids watch cartoons at 2,3,4 adn on cause characters angry. watched a disney

show for a couple minutes in doctors office. we never have these shows on in our house. the kids were sarcastic, disrespectful, had that teen "look" thru out show. teaching our kids that this is how a teen behaves. jsut being a teen

neither of my teens (one just shy) behave like that. i did not behave like that. does not have to be. but kids are conditioned all the experioence of being a teen

[Echo In Light]

13. The "TV Babies." This corp culture encouragement of 'I Got Mine!' has been going on for decades

After all, it suits corporate sensibilities to have a populace largely thinking and behaving in accordance with its overarching aims.

[jus_the_facts]

14. It's gotten much worse in the last decade....the crime dramas... talk and reality shows ...

....the court room shows...always the absolute worst of society as entertainment...now in LBN the SCOTUS is debating if it would be against the law for the HUMAN SACRIFICE CHANNEL to exist. :evilfrown:

[Echo In Light]

16. "The ultimate game show would be one where the losing contestant was killed."

~ Chuck Barris

[jus_the_facts]

17. A huge GONG on that statement....

[Echo In Light]

21. I doubt he was actually endorsing, but rather, illustrating a point re the human condition

[Zywiec]

18. Why would anyone want to watch that sickening video?

I have a 16 year old son. I certainly don't want to see something so disgusting.

[Swede]

19. I heard it was because of school closures and busing.

They cross those invisible gang territorial lines,parachuting these kids into enemy territory. Not an excuse,but a reason.

[Warpy]

20. I vaguely remember a kid or two getting killed

when I was growing up. They were the type of kids who had greasy duck tails and hid booze in their lockers concealed in after shave bottles.

This isn't new. What's new is the 24 hour news cycle that makes certain we hear of every single episode.

It's horrifying and unbearably sad, but it's not new.

I look back at what a wild child I was and wonder how I made it through alive.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

22. Exactly!

It's our shameful media that gets some type of sick pleasure from hyping these horrible tragedies. If you look at statistics, violent inner city crime among youths was highest from about 1975 to 1995. It's actually been on decline since then.

[seabeyond]

24. and i do not remember a single one. one gal suicide. a couple in drunk drivings

none, in beating to death