Five-year-old boy hurt in MOA attack 'showing real signs of recovery'

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The 5-year-old boy who was thrown from a balcony at the Mall of America last week is "showing real signs of recovery," his family said Friday.

"We have good news to share with you all on this Good Friday!" the family said in a statement. "Our miracle child Landen is showing real signs of recovery. New test results have been positive, though he remains in intensive care with a long road ahead."

Landen was the victim of a horrifying attack at the Bloomington mall on April 12, when a man picked up the child and threw him nearly 40 feet over a railing onto a stone floor.

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http://www.startribune.com/five-year-old-boy-hurt-in-moa-attack-showing-real-signs-of-recovery/508811532/

[chowder66]

1. This is wonderful news! nt

[mr_lebowski]

2. A 'Miracle', huh? Gosh, you'd almost think that if a Diety had such healing power ...

S/He'd have interceded BEFORE the child was tossed off a 40-ft balcony but, hey ... Mysterious Ways, right?

Come to think of it, though, as long as Magical Beings are involved, how do we know for SURE that the child isn't actually the spawn of the Dark Lord, and hence, immortal? Maybe the crazed person who tossed them from the balcony was legitimately trying to save the Fate of the Entire Universe?

When there's magic and miracles and stuff going on, how can we REALLY know, you know?

Just askin'

I do wish the boy well, to be clear, I'm glad things are looking up. But this 'miracle' stuff ... kinda rubs me the wrong way.

[Lochloosa]

3. Dude!

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. ...

[sarisataka]

5. That didn't take long nt

[mr_lebowski]

6. Yeah, well, I've known, and known of, a number of very sweet, amazing little kids in my life ...

That weren't fortunate enough to get these kinds of 'miracles' granted to them, so ...

[phylny]

8. Really.

Couldn’t hold back, huh?

[Oerdin]

7. This was a hate crime.

What the article left out was that the attacker was a refugee from Somalia who was upset because white women wouldn't date him and kept rejecting his advances. He then decided he wanted to kill a white person but settled on attempting to kill this five year old child because he could not fight back.

Yes, this crime was motivated by racial hatred and it should be classified as a hate crime.

[LittleBunny]

9. Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda was born in Chicago, not Somalia.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-mall-of-america-boy-thrown-from-balcony-20190415-story.html

Other than this, it does appear there were elements of a hate crime present in Aranda's act.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. The lies about him being Somali and wanting to kill a white person are anti-immigrant noise.

Knock that shit off.

[wellst0nev0ter]

11. Are you sure the perp's name is not Ilhan Omar?

n/t