Let me make this perfectly clear - throw the book at those four 18 year olds who tortured

[malaise]

that mentally challenged kid - that was kidnapping, a hate crime and several other crimes. Two fugging teenage girls were allegedly involved.

If they are guilty fugg 'em. There must be no tolerance of this shit. Cruel scumbags.

[JPPaverage]

1. Indeed

There is absolutely no place for punks like that in a decent society.

[WillowTree]

2. Damned right.

[gwheezie]

3. They were just charged

They got the encyclopedia thrown at them

[malaise]

4. Good

Torturing someone for entertainment must not be tolerated - fugging scumbags.

[Calculating]

5. Affirmative

They freaking tortured a guy on video and posted it to youtube. These creeps should be locked away from civilized people for a good long time. I'd be fine with 25+ years mandatory for the lot of them.

[MFM008]

6. how the FK

was this a good idea?
Dont they have cell phones?
........................................................................??????

[Nitram]

7. I find it significant that the one young woman kept the phone trained on her own face

for most of the footage. The whole incident did not appear to be completely real to her.

[MicaelS]

8. Agree 1,000,000 percent.

And anyone who tries to deny, excuse or claim this is staged is full of shit.

[suffragette]

9. Agree. Prosecute as hate crime. There is precedent, which is eerily similar to this case.

http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/disabilities.html

Perhaps the biggest reason for underreporting of disability-based hate crimes is that disability-based bias crimes are all too frequently mislabeled as "abuse" and never directed from the social service or education systems to the criminal justice system. Even very serious crimes — including rape, assault, and vandalism — are too-frequently labeled "abuse."

In one of the few disability-bias cases successfully prosecuted, in 1999, Eric Krochmaluk, a man with cognitive disabilities from Middletown, N.J., was kidnapped, choked, beaten, burned with cigarettes, taped to a chair, his eyebrows shaved, and ultimately abandoned in a forest. Eight people were subsequently indicted for this hate crime — making this one of the first prosecutions of a disability-based hate crime in America.



http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/nyregion/8-are-charged-in-tormenting-of-learning-disabled-man.html

Apparently copying a horror movie, a pack of men and women living near the New Jersey shore enticed a man with learning disabilities to a party and then tormented him for almost three hours, the Monmouth County Prosecutor charged yesterday.

''It was just cruelty,'' said John A. Kaye, the Prosecutor. The abuse included whipping the 23-year-old, shaving his head and dragging him into the woods for further beatings, Mr. Kaye said.

Eight men and women were arrested Monday after a two-week investigation into the incident. Most of the defendants face kidnapping or assault charges.

[Waldorf_]

10. Agree with you 100%!

Victim traumatized for life probably and 4 young peoples lives thrown away.

[angrychair]

11. W.T.F

Having 4 young black kidnap and torture a mentally handicapped white male and torture him on a live video stream and make him say "fuck Donald trump" plays into every stereotype the right wing fascist say about young black people.
1 step forward, 2 steps back...dum asses!

[Jack-o-Lantern]

12. This is reverse racism. And these sub-human vermin will get whats coming to them.

There is no color-line here, just pure evil.