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In reply to the discussion: Woman arrested in brutal brick beating of 92-year-old man in Willowbrook [View all]Steerpike
(2,692 posts)121. soooo
you associate with anarchists...we could be friends...except the whole beating old people in the head with bricks thing...beers ok
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christx30
Jul 2018
OP
Verbal provocation is not an excuse. It was not an excuse to kill Emmett Till in 1965. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#16
Now that her ass is in jail hope she drops a dime on the other four...........
Bengus81
Jul 2018
#62
Your implication is that if she was provoked she is innocent. You can't have it both ways. A1 or A2?
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#77
Finally. You are absolutely confused between Conviction and Sentencing.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#85
Logical people ARE pissed off about other cases but don't conflate them together. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#89
Did you ever think her rage was the same as white people who hate Mexicans and attack them?
lunasun
Jul 2018
#105
What if she did it with provocation...are we allowed to beat people with brick now who provote us?
Demsrule86
Jul 2018
#146
If the criminal assaulter has little or no control, that is NEVER AN EXCUSE. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#18
Nothing to wait for regarding any words that may have passed from victim. And you def implied.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#69
No point for you to mention it unless you are using it as an excuse. So please don't excuse it.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#70
My motive is to try to wake you up that verbal provocation is never an excuse for innocence.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#79
My other motive is to try to wake you up that lack of self-control is never an excuse for innocence.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#80
people with such little control over their anger and hate need to be put away
The Mouth
Jul 2018
#131
You don't know because in fact there is nothing a person can SAY that justifies a VIOLENT ATTACK
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#26
For heaven's sake; VIOLENCE is NOT appropriate or legal response to verbal provocation, if any. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#15
If you "don't advocate this type of violence" then DON'T EXCUSE it any any way.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2018
#28
Seriously, do you honestly believe the irate response to your ridiculous question ...
moriah
Jul 2018
#120
Had you actually comprehended what was posted, you would have noticed this poster was NOT the one
Judi Lynn
Jul 2018
#128
There's seething hatred and rancor unleashed with total abandon in this thread at this poster.
Judi Lynn
Jul 2018
#134
That's fucking disgusting. There's nothing that you could say that would justify this.
X_Digger
Jul 2018
#82
There is not a goddamned thing that a person could say to another to justify this.
X_Digger
Jul 2018
#84
Can't avoid noticing that when a suspect is an African American, some people start going berserk,
Judi Lynn
Jul 2018
#96
I don't care if he called her the C word...she and her buds had no business to beat him.
Demsrule86
Jul 2018
#145
He was murdered because a woman claimed that he "looked at her" outside a store down South.
George II
Jul 2018
#46
Yeah...this is all made up BS,no truth to any of it. Pffffttttttttttt..........
Bengus81
Jul 2018
#63