Even More Blame Game In King Death

[JackBeck]

Who’s to blame for Lawrence King’s death? That question has been rattling around for a while and will probably never get a clear answer.

Some say that the 15-year old homo deserved to be shot in the head - because, you know, we gays need to control ourselves. Others blame the shooter, 14-year old Brandon McInerney. A few blame society at large, while others prefer to pin the blame on that old fall back, God.

McInerney’s lawyer, as we’ve previously reported, has a more precise target: E.O. Green School.

…McInerney’s inability to see another way to solve his problem is partly the fault of the school system, his attorney said.

“Brandon is not some crazed lunatic,” Quest said. “This was a confluence of tragic events that could have been stopped. If there is partial blame in other places, let’s not throw away Brandon for the rest of his life.”
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“We think there will be evidence that the school, with the actions of Larry, didn’t quite know how to deal with it,” Quest said.

“Not a crazed lunatic.” Well, crazed enough to shoot someone in the head, but perhaps not a lunatic. This experience may change all that, though, which explains why many people - including gay activists - are hoping McInerney gets tried as a juvenile, not an adult.

School officials cry foul over Quest’s explanations. Says superintendent Jerry Dannenberg: “School officials definitely were aware of what was going on, and they were dealing with it appropriately.” Dannenberg also mentioned King’s right to wear makeup, earrings and other ladylike garb. The school, in fact, would have been wrong to try to curb his behavior.

http://www.queerty.com/even-more-blame-game-in-king-death-20080508/

[gatorboy]

1. Who is that a pic of? He looks like he's ten!

[JackBeck]

2. Murdered 15 year-old Lawrence King.

[gatorboy]

4. It's so sad people are still this intolerant.

Slightly off the subject but still dealing with tolerance. On NPR yesterday their were two stories about young boys, around 4 years old each, who wanted to be girls, and how their parents dealed with this.
One group of parents couldn't deal with it at all. They pushed the message hard on the poor boy that doing girl things was "wrong". It got to the point that the young boy couldn't even look at the color pink for God's sake because he felt that that also would be deemed a bad thing. In short the parents couldn't deal with who he might be.

The second couple had similar responses in the beginning. They tried taking away the boy's girl toys (dolls, etc.) but they'd eventually find him hiding dolls to play with later. In the end, because of how depressed their child became with their trying to change him, they decided to accept that their boy... Wanted to be a girl. They bought him a few dresses to wear and even found a school that would accept treating him like a girl. He apparently is very popular with both the boys and the girls and he's very happy.

[JackBeck]

3. Just found another qoute from the lawyer. Even worse.

Educators should have moved aggressively to quell rising tensions between the two boys, which began when King openly flirted with McInerney, said Deputy Public Defender William Quest.

What the fuck does "openly flirted" mean?