Baltimore Mom Not Having Any Of This Shit.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Yeah. I mean, why is what this mother did to her son any different from what the cops did to Freddie Gray? Get real, people!

That's an interesting query...

As a definitive answer, I'd say that one has decidedly ceased any potential criminal activity and one is merely hope.

But that's not the answer your loaded question was seeking...

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Zeke

But, you know, you wouldn't want an actually trained and empowered law enforcement professional to do that...

Fucking idiot...

Ulnar struck, again.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Yeah. I mean, why is what this mother did to her son any different from what the cops did to Freddie Gray? Get real, people!

Her son is alive. Which I believe is different.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Zeke

That's an interesting query...

As a definitive answer, I'd say that one has decidedly ceased any potential criminal activity and one is merely hope.

As I said the other day, it's the cop equivalent to the Bush Doctrine.

But that's not the answer your loaded question was seeking...

So, why not answer?

[Zeke]

I did.

[barbara]

I understand why the mom did what she did in the heat of the moment. But I don't think behaving like a thug and hitting your child is a good way to teach the child not to be a thug.
On the other hand..... That "child" looked to be old enough to know better.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by barbara

I understand why the mom did what she did in the heat of the moment. But I don't think behaving like a thug and hitting your child is a good way to teach the child not to be a thug.
On the other hand..... That "child" looked to be old enough to know better.

Ever caught your child masked and participating in a mob action, eh barbara? How TF do you know how you would "behave?"

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Ever caught your child masked and participating in a mob action, eh barbara? How TF do you know how you would "behave?"

What are you saying here, Ike? That, the more more violent the offense, the more violent the punishment?

Or are you saying that the mother should be "excused" for a violent over-reaction since the activities of her son were so extreme?

[Wasillaguy]

He was definitely old enough to know better. And who should have taught him when he was younger?
So Mom did good this time, but probably not so great earlier on, or he wouldn't have been out there to begin with.

And I certainly hope he will still get charged. No excuse, his identity is known and his mother has already stated she saw him on TV chucking rocks at cops.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Zeke

If an officer can slap a kid around like this, get his attention, and NOT get him buried in The System -- with effective result of stopping the activity and waking up a potential thug -- isn't this a "win?"

I don't think you could find a study that would support such a correlation. Then of course you have the problem of police abusing such a policy if we had one. Like letting teachers beat the hell out of kids.

I saw bones broken in the classroom by teachers... I saw no kids learning from this as it never ended the behaviors or pummeling. Well, except on occasion, a teacher learned to keep his hands to himself after a particularly brutal assault.