OK, where is Al Sharpton? Where is Jessie Jackson? Where is Bumbling Barry? Where are the protests funded with federal tax dollars? A teen, reports three others for attempting to sell him drugs and the 3 teens, 15, beat the crap of of the 13 year old who was doing EXACTLY what he should have done. I wonder, does the fact that the 13 year old was white and the 3 15 years old drug dealers were black have anything to do with it? If this had been the other way around there would be hell being raised right now. Why is this even being blatant attack being called a fight?
Why was there even questions about why a 64 year old bus driver did not try to break up an attack by three teens intent on doing bodily harm? I bet they don't allow that driver to be armed. IF there ever was a case where force SHOULD be used, this IS IT!
OKEE DOKEE, Where are the all the professional rabble rowsers? There is, after all, school bus video of the attack.
August 6, 2013
According to a UPI and various other media reports on Tuesday, John Moody, 64, a former school bus driver, was not charged for not having tried to stop a physical fight on his school bus in Florida's Pinellas County. Beyond the controversy about how much physical interaction a bus driver should engage in to break up a fight, there is equal controversy as to why the race of the boys has been ignored by the vast majority of the media accounts concerning this horrendous story.
Three black 15-year-old boys severely assaulted a 13-year-old white boy – allegedly because the white boy had told school authorities that one of the black boys tried to sell him drugs. The fight resulted in the victim having a broken arm and two black eyes.
According to the bus driver, he believes he could have put students in danger if he tried to stop the teens from being the boy on July 9 when the fight occurred. The story went viral when a video of the school bus fight was released and posted online.
Last week, prosecutors said that the bus driver would not face charges because he did what was required of a person in his position by having called for help on his radio. Additionally, he yelled at the boys.
In the video, the bus driver can be heard telling the school bus dispatcher via radio:
The questions that have come up since this story broke involve the bus driver’s responsibility and the issue of race.
Many have asked if a 64-year-old bus driver should be expected to endanger himself by trying to engage in a brutal fight where there are three angry boys swinging fists with obvious intent to injure. Racially, it is being asked why – by far – most media reports have refused to mention that the three teens who assaulted the younger boy are black – and the assaulted boy is white. Critics claim that when the victim is black and the assailant is white, it is a major portion of the story.
Frank McDermott, Moody’s lawyer in the charges against him, called any child neglect accusations against Moody as being preposterous. He went on to say that law enforcement should never tell a citizen to intervene in a violent attack. According to McDermott, Moody did exactly what he was trained to do – call for help.
The questions on radio talk shows are basically, “Where are Al (Sharpton) and Jesse (Jackson) on this one?” The criticism, as heard on former-Congressman Joe Walsh’s WIND-AM talk radio show in Chicago, is that there is no racial outrage when a white boy is beaten by older black boys from the nation’s prominent people on civil rights. However, when a black gets beaten by whites, Al and Jesse are right there stirring up the racial emotions in the nation.
The incident resulted in the three attacking-teenagers being charged with aggravated battery, and the bus driver retiring.
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Why was there even questions about why a 64 year old bus driver did not try to break up an attack by three teens intent on doing bodily harm? I bet they don't allow that driver to be armed. IF there ever was a case where force SHOULD be used, this IS IT!
OKEE DOKEE, Where are the all the professional rabble rowsers? There is, after all, school bus video of the attack.
August 6, 2013
According to a UPI and various other media reports on Tuesday, John Moody, 64, a former school bus driver, was not charged for not having tried to stop a physical fight on his school bus in Florida's Pinellas County. Beyond the controversy about how much physical interaction a bus driver should engage in to break up a fight, there is equal controversy as to why the race of the boys has been ignored by the vast majority of the media accounts concerning this horrendous story.
Three black 15-year-old boys severely assaulted a 13-year-old white boy – allegedly because the white boy had told school authorities that one of the black boys tried to sell him drugs. The fight resulted in the victim having a broken arm and two black eyes.
According to the bus driver, he believes he could have put students in danger if he tried to stop the teens from being the boy on July 9 when the fight occurred. The story went viral when a video of the school bus fight was released and posted online.
Last week, prosecutors said that the bus driver would not face charges because he did what was required of a person in his position by having called for help on his radio. Additionally, he yelled at the boys.
In the video, the bus driver can be heard telling the school bus dispatcher via radio:
You’ve got to get somebody here quick, quick, quick, quick. They’re about to beat this boy to death over here. Please get somebody here quick. They’re still doing it. There’s nothing I can do.
Gulport Police Chief Robert Vincent said that there was clearly an opportunity for the bus driver to intervene and to check on the welfare of the child. In a CNN interview, Moody said he feared for his own safety and that the beaten-boy had hurriedly gotten off the bus at his stop – which didn’t allow the bus driver the opportunity to survey the boy’s injuries. Again, the bus driver is required to dispatch for help in such incidents, and he obviously did that – as can be heard on the video. In a subsequent interview, Moody said that he was shocked and emotionally petrified by the incident.
The questions that have come up since this story broke involve the bus driver’s responsibility and the issue of race.
Many have asked if a 64-year-old bus driver should be expected to endanger himself by trying to engage in a brutal fight where there are three angry boys swinging fists with obvious intent to injure. Racially, it is being asked why – by far – most media reports have refused to mention that the three teens who assaulted the younger boy are black – and the assaulted boy is white. Critics claim that when the victim is black and the assailant is white, it is a major portion of the story.
Frank McDermott, Moody’s lawyer in the charges against him, called any child neglect accusations against Moody as being preposterous. He went on to say that law enforcement should never tell a citizen to intervene in a violent attack. According to McDermott, Moody did exactly what he was trained to do – call for help.
The questions on radio talk shows are basically, “Where are Al (Sharpton) and Jesse (Jackson) on this one?” The criticism, as heard on former-Congressman Joe Walsh’s WIND-AM talk radio show in Chicago, is that there is no racial outrage when a white boy is beaten by older black boys from the nation’s prominent people on civil rights. However, when a black gets beaten by whites, Al and Jesse are right there stirring up the racial emotions in the nation.
The incident resulted in the three attacking-teenagers being charged with aggravated battery, and the bus driver retiring.
School bus fight: Three black teens attack white, bus driver doesn't intervene - National Conservative | Examiner.com
