Both boys are currently "out of state." I bet some mommies and daddies had a little something to do with that:
Family attorneys were negotiating the surrender of Brian Hooks, 18, and Thomas S. Daugherty, 17, who will face murder charges in the death of one homeless man and aggravated-battery charges in the beating of two others.
Come home, babies. Time to go to the Big House.
So, who's up for this kind of nastiness and why do they do it?The crimes are most commonly committed by young men - in their teens or early 20s - who see the homeless as easy targets. They span all social and racial demographics: from inner-city gang members to upper-class suburbanites.
Screw you Commisioner Carlton Moore for trying to turn a class issue into a race one, and Ft. Lauderdale into an episode of "Law and Order" with your Harlem politician impersonation. Any person who isn't sleeping behind a locked door is vulnerable to the whims of psychos like Hooks and Daughtery.
UPDATE:
Hooks and Daughtery have returned to Florida and are now under arrest in Ft. Lauderdale.
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Previous postings:
Some Homeless Are More Equal Than Others
A Bit Of The Old Ultra-Violence In Ft. Lauderdale
I read on FOXNews.com this morning that these kids, (even though they would have liked to be called young men), have surrendered to authorities. How many Americans would wonder why they did this and how they could live with it? It is a no-brainer; they have not been taught, (by their parents), to be accountable. Todays kids have been babysat by their playstation games, while parents do "more interesting" things. Having nothing more to do than just hit the reset on their "Mortal Combat", game when they get "killed" demonstrate to their uneducated minds that life is renewed by a mere reset button. If they wear the game out, Mommy will just get another one, an updated, better version, at that.
If these kids profile as "mainstream", they were put in the care of others as infants, have never known corporal punishment, and have never had to account for their actions. If they mess up their room, Mommy cleans it up, if they don't "like" what is for supper, Mommy will order in from a different place next meal. It is no different than the event of a bit further north where a kid is smart enough to know to alter the appearance of a toy gun so that it appears to be a real gun, then brandishes it until he gets shot. Then the cops will be portrayed as the guilty ones. I suppose there is a lawyer somewhere in Seminole County Florida this morning who is making retirement plans for the money he'll make by sueing the very agency that parents rely on to keep their children safe. I truly feel sorry that this event had to happen, but America must see that it was choreographed by the kid, not by the SWAT team. If they hadn't responded, if the toy had been real, if a brave, responsible student had attempted to intervene and been killed, this same lawyer would be sueing the cops for doing nothing.
We are an accountable society! We are responsible for our acts, (no matter our age)! I pity the parents of kids for their laxity, their insistance that they needn't be the ones to raise and discipline their young.
How many families today limit the number of TV sets in their house to one, in the family room, and have the family sit and all of them watch the same show? How many heads of families today insist that the entire family sit for dinner at the same time and eat whatever Mom provides from her kitchen? How many familys today are forbidden to use the word Hate in the house?
Get it? It isn't the SWAT team! It isn't the daycare center that raises the kid! It isn't the psychologist that gives an excuse for every "wrong" thing a kid does! It is Mom and Dad who feel that they must keep up with the Jones and keep the credit cards at maximum load.
This is an appalling phenomenon that is occuring nationwide, in every income bracket, in every race, just utterly widespread.
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