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Originally Posted by BloggingRefGuy
I haven't done that. However...and this point keeps getting lost...punching an unconscious kid is four times never justified. I don't care what the kid did to bring on the first punch...when he's out cold, the fight ends. Anyone who punches an unconscious person in the face four times has serious problems. He may have had a push coming, or even a punch. But not once he's unconscious.
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We're beating up this kid pretty good for his unjustifiable behavior, about his serious problems, about how he needs anger management, about how he's capable of becoming a road rage menace (typical boogie-man bull**** intended to imply that any one of us could be his next victim) all because we assume he knew the kid was unconscious and continued beating him anyway. How sure are you that he knew? Have you interviewed the kid? Have you read the reports of those that did? Do you have anything more conclusive to go on than the "victim's" side of the story and that he looks unconscious in the video? The whole incident took, what? ... 5 seconds? During the entire fight was there ever a moment when the kid stopped swinging long enough to assess the state of his opponent? Given the adrenaline that would be flowing, is there any reasonable expectation that such a thought would even occur to him during this short time?
I'm hearing an awful lot of smugly self-assured, idealistic, all-inclusive and very judgemental statements about this kid from people who weren't there, don't know him, and have only seen about 10 seconds of video and heard one side of the story. One side of the story, I might add, that came from the guy who lost the fight, has an axe to grind, and whose role in the incident is suspect. I don't know why charges were never brought, but I'm going to have to assume that it's because the actual facts don't support it.