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I agree that event wasn’t news worthy, but those boys were criminally intimidating due to intent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimidation https://en.m.wik
by austincheney 6y ago
I agree that event wasn’t news worthy, but those boys were criminally intimidating due to intent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimidation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimidation
I suspect if this wasn’t some viral social media nonsense established publishers wouldn’t wasted any effort on this. When you are funded by advertising you go where the eyeballs are.
- throwaway894345 6y agoI encourage you to watch the video and read the various descriptions of what happened. I don’t believe even Mr. Phillips alleges that the boys were attempting to intimidate anyone. I don’t think anyone could consider their actions to be “intimidation”. If you have such a tenuous definition of the term, then surely Mr. Phillips by drumming directly toward the boys (who had just been accosted) is the guilty party. But again, I think that would be absurd to consider it intimidation rather than a bizarre misunderstanding or mere bad behavior.
- austincheney 6y agoIt does not matter whether I think they were intimidating or not. What matters is what the law says. http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/SSH-KYR-DC.pdf http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/... I used the incorrect legal term. More precisely the boy committed a lesser offense of disorderly conduct according to what the law says for that area.
- throwaway894345 6y agoI don’t think they did anything that would be construed as violating the law.