13 year old boy set on fire...

[Figs]

Such bull ****!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...t-fire-cops-article-1.1033062#commentpostform

A 13-year-old boy who police say was doused with gasoline and lit on fire last week while walking home from school is recovering from first-degree burns to his face and head.

The boy was just two blocks from his home in Kansas City Tuesday when two teenagers began to follow him and then attacked him, his mother, Melissa Coon, said.

Police have described the suspects as black 16-year-olds, while the victim is white.

"We were told it's a hate crime," Coon told KTLA.
"They rushed him on the porch as he tried to get the door open," Coon told KMBC. "(One of them) poured the gasoline, then flicked the Bic, and said, 'This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy.'"

By lighting the gasoline, the second attacker "produced a large fireball burning the face and hair" of the boy, according to a Kansas City Police Department report obtained by KCTV.

"It was pretty bad stuff," Detective Stacey Taylor told the TV station, adding that police are concerned the boy may have suffered damage to his eyes and lungs.

Coon said her son put out the fire with his shirt and called 911 himself. He was rushed to the hospital and was treated for his injuries.
She believes the students also attend East High School with her son, and said he will not be returning to the school. She also told KMBC her traumatized family plans now plans to move.

"My 5-year-old came in and asked me, 'Mom, am I going to get set on fire today?'" Coon said. "I was in tears."


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[X Knight]

******* disgusting and shameful.

as a fellow Kansan, I am ashamed.

 

[Boy Scout]

What the ****?

 

[Octoberist]

Of all things..I never would wish that on anyone. Awful.

 

[warhorse78]

While it is horrible, how come this is news now, since this is an incident that happened over a year ago?

 

[Shazam]

Look for more of this foolishness if the Zimm trial doesn't go a certain group's way.....

 

[GENERAL RAAM582]

Look for more of this foolishness if the Zimm trial doesn't go a certain group's way.....

... So if it is in self-defense, more black kids are gonna set white kids up on fire?

 

[NickNitro]

its right about now I wish more kids stayed inside and played video games

 

[Ant-manic]

Look for more of this foolishness if the Zimm trial doesn't go a certain group's way.....

wow. race bait, much?

 

[Octoberist]

Look for more of this foolishness if the Zimm trial doesn't go a certain group's way.....

This is a crazy correlation.

 

[Boy Scout]

wow. race bait, much?

I think he was referring to more incidents of black-on-white or white-on-black crimes being given media attention, regardless of how old the incidents are.

 

[Octoberist]

Zimmerman...is he white though? Or maybe he's mixed (last name) because if I didn't know any better, I would think he was just Hispanic.

 

[Boy Scout]

I dunno. I was just speculating, based on the post above his. It seems like a fair enough (though awkwardly worded) response, if I'm right. In any case, I should've said "hate crimes".

 

[Octoberist]

Did my research: Zimmerman is half Peruvian.

 

[Ant-manic]

I think he was referring to more incidents of black-on-white or white-on-black crimes being given media attention, regardless of how old the incidents are.

it's the "certain group" phrasing that i took issue with.

 

[Spider-Who?]

While it is horrible, how come this is news now, since this is an incident that happened over a year ago?

It's interesting to me that people, while discussing the Zimmerman trial keep shouting about racism and how if it where a black on white crime, it would be much bigger. Yet here we have an actually race motivated attack that hardly saw any news because its a black on white hate crime.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I'm not going to even talk about the racial issues, and just say this is awful. Wonder why it never got any coverage before?

 

[Ant-manic]

It's interesting to me that people, while discussing the Zimmerman trial keep shouting about racism and how if it where a black on white crime, it would be much bigger. Yet here we have an actually race motivated attack that hardly saw any news because its a black on white hate crime.

because of a long history of injustice, black people pay more attention/are more vocal about similar miscarriages of justice? i remember the case you're referencing; back when it was news. but i have no control over what stories generate sustained coverage. i would imagine that the ages of the defendants plays a role. and i completely disagree with the implication that Trayvon wasn't targeted because of his race.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

I'm not going to even talk about the racial issues, and just say this is awful. Wonder why it never got any coverage before?

When I saw this thread I knew it was going to be about this case(or was at least hoping it hadn't happened again).

It was covered when it came out, it's just that it was a pretty open and shut, clear cut case.

I don't remember but they may have even admitted to it, or there were several witnesses since it was in broad daylight.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Zimmerman...is he white though? Or maybe he's mixed (last name) because if I didn't know any better, I would think he was just Hispanic.

The most racially-loaded part of this story is the repeated use of the term "white Hispanic." A silly term that I kept hearing from the media.