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Archae

(46,327 posts)
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 01:22 PM Sep 2017

"Accident" my ass!

Bull...shit.

Parents of white teen accused of hanging black child claim it was an accident

On August 28, an 8-year-old biracial boy was playing with a group of teenagers in the small town of Claremont, New Hampshire. Soon, however, their games took a dangerous turn. Somehow, the boy—who is half black—wound up with a rope around his neck, hanging from a tree. He was rushed to the hospital. That same day, the boy’s mother posted photographs of his swollen neck on Facebook, and soon the story story went viral.

The boy’s family alleges the hanging was a deliberate, racist act, and that one 13-year-old boy—who is white—was the instigator. The older boys, they allege, left the 8-year-old hanging and ran away, and the police, they claim, did not initially take the investigation seriously.

Related: Police slow to investigate bi-racial boy’s hanging, family claims
In an exclusive interview, with Newsweek, which has been edited for brevity, the teenage boy’s parents, Rhianna Larkin, 33 and Eric Sullivan, 32, tell their side of the story. In a tearful exchange, Larkin says what happened was a tragic accident, not a racially-motivated crime—and that since it occurred, people have threatened not only their lives, but the lives of their children.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/parents-of-white-teen-accused-of-hanging-black-child-claim-it-was-an-accident/



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"Accident" my ass! (Original Post) Archae Sep 2017 OP
accident mercuryblues Sep 2017 #1
Don't know as I wasn't there but... Phoenix61 Sep 2017 #2
White people should always get the benefit of the doubt, I guess. 6000eliot Sep 2017 #4
Actually, he was African-American Phoenix61 Sep 2017 #5
Yet it STILL has ZERO to do with this story and the racist parents' bullshit excuse. 6000eliot Sep 2017 #6
Who hasn't accidentally committed a lynching? 6000eliot Sep 2017 #3
Oh just an accidental act of racism... ha ha ha ha!!! Initech Sep 2017 #7

Phoenix61

(17,003 posts)
2. Don't know as I wasn't there but...
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 02:08 PM
Sep 2017

I did work a child abuse case of a young boy who was hanged. He survived with no permanent injuries. He was playing on a rope swing. There was a slip knot in the rope and the children would put their legs through it and sit and swing. The young boy wanted to get out of the swing and managed to pull it up his torso and get one arm out before the knot tightened. Fortunately, his aunt looked out the window and saw him. Interestingly, the police assumed the worst until it was proven to be an accident.

6000eliot

(5,643 posts)
3. Who hasn't accidentally committed a lynching?
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 02:13 PM
Sep 2017

And, like most of these Nazi assholes, they end up crying when they get caught.

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