Just now seeing this for the first time- good to know, Blighted Star. I find it very interesting (languages, dialects, vernacular, slang), so thanks!Originally Posted by blighted star
Just now seeing this for the first time- good to know, Blighted Star. I find it very interesting (languages, dialects, vernacular, slang), so thanks!
https://pacificnewscenter.com/report...t-of-detainee/
Here is an update.
It's used more by media & authorities than the public. Labeling it a vigilante attack implies it was a retaliation & that the victim provoked the action in some way. It turns public sentiment against the victim which means there's little outcry when they don't prosecute it as a hate crime or when they inevitably reduce charges/sentencing to the bare minimum, or drop the prosecution altogether.
Judging by the article re the attack on the homeless man, it's being used the same way in the U.S in at least some cases - ie. attackers claim they're taking justified action over a crime & then target an innocent member of the group they believe was responsible. They target the wrong person because they're either so biased towards the group that they can't differentiate between individual members, or because they're too full of hate towards the group to care to.
Here's a couple of examples from Western Australia. The kind of attacks described in these articles are happening on a daily basis. In some towns the white population has fb groups where they post photos of Aboriginal boys with their own bikes, lie that the kid's bike is stolen, & suggest someone "mow them down" & recover the bike.
It's a fucking miracle that only 1 boy's died this way in the past decade. You'd think his death would've made them question their behaviour, but the attacks & threats are still happening now.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...f489763d059cc1
http://www.news.com.au/national/west...rom=public_rss
Here in America we hear that the NRA allies are against gun control because they feel that there won't be "good samaritans with guns" to stop the incident. In other words while the anti-NRA people say the NRA defends mass shooters. The pro- NRA people are for the vigilante.
http://www.morningjournal.com/articl...NEWS/180329704
http://www.morningjournal.com/genera...ion-to-killing
Update
Closing arguments were presented in the murder trial of Nicholas D. Masley on March 23 in Lorain County Court of Common Pleas before Judge James L. Miraldi.
Both the prosecution and defense took the opportunity to make their final arguments to jurors in the case against Masley, 27, who is facing a pair of murder charges and a single count of felonious assault in connection to the Dec. 12, 2013, attack that led to the death of 25-year-old Jeffrey Brooks of Wellington.
Lorain County Assistant Prosecutor Donna Freeman called the events that led to Brooks? death as an attack, characterizing it as vigilante justice in describing how Masley lured Brooks to the Colonial Oaks mobile home park to smoke marijuana with the intention to ?beat him up,? citing multiple corroborating witnesses.
?Nick Masley lured Jeffrey Brooks there with the intent to beat him up and he went too far. And he knowingly caused serious physical harm to Jeffrey Brooks and that?s felony murder because Jeffrey Brooks died,? Freeman said.
In reviewing the physical evidence, Freeman rejected the defense?s theory that Brooks? death was related to heroin use, citing the autopsy report which concluded the cause and manner of death to be homicide by blunt trauma.
Further, Freeman cited the testimony of an EMT who treated Brooks at the scene who did not see any signs of intoxications, and a toxicology expert who concluded the amount of heroin found in his system was too low to cause death.
?There is no evidence, ladies and gentleman, that suggests a heroin overdose or any form of heroin use caused Jeffrey Brooks? death. All of the testimony shows that the death was caused from the trauma to the back of his head, the spinal cord injuries that caused his brain to swell, cut off his oxygen. He died from the trauma, from the assault of Nicholas Masley,? she said.
Masley, Freeman told the jurors, ?sucker-punched? Brooks, causing him to initially lose consciousness before striking him two additional times as he was walking down a set of hardwood stairs. After Brooks began shaking and convulsing Masley fled and failed to call 911.
Defense attorney Kenneth Lieux rejected the prosecution?s claim that Masley?s actions amounted to murder.
Lieux rejected prosecution theories that the Brooks died from trauma and characterized the altercation as a terrible accident, amounting to assault, citing testimony from medical experts, witnesses and a tape from a police interview suggesting Masley did not intend to cause serious physical harm, and rather that his death was caused by his heroin use.
Lieux told the jurors the symptoms Brooks experienced were consistent with someone suffering from heroin intoxication, adding the victim had taken heroin multiple times the day of the incident and was administered Narcan twice in the hospital.
?All of the significant findings are attributed to Mr. Brooks? use of heroin,? Lieux said. ?That is what killed him, ladies and gentlemen, not the fall. The injuries from the fall were not significant. They were mild.?
He questioned the physical evidence and force of the punches, rejecting arguments that the punches alone were evidence of Masley?s intent to cause serious physical harm, describing the first punch and two subsequent punches as being of ?moderate force.?
?I submit to you that Nick (Masley) just reacted, he was upset,? Lieux said.
Lieux pointed jurors to a police interview tape and said Masley?s reaction to the altercation suggested he quoting him as saying, ?holy crap, I didn?t mean to do that.?
?When you ask yourself, what is the proof of Nick?s intent, what did he knowingly do when he threw those punches and you?ll hear it in the tape. I think this speaks volumes.?
After Miraldi gave final instructions, Miraldi handed the case to the jury where deliberations are set to begin at 8:30 a.m. March 26.
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