Brazen Versus Normal

Dozens of Temple University students are robbed, beaten, and even hospitalized by…. well, Somebody.

Who were the criminal attackers?

The local ABC affiliate calls them “teenagers.”

CBS news calls them “boys and girls.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer calls them a “large group of juveniles.”

The Inquirer goes on to report that “the most brazen act of violence” occurred when one youth “came up to a mounted officer and punched the police horse twice in the face. Police later apprehended him and charged him with assaulting a police service animal.”

Not most brazen, apparently – but perhaps runner up? – was the attack on Joe Lauletta’s daughter Christina.

” These sick animals held her down and kicked and stomped on her repeatedly, Her head was stomped on. The whole side of her face, the back of her head was black and blue. Her arms, her legs, her back, her ribs. She was on the ground. They were kicking her,” Lauletta said.

Only the London Daily Mail and the New York Post dared to identify further the “boys and girls” – and they distanced themselves by quoting the (racially-charged? clearly bigoted?) statement of Christina Laulaetta’s father, who called her assailants “a group of 30-40 black teenagers.”

Thousand-pound horse punched twice? “Brazen.” Perp arrested and charged.

One-hundred pound girl attacked by racist mob? No arrests made.

Why?

Apparently, that’s “normal.”

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10:18 am on October 25, 2016