Reminiscent of other groups of random beatings administered by feral teens in Milwaukee, a 76 year old man lost an eye as a result of being beaten by five thugs acting out of what one claimed was boredom.
A 76-year-old man’s right eye was surgically removed after he was beaten last week by a group of at least five people – including at least three teens – motivated by boredom and peer pressure, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday against one of the accused attackers.
J.T. Downs was pushing a cart through an alley in the 3300 block of N. 26th St. about 6 p.m. Friday when he was attacked, according to the complaint against 18-year-old Leroy Bentley III, who is charged with being party to the crime of aggravated battery.
Unbelieveable. A man cannot walk down a street minding his own business without being viciously attacked by thugs.
From the Sentinel Journal’s summary of the complaint:
Bentley told police that he and others had chased and tripped people in the alley before.
Bentley “could offer no explanation for why he did this to those other people, and to J.T. Downs, other than boredom,” the complaint says.
When I was 18, and this isn’t that long ago, my parents gave me a solution to boredom. It was something called a job.
But I am willing to bet that Bentley didn’t even finish high school, and I’m also willing to bet that the other thugs involved in the beating of Mr. Downs are either high school dropouts or habitual truants from broken homes, the break-up of which we subsidized.
Recall the Charlie Young beating in 2002, an incident which made national news. Little was done to the vicious thugs that beat Mr. Young to death in terms of real punishment. Excuse after excuse was made for the thugs, and the message was clear to the rest of the urban street thugs in the Central City: go ahead and do what you will to your innocent victims. You won’t be held accountable and the usual suspects will defend you and make excuses for you.
There have been far too many mob beatings in the Central City to recall, all by feral teens and feral young adults who essentially raised themselves.
It’s innocent people such as Mr. Downs who pay the price for the continued excusing of such vile thuggish acts by people who should know better and the failure of the criminal justice system to hold the bad guys accountable for their actions.
Instead, our lawmakers would rather have cops pulling over drivers simply for not wearing a seat belt.
