man beaten by motorists (not cycling!)

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The whole thing is really sad. I really hope they throw the book on the attacker. I could care less about his skin color.

Assailant's action is just so hypocritical. A GOOD CHURCH MEMBER. IN PRAYER before surrendering to the police. What?? If you have the good conscious to be praying and believe in god/religion, you should have a lot more respect to others.

Maybe I'm just really old fashioned in many ways. I dress properly for the office. None of this tank tops/shorts/skorts/athletic wear... Almost always in business appropriate attaire. then again I have to be. Every e-mail starts with proper salutation Dear Sir, Dear Madam, Dear Ms./Mr./Dr. so-and-so. And out on the town same sort of thing...

Here I tend to be very casual, still. Its on very rare occasion you will hear me use profanity or raise my voice. I have no need.

The girls who started the altercation and increased the level of hostility should also be arrested. You just can't go along in life screaming and demeaning other people. Just so self centered.

I wish our country had a mandatory community service for all young people. Help clean the park. Help out the elderly. help out the handicap. And learn about why it is so important to be active in your community in a positive way.

AWWWGGG!!! this is just so maddening.

Thank you with the followup. I would like to have closure on this story. What will he be sentenced with? in-voluntary manslaughter, murder 2... and what will happen to the girls? Can't they be prosecuted with something? anything??

I just can't fathom this cruel twist of fate on the victim.
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PS. my house is on a corner with one street being a narrow one way street. One self centered service guy parked his service truck right in the middle of the road to service one of my neighbor's cable TV. A car came down saw that the street was blocked. She could have made a right on front of my house and detoured down the next street. No. She drives up to the bumper and just layed on her horn for about 10 minutes. Another neighbor came out from his sleep (it was before 8:00AM). She gives him the finger and starts yelling at the sleepy neighbor "Get your F**& car out of the way." Neighbor says its not my car so she starts screaming more obsenity at him and so it went for about 30 minutes. with her laying on the horn for good 20 minutes. The neighbor whose cable was being serviced didn't even bother to come out and check. They didn't want to be bothered. And my partner well... I wish I was there cause I would have called the police. Had the service truck ticketed, and girl a ticket for disturbing the peace...

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I found quite a bit of irony in the whole "praying, etc..." Sorry to be callous but he was doing it to look favorable to the media/judge/jury whoever. Through the book at him!

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I know enough to not automatically believe all media (because their information can be limited AND sometimes they run to sensationalism) but there is something that disturbs me about the girls admission. They WAITED there? Not to mention that one of them told the guy, who had a history of crimes and violence, that there was an altercation and where it had happened.

I think that if I was peeved at someone and I told a friend/boyfriend about it, knowing that he was predisposed to violence and he might act out, that I would be equally guilty if something were to happen.

We get roadblocks all the time up here. We also get people gardening in the roundabouts. It isn't that big of a deal. You go around the other side and the areas that have the roundabouts aren't big huge streets. They are smaller neighborhood streets that might have traffic but it isn't like the traffic is heinous and non-stop. People go on the wrong side of the roundabout all the time even if there isn't a roadblock just out of laziness or convenience, too.

The more I hear about this case, the more it bothers me. I also am starting to think the girls manipulated the guy because they wanted revenge.

I know I can't obsess over the whole thing but it's scary to think that somehow you can make the wrong person angry and die over it.

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...he was charged with 2nd degree murder; yesterday he entered a plea of "not guilty"...he caused a man's death with his sucker punch, then ran away from it all...so I wonder who he thinks IS guilty or responsible??

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