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In the State of Texas

joepunk

joepunk

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Aug 5, 2004
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a profane existence
An angry crowd beat a man to death after a vehicle he was riding in struck a young girl.

The man, David Rivas Morales, was getting out of the car (he was not the driver) to help the girl when the crowd descended on him and beat him to death.

The girl, who was 3 or 4, was not seriously injured.

:(

Edit: New News Report
Witnesses told police that several black males then started to assault the driver. They told police the crowd then started beating Morales when he got out of the car to try to stop the fight.

Police say there could be anywhere from two to 20 suspects.
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katie ta achoo

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May 2, 2005
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Um, the guy didn't do anything wrong, how can they possibly portray the mob as heroes? :confused:
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"Vigilante justice." They conveniently left out the fact that the little girl was OK and made it sound like she was killed in the collision, so the crowd was killing a "child killer!!1!1!!"
*sigh* :rolleyes:
 
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PlaceofDis

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katie ta achoo said:
"Vigilante justice." They conveniently left out the fact that the little girl was OK and made it sound like she was killed in the collision, so the crowd was killing a "child killer!!1!1!!"
*sigh* :rolleyes:
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creative reporting. twunts.

this is a horrible story and shouldn't be treated as a righteous act.
 
xsedrinam

xsedrinam

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Oct 21, 2004
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katie ta achoo said:
"Vigilante justice." They conveniently left out the fact that the little girl was OK and made it sound like she was killed in the collision, so the crowd was killing a "child killer!!1!1!!"
*sigh* :rolleyes:
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Did the local news comment on his being Hispanic as having anything to do with the outrage?
 
runplaysleeprun

runplaysleeprun

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Jul 27, 2004
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If thats how the news portrayed it, thats almost worse than the actual act (almost).

What news station was it? They generally have websites that closely mirror their newscasts.
 
OutThere

OutThere

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Dec 19, 2002
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Yay Texas let's hear it for killing people!
 

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Counterfit

Counterfit

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I checked all the Austin-area news TV sites I could find, and the only one that didn't use the AP story was a poorly written one on CBS 42. It didn't seem to blame the driver though.

I think the second worst part of this is that the group didn't help the kid, but immediately started assaulting the driver.
 
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