Well hell son, why didn’t you say so to begin with?
Donte Crawford, 18, was charged as an adult with first- and second-degree murder and carrying a dangerous weapon in connection with the stabbing of a classmate at Renaissance Academy on Nov. 24. Ananias Jolley, 17, died at Shock Trauma almost a month after the stabbing.
Witnesses said a fight that led to a stabbing in a biology lab started quickly and ended in seconds.
Crawford took the stand in his own defense, trying to explain to jurors what happened. In closing arguments, prosecutor Bethany Durand claimed Crawford brought a pocket knife to school on a mission to harm another student.
He was being bullied, he sought out the bully while he had the knife, and when a tussle began, he killed him by stabbing him in the heart.
This would seem a case of the return of common sense that will accompany K. When things are r, and everyone’s amygdala is so dead that they can barely perceive any truth, nobody can judge situations well. Soon, the authority is imposing all sorts of blanket, one size fits all penalties, to be imposed according to established facts, regardless of any ameliorating circumstances, or unique facets to the case. Rabbits want established, unwavering procedures to allow them to function despite their lack of amygdalae, while K-strategists tolerate them, because without things like mandatory minimums, rabbits would set al the criminals free.
When K-selection returns, so does the ability to trust those who enforce the law with discretion. When kids do stupid things, a patrol officer can take them home without charges, or even impose some minor discipline instead of saddling them with a criminal charges.
These things seem ill-advised if you are not accustomed to them. But consider how many young hellraisers, who society would imprison and shun today, ended up shunted from the courts into the Marines back in the fifties. Many of them went on to become productive citizens. That was a society which was not as prone to hammer down the nails that stuck up.
It is often been those nails you can’t hammer down that have risen to our nation’s challenges, and made the greatest differences.
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If he’s been acquitted of all charges as the article reports, I wonder why the video shows him being escorted out of the court room by sheriff’s deputies and being bundled into a van, while obviously being handcuffed behind his back.
Probably still charged with something minor like bringing a weapon onto school grounds.
I saw that the acquitted kid had neck tattoos in his mugshot. Such a young age to get a tattoo too. I’m not sure if this kid was all that good to begin with, given he brought the knife in what seems like something he planned to do ahead of time. The story also said that all he was getting was verbal abuse. This may not have been a good verdict, though I agree that in a sane society kids wouldn’t get punished for beating up bullies.