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Originally Posted by DaveZ
I really can’t tell if you’re condoning this incident, passing the blame, or just softening it. The read feels like tourists don’t matter (in fact a number of residents were sent to the hospital) and seems to be misdirection.
The old “where are the parents” is really a worn out passive response to crime and violence. Police are responsible for protecting the public, not parents. It’s why we support and have them. Every criminal has parents and it doesn’t matter where parents are when crime is committed. Were I in the middle of that mob being beaten, I’d prefer having police actively ending the incident (even if I got gassed) and arresting the assaulters rather than a parent. Even more so preventing the mob in the first place.
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Parents are responsible for raising their children. The kids shouldn't have been there in the first place. They shouldn't have been planning a mob or riot in a public park. They shouldn't have been behaving like animals. WHY were they behaving that way? When kids do bad things and get away with it, and the word comes out years later that they did those bad things, people say "oh well he was just a kid at the time." And those bad kids get appointed to the Supreme Court, or the Police Department. Or get elected.
You don't hear too much about how their parents should've taught them to respect women, respect themselves, respect civilization and humanity. You'll hear it from me though. I acted out plenty when I was a kid. But I never participated in a riot. My parents instilled too much self-respect and respect of other peoples' property and respect of the human race as a whole, to participate in a riot.