I'm sure most of you have already heard the story about four Chicago teens (http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/227116738-story) kidnapping a mentally-disabled kid and beating him up--all on Facebook Live!
That, in and of itself, is infuriating enough, but perhaps even more infuriating is the Chicago PD's response to it.
This is what Chicago Commander Kevin Duffin (http://www.trunews.com/article/black-chicago-teens-kidnap-and-torture-white-disabled-man) had to say about the incident:
Quote"Kids make stupid mistakes, I shouldn't call them kids, they are legally adults, but they are young adults and they make stupid decisions. That certainly will be part of whether or not we seek a hate crime, determine whether or not this is sincere or stupid ranting and raving."
Kids make stupid mistakes?
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Stealing a candy bar during a free candy giveaway is a stupid mistake.
Running through a red light and crashing into another car mere seconds before the light would have turned green would be a stupid mistake.
Getting caught cheating during a test, only to learn that you were copying the answers to the worst student in the class, would be a stupid mistake.
Livestreaming yourself and your friends torturing and beating up a mentally-disabled person whom you kidnapped while flinging racial slurs at him?
That is not a mistake. That is straight up psychopathy!
Idiot Extraordinaire somehow feels like too kind of a title to give him.
I've not been this angry, upon seeing that event, in a very long time. To paraphrase Robert House from Fallout New Vegas: May there be a hell for them. A tartarus, bleak, unending...