http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...roline21m.html
A couple weeks ago in Seattle we had a similar situation arise in what some thought might be a racially motivated crime. A 60 year old man - a decorated Vietnam vet - was tending the flowers he had planted in his street's traffic circle. He had placed traffic cones on one side of the circle to protect his garden hose, which he was using to water the flowers. Well, three teenage girls pulled up and wanted to go through the circle, demanding he move the cones out of the road. The man refused, so the girls got out of the car, started moving his cones, yelling at him and getting in his face. The man, as captured in a neighbor's home video, tried to ignore the girls, but they were having none of that - they threw a jug of water at him, then at least one of them went down the street to go get the boyfriend of a friend. The boyfriend drives up a few minutes later, walks up to the man and sucker punches him in the face, so unexpectedly that the man didn't even raise his hands to defend himself. The man fell backwards to the ground and hit his head on the curb, fracturing his skull. The boyfriend - coward he is - ran back to his car and drove off. The injured man died the next day. The girls remained on the scene but lied to police, and they finally identified the guy that committed the assault a few days later and were able to arrange for him to turn himself in. He's been charged with second degree murder, but some folks here are so upset about it (he's got multiple convictions) that they've been calling for the death penalty. Meanwhile, other people say that the man caused the altercation in the first place by blocking the residential street.
Violence is not the way to solve problems. I'm really tired of people with no self-control or drive to just do the right thing.
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