Video & Multimedia

progree

(12,988 posts)

31. The ski mask and the hoodie up was so wouldn't be identified by surveillance cameras while

Wed Apr 29, 2015, 12:10 PM

Apr 2015

(reportedly) throwing rocks at police. So not off topic at all.

I saw a recent survey of parents, and about 70% IIRC said that corporeal punishment was sometimes necessary. So I think you are in the minority (which doesn't make you wrong).

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

46 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Angry mother beats son for participating in Baltimore riots [View all] BeyondGeography Apr 2015 OP

That scene doesn't look like a riot. Kid's got his school backpack on. Police wouldn't let the kids libdem4life Apr 2015 #1

Curious about something Ruby the Liberal Apr 2015 #8

I didn't notice that ... but the kids throwing rocks didn't have backpacks and hoodies on. libdem4life Apr 2015 #10

Its in the video Ruby the Liberal Apr 2015 #11

Well, I raised a son and there's no accounting for some of the things teenagers do...referring libdem4life Apr 2015 #12

Here's more from the mother...she was thinking pretty clearly, imo BeyondGeography Apr 2015 #14

she's a black woman trying to get her black son to adulthood. I would slap his ass too. I am roguevalley Apr 2015 #19

Well, slapping his ass is last century...some persist, I acknowledge. libdem4life Apr 2015 #24

so was lynching. They have now substituted guns for ropes. Slapping a kid's ass for making himself roguevalley Apr 2015 #45

I saw a couple of other guys in hoodies nt LiberalElite Apr 2015 #13

Looked to me like everyone in the video was wearing cold weather gear. N/T Malraiders Apr 2015 #30

Oh goodness yeoman6987 Apr 2015 #2

I hate this jehop61 Apr 2015 #3

However you feel about it BeyondGeography Apr 2015 #4

Not having him dead was on her mind donnasgirl Apr 2015 #5

A mother's love of her son is the most impotant thing at the moment. She is protecting him Thinkingabout Apr 2015 #6

Exactly donnasgirl Apr 2015 #7

yep. like a momma bear or a raccoon momma. pansypoo53219 Apr 2015 #9

Too bad Some Cops didn't have their Mothers doing the Same eom LarryNM Apr 2015 #15

Most likely they did...the old spare the rod and spoil the child. I raised a son and never once libdem4life Apr 2015 #17

I Agree. LarryNM Apr 2015 #18

Why not, if, IF he was throwing rocks at police, as this report reported progree Apr 2015 #21

Angry Mom Beats Son...Am I the only one that gets this? You NEVER strike a child. Never. It just libdem4life Apr 2015 #16

This news report say differently, FWIW progree Apr 2015 #20

Allegedly...right..we know the MSM always gets it right. So, I get it. Police violence is terrible libdem4life Apr 2015 #23

No, definitely ski mask weather. progree Apr 2015 #25

Really grasping for straws there, and off topic. Weather had Nothing To Do With It. Kid wears ski libdem4life Apr 2015 #28

The ski mask and the hoodie up was so wouldn't be identified by surveillance cameras while progree Apr 2015 #31

Oh yes, I've been in the business, as they say, for decades. It used to be 100%, so progress. Why libdem4life Apr 2015 #34

"How about cops?" I agree they resort to violence way too often progree Apr 2015 #35

good grief to all the hand-wringing over a teenage kid getting smacked upside the head geek tragedy Apr 2015 #22

Hand-wringing??? No, just someone standing up for kids...especially those just watching. I didn't libdem4life Apr 2015 #26

I don't think he was just standing around watching progree Apr 2015 #29

No one said they weren't "on the street". That's pretty damn clear. They had no way home. libdem4life Apr 2015 #32

Child beating. Oh for Chrissakes, she wasn't hurting the much taller kid. progree Apr 2015 #33

Tanks...rioting....police. Was he supposed to have broken bones or bleed, FFS? Reread the title. libdem4life Apr 2015 #36

The news report said she saw him throwing rocks at the police. progree Apr 2015 #37

"Reread the title" - OK, I did progree Apr 2015 #39

"I blame the police for the kids all being there...they would not allow them to get on their buses" progree Apr 2015 #40

It was a long tweet from one of the teachers...that when school let out, they were not allowed on libdem4life Apr 2015 #41

And ann--- Apr 2015 #27

Which one? The mother for disciplining her son or the kid if he was actually throwing rocks cstanleytech Apr 2015 #38

Eyewitnesses: The Baltimore Riots Didn't Start the Way You Think...Important News Article libdem4life Apr 2015 #42

Do you know what she was yelling at her son? Koch Ebola Apr 2015 #43

Well put...concise...so true. libdem4life Apr 2015 #44

One thing we all can agree on.. liberaltrucker Apr 2015 #46