BY WHITE TEENAGERS HAVE RELEASED IMAGES OF THE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD.
HIS IDENTITY IS PROTECTED SO WE ARE NOT GOING TO SHARE HIS
IDENTITY, BUT WE ARE GONNA SHOW YOU THE PHOTO OF THE
INJURIES THAT HE IS SUSTAINED AS A RESULT OF THESE TEENAGERS
PUTTING A NOOSE AROUND HIS NECK AND PUSHING HIM OFF THE TABLE.
IT IS A GRAPHIC IMAGE DIE WANT TO WARN YOU GUYS BEFORE I
SHOW YOU.
LET'S TAKE A QUICK LOOK.
HE SURVIVED.
THEY HUNG HIM BUT HE DIDN'T DIE.
LUCKILY HE SURVIVED, BUT HE HAD TO BE AIRLIFTED TO A
HOSPITAL TO UNDERGO AN IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY PROCEDURE TO
ENSURE THAT HE WOULDN'T DIE.
I WANT TO NOTE THAT THERE WERE
NO ADULTS PRESENT.
WE HAVE NO ADULT WITNESSES, WE JUST HAVE THE ACCOUNT OF
THIS EIGHT-YEAR-OLD.
SO, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO STAY.
THIS IS A DEVASTATING STORY THAT
WE HAVE A STATEMENT FROM
THE POLICE CHIEF WHICH MAKES IT WAY WORSE.
LOOK, I READ THE HEADLINE OF THIS STORY AND I THOUGHT, LOOK,
WAIT A MINUTE.
HIS INJURY LOOKS TERRIBLE, BUT WE NEED MORE CONTEXT HERE.
WAS IT FRIENDS AND THEY WERE GOOFING AROUND?
I REMEMBER THERE WAS A ROPE NEAR A LAKE NEAR OUR HOUSE AND
WHO KNOWS?
MAYBE GOOFING AROUND YOU GET CAUGHT THE WRONG WAY?
ARE THEY FRIENDS, ARE THEY NOT FRIENDS?
AND THEN HOW DO THE AUTHORITIES REACT?
TODAY TO GET SERIOUSLY, DO THEY NOT TAKE US THERE'S A DOUBT
WE WILL GET TO THAT IN A 2ND.
WHEN YOU HEAR THE DETAILS, NO, IT IS WORSE THAN I IMAGINED.
LOOK, KIDS HAVE COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIPS.
I REMEMBER I USED TO GET INTO FIGHTS WITH SOME OLDER KIDS
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEN WE WOULD COEXIST OUT WE WOULD
BE ON THE BUS AND EVEN SOMETIMES,
I'M SORRY FOR INTERRUPTING YOU.
NO.
I DON'T CARE WHAT EXCUSE ANYONE MAKES AND I KNOW YOU ARE
NOT TRYING TO MAKE AN EXCUSE AND I KNOW IN INTERRUPTED YOU
IN THE
MIDDLE OF YOUR THOUGHT BUT I HAVE TO GET THIS OUT.
THESE ARE TEENAGERS, 14 AND OLDER.
WE DON'T OTHER IDENTITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE MINORS AND
THE POLICE DO NOT RELEASE THE IDENTITIES OF MINORS WHO
ARE INVOLVED IN AN ALLEGED CRIME, BUT A TEENAGER KNOWS
THAT YOU DON'T PUT A NOOSE AROUND ANYONE'S NECK AND
THEN PUSH THEM OFF THE TABLE.
THAT IS ATTEMPTED MURDER.
THAT IS NOT WHAT YOU DO AND THEY DIDN'T COME TO HIS AID, HE
COULD'VE EASILY DIED.
THEY WERE THROWING RACIAL EPITHETS IN HIS DIRECTION
PRIOR TO PUTTING HIS NOOSE AROUND HIS NECK.
THEY KNOW WHAT THAT ROPE MEANT.
I'M NOT MAKING ANY EXCUSES FOR THEM.
NOT BUYING INTO ANYONE'S EXCUSES FOR THEM.
THIS IS AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BIRACIAL CHILD.
AMIGO THE POLICE CHIEF'S QUOTE ON IT AND THEN I WILL
FINISH MY THOUGHT.
MARK CHASE, CLAREMONT POLICE CHIEF SAID:
NOT THE KID WHO WAS
HUNG, HE IS REFERRING TO THE KID TO HUNG HIM.
I SET ALL OF THAT UP IN TERMS OF HOW IT COULD HAVE GONE, BUT
IT DID NOT GO THAT WAY.
THIS CASE IS ABSOLUTELY CLEAR.
AND IS RIGHT.
WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE IT PERSONAL I HOPE IN ORDER
FOR YOU TO EMPATHIZE, BUT I'M GOING TO BECAUSE IT AFFECTS ME.
I HAVE A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BIRACIAL SON.
HE HAPPENS TO BE HAVE CHINESE, BUT THE STEVE BEEN ENDS OF
THE WORLD ONLY CHINESE PEOPLE EITHER.
FURTHERMORE, IT IS MUCH WORSE THAN THAT, THIS IS A NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
I HAVE A GODSON WHO IS BLACK LIVES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WHO
IS RIGHT AROUND THE STAGE.
SOME 14 GIRLS WHO DON'T KNOW HIM HANG HIM FROM A TREE AND DON'T
HELP?
GOT DAMN RIGHT THAT'S ATTEMPTED MURDER.
IF YOU HAVE JUSTICE IN THIS COUNTRY IT IS GOING TO GET
TO A REALLY BAD PLACE WHERE VIGILANTE JUSTICE BEGINS.
WE DON'T HAVE IT.
WE DON'T WANT THAT.
WE DON'T WANT THAT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE BUT YOU START
HANGING OUR KIDS AND THEN THE COP SAYS WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE
KIDS WHO DID THE HANGING?
ARE YOU INSANE?
ARE YOU INSANE LOOK, IF YOU SAY LOOK MAN, HAVE SOME EMPATHY
FOR THE 14-YEAR-OLDS.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND THEY ARE MINORS
AND THAT IS WHY WE HAVE THE RULES ABOUT MINOR STILL GET
TRIED AS ADULTS.
THEN UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANOTHER BLACK KID IN
AMERICA EVER BE TRIED AS AN ADULT.
WE CAN'T HAVE TWO DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE WERE YOU
SAY NO, IF IT IS A BLACK KID, IT IS A SUPER PREDATOR.
WHAT SO THE BOOK ADAM, I DON'T CARE IF HE IS 14 OR 13 OR 12.
LET'S TRY THEM AS AN ADULT AND PUT THEM IN PRISON FOREVER BUT
IF IT'S A YOUNG WHITE KID IN THE MIDDLE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND
THREE OF THEM HANG A BLACK KID AND THEN LEAVE HIM TO DIE
AND GO, POOR INNOCENT LITTLE MISTAKE.
PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES IN THEIR 14.
NOT LIKE THAT AND YOU SAY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AM I GOING
TO TRY WHITE KIDS AS ADULTS.
THEN DON'T TRY ANYONE AS ADULTS IF THEY ARE UNDER 18
BUT YOU HAVE DONE THE SAME THING.
IF YOU DON'T STOP PROSECUTING BLACK KIDS AS ADULTS AND
YOU LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS, NO, NO DEAL.
ATTEMPTED MURDER.
THAT IS WHAT IT WAS.
TRY THEM AS ADULTS OR NEVER TRY ANYONE IN THE COUNTRY AGAIN
AS AN ADULT IF THEY ARE UNDER 18.
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