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“You Afraid of a Dead Body?” Boys Who Laughed While Man Drowned Will Face Charges

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In a news story that sounds like something from Mad Max, a group of Florida teenagers who filmed themselves laughing and cracking jokes while a disabled man drowned, and then left the scene without telling anybody, will face criminal charges after all – but there’s a catch.

The teenagers, each between the ages of 14 and 16, will be charged with not reporting a death, a misdemeanor offense under Florida law. Authorities initially said there didn’t appear to be grounds to prosecute the teens, who were caught on camera mocking 32-year-old Jamel Dunn as he drowned in Cocoa, Florida, according to the New York Post.

The callous crime, which is vaguely reminiscent of the infamous Kitty Genovese slaying in New York City, is indicative of a trend that has been bothering older Americans since the first signs began emerging in the early 90s. The contemporary breakdown in communal responsibility, fostered by smartphones and digitization of daily life, where violent videos inure children to death and violence. The boys can be heard in the video discussing Dunn’s impending death. One of the boys teased another about being scared to see a dead body, the boy replies “I ain’t scared to see no dead person.”

The disturbing footage, recorded by one of the boys, shows Dunn, who is disabled, struggling and screaming for help in the pondIn response, the boys urge him to get out of the water – “Get out the water you’re going to die!”  Another boy shouts. “We’re not finna help you!”

The recommended charges will be given to the Florida State Attorney’s Office, which will determine whether to prosecute the teens, according to Cocoa Police Chief Mike Cantaloupe.

Even if the boys are charged, misdemeanors typically carry sentences of less than a year, leaving the boys free of criminal records, unless they commit more crimes as adults Cocoa Police Department spokesperson Yvonne Martinez said the teens, ages 14 to 16, had The department didn’t disclose the number of teens involved, or their names.

“He started to struggle and scream for help and they just laughed,” Martinez said. “They didn’t call the police. They just laughed the whole time. He was just screaming … for someone to help him.” The teenagers didn’t stop joking about Dunn when he failed to surface in the water.

“Oh, he just died,” said one as the others laughed.

The teens left the Cocoa park without notifying anyone about Dunn’s death. Three days later, his body was discovered in the pond.

We are deeply saddened and shocked at both the manner in which Mr. Dunn lost his life and the actions of the witnesses to this tragedy,” State Attorney Phil Archer said in a statememt, according to NBC News.

Dunn’s sister Simone McIntosh started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his funeral and to help his two daughters.


Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2017/07/22/you-afraid-of-a-dead-body-boys-who-laughed-while-man-drowned-will-face-charges/


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    • betru2yrfaith

      These little pigs need some justice. What comes around go around. Karma! I hope life will dish out the justice if the law doesn’t.

    • OBSERVER

      good

    • Boo

      Can we start calling out Hollywood and these desensitizing computer games now? These young men are as much a risk to society as any drunk driver and with time they will believe this of themselves should there be any vestiges of humanity left in them to work with.

      If I were their parents I would start saving up for the therapy and drug rehab programs now, because whether they choose to believe it or not, they will be facing a different kind of horror through their prodigy exemplifying the display of an unusual thing, especially one out of the ordinary course of nature, until someone sets up a go fund me page for their funerals.

    • Arcturus

      A field trip to the morgue might adjust their attitudes.

      • LifeIs

        Sadism in Africa -ritual slaughter and cannibalism- 1890-

        “…carried to some prominent part of the village, there to be surrounded and to receive the jeers and scoffs of the drunken mob…dancers surround the victim and indulge in drunken mimicry of the contortions of face which the pain caused by this cruel torture forces him to show.” E.J. Glave http://www.heretical.com/cannibal/glave.html

        Sadism in Florida by runaway slaves — 1835– They arrived after a battle, to rob the dead and kill the wounded. Notice the cowardly murderers are called “warriors” in this article.

        “Fifty black warriors on horseback swarmed the barricade, stabbing and axing the wounded, taunting them with cries of ‘What do you got to sell?’” (from Ransom Clark’s statements) http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/090801/D7ED28UG0.html

        Tribal warfare cruelty in Rwanda –1994 — https://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/rwanda0403/rwanda0403-03.htm

        A quick Google Image Search for “South Africa Farm Murders” will make you sick. Here is some background: http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/targets-in-south-africas-genocide-all-white

        And you can see endless amounts of cruelty plus laughter from black criminals on youtube today. And you can see their defenders, families, ministers, friends, neighbors.

    • DISPENSER

      Since the race of the “teenagers” was not mentioned, I will assume they are black. Black, brown, or white, might I suggest removing 2 limbs from each of them? That might not be justice, but it would put a smile on my face.

      • LifeIs

        Everybody involved was black, victim and spectators.

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