An angry crowd beat a man to death after a vehicle he was riding in struck and injured a young girl, police said Wednesday. Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night.

The driver had stopped to check on the little girl at the entrance to an apartment complex when a group of men attacked him, authorities said. The passenger, David Rivas Morales, 40, got out to try to help the driver, but the crowd turned on him, said police Commander Harold Piatt.

Morales was beaten to death by as many as 20 men and left lying in a parking lot, Piatt said. A preliminary autopsy listed blunt force trauma as the cause of death.

The little girl, 3 or 4 years old, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The driver, who got away from the crowd, is cooperating with investigators, police said.

Piatt did not know how many witnesses had been identified, but thousands of people had been in the area for the daylong festival. He said no guns or knives appeared to have used in the fatal attack.

[sfgate.com]

Not sure what this has to do with Texas other than the fact that it took place there.
It's your basic mob-mentality, vigilante justice story.
Could have happened anywhere.

I'm not sure what this has to do with justice.

It's not "justice" at all, obviously.

Me, I just like to mess with Texas, despite what the bumper stickers tell me.

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Silencio
Me, I just like to mess with Texas, despite what the bumper stickers tell me.

I can respect that.

'Nuff respek, mon, 'nuff respek.

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Not sure what this has to do with Texas other than the fact that it took place there.
It's your basic mob-mentality, vigilante justice story.
Could have happened anywhere.

But it didn't.

Appears that they celebrate Juneteenth a little differently there.

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Strength without compassion is brutality. Compassion without strength is weakness.

We must train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

revised reports indicate 3 or 4 people actually touched (and murdered) the poor schlub. And less than a dozen people witnessed it.

Still a tragedy.


This sort of thing, however, is VERY common in the third world. I can recall reading the local paper in Karachi a few years ago- every other day there was a story about how a person was beaten to death by a mob after an auto accident.

Vehicles don't kill people, people kill people.

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Strength without compassion is brutality. Compassion without strength is weakness.

We must train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

That all sounds very familiar.

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