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Emmanuel D. Aranda tosses boy from Mall of America 3rd floor balcony
2019-04-14
[FOX] A man has been charged with attempted homicide in Friday’s unprovoked attack at the Mall of America in Minneapolis that left a 5-year-old boy with life-threatening injuries.

Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, 24, has a history of mental health problems and had twice been banned from the mall, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Saturday.

The boy fell three floors after being pushed or thrown over a railing, according to Bloomington cops. The child and Aranda were strangers, they said.

Brian Johnson told a local news outlet he heard the boy’s mother scream, "Everybody pray, everybody pray. Oh my God, my baby, someone threw him over the edge."
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  If he'd shot up a school it would still be whitey's fault. And guns...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-14 18:56  

#7  The underlying crime is that someone with known mental problems leading to dangerous behaviour was left free to roam because nowadays the only long term residential care for such people is in the prison psych ward. And to be sent there they have to cause serious physical harm or death to another person. But since as a society we are not willing to spend the money for mental hospitals, nor to curtail the civil rights of those who are not sane, the harm to this boy and other innocents is the price that we choose to pay.

The race of the parties involved has nothing to do with it, except that the crime is noticed. Had it been black on black, no one beyond the family of the boy would have cared, while yes, white on black would have resulted in marches and demands that President Trump step down for instigating such behaviour.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-04-14 15:12  

#6  the lead was that he was mental and had previously had a habit of throwing things from the 3rd floor, hence making the white child merely a convenient object, not a hate crime. Any digging will find how the editors have avoided the obvious hate crime here, it is inconveniently counter-narrative.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2019-04-14 14:48  

#5  White boy, black Perp. If it was the other way around, there'd be marches, protests, leading news, Al Sharpton, Jessuh Jackson....

*crickets*
Posted by: Frank G   2019-04-14 10:39  

#4  Is someone's dog did as much violence to a child, it would be put down. However, we still believe in human sacrifice, just usually on the part of the victims not the perps.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-04-14 08:25  

#3  Race Card: Never leave home without it
Posted by: Frank G   2019-04-14 06:34  

#2  Race card being played in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-04-14 02:04  

#1  Any chance Aranda can be taken back to the scene to perform a live re-enactment of the fall ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-04-14 00:26  

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