The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZQvHaWtsw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZQvHaWtsw)
The story: http://www.kjct8.com/news/driver-says-he-did-all-he-could-during-fla-school-bus-beating/-/163152/21330380/-/11o51nw/-/index.html (http://www.kjct8.com/news/driver-says-he-did-all-he-could-during-fla-school-bus-beating/-/163152/21330380/-/11o51nw/-/index.html)
Haunted driver: 'I wanted to help' beaten boy John Moody says he was too afraid to step in
Gulfport Police Department
(CNN) - The windmilling fists and stomping feet rain down blows on the 13-year-old boy.
Trapped on the floor between the bus seats, he cries out as he receives fierce punch after vicious kick from the three bigger, older youths.
As the relentless assault unfolds, the driver of the Florida school bus alerts the dispatcher, pleading for aid. But he doesn't physically step in to help.
The bus driver, at least according to his school's policy, did nothing wrong.
The attack took place July 9 in Pinellas County, Florida. But the horrific cell phone video -- and the surveillance video -- came out only recently.
As the boy is pummeled, the bus driver, John Moody, yells at the assailants to leave the boy alone.
He also asks dispatchers to send help.
"You gotta get somebody here quick, quick, quick, quick," he says. "They're about to beat this boy to death over here."
"Please get somebody here quick. There's still doing it," he adds. "There's nothing I can do."
'Like a bad dream'
Moody, 64, said on CNN's Piers Morgan Live that he was calling for help on his radio, as school policy required.
"Me jumping in the middle of that fight with three boys, it would have been more dangerous for other students on the bus for as myself," he said. "There's just no telling what might have happened."
Earlier, he told CNN affiliate WFLA he was "in shock" and "petrified." And he told CNN that watching the video is "like a bad dream."
"I took it really personal. I had many sleepless nights. I had nightmares," he said.
Moody retired two weeks after the attack, after 18 years driving buses. The fight was "the final straw -- and it was a big straw, too," he said.
Police say the youths attacked the 13-year-old after he told officials at their dropout prevention school that one of them had tried to sell him drugs. The ferocity of the attack left the victim with two black eyes and a broken arm.
Criticism, but no basis for charges
Gulfport Police Chief Robert Vincent told WFLA that Moody should have stepped in.
"There was clearly an opportunity for him to intervene and or check on the welfare of the children or the child in this case, and he didn't make any effort to do so," Vincent said.
But prosecutors say they have no grounds on which to bring charges.
"It wasn't like he was looking out the window cleaning his fingernails or something like that," said Chief Assistant State Attorney Bruce Bartlett, according to CNN affiliate WFLA.
According to Pinellas County school policy, the bus driver isn't required to intervene, only to call dispatch. He can step in, if he feels it's safe.
Police said Moody could have given first aid to the victim after the attackers jumped off the bus, but Bartlett said the 13-year-old didn't hang around.
"The kid gets up and skedaddles out the door," he said.
Other counties actually forbid drivers from physically stopping fights.
Guess who's been drinking tonight!
So Siege is a Neo-Nazi now?
:huh:
Looked around for this group. Couldn't find much. The person who uploaded it also uploaded this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpqWHhpyWg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpqWHhpyWg)
You are one dumb fuck, Siege. You are posting shit from people who want to exterminate you. Who ever sent you this link isn't your friend. You should beat him with a stick.
Unless I missed something, Siege didn't say anything that indicated approval of the beating :huh:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 08, 2013, 11:21:50 PM
Unless I missed something, Siege didn't say anything that indicated approval of the beating :huh:
No, but he did two things. He deliberately mixed up the races, and second got the video from some crazy racist channel on You Tube. I looked back and creator of this video has a whole bunch of them about evil black people. The earliest ones though, are about Jews and how they control everything with their money.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 09, 2013, 01:25:45 AM
He deliberately mixed up the races,
You do shit like that all the time. Is that also deliberate?
Quote from: Razgovory on August 09, 2013, 01:25:45 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 08, 2013, 11:21:50 PM
Unless I missed something, Siege didn't say anything that indicated approval of the beating :huh:
No, but he did two things. He deliberately mixed up the races, and second got the video from some crazy racist channel on You Tube. I looked back and creator of this video has a whole bunch of them about evil black people. The earliest ones though, are about Jews and how they control everything with their money.
Ah, well I'm at work so I didn't watch the video
Fucking Seigey... :lol:
Thought this was something new. Was like, "Aw fuck here we go."
Quote from: 11B4V on August 09, 2013, 02:08:52 AM
Fucking Seigey... :lol:
I see what you did there.
He frequently mixes things up or leaves words out which make his post say the opposite of what he means.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 09, 2013, 02:20:21 AM
He frequently mixes things up or leaves words out which make his post say the opposite of what he means.
Well, that's because I'm insane. Thoughts don't always come out clearly.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 09, 2013, 02:23:45 AM
Well, that's because I'm insane. Thoughts don't always come out clearly.
As is Siege. :contract:
Also frequently drunk.
He's turning into SiegHeilBreaker. :(
Quote from: 11B4V on August 09, 2013, 02:08:52 AM
Fucking Seigey... :lol:
Thought this was something new. Was like, "Aw fuck here we go."
But, since it was three black teens doing it's no big deal, because that's what they do, right? ZOMG RACISS
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 09, 2013, 04:36:19 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on August 09, 2013, 02:08:52 AM
Fucking Seigey... :lol:
Thought this was something new. Was like, "Aw fuck here we go."
But, since it was three black teens doing it's no big deal, because that's what they do, right? ZOMG RACISS
Well yea.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 08, 2013, 09:15:04 PM
Looked around for this group. Couldn't find much. The person who uploaded it also uploaded this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpqWHhpyWg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpqWHhpyWg)
You are one dumb fuck, Siege. You are posting shit from people who want to exterminate you. Who ever sent you this link isn't your friend. You should beat him with a stick.
Well, I got the video from the news. The youtube link was the cleanest link I saw, with no reporters talking over the video.
That's all. I didn't even look at who had posted the video.
So you are reading too much into my posting habits.
Said that, I have no qualms using the enemy's propaganda for my own means of defending free market and stoping socialism/communism.
The problem with the dude in White House is not his skin color, is his policies, his ideology, his complete downgrade of the US military, bringing down our superpower status.
His skin color is the shield he uses to deflect all criticism. No white president could have gotten away with all the shit this dude have.
Quote from: Siege on August 09, 2013, 12:13:15 PM
The problem with the dude in White House is not his skin color, is his policies, his ideology, his complete downgrade of the US military, bringing down our superpower status.
Its seems to me the plans regarding the military predate Obama by at least three presidental election cycles and were only put on hold because of the wars in Iraq and Afganistan.
If you are correct and Obama could single handedly "bring down" your superpower status, then it is a shame he could not use his extra ordinary power to pass the legislative agenda he had intended.
Obama's budgets have reuqested increases in defense spending every year until 2013, when The budget control act caps kicked in (and ultimately defense funds were sequestered when Congress failed to pass a budget). Note that defense spending increased even as expenditures on current war fighting declined.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on August 09, 2013, 12:32:12 PM
Obama's budgets have reuqested increases in defense spending every year until 2013, when The budget control act caps kicked in (and ultimately defense funds were sequestered when Congress failed to pass a budget). Note that defense spending increased even as expenditures on current war fighting declined.
The wise man fights tomorrow's war today.
Quote from: Siege on August 09, 2013, 12:13:15 PM
The problem with the dude in White House is not his skin color, is his policies, his ideology, his complete downgrade of the US military, bringing down our superpower status.
His skin color is the shield he uses to deflect all criticism. No white president could have gotten away with all the shit this dude have.
What exactly has he gotten away with that the last two guys have not? Actually I think his White House has been so firmly and continuously opposed he has been able to really do much, legislatively anyway, so I am not sure what you are talking about.
I mean I think Obama has been a big disappointment but I see zero evidence he has done anything but fund and support the efforts of the US military.
If you compare the Bush security and defense policy in 2007-2008 (I.e. post Rumsfeld) to what Obama has done, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference. They even had the same Defense Secretary for a long stretch.
Quote from: Siege on August 09, 2013, 12:13:15 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 08, 2013, 09:15:04 PM
Looked around for this group. Couldn't find much. The person who uploaded it also uploaded this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpqWHhpyWg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpqWHhpyWg)
You are one dumb fuck, Siege. You are posting shit from people who want to exterminate you. Who ever sent you this link isn't your friend. You should beat him with a stick.
Well, I got the video from the news. The youtube link was the cleanest link I saw, with no reporters talking over the video.
That's all. I didn't even look at who had posted the video.
So you are reading too much into my posting habits.
Said that, I have no qualms using the enemy's propaganda for my own means of defending free market and stoping socialism/communism.
The problem with the dude in White House is not his skin color, is his policies, his ideology, his complete downgrade of the US military, bringing down our superpower status.
His skin color is the shield he uses to deflect all criticism. No white president could have gotten away with all the shit this dude have.
How exactly does posting this stuff about some teens beating up other teens defend the free market?