Double Standard in Justice
Monday, August 01, 2005
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So it seems that if you're a girl, probably about 11 years old, and being pelted with water balloons by infantile-minded boys you can't do anything than get soaked and wail pitifully and wait for daddy to come out of the house and give the boys a good stern lecture and send them on their way. Self-defence is out of the question when being assaulted...Self-defence is the usual answer, however, in this case, it got the local police on the case of a young girl, who in retaliation to having water balloons hurled at her, threw a rock (yes, as in a single; uno; one; un; ichi, eneo...) at one of the boys hitting her with one of several water balloons.
An 11-year-old girl who threw a stone at a group of boys pelting her with water balloons is being prosecuted on serious assault charges in California.
She must be real dangerous then...
US police pursue girl over stone
Maribel Cuevas was arrested in April [2005] in a police operation which involved three police cars and a helicopter.
So, they apprended a pre-adolscent girl who was demonstrating her abilities in self-defence, and yet, they didn't bother arresting any of the boys who iniate the assault. Of course, one rock did cause a gash in the forehead of one of the boys, who was the one of the instigators of the incident.
To make the situation even peachier; the boy who was injured in this incident was admitted to having started the fight. It seems the boy is very capable of throwing a balloon at a girl, but he can't accept the consequences of his actions, which is in this case, getting a stone thrown back at him.
Police say they had to investigate as the boy who was hit by the stone she threw suffered a deep gash to his head and needed hospital treatment.
He has reportedly acknowledged to officers that he started the fight in late April.
But yet the didn't act on this.
This only further proves that the American justice system doesn't serve those who it's supposed to serve. It's helping those who are the root cause of unlawful activity. In this case, the boys threw water balloons at the girl, who threw one stone back at one of the boys resulted in the girl being the victim of the law.
