Sad story: man charged with manslaughter after killing another man with a single punch

[Forever21_boogie]

Originally Posted by ChessieMom

What?? You need glasses.

The multiple times he called the guy a thug, and the mention of the guy bringing a pit to the park as if the dog breed is associated with a certain “type” of guy... that’s pretty common coded racist language. But the joke’s on him, because both guys are white. I doubt he knew that when he wrote what he wrote.

Maybe you genuinely had no racist meaning, but based on what I’ve seen elsewhere on CD, I don’t have much faith anymore.

[80skeys]

Originally Posted by hbdwihdh378y9

Except that we all know that punching a man can kill him in exactly that way, which means the punch did kill him.

Not correct. The number of people who get punched and who fall down and do *not* die is far greater. This particular event is an outlier. If you repeat exactly this same event with different people, 99.9+% chance nobody will die from it.

Originally Posted by duke944

This is a clear case of voluntary manslaughter, do some research on it and compare it to the facts.

I'm not saying the guy shouldn't be punished. But it's highly unlikely he intended to kill the other guy. *Involuntary* manslaughter is probably appropriate. Or *negligent* homicide.

Originally Posted by Aussiehoff

They recognise that the way he fell and hit his head was caused by being punched in head. As you know perfectly well, that is not an accident.

To the contrary, the falling down and hitting his head indeed was an accident. The punch was the only thing that was not an accident.

Originally Posted by motownnative

Sounds like the man in this article told another walker in a public park to leash up their DOG and that person got overly defensive too for some reason

As with anything reported in the media, we don't know the whole story. No man, even those who are always going around with a chip on their shoulder, will punch another person simply for asking them to leash their dog. There had to have been something else going on. Perhaps the guy doing the asking was not pleasant about it. Maybe the opposite. He likely was abrasive, rude, argumentative, or maybe he got in his personal space. We don't know. Maybe these two men had had confrontations before, maybe this isn't the first time they had been in a yelling match about the dog.

[duke944]

Originally Posted by Forever21_boogie

The multiple times he called the guy a thug, and the mention of the guy bringing a pit to the park as if the dog breed is associated with a certain “type” of guy... that’s pretty common coded racist language. But the joke’s on him, because both guys are white. I doubt he knew that when he wrote what he wrote.

Maybe you genuinely had no racist meaning, but based on what I’ve seen elsewhere on CD, I don’t have much faith anymore.

thug
/THəɡ/Submit
noun
1.
a violent person, especially a criminal.
"he was attacked by a gang of thugs"

Where in this definition do you see a particular race?

Pitbulls are in general an extremely dangerous and unpredictable breed. I'm not going to waste my time pointing out examples because you don't seem particularly reasonable or logical. I will say that there is a reason many cities outlaw them, and anyone owning one owes everyone their pet comes into contact with a degree of responsibility to control them - something this thug obviously didn't have.
I find what this guy did extremely disturbing, and can't imagine what the victim's fiancee went through standing there watching her soon to be husband die in front of her eyes.

[Pyewackette]

Punching someone is NOT "minor".