Today's news paper and this evenings national news covered this story:
Edmonton Journal Story
I'm thinking a new attraction at the mall would be a better idea. Put the dirty scum in a cage and charge $100 per rock. I'm pretty sure a public stoning would put an end to this kind of insanity. We know damn well the Youth Criminal Justice Act won't.
Yes Yes perhaps a little extreme but WTF???
Edmonton Journal Story
So they charge the three who can't be named under the Yourh Criminal JUSTICE??? Act.Trio of teens film assaults
By Jennifer Fong, edmontonjournal.comOctober 10, 2009
EDMONTON - Police have charged three 15-year-olds in connection with two separate assaults at West Edmonton Mall early Saturday morning.
Both random attacks were filmed by the assailants with a cellphone, police said.
“It’s very disturbing, very graphic, and it’s a very violent attack that took place within 16 seconds,” west division Const. Colin Leathem said of the video taken of the first incident, which happened around 12:15 a.m. Saturday.
The teens — two girls and one boy — pulled a 21-year-old woman away from her friend near Entrance 57 on the second floor of the mall, Leathem said. While one of the girls beat the woman, the other two teens filmed the assault and egged their friend on, he said.
The attack was broken up by a male witness. The victim received minor injuries to her upper body and head.
While police were investigating the first incident, they were called to another part of the mall, near the ice rink, for a robbery at around 1:30 a.m.
The same three teens had this time assaulted a 19-year-old woman and stole her purse, Leathem said.
“She was repeatedly punched and kicked, and again it was an unprovoked attack,” he said. “It was pretty violent.”
Officers caught the trio as they tried to run away.
The second attack was also caught on the cellphone camera.
“It’s bizarre. It was just a really strange thing,” Leathem said. “It was a first for me as an investigator to come across someone actually filming a very vicious assault and a robbery within an hour of each other.
“We actually recovered the phone and the filming of the incident is really going against them,” he added. “It’s like the final nail in the coffin.”
Neither victim required medical treatment.
The three teenagers, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, have been charged with assault and robbery.
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I'm thinking a new attraction at the mall would be a better idea. Put the dirty scum in a cage and charge $100 per rock. I'm pretty sure a public stoning would put an end to this kind of insanity. We know damn well the Youth Criminal Justice Act won't.
Yes Yes perhaps a little extreme but WTF???