<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Joe,<div><br></div><div>The answers are actually easy.</div><div><br></div><div>To number 1, Don't commit the crime if you can't do the time. Did the juries and/or judges that placed them in prison find them guilty of a crime, or for the sake of "institutional racism"?</div><div><br></div><div>Number two, we keep gnashing teeth because Martin was 17, and because of his age he shouldn't have been feared? His age had nothing to do with the issue. </div><div><br></div><div>And the final comment you made, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "> </span>f you want the Trayvon Martin stuff to go away than just shut up for a week or two and stop posting crap like this. Have some respect and let folks vent."</div><div>I don't want the Trayvon Martin "stuff" to go away. This case was a tragedy, and shouldn't "go away". THE only way this "crap" as you call it, is going to go away is if there is open, honest, and yes, at times politically incorrect discussions of what people feel and ALL sides of the issue are vented, NOT just one side of the issue.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Wayne</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Joe Campbell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div>Give me a break! There is no outrage for some very simple reasons.</div><div><br></div><div>1/ Tell me why 1 in 5 blacks from age x to y are in prison? What is your explanation? Either they are more prone to violence or there is institutional racism. Which explanation do you give? And please be specific.</div><div><br></div><div>2/ Some of the culprits were found guilty. So you're not even telling the whole story.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want the Trayvon Martin stuff to go away than just shut up for a week or two and stop posting crap like this. Have some respect and let folks vent.</div><div><br>On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:06 PM, Wayne Price <<a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c">And where is all the "national attention" for Pat Mahaney? Where is the outrage? Where are the marches and rallies? When does the President of "ALL THE PEOPLE" say he could have been Pat Mahaney? Were is the Department of Justice probe? </p><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">An autopsy has been completed on the North College Hill man who died Friday, nearly a year after he was severely beaten in what police said was an unprovoked, vicious attack by six teen boys.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The cause of death for Pat Mahaney, 46, will not be released until all test results, including toxicology, are back, a process expected to take at least several weeks, said a spokesman for the Hamilton County Coroner’s Office.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters asked for the autopsy Friday after Mahaney died at University of Cincinnati Medical Center.</span>Mahaney’s family said he became sick with a sudden illness Wednesday.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">“This whole incident has been a tragic event for the Mahaney family,” North College Hill Police Chief Gary Foust said today. “The North College Hill Police Department is in consultation with the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office pending the results of the autopsy.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Mahaney was so traumatized over the attack, he neglected his own health, became a recluse, his family said. He even refused to talk to probation officers seeking his input as they prepared sentencing recommendations on two of the six teens for Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Tracie Hunter.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">When the two boys, both 14, were sentenced last month to probation, work details and community service, Mahaney also declined to appear in the courtroom to face them and tell them how the beating impacted his life.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">He only gave one media interview, to The Enquirer, last summer, the day after he was released from the hospital. He refused all other requests then and ever since.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">His family said over the weekend the August 2012 beating “took him over the edge” and he wouldn’t even leave his house to go to the doctor.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Three other teens also have pleaded guilty to felonious assault and face sentencing. Their cases have been delayed. The boys’ lawyers have asked Hunter to close the proceedings to the public or, at the very least, restrict parts related to the teens' psychological evaluations. They also asked her to bar reporters from the hearing.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Hunter said she would review psychological reports on two of the teens, both 13, privately chambers and then make her decision later this month.</span>She also wants an expert to weigh in on whether media coverage of the case is mentally damaging the teens.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">A sixth teen is fighting the charges and is expected to go to trial at some point. </span>Now, attorneys representing all the teens are wondering how Mahaney’s death might affect their clients’ cases.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I</span>f Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Kode Sammarco rules Mahaney’s death to be related to the beating, that could affect criminal prosecutions of the accused attackers.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The case has been controversial since the start. The attack drew national attention because of its severity and because the six boys told police that they ambushed Mahaney from behind merely because they were “bored.” </span>Outrage spawned protests and counter-protests.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">According to a police report, the boys - who were all 13 at the time - jumped Mahaney from behind as he walked home from a convenience store after buying a six-pack of beer at 8:40 p.m. Aug. 11, 2012.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">They punched him in the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground in the 2000 block of Dallas Avenue- just down the street from his mother’s house, where he was living.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Mahaney stayed on the ground and said he was knocked unconscious almost immediately.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The teens repeatedly punched and kicked him in the face and head. One of the teens also hurled an unopened can of beer at Mahaney’s head.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The boys told police they only stopped beating Mahaney when a neighbor started to yell at them and threatened to call the police.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 25.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #2c2c2c"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">When officers caught up with the boys and asked them why they attacked the unemployed factory worker, “they stated that they were just bored and were looking for something to do,” a police report states.</span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>