A 10-year-old faces 'hate crime' charges for telling a Slovakian to go home after tossing a berry at her...

Good for the woman. Throwing berries at an adult and making such a statement to her in public makes me think the kid was out of control. It's obvious manners and respect for adults were omitted from his upbringing.

Wonder where a 10-year old kid picked up on the fact that the woman was not a UK citizen? Sounds like a racist statement an adult would make at home in front of the children and from there we have adult emulation by a brat kid. Are UK parents legally responsible for the actions of their children?

yeah, beating the kid was the right thing to do.

The kid is 10 fucking years old. Hate crime my ass. Then again, I think hate crime laws are total bullshit.

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This is not the first time this has happened; interestingly enough even a British judge had enough of the political correctness...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...07/nspat07.xml

This is where hate crime legislation can lead...

You're a racist? Or just protective of delinquent children?

Before everyone rushes to judgment, I think it's important that we determine just how large this berry was.

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Maybe he is not a Neo-Bolshevik oppressor who believes in jailing children for going against the Commissarial party line?

What the heck is wrong with you? The kid was beaten with a pipe and left in a pool of blood for an insult and you say "good for the women"? Would you approve of some stranger using a pipe to beat the crap out of your kid just because he mouthed off?

At least the women was also arrested and will hopefully be charged with an assault.

I suppose we should also make sure that the women wasn't merely attempting to fend off the berries with that pipe and didn't only accidentally, repeatedly bludgeon the child.

Political ideology aside, I don't condone 10-year olds throwing any object at adults and making derogatory statements to them. But that's a personal opinion based on what I consider appropriate societal mannerisms. If you prefer the ghetto approach to raising children, that's certainly your right and I'm happy I'm not forced to reside in your ideal circumstances.

Good point. They could've just been engaging in a lively game of berry rounders, when all hell broke loose.

You know, the pumpkin is technically a berry.

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Neither. I don't believe in going after a 10 year old with metal pipe, and I believe in free speech.

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Her only shortcoming was being unable to include the parent(s) in her correction of the child's manners.

I suspect that no-one here condones those things or has even implied that they do. However, just because I don't condone what the kid did, that doesn't give the woman the right to physically assault him.

Racist remarks are acceptable free speech in a one-on-one circumstance with an initial aggressive physical act by the aggressor? That's quite a utopia you live in. Maybe when the kid gets a driver license he can tow her behind his pickup truck until she's skinless. Wait; that was in Texas, not the UK. Maybe his motorbike would be more appropriate.