The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

  • @[email protected]
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    017 days ago

    I bet it’s in a Republican shithole city in a Republican shithole state?

    I don’t even have to check

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    017 days ago

    there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed.

    He hit a pedestrian. If you cannot react to a pedestrian entering the road unexpectedly, especially at a crosswalk, you are, by definition, driving recklessly.

    • @[email protected]
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      017 days ago

      The article says they attempted to cross between the crosswalks. A witness said the younger child jumped into the street. There’s only so much reaction even the most alert driver can do.

      • @[email protected]
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        016 days ago

        Yep. U got this right. People here are just dumb. Kid jumps in from of the car that is going 45mph. Parents should be holding hand and not letting kids just do what the kids want to do.

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      016 days ago

      Did you read the article? The kid ran out into the street. The driver wasn’t speeding or impaired. They did nothing wrong so what exactly do you want them to be blamed for and why are they the asshole in this situation?

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        16 days ago

        Driving a killing machine. You don’t point a gun at anything you don’t want to kill. You dont drive a car without willingness to kill.

        Streets should not be a place its just okay to murder children.

        I would argue, and i know this is kind of radical and lots of you will disagree, that we should not have places where its okay to murder children.

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          016 days ago

          You don’t drive a car without willingness to kill

          It has been a while since I’ve come across a statement that leaves me wondering how anyone came to such a disconnect with reality. Watching these mental gymnastics is making me sea sick.

          I drive a car with a willingness to get from where I am to where I’m going, quickly. A comparison to a gun is just retarded: guns are killing machines because that is their sole purpose. The purpose of cars is fast transport of people and cargo.

          Now, “murder” needs to show intent, and it sounds like you’re concluding anyone who is killed by a car is murdered because drivers must intend on killing someone simply because they got behind the wheel. I’m going to go ahead and assume you either a) don’t have any friends or family who drive, or, more likely, b) don’t have any friends and don’t talk to your family.

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            016 days ago

            willingness to get where im going quickly

            And a willingness to kill to get that done, if necessary, or you’d be on a train or a bike.

          • @[email protected]
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            016 days ago

            Youre right. Im sorry i said that.

            We absolutely need a place where its okay to kill children, and streets are far and away the best option for that.

            I get a little stupid and udealistic sometimes when im high, but I’ve sobered up now.

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    016 days ago

    They got it backwards. I will hold the road planners, the city government, the driving license issuer, and the driver responsible. It start with poorly designed roads and ends with poor driver training. The parents are the victims here.

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    118 days ago

    At seven I went to school and back home on foot and alone, about a mile, everyday. I did once have a close call with a car that didn’t stop for a crosswalk.

    Are parents supposed to accompany their kids at all time until they are 18?

    • Maestro
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      117 days ago

      According to 'murica, until 16. Then they can drive their own car.

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    418 days ago

    They gotta blame the people who designed the city. If these kids were a small fraction of the same age and in Japan they would be on TV for braving their first solo trip into the market to buy a vegetable for dinner. It would be a cute TV show called “Old Enough” on Netflix with English subtitles instead of a cruel reality on this side of the same planet where a kid is now dead.

    That part of it isn’t the fault of the parents, but the fault of the society we have created.

    Btw that TV show is a few decades old but my point is that the world is possible. We don’t need to be like Japan was in that TV show, but we do need more walkable cities.

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      018 days ago

      I came here to mention Old Enough. So sad that my American kid can never have this kind of experience because of how fucked our cities and society are.