A guy apparently attacked Jason Momoa (the actor who plays Ronon Dex on SGA) in LA. The reports say his face was shattered with a pint glass of beer and needed to be rebuilt.
Jesus, ya gotta love California - out on probation for gun charges and they released him back into the wild on a $30K bond. Beautiful. Urban justice at it's finest.
I just keep thinking of the scenario: they fought verbally earlier and no one was suspicious when he came up to him with a glass in his hand? You know he went after the face probably thinking “pretty boy” or some shit like that. It's just... stupid, really. Then again, most drunken fights are (remembering the infamous Christmas fight of my twin cousins and the one with the chain back at the dorms).
Violence can occur anywhere, at any time, unfortunately. I worry that now, given the economic atmosphere, we could see more "random acts of violence" than usual. People are stressed, often beyond the point of control. The best we can do, perhaps, is to spread an infectious amount of "random acts of kindness."
"Out on probation" That phrase is way too often associated with even worse crimes than whatever the criminals were "out on probation" for. As I posted a couple of weeks ago, there was a serial killer in Michigan 15 years ago or so who would never have been able to kill anyone if the state hadn't released him early due to overcrowded prisons. He was "out on probation," and he killed 4 girls, ages 14 to 18. Number 5 was in his trunk when they caught him (still alive, thank god).
There are serious, serious flaws with our justice system.
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Violence can occur anywhere, at any time, unfortunately. I worry that now, given the economic atmosphere, we could see more "random acts of violence" than usual. People are stressed, often beyond the point of control. The best we can do, perhaps, is to spread an infectious amount of "random acts of kindness."
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There are serious, serious flaws with our justice system.