Victim is of Arabic descent, but prosecutor's spokesperson says there's no evidence of hate crime.

A 73-year-old Detroit man is behind bars for allegedly attacking a 7-year-old girl with a knife in a city park full of children, slashing her throat in an incident that ended with the child racing home to her mother for help, and the suspect in handcuffs.

“He just like came out of nowhere and just like (pulled) the knife on me,” the girl told Fox 2 News as she sat on a porch step this week with gauze around her neck, explaining how a day at the park with her grandmother turned into a day of horror.

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    2 个月前

    I get it that it comes off as “just feel better bro” but if society can’t draw the line at “don’t stab children, it’s literally never acceptable, regardless of circumstances” then what’s even the point?

    Edit to be clear I took issue with the “what else are they supposed to do?” As if there’s ever a set of mental or external circumstances that normalize what happened. There isn’t.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        2 个月前

        Indeed, and there’s no need for excusatory language like “what else could they possibly have done?”

        • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
          8·
          2 个月前

          I think you misunderstood. They were literally asking what people in those circumstances can do. I don’t think they’re justifying the actions.

        • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
          41·
          2 个月前

          Nobody is saying it’s acceptable just that it’s avoidable, and someone can be apprehended for security and later treated and found not criminally responsible for their actions.