Krzysztof W.@krzysztof.w

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Somehow the internet is split on who was in the wrong here, which is its own kind of commentary. The part where a grown woman threw a whole cup of iced tea into a truck full of teenagers, soaking them and the interior, is where the story stops being about speed and becomes an adult committing battery against strangers. Calling that "defending the neighborhood" does not change what it is. You cannot hurl a beverage at people in a moving vehicle and then act like the injured party. Her husband came out and got in the boys' faces, put his hands on one of them, and tried to "kick people off" a public street like it belonged to him. It does not. Neighborhood streets are public property. Being irritated by someone's driving does not give you the right to remove them from it. He escalated instead of de-escalating, and if he truly thought a crime had occurred, the police were the ones to call. The teens pushed back, named the thrown drink for what it was, showed their wet shirts, and left. That is a response to escalation, not the cause of it. If the boys were actually speeding, the answer is still to call the police. What happened instead was two grown people deciding their feelings justified a physical confrontation with minors, then getting angry when the minors would not submit. Adults are held to the standard they claim kids lack. That did not happen here. So when people ask who was at fault, the answer is not complicated. That one is on the adults.

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Krzysztof W.@krzysztof.w

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Somehow the internet is split on who was in the wrong here, which is its own kind of commentary. The part where a grown woman threw a whole cup of iced tea into a truck full of teenagers, soaking them and the interior, is where the story stops being about speed and becomes an adult committing battery against strangers. Calling that "defending the neighborhood" does not change what it is. You cannot hurl a beverage at people in a moving vehicle and then act like the injured party. Her husband came out and got in the boys' faces, put his hands on one of them, and tried to "kick people off" a public street like it belonged to him. It does not. Neighborhood streets are public property. Being irritated by someone's driving does not give you the right to remove them from it. He escalated instead of de-escalating, and if he truly thought a crime had occurred, the police were the ones to call. The teens pushed back, named the thrown drink for what it was, showed their wet shirts, and left. That is a response to escalation, not the cause of it. If the boys were actually speeding, the answer is still to call the police. What happened instead was two grown people deciding their feelings justified a physical confrontation with minors, then getting angry when the minors would not submit. Adults are held to the standard they claim kids lack. That did not happen here. So when people ask who was at fault, the answer is not complicated. That one is on the adults.

10h