Friday, May 12, 2006

Agg-Town Fights [Update]

Yesterday, I posted about the four teenagers arrested for staging fights among their teen peers and then selling videos of the fights on the internet [see post below]. Today, we learn that police have arrested a fifth suspect and are looking for a sixth. All have been charged with organized criminal activity and aggravated assault, and had bonds set of $25,000.

The producer of the video, Michael Jackson [18], said the fights were not staged. The approximately 50 fights on each of the two videos just happened to be videotaped and he just happened to receive the videos. Arlington police disagreed.

According to the police, the fights are the staged product of a teenage gang. The Arlington gang has about a dozen members, and they are known for fighting at parties. The gang is known as PAC [Playas After Cash]. Police believe the gang was organized solely to promote fights and make money. Others arrested are Duente Lamar Gaines [17], John Barree [18], Folarin Olabimitan Olawoye [19], and an unnamed 14 year-old [who is in custody of juvenile officials].

Perhaps the saddest part of this story is that many teenagers around the area knew about the fights and the videos, but did not consider it important enough to tell anyone. One youngster told a reporter, "It's not even that big of a deal. They're just fights." It evidently escapes these teens that people can be injured, maimed, or even killed in a fight. To them, this is just entertainment.

Where are the parents in all this? Did they neglect to teach these children the difference between right and wrong? More likely, they are victims of a common parental disease going around. This disease makes parents excuse and defend their child even when the child is clearly in the wrong. "He doesn't understand." "It was his friends who got him in trouble." "Teachers [police, counselors, etc.] just don't like him and pick on him." I've heard all of these excuses and thousands more. They don't impress me.

In a free country, each citizen must accept responsibility for his own actions, even teenagers. Everything you do or say is the product of a choice you have made. Isn't it time we get back to teaching our children to make their own choices and then accept responsibility for those choices? Failure to do this is bad parenting and may even be abuse.

10 comments:

  1. Its a sad day in america when a teenager tries to make an honest living off of violence lets not forget hollywood has capitalized off of the misfortuate for years as well as promote the violence which is engraved in so many minds of todays youth no wonder why you haven't heard any teens speak out on these images because all they have to do is turn on any given tv station and witness the same violence portraid in these videos!!!

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  2. THE FIGHTS IN THE TAPE WERE NOT STAGED THEY WERE FIGHTS BETWEEN CLIQUES. THIS MEANS THAT TWO GROUPS OF FRIENDS THAT DONT LIKE EACH OTHER DECIDED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO FIGHT EACH OTHER AND IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BEING A TEENAGER THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT NEWS SPREADS FAST AND SO WHEN THE NEWS GOT TO MIKE JACK HE DECIDED TO TAPE THE FIGHTS SO THERE FORE HE DID NOT DECIDE TO STAGE THE FIGHTS BUT THE CLIQUES CAME UP WITH THE DECCISION TO FIGHT AND GET IT ON TAPE.

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  3. Just like somebody up there said it, Mike Jack always keeps his camera with him at all times and if there happens to be a fight then he tapes he doesn't set them up it just happens and no those kids don't get paid for it, I'm a teenager and I've been to those lil teen clubs in Arlington where they just start fightin because they know there is a chance that Mike Jack will be there,but he doesn't plan thos fights!

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  4. Wuz good wit ya main? Its ya gurl Jennie. Dis is how I feel bout dis Shit.. Dis shit is Fuckin stupid. Mike is jus tryin to make dat money jus like all dem otha niggas on they grind. Niggas jus hatein on him cuz he found a way to make dat paper and they dont no how. So stop hatein on da nigga and respect da nigga for bein on his grind. We all no dat dem tapes wuz krunk and we all watched em. so get ova ya self and jus no he doin yall a favor. so fuck da bullshit and get OFF DA NIGGAS NUTZ!!!!

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  5. Just let them fight damn!
    Its all good.
    Nothing is going wrong.

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  6. How the hell u think the punk ass clique PAC had somethin to do wit it... hell no!!! These fights aint staged i was in the first video fight sum bitch @ Sam Houston. i tell u right now it damm sure aint staged

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  7. THEY WASNT STAGED...WEN THERE IS A FIGHT EVERYBODY KNOWA ITS GONNA HAPPEN AND HE PROLLAY HEARD ABOUT IT! I MEAN NOBDY IS A SNITCH && SHO AINT GON TELL...YALL JUSS TRIPPENN!!!

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  8. I'm willing to bet more people would actually consider some of these arguments as valid if they were actually written in English. You don't look cool, you just look like an idiot and your language completely destroys the chance of anyone taking you seriously. Maybe you should quit watching fights and learn how to write and speak properly.

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  9. I agree with the above comment. I graduated the same year from the same school as "mike jack". I remember him being polite and kind and in no way uneducated. When the agg town fights came into light it was a total shock. I hate reading those comments from people my age from my same school, you sound rediculous. I happen to know most kids in those tapes went to Mansfield or arlington schools and are educated. Don't judge us all because a few think it looks cool to sound ignorant.

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  10. Let them fight. It just cleans out the gene pool. A lot easier for the Po Po to drag off a body than to have to fight one still alive to arrest those dime store punks.

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