Abuse causes mental health issues, though.

Young populations across the world are a symptom of low education, unequal rights, and lack of reproductive freedom for women. We can only hope it leads to improvements.

Are you crybabies really going to kick me off after I told you about this story?

I love how she calls them individuals instead of black people.

Aren’t you the guy who said there was no way these people would be charged?

Yeah, completly contradictory: “Illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won’t, prices of fruits and Veggies will skyrocket without illegals” and “the minimum wage needs to be increased to pay people a living wage”.

You don’t have to pay illegals minimum wage.

A significant portion of that cost is travel. Even if you take a team bus, even if you do quad rooms, 20-ish kids and coaches plus transport plus hotel for 4 nights plus meals adds up.

As of 11AM EST, the Chicago PD haven’t announced any formal charges against the 4 attackers, only that part of their investigation will include whether the language in the video warrants a hate crime distinction. For comparison, Dylann Roof’s federal hate crime charges came almost 3 weeks after he was arrested for the…

I suspect a lot of the TV money goes to logistics for the event (and to regional events throughout the year), and to the NHSCC organization. Also maybe to prize money for the winning schools? But yeah, it would be nice if the organization involved had some system to support cheer teams from low-income communities.

I believe I read that the majority of the cost was the cheer camp that they’re required to attend to qualify

They need to add kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment to the charges.

They had BETTER charge these cowards as adults, and I hope they throw the book at them and give them the longest possible sentence.

Here is an honest question. Can someone explain to me why Chicago, you know, the home of our President, is such a shit hole?

and this got attention because it was broadcasted, just imagine all other incidents we never hear about ... the world we live in...

Just the fact that he’s mentally disabled should make it a hate crime. These cowards deserve to get the book thrown at them.

We determined they never said “cracka”.

All that and cowards. You want to take out your anger about Trump out on white people and you choose to go after someone with special needs four against one? Posting it to FB shows the intelligence we’re working with here. It’s hard to imagine any redemption for any of these four.

The silence on this story is deafening and is proof positive that Jezebel is a racist site.

“...global megastar like Diplo...”

Sure, but can’t we agree that people who fire guns in the air in celebration should be beaten within an inch of their life? Or at the very least be mocked and ostracized by everyone else.