They caused their own demise but it’s neither the parents’ nor the instigator’s fault? The parents deserve to be punished for letting this happen not rewarded monetarily. They killed their kids indirectly by being bad parents. People work to be good parents to avoid these things. When parents neglect to take the…

“Sucks that your 11-year-old got killed in a biking accident, but he knew he needed to wear a helmet, so he caused his own demise.”

Seems a petty route to take to air that stuff publicly.

You should ALWAYS be looking for fault after a tragedy. It’s the only way to establish what can be done to prevent future tragedies.

Let’s think here for a second shall we? Miss Arm-chair analysis? It’s a dark swamp, with zero visibility UNDER the water, in alligator infested Florida, with not even so much as a snorkel on-hand to enable someone to stage an actual rescue without it being borderline impossible. You’ve seen too many Hollywood films.…

I’m from the area and the “pond” they went into had 20-50 feet of reeds and muck before the water actually starts. There would be no way a human could have made it through that into the pond and rescued them. But of course the news won’t report that, they would rather sensationalize the girls deaths.

People on this thread are idiots, seriously. They’ve seen too many Hollywood films. Staging a nighttime rescue in a pond at night with zero visibility (in Florida where Alligators are everywhere), with not even so much as a fucking snorkel, good luck. I would bid anyone on this thread to try it even in the fucking…

The police don’t have scuba equipment on-hand to stage a fucking night-time rescue at night in 15 feet of water in the dark with zero visibilty. It’s Florida, there’s alligators everywhere, and the headline of this story and the police demonization is mis-guided and ignorant.

Thank you. It’s also Florida, there’s fucking alligators all over the place, and people need to remember that staging an underwater rescue at night (without the right equipment) is borderline impossible.

Seems if the parents truly cared, they would be campaigning something like “don’t let your kids put themselves in a situation like this” to honor their memory.

This is...hard to process, challenging to say the least.
As a person who almost got their car stolen because the people who were trying to steal it were around these girls age, I probably would’ve choked them to death before they got in the water.
And yes, that sounds horrible and cruel. You know what else is horrible…

It’s not that they deserved to die, but they LITERALLY KILLED THEMSELVES by their actions, and there’s only so much personal risk you can expect officers to take. Drowning in an attempt to rescue criminals from their sunken car isn’t high on anyone’s priority list.

Its not that they deserved to die. Its that if you break the law in such a fashion, a cop shouldn’t have to put his own life at risk to rescue you. That is not fair to the cop, and if you reply “that’s the cop’s job” I will virtually throatpunch you. To ask a cop to put his life on the line for an asshole kid on their…

If it’s not their fault, whose is it?

Nah. We’re saying a consequence of running from the cops is you might crash your car and die.

The issue is that since they ran from the cops that made them an unknown threat to the cops. You think I’m going to go diving into a lake, in Florida (home to gators and poisonous water snakes) in the dead of night in the HOPES that I can save what I believe is someone in the midst of grand theft auto? Come on.

Yeah. The family is looking for a payday is what the local news is reporting. The three girls have rapsheets and were no angels. Don't run from the cops in a STOLEN car. They would still be here.

No, the teens didn’t deserve to die, but it was their fault they are dead. The cops don’t deserve to die because of the teens’ recklessness, either. Attempting a rescue would have been too dangerous, and I’m sure that “letting them die” was a difficult decision.

It's relevant when a family is trying to smear the police department and their deaths were in the commission of a crime.

Sad these kids died but they caused their own demise. Based on these girls’ past, I’m sure their parents are real winners too. Probably the kind of people who would never try to blame others for their problems. Who would want to displace negative consequences of bad parenting and make a few million off a lawsuit? I’m…